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~The_Chosen~

Master Don Juan
posted 02-21-2002 09:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ~The_Chosen~     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great advice man, you can also "invent" your own C Walk guys, make sure it ain't weird and looks cool.

It's like you walk around and they go, "Lemme see you C Walk." And bust out those moves.

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Mr.T-Bone

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posted 02-21-2002 01:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mr.T-Bone     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Anyways when your gliding your foot is it not suppost touch the floor? I know you are suppost to shift your weight on to your pivot foot but I heard that you are suppost to slide your other foot without actually touching the ground. Also if you could attempt to describe how you sideglide that would be pretty dope...I got the basic concept down...just have to work on smoothening it out.

This is a guide on how to do the side glide copied from shaddupanddance.com 's awesome FAQ (which is currently down.) I've corrected the few things that were wrong in it (the guy mixed the right and left feet up at one point)...

"Side glides

If you're new to gliding, you're probably going to have to practice to gain some balance to stay still with all your weight on one foot. I would recommend raising and lowering yourself onto the balls of each foot, and shifting your weight back and forth from each foot as you do this (the weight should shift onto the foot that is raising up, and be shifted off the foot that is lowering). Again, this transfer of weight is very important, and to make a glide look smooth, you have to have this transfer down good.

Also, do yourself a BIG favor, and practice this move on a sticky surface while wearing shoes with a good grip. If you're doing the glide properly, it won't make a difference how much grip or surface friction there is, because you're feet never actually touch the ground when they are sliding. You'll thank yourself later on for practicing like this, and when you move to a smooth surface, you'll be able to blow everyone away with how smooth your glides are.

Alright, here we go. This is a basic side glide mind you...nothing advanced.


1. Stand with your feet a little less than shoulder width apart (or shoulder width even, it's not that important, just don't have them too close together that you have no balance, or so far apart that you can't slide your feet away from each other anymore).

2. Raise yourself up onto the ball (or toes once you've practiced a lot) of your right foot. All of your weight should be on your right foot (this is VERY important). Your left foot should be flat to the ground, and not have any weight on it.

3. Pivot your left foot a little so that your toes are pointing in a left-ish direction (they don't need to be totally left, but your feet should be pointing apart from each other rather than together). Now begin sliding your left foot away from your right foot. Your left foot should remain flat, and it should be hovering JUST above the ground. This is why it doesn't matter if you're wearing sticky shoes, and practice on sand paper. Since you're not actually sliding the foot across the ground, there shouldn't be any friction generated, and thus no problem with the grips on your shoes or the surface. You're going to want to slide your left foot anywhere from 1 to 2 feet (roughly) away from your right foot.

4. As your foot starts to near the distance that you're planning on stopping at, you need to begin pivoting it back (while still moving...this part is tricky) so that the toes are now pointing in a direction towards your right foot (again, doesn't matter how much. Imagine a line shooting straight out from your toes in the direction you are facing when your foot is straight. Your toes should be to the right of this line). There is STILL no weight on your left foot yet.

5. Time for the first transfer. Are you scared? Anyhow, now you need to transfer your weight over from your raised right foot, to your left foot. As you're doing this transfer, you need to raise your left foot and lower your right foot, and this needs to look smooth. This part is tricky, but it gets harder. Again, I would recommend practicing this transfer a lot before going further into gliding. This is the basis right here for a smooth glide.

6. Alright, now you've got your left foot raised, and your right foot flat to the ground. Again, raise it ever so slightly from the ground, and pivot it slightly so it's pointing towards your left foot (you should start to see a pattern here. Basic gliding goes both feet out, both feet in, etc.) Now glide your right foot over towards your left foot. For this specific glide, the left foot is the back foot and right foot is the front foot. Here comes the trickiest part.

7. Now your right foot is going to slide a little bit in front of your left foot, but not just yet. You're still sliding your right foot over towards your left foot, but now you need to start pivoting it and slowly raising it's heel. As you're doing this your left foot is going to start to lower. Ideally, your right foot's heel should come close to brushing over the top of your toes of your left foot, and your right foot's toes should be at about a 45 degree angle to the line I mentioned earlier. The hardest part here is the pivot of your right foot, raising that same foot, lowering your left foot (it still has all your weight on it) and making it look smooth. This is the stall that everyone talks about (or at least it was for me). By the time your right foot is raised and your left foot is lowered, you should have your feet in a position where you can start the glide over again straight away.

8. Transfer the weight smoothly from your now lowered left foot to your raised right foot and use the toes of your right foot to help push off your left foot. You're right foot should again pivot once the weight is off it and then slide to the left. You're now back to step 1.

That's the most basic sideglide broken down into steps. You can repeat these 8 steps as much as you want to continue gliding in that one direction."

So the hovering foot hovers VERY close to the ground, but it does not touch the ground.
Good luck in learning it.

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syncmaster

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posted 02-21-2002 05:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for syncmaster     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Better than I could have ever said it... That is EXACTLY how it's done.

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syncmaster

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posted 02-21-2002 05:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for syncmaster     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by bignoahdawg:
the crip walk is always good to do at dances rent the up in smoke tour they show how to do it

Btw - I checked out the vid... it's not actually how it's done. That's a variaton. The original crip walk spells out "crip". You know when he does the side to side thing, his legs look like jello :P... I can do that but it's not the c walk. Peaches and cream is still the best example in my opinion.

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Lilredplaya

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posted 02-21-2002 07:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lilredplaya     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
1 word: Morpheus... goto www.google.com or www.download.com search for morpheus. Here is the place you can find all the music you need, videos on dance moves, etc. its been a big help to me. try it 4 urself

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whatsupwiddat

Master Don Juan
posted 02-22-2002 01:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for whatsupwiddat     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
w00t! (sorry slink) Bump, because this is total goodness, and excellently good.

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Specter

Master Don Juan
posted 02-23-2002 11:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Specter     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
WHAM,BAM,MONEY GRAM!. cool post, where is part 2?

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syncmaster

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posted 02-24-2002 02:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for syncmaster     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It's coming when I get around to it.

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Turbobird

Master Don Juan
posted 02-24-2002 03:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Turbobird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Excellent post syncmaster! Does anyone know any site where I can get more info about grinding? I’m a really lousy dancer, and I think I need more detailed instructions and pictures/movie clips. How can I learn grinding?

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Put your hand around her and place it on her stomach place your package on her ass and put the other hand in place.

At what place?

/Turbobird

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crazykid

Don Juan
posted 02-24-2002 07:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for crazykid     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Can anyone tell me where I can find out how to do the drop down move where you go to the floor and act like you pick yourself up by a rope?

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syncmaster

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posted 02-24-2002 07:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for syncmaster     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by crazykid:
Can anyone tell me where I can find out how to do the drop down move where you go to the floor and act like you pick yourself up by a rope?


Most dancing is learning by watching -- the only place where i've seen it is in the vid Peaches and Cream by 112 --
LOL, I keep refering back to that vid - but in all honesty, it covers a lot of really good dance steps.

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syncmaster

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posted 03-17-2002 07:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for syncmaster     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bump - see the second post about "crip walking"

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The kind one

Don Juan
posted 03-19-2002 04:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for The kind one     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Have you found it that girls like to grind better when yu have a bonr or when you dont? Whe would o say was thetime in starting to get one? What is your e-mail, mine is bad2cor@aol.com

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dip

Don Juan
posted 05-02-2002 03:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for dip     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
-bump-

even though this is an old post, a lot of you newbies should read it.

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bob2007

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posted 05-04-2002 09:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bob2007     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by syncmaster:
OMG - THIS IS GONNA BE FUN!
Here's one topic where I am the MASTER!
They call me Raymond.... Usher Raymond. :P
Ok, wanna learn how to dance. Go out , buy a hoola hoop (5$). Put on dance club music. Stand in your room, and hoola hoop to the music. This teaches you to move your hips and keep the rest of your body relativley still. That's what taught me to dance.
After you can do that, get rid of the hoop.
Stand with your knees somewhat bent your arms bent a bit either in front or at your sides (don't move them that much... yet). Move your hips in a different direction for every beat, half beat (2 beats) or whole beat (4 beats). Try and sway your hips back and forth and try and stay away from moving front to back too much - it will look like you're fvcking the air.

-- ok, now you have the basics of grinding.

Now we're at the club.

#1 RULE!!! DO NOT STAND AROUND LOOKING LIKE A LOOSER!!!!

Dance your ass off, go out and have fun. Stand out in the middle, in the open and dance by yourself (takes mega confidence in the beginning). If your w/ your buds then HOLLER OUT LOUD! it will get you knowticed by EVERY girl in the room. Be full of energy - and start to hoola :P.
Once you see a few girls you wanna grind SLOWLY dance your way over to them. Once they realize you're there , lightly touch from the top of one girls back to the bottom to let her know what you're gonna do.
Put your hand around her and place it on her stomach place your package on her ass and put the other hand in place. Start moving to the beat of the music with her.

TADA!!! You're grinding.

If things start to heat up, you can move your hands around... up or down, it's your choice !

Front grinding = The process of turning your girl around, sticking your leg inbetween hers and giving her an earth shaking orgasm on the dance floor.

To do this you can NOT hesitate. Put your arms on hers and turn her around. Pull her in close and place one leg inbetween hers. She will settle in and start moving her body on your leg (I've actually come close to giving a girl an orgasm doing this). Get in really close.
If you're gonna kiss her - now is the time to do it.

ORRRRRRR-

You could slow it down at this point and start going to your own beat. Take her arms and raise them above her head and start rubing her body up and down looking DEEPLY into her eyes. Keep doing this at varied speeds and go in , lightly touch her lips then come off... keep doing this and it will drive her WILD! Eventually, go for the kiss.

Some other stuff--

Any of you watch Usher dance? See how he is, smooth, fluid? etc???

Wanna learn to do that?! You gotta work your ass off but it pays BIGTIME! I'm still perfecting it, but the basic effect is that you look like you're walking on air. It's really really fluid and smooth. Learn his slides, study his videos, and practice.

Something else that will get you knowticed
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LEARN TO C WALK. It's a breakdance moved invented by the Crips (c stands for crip). Look up how to do it online, it's VERY hard to explain but looks really good when you're just walking/dancing into the club.

Learn to breakdance in general and you'll be on a 1 way street to some fine ass.

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Side effects of learning how to grind -
Every girl in the club will think you'll be an amazing lay because you can move your hips so well. In reality - you will be better in bed because you have more control. - Now if you could just last longer then ten mins.
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That's enough for today. If anyone wants - you can e-mail me and i'll suggest some good music vids to watch to learn how to dance.
I"m out.



I can sing like usher, but i sure as hell can't dance like him. I'm still trying to learn the slide moves he does, my friend tries hard to teach me it, but still can't get it to work

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dip

Don Juan
posted 05-04-2002 10:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for dip     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
i know what u mean, if I could move like USHER! i would have all the girls..lol

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FrenchPLay

Master Don Juan
posted 05-04-2002 10:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for FrenchPLay     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
bump

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