Footwork essentials

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Overview

Join B-Boy Focus in Footwork Essentials, where you’ll learn how to create your own powerful and explosive footwork style and become a footwork battle champion.

Over the course of four weeks, you’ll discover what it takes to get more confidence, creativity and freedom in your footwork from one of the masters in the game.

you will discover how to:

How to get the perfect form so that everything you do will look fresh
The concepts I use to create all of my signature moves
My foundation for flipping moves
Practical battle skills that you can start using today
How to be truly confident with your own dance and let that show when you throwdown
The principles of a powerful and dynamic footwork style

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for the experienced b-boy or b-girl. This is less about the moves, and more about the mindset, philosophy, training techniques, and concepts you need to take your understanding of the dance to another level. It’s this level of deep understanding that will empower you to create your own signature style that you can be proud of, and confident in. This is true expression.

what's in the course

week 1 - Form

It’s never what you do but how it’s done. In week one, we start with four lessons to perfect your form. This is one of the most important aspects of footwork, because once you master your form, anything you do will start to look dope:

How to have the perfect footwork stance
- How the problem is often ankle flexibility, not just knees or hips
- The most overlooked aspect of the stance, your back stance
The Whip & Return
- The main way to have agile footwork
- One of the top three most important things for funky footwork
Footwork handstyles
- How paying attention to your arms brings character and style in your footwork
- The three hand placements, pros & cons
Weight transfer and balance
- How to get flow in your footwork

PLUS get eight drills to program into your muscle memory to reach your vision for your footwork.

week 2 - Creativity

WEEK TWO: CREATIVITY

Learn the foundation and flip it! In week two, we discover the key to an infinite arsenal. We get you one step closer to pure freedom in your movement:

My go-to method for creating signature moves
How to create without biting
How to remember all your moves
How to get unstuck in your freestyle and break your habits

PLUS get the foundation for flipping moves: a toolkit of six concepts that you can use to build your own unique arsenal

Week 3 - confidence

Confidence looks good on you. Here’s how to get it in concrete steps:

Why most breakers with dope footwork won’t win a footwork battle
How to hone your battle strategy
How to keep one step ahead by burning your opponents
How to know your material is dope enough
How to take your time
How to accept your flaws and confident with your level
How to turn negative thoughts into positive ones

week 4 - power

A b-boy or b-girl concentrates on creating a dynamic style, not just a dynamic move. In the final week I go deep into the ways we can integrate power with our footwork:

Understand the Contrast Principle to make your movement really pop
How you can use your hips for more powerful footwork
Explosive footwork technique
Increasing the radius of your footwork
How to use ground power to improve your footwork
How to mix your power and footwork
How to build core strength

THE DOJO FOOTWORK COMMUNITY

Gain access to a global community of other dedicated b-boys & b-girls who inspire each other and grow together. And for the first time ever, we’re organizing the Dojo Footwork Cup: a 1 on 1 online footwork battle to celebrate and test your progress from the course. On top of that, Platinum members get 6 weekly group calls where you get to ask me anything about footwork.

What people are saying

Footwork Essentials doesn't just teach the physical side of doing footwork, but also the mental side - how to approach footwork, and how to stay creative. Even though it's a footwork essentials course, it's really about breaking. It doesn't just concentrate on the one thing, but also the relationship between all the other things in your breaking, like between your footwork and your power, which as a b-boy or b-girl it's the thing to strive for.

I really enjoyed Footwork Essentials because it refreshed me on the basics and taught me a lot of concepts to take my basics to the next level. My favourite part was the musicality section, which went into all kinds of rhythms that I never really thought about before! I want to thank Focus, and I would recommend Footwork Essentials to all you guys!

I thought 'I already know a lot of steps and have my foundation', but then boom, I follow these classes and realize, 'oh my god, I have a lot of foundation steps to learn'. Right from the first course, you just level up. When I followed the first video, I already found a new transition that I'm using in my breaking now. I think everyone should try it out because it's really worth it.

For the longest time, I had always heard people say “Snap1 has great power and blow ups, but has no footwork or foundation.” Now, because of the Bboy Dojo’s Footwork Essentials, I’ve clawed my way through footwork battles, developed a huge footwork arsenal, and built a solid foundation. Footwork is no longer my weakness, but now a strong part of my dance.

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