Post Date: 2010-01-12 Getting detailed locking instruction either in person or through another method is necessary in order to sweeten your locking with many of its intricacies.
It is not uncommon for talented lockers to take many years to get to where they are; often the place where they start to feel real improvement is when they feel that they've harnessed a greater understanding of the style.
For at its core, it is quite simple once you understand things such as why you're stopping the movements in certain ways, but it may take a while before you can incorporate these into your locking and it actually feels like a normal thing to do rather than some burdensome operation.
Regaling in the music and just 'feeling' it is where many of us want to go. That place of expression where the moves just seem to come out effortlessly and stylishly. This is where you meet that thing called 'freestyle.'
In locking it is a skill to be able to freestyle as well as to dance routines. As it is a style that encourages your own personality and character there are elements that only you can bring to the dance that will come out when you freestyle.
Also freestyle encourages your own thoughts to come out right in front of you and is a process of continual development as you aim to be able to express what you feel at will, on command as soon as the music kicks in and just be there.
What getting detailed locking instruction does is drill many of the basics into you and in conjunction with the learning of routines that will enable you to really get these basics down. The details that enable the locking to come alive should be practised simultaneously with the moves so that they become interlocked and are not two disparate elements.
For the moves must have feeling behind them, you shouldn't be doing moves just for the sake of doing moves. They should be saying something; they should say something about how you are feeling in that moment.
And due to the creative expression element of locking, the way you do a move may not necessarily be the same as another but both can be a realization of that unmistakeable feeling where you feel funky and just want to dance and revel in the joy.
Just like no two people will have exactly the same thoughts, no two people will freestyle in exactly the same way. They may look similar when dancing a routine in unison as a group, but when freestyle is at play you each want to be your own thing.
When you are feeling the music and in the moment, your freestyle will often fuel its own creativity. It is easier to feel the music if from the moment you begin, the funk is present.
Many of the intricacies of locking allow for this - the stylistic elements should actually make the dance easier to perform rather than be a hindrance if you practise them right.
Kevin Shwe (Strawberry KS) is a locking teacher and dancer from London, UK. As well as teaching regular locking dance classes he has also authored a locking instructional DVD 'Introduction To Locking' which grounds beginners in the basics of the style with a focus on the funk elements. Find out more about it at http://www.lockingvideos.com/
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