[Bboy.Grant]

showing someone how to b boy and teaching in person are two totally different things. i'm sure i could learn a lot faster by someone showing me. and even if everything they do isn't perfect you should still know to take what your taught and make it your own. its up to you to clean it up while learning. i live in south carolina too. and i'll probably end up taking classes from kiks.

just let me know the place.
my car isn't fixed right now but when it is i'll start hangin around.
maybe if i get good enough you'll let me try out for your crew.?
lol.

[Man of Confiden]

No offense, but you're going to need a LOT more experience to actually TEACH it. Think about it...you're still in the baby stage! Thats like me asking a 2 yr old to teach a baby how to walk. Yeah the 2 year old knows how, but not to the extent that the two year old can teach someone else. Teaching doesn't just require you to know how to do the moves, but know their mechanics inside and out to the point where you can pick up the slightest mistakes and make any suggestions. You should be able to show everything CW and CCW, right hand or left hand...etc etc.

At this point you can only teach at a very basic and beginner level. Judging by your comments, I would imagine that you haven't been to many jams...or none at all. Straight up, there's no way you can teach a bboy class if you've never hit a jam or gotten involved in the scene. Real talk it shouldn't happen. You really can't even know whats what until you've gotten immersed in the scene. I suggest gettin involved, talkin to heads, and get a lot more experience under your belt. Right now anyone could walk up to your class, call you out, and roast you in a heartbeat.

And in closing, i'm calling bullshit on no bboys in south carolina. You need to do some research....we got em in all 50 states.

[Strife01]

Originally Posted by Man of Confiden No offense, but you're going to need a LOT more experience to actually TEACH it. Think about it...you're still in the baby stage! Thats like me asking a 2 yr old to teach a baby how to walk. Yeah the 2 year old knows how, but not to the extent that the two year old can teach someone else. Teaching doesn't just require you to know how to do the moves, but know their mechanics inside and out to the point where you can pick up the slightest mistakes and make any suggestions. You should be able to show everything CW and CCW, right hand or left hand...etc etc. At this point you can only teach at a very basic and beginner level. Judging by your comments, I would imagine that you haven't been to many jams...or none at all. Straight up, there's no way you can teach a bboy class if you've never hit a jam or gotten involved in the scene. Real talk it shouldn't happen. You really can't even know whats what until you've gotten immersed in the scene. I suggest gettin involved, talkin to heads, and get a lot more experience under your belt. Right now anyone could walk up to your class, call you out, and roast you in a heartbeat. And in closing, i'm calling bullshit on no bboys in south carolina. You need to do some research....we got em in all 50 states.

everything you say is true mayn. 11 months ain't enough unless your like a prodigy or something. And believe me kiks, trying to teach a bboy class isn't easy. only a select few will make it out of a class. I just recently taught a bboy class and out of the 20 something in the crew only 4 got down the routine i made, and that wasn't including myself and my other friends that bboys.

[CTracker]

Now from me that's being educated to become a dance teacher :

I'd say don't do it unless you have a solid foothold on what you're gonna do.
Think about the following :
- What are your long term goals for them?
- What are you gonna teach them to begin with?
- How are you gonna build a class up?
Think about a warming up, dynamic stretching, foundational lessons, (after a few weeks of teaching start doing some friendly battles in 2 groups to close it off so they can become used to battling against others and get some confidence.) Static Stretching to finish it up.

But as for hitting up jams... you should have been to at least 5 jams or have seen 20 battles in real life, or spend a good part of your time in a cypher.


Also the following things you should keep in mind :

- If you move at 100% of your capacity, you shouldn't expect more then 25% from them because they're not used to the motions.

- You have to put demands on every single thing you do and explain. "I WANT you to move this way!" "I DON'T want you to do that!". Only then you'll start producing results.

WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU'RE GONNA DO! And start basic and go up on that.

Also I suggest you start drilling your toprocks and footwork before you start teaching. Start getting perfect form in those.

I also suggest you get "Storm's Footwork Fundamentals". It's a solid foothold for footwork and stuff.

[ZuluN.]

Originally Posted by Man of Confiden No offense, but you're going to need a LOT more experience to actually TEACH it.

Who cares... at least he can make money. lol I would do it

[liikemike]

hmmm... well My opinion is yeah teach them the basics. Dont tell them the entire history depending on the age group. If there like 6th graders and stuff then they'll be bored.

But in my opinion, teach them six step, do drills of six steps with them. That way you and the students can clean up your footwork. Teach them CC's, Kickouts and a 12step. Basic Toprock as well. But remember do drills with them that way you can get practice in like that. And when they get better you can start teaching them basic power.

I actually practice with a class but im not part of the class i just use there room cause its the perfect spot, and like i talked to the teacher and told me to always do drills of footwork and make it fun. Cause younger kids love to compete.

But yeah kiks, you got 11months breaking? I would love to call you out someday cause I have 11months breaking as well.

[liikemike]

also one thing, i would suggest showing them videos of battles. That way from there on they can develop there own style and they can see how unlimited breaking can be. That they can do whatever they feel like as long as they dont look stupid.

Take them to jams as well, and you should be hitting up jams and entering battles just so you can lose the fear of getting down. Remember Jams are raw, your either dope or your not thats the scene. Its not gonna be no step up movie shit where you get cheered on. If you didnt get props for nothing at all then you already know, go back to the lab and hit it RAW and attack that CHYPER BRO!!

[fae]

Originally Posted by Man of Confiden No offense, but you're going to need a LOT more experience to actually TEACH it. Think about it...you're still in the baby stage! Thats like me asking a 2 yr old to teach a baby how to walk. Yeah the 2 year old knows how, but not to the extent that the two year old can teach someone else. Teaching doesn't just require you to know how to do the moves, but know their mechanics inside and out to the point where you can pick up the slightest mistakes and make any suggestions. You should be able to show everything CW and CCW, right hand or left hand...etc etc. At this point you can only teach at a very basic and beginner level. Judging by your comments, I would imagine that you haven't been to many jams...or none at all. Straight up, there's no way you can teach a bboy class if you've never hit a jam or gotten involved in the scene. Real talk it shouldn't happen. You really can't even know whats what until you've gotten immersed in the scene. I suggest gettin involved, talkin to heads, and get a lot more experience under your belt. Right now anyone could walk up to your class, call you out, and roast you in a heartbeat. And in closing, i'm calling bullshit on no bboys in south carolina. You need to do some research....we got em in all 50 states.

so agreed on this... when I think about that stuff, i can't help wondering who i might be bringing up wrong, or creating some habits that are not the best for a new bboy/bgirl.

[Predaliendog]

Where in South Carolina are you at man?

[yell-O]

kiks not to be a dick but its cool you got the job but you haven't put in the time and you don't understand it enough for the job. you can teach moves but not the art. from what i see out of you anyways.

[BBoyBrioD]

kiks dont listen to these haters! this job is a great opportunity to better the bboying communtity in where ever u live. not knowing what to teach the first class is not a good sign. u should learn as much footwork as possible. teach uprock and some basic footwork like 6 step, coffee grinder and cc's. im gonna doubt your toprock here. 11 months is not at all close to long enough to get toprock worth teaching, so i would personally really work on your own toprock. also go to events that you can dance at to advertise for where ever u work.
you'll do fine don't worry
oh yeah please trust me on this one DO NOT teach sets let it all be freestyle improvise stuff. you can reccomend some combination things if the time seems right like there doing idk cc's u could reccomend like try doing a 6 step to cc to baby freeze.

[Kamshaft]

Originally Posted by BBoyBrioD kiks dont listen to these haters! this job is a great opportunity to better the bboying communtity in where ever u live. ...

If he doesn't know what's up, then it probably won't better the scene. I don't know kiks, so I can't say anything about him, but 11 months sounds too early to teach. I know when I was at around a year, I thought I knew everything, now I'm at 4 years and realize I'm still learning and have a ways to go..

Anyways, I made a thread asking a similar question a while back (at a time when I definatly should not have been teaching, lol). Look through it, there might be something to help you or give you ideas. Help me out-- Teachin a class

[kiks]

aight guys... well to tell u the truth their are no jams or atleast where im located or in the towns near me their arent so man of confidence u should let someone who knows wats going on around him.... ive meet a few other bboys here in south carolina but they live hours away.. and well ima go on with teaching the class... u dont have to be a pro to teach a class... and whoever said about asking a 2 yr old to teach a baby how to wlk ... well most babys learn how to wlk by watching others inclunding a 2 yr old so im pretty confident in teaching this class sure i don hav the best stuff but if i could get more ppl to dance that would be great.... and i hav all basic footwork down maybe ill work on it so its worthy to teach but i got it... and w/e u guys are jus tellin me wat u think so thanx for the input

[kiks]

and im located in greenville south carolina

[bboybendy]

you've been bboying for 11 months and you are teaching? strange