 of banana freeze and I'm back for our fourth and final video for the beginning breaking series. For this last video we're going to work on our last group of movements which are freezes and freezes are poses or positions when we don't move and we hold still. Okay I get a lot of questions about freezes and some of the ones that I hear the most are can you breathe? Yes you can. You can breathe while you're freezing. Can you blink? You can blink while you're freezing and how long also do you hold your freeze? I like to hold my freezes for about oh like one or two counts like one, two. Just like that or whatever position you're going to be so you can count to yourself one, two. Okay it doesn't have to be like counting all the way to ten. You don't have to be a statue forever but just like holding a position for two counts. Okay freezes I think we'll do like three or four freezes a few different levels. We're going to do a standing up freeze. We're going to do kind of a lower middle kind of freeze and we're going to do a freeze all the way on the floor. Okay so we're going to start with the one that's upstanding so go ahead stand up right now. Just like I said in the other video if you if this is your first time dancing today and you just turn this video on maybe it's in the morning or you've been sitting on your couch all day I would like you to do some warm-ups and some stretches on your own so if you haven't moved yet today this is your first time moving I want you to press pause on the video and do some stretches or exercises some jumping jacks like we did the other time right now so go ahead and press pause if you haven't moved yet today this is your first time. Otherwise if you've been dancing already maybe you watched the third video right before this one you can get right into it and we'll do it together now. Like I said our groups of movement that we're doing today are freezes and the first one is standing up. All these freezes are pretty simple the only rule with freezes there's only one rule and that rule is to hold still. Like I said earlier you can still breathe you can blink but you're not gonna you're not gonna wiggle around right now I'm not I'm not freezing because I'm kind of I'm kind of moving even even right now I'm moving so that I'm not freezing right now. The first freeze we're gonna do is gonna have our feet open like this make sure we can balance and stay standing up our arms are gonna go up like this this is kind of freeze when I'm not talking this is kind of freeze so my arms are open like this you're like this I don't know whatever your hands want to do and then I'm going to cross my arms after I cross my arms I'm gonna lean to the side so it's gonna look this open just like that okay you could do it kind of faster and not not pause in between so and you can lean over this side or that side maybe a little front maybe a little back it's up to you ready set try it out and then with that you could have a smiley face a blank face maybe a robot face or my favorite is a stinky face and when you do a stinky face you kind of scrunch your face up like you smell something stinky you don't like it okay I don't know what that smell is but but whatever smell brings that face to mind so ready set freeze and then you can make a face okay it doesn't have to be a stinky face actually whatever face you want to do let's do that one more time if you haven't been doing that try it this time ready set go and this freeze standing up and with your arms crossed it's called a b-boy or b-girl stance or a b a break kids dance the term b-boy or b-girl is for break boy or break girl it doesn't mean you're break your body or anything it means you're dancing to the break or the the super exciting part of the music that's where that term comes from so whatever you consider yourself b-boy b-girl or just break kid that's just a term for you to learn now that was the first freeze we did that b-boy or b-girl stance or break kids dance the next one we're gonna go a little lower so we're gonna go to down to the floor so go ahead and carefully go down I'm starting with sitting on my bottom actually my two feet are in the floor in front my two hands are by my bottom like here then I'm gonna go up bottom up one foot up this could be your freeze you could stay here this could be your freeze or you could cross this could be your freeze you could stay right here or you could put one hand up maybe like you're raising your hand you have a questionnaire you know the answer or something put your hand on your hip make a visor you could go over to the side like this lots of different positions and that is actually this is the high chair you could go on the other side too this is a high chair freeze right here I don't know why it's called the high chair maybe because it looks like a chair and you could sit on it I'm not sure and sit on your bottom let that go if you were on your hand or hands for a little bit of time and it's a little it's a little sore during this during the freezes then you could rotate your wrists like this rotate it the other way shake it out putting a lot of weight on one hand sometimes it makes it makes our hands and our wrists a little sore so go ahead make sure if you get sore rotate them one way and the other just like that shake them out and take a break as well if you need that but let's do that high chair freeze again like I said this could be your freeze or if you want to cross this could be your freeze if you want to just keep it up that could be a freeze if you want one hand up that could be a freeze okay there I wobble a little bit but I stop and sometimes when I'm up like this I get tired and I end up sitting and I stop being in that freeze if you end up falling out of your freeze like maybe you're doing a balancey freeze with one hand like this and then you fall down when you fall down guess what just just get into another freeze okay so oh look at me look what I'm doing this this looks really cool and I didn't show this to you yet so this happened this freeze this position happened because I kind of wobbled and fell out of my high chair freeze and actually like how this really looks or it looks like this you go on my elbow and this could be a freeze I could hold one foot and that could be your freeze you could go the other way you could go like that so because I fell because they made a mistake I ended up doing a different move and guess what that happens all the time with breaking and with life sometimes we fall we make a mistake we we maybe it's a mess up but we could take that experience and turn it into a new move or something that we learn from okay so I actually really like that so let's let's all just get into that freeze from the high chair so sitting on our bottoms two feet on the floor in front two hands down by our bottoms bottoms up this could be a freeze one leg up this could be a freeze you could cross this could be your freeze one hand up or up or up this could be a freeze and then let's go ahead and from this just freeze let's go down to the side and let our legs go flat this could be a freeze maybe on your elbow or on your on your arm like this this could be a freeze this one that's lots of freezes that was like ten freezes right there so again if you wobble if you fall go ahead and get into another freeze and that'll save your move no one but you knows what moves you'll be doing so you can act like you did that on purpose and I really didn't do that on purpose I just realized I was in a freeze after I felt so it could be cool all the time anyways so that's that low freeze and now I want to take a moment to let you know that for breaking it's not just about moves that I show you or that you see other people doing did you know you could totally make up your own real dance moves your own real breaking moves yourself we're going to do that together right now and we're going to do it with freezes okay so I want you to pick a pose something a little different from the tall freeze that I showed you from this freeze from this freeze a different position with your body even if you just change one thing like maybe you change change where you're facing change your hand positions whatever or do something totally different if you know any freezes or different positions and poses yourself you could do them right now okay I want you to do a freeze that I did not do right now you could pause this video if you need some time to think but I want you to do a freeze that I didn't do yet and if it's something you made up even if you made it just a little bit different I want you to give it a name I want you to give that freeze a name okay I'm so gonna count right now I'm gonna count to four gonna count to four and then that'll be time for you to think about what freeze you'll be doing okay one think about it two think about it three think about it four okay I hope you have an idea if not press pause and you could have a little more time to think about it but I want us all to do our freezes at the same time okay I'm gonna say one two three freeze all right and I will show you my freeze this freeze that I'm gonna be doing and I made it up a long time ago I think like 19 or maybe 20 years ago when I first started breaking when I first started doing this dance I made up a move and it's called the banana freeze because the shape kind of squirt it makes me think of a banana and I was flexible back then kind of sort of how I'm a little flexible now and it's kind of a flexible twisty pretzely move anyways let me show it to you when I say freeze okay so get ready get your bodies ready if you're gonna do a tall freeze stand up if you're doing a middle freeze maybe maybe you want to get up like this I don't know if you're doing a low freeze go ahead and get to the floor I'm gonna count to three say one two three freeze then I want you to do your freeze when I say freeze I'll do my freeze to okay one two three freeze and then you could get out of your freeze okay good job that was my banana freeze if you want to see it again if you want to try to do it I'll show you how I do it and you can kind of figure out how your body translates and tries that move to okay so I'm sitting with my legs open first one foot goes across one knee and then my hands are gonna go down and then see where my my foot and my leg meets right here this corner I'm gonna stick my elbow right there okay so watch gonna lift up stick my arm down and then I'm gonna lift my foot up just like that if you try it and it takes a few tries for you to get something like that that's okay if you get it right away or if you don't get it today at all that is okay I just want you to try different positions and work on making new freezes and I hope you did a really cool freeze I'm sure your freeze that you just did was really cool actually I wish I got to see it but now that's it those are all the different kinds of moves we're learning together for this series we did top rocks we did drops we did footwork and we did some freezes and what do you think we do with all those different moves I think we should put them together actually it doesn't have to be in that order that you do these moves like top rock drop footwork freeze it can you can put the moves together like that but if you want you could go backwards you could just mix them all up so maybe footwork comes first or maybe you do a drop first and then go back and do a top rock I don't know I don't know what you will come up with a mystery and it's amazing I wish I could see it but let's try that exercise together okay so stand up and I think I think for now we're going to do it from the order we're going to do the a combination of moves from the order that we learned them so top rock one or two top rocks it's up to you one drop to the floor maybe two it's up to you at least one footwork move and then a freeze at the end okay and these moves could be the moves that I showed you or it could be moves that you made up all by yourself all of them totally original it's just you it's up to you okay so for this I think I need some help with some music though so I'm gonna turn on the music by asking my DJ to turn it on DJ yes okay it's coming up and it is that Franklin song yet I love it so much I want to hear it again do you remember what I said earlier a few videos ago I said when I hear a song I hear the beat I nod my head so go ahead nod your head right now and get used to the song maybe your feet want to move a little bit so we're gonna do our moves in the order of what we learn footwork I'm sorry not footwork top rocks drops footwork and freezes okay so you just have to do like one of each so I'm gonna maybe I feel like doing a sidestep top rock like this and I'm just gonna move my arms a little bit and then go ahead and do a drop let me see I feel like doing a W freeze drop but I'm gonna add something to it I'm gonna jump go down then W freeze that's my drop and now footwork you know what I think I want to do this and this is a pendulum footwork I love doing this but I'm getting tired right now so I'm gonna stop and do a freeze freeze I'm not sure what moves you did but I'm sure you did some really really cool moves but I think that's it for now it's it for now so you can practice in your living room wherever you are and do your moves you can do the moves I showed you or you can do the moves that you made up yourself I hope you practice often some other videos by other teachers coming up for you to look at for inspiration and a banana freeze it was so fun dancing with you I hope these dances and some joy I'll see you next time