Post Date: 2010-01-21 Locking continues to be a popular dance form today even if a somewhat underground movement. There are new people who are becoming interested in locking all the time and wish to learn some so they can do a bit for themselves.
Learning a couple of moves from a few tutorials on video websites is definitely a good start. This will start to expose you to some of the locking moves and you will know how to do them with a bit of practise.
However if you wish to take your locking further, it is important to further your education and take an approach that covers the whole dance form in more detail. This is something that can take time to achieve.
Many lockers learn for many years before they ever reach the sort of standard where they are confident performing to an audience or perhaps participate in locking battles or competitions.
The reason it is important to further your education is because locking is a very unique dance style that has its own vocabulary. It has its own performance style, way of doing things with that funky feel, unique rhythms and much more.
It takes quite a lot of exploring of the stylistic elements before you feel that you are really nailing them and actually dancing in a way that looks and feels funky to you.
The reason it takes time to reach this perch line is because an understanding of the dance is key. And once you understand what the dance is about, you also need the bodily understanding so your body knows what it's doing and to make the funkiness evident, so your dancing says something.
Education and practise is the starting place to allow these parts to come together collectively. For when they do something is achieved that is greater than the sum of its parts, something that's just so downright funky.
You must take yourself on the path to understanding the dance and continually explore this dimension as you do any new moves you learn. Whether you choose to learn from DVDs or in person with a teacher, you must pay close attention to the descriptions the instructors indulge you in.
The descriptions are the little details that make the difference. It is often said that the difference between success and failure is tiny. And the difference between understanding the dance and not understanding is tiny, but the visual output and results are miles apart.
One is the visual depiction of funk and the other is just plain empty vacuous moves...or simply put nothing.
Kevin Shwe, otherwise known as Strawberry KS is a locking teacher from London whose locking tutorials often get thousands of views. He runs his own locking lessons in London and also has a DVD entitled 'Introduction To Locking.' Find out more about his DVD and tutorials at http://www.lockingvideos.com/
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