Post Date: 2010-01-20 Locking is something that the more you get involved in it, the digger you deep and really immerse yourself in its milieu, the more satisfaction you will derive.
Unfortunately in many places around the world this level of detailed instruction in locking is just not available. If you're lucky enough to live in a city where there are teachers, you should with alacrity rush to them if they are respectable teachers and dancers.
So what of those of you who are not in line with such a blessing? The other option will be to learn from locking tutorial DVDs. Actually there aren't many locking DVDs out there which probably reflects its somewhat underground status and that there are less people who do locking than perhaps hip hop, salsa or other styles.
What locking DVDs have to offer is that they have a temporal advantage. A DVD may be an hour or two and in that time you can cover much more of the style and with more effectiveness than from a 5 minute tutorial.
Of course 1 or 2 hours is probably not going to be enough to turn you into a locking master, however a large part of the deal is practise. You will not master 1 or 2 hours of education in 1 or 2 hours. It will take many hours to really learn what you are taught in 1 or 2 hours.
Once you've learnt these moves you can then set forth exploring their relation with other moves and how you can combine moves together in fashions that may not be covered in the DVD.
The thing with locking is that mastering the basics is very important as you come back to these time and time again.
It is worth spending the time nailing the basics and getting them down rather than learning lots of moves without any real proficiency. For it's not about the moves, it's about HOW you do the moves.
This is pretty much an all encompassing rule in all of dance that you can internalize for yourself. It's the reason why two dancers can do the same move and one makes you go 'wow' and the other makes you want to put lemon slices in your eyes.
And this proficiency comes from paying attention to the details, which a DVD can do effectively. It can show you the many facets to a move rather than just the basic move.
The better you get, the more detailed you will have to get to find real improvement. So you're having to explore more and more to get to the real fabric of it.
What this also does is prepare you for more advanced material. More advanced moves often deal with bigger movements, hence if it looks wrong it will probably look really wrong as your arms and legs will be swinging all over the park!
If you've spent time mastering basics, you have that sensitivity and acuteness to detail that can then make these moves work without having to do extra trudging.
The acumen you develop from mastering the basics is a keen eye to detail, which is one of the bedrocks of all great dancers. It all starts with the basics.
Kevin Shwe aka Strawberry KS is a locker and locking teacher based in London, UK. He is the author of the locking tutorial DVD 'Introduction To Locking' that helps beginners into the basics and funky elements of the locking dance style. Find out more about it at http://www.lockingvideos.com/
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