Even though I seen Djidawi do the same moves in every competition. I swear his twist-o-flex's, dime stops, waves, and toyman never gets old.When popkun attempted the twist-o-fIex I had mixed feelings like, why are you doing that? But mad props to both, they are great and amazing. Just wish Popkun didn't start dogging Djidawi style after what Djidawi did in the beginning, it was bad on his hand.
I see a lot of comments saying Popkin hits more, but dimestops are hits too, and Popkun stays in a small range of motion for almost all of the battle, until the last round, where his waving and transitions get sloppy. I feel like he stays in his comfort zone, around his head. Djidawi took this one by being more diverse with the music and having musicality, which linked his dance to the song. In my opinion, Djidawi won, but that's just my opinion.
popping is a dance with 5 elements in it, it has boogaloo , waving , hitting , robotic and isolation. pretend a mindmap and in the middle we have popping and around the popping we have boogaloo, waving and on. u dont need to hit to be a popper, its just that Hitting is the most importan basic in popping. its the same as a toprock and sixstep in bboying. the name popping came from pop/hit people was poppin/hitting.
To you people who wonders: "why do they pop/hit so much?, thats because hitting is the best technique to mark beats -> showing musicality = real dance and not just moves (like robert muraine, pacman, omarion etc.)"
@TheRinc3wind Hitting is the foundation. Popping includes the creativity.. style and whatnot, but without hits you are not popping. Know your foundations!
@kyeatspie Popping is evolving - nowadays pops and hits aren't foundation they are just one of technics ( very important), you can dance popping without hits. perfect example is Djidawi who is one of the best (many achievments like eurobattle, just debout , dancing in IBE 2009, Uk B-boy )
im not trying to kiss ass or anything but your toyman and wavings are as good as it gets.also salah repeats moves too and he still the best by many people including me.Keep the love for the dance men you inspired many people you know and many more that cant see you in person but watch your videos to get inspired some copy will copy you and some wont.Peace.
my honest opinion on this battle, not hating, just an opinion from a huge fan of dance....djidawi is very one dimensional and has been doing the same moves for awhile now and as far as Popkun, I enjoyed his creativity. Round 1 - Djidawi, Round 2 - Popkun and Round 3 - Popkun (barely).
Popkun ended his first round weak, and lost it on his second and third, and Djidawi battled him. Props to both, but thats what I saw. Djidawi also threw in alot of foundation in the 3rd, from a battle perspective, I get it. Plus he had a consistant flow. I really enjoy seeing his improvement
Djdawi is pretty good. He's smooth and energetic. But I saw just a little little tiny bit of repeats but no problem. On the other hand, Popkun really knew what he was doing and his improvisation with his movements are really creative. His Hits are very clean too. Both we're great and awesome battle, but I think Popkun took this one on my opinion. Respect to both. :)
Poppin is just pure hitting. If you want the correct term its called funkstyle or g-style. They are both same but come from different roots. But poppin is just hitting, and angles. People refer this as poppin because it striked out more. If I was to call a dance style an original move i'd call it boogaloo because boogaloo came first before poppin and waving.
@HatakiSagara its just that we dont understand his style well, he doesn't win r16 korea 2011, joining brand new mind, win many other competitions and getting into this finals that easy (: excuse for my bad grammar. keep on dancing!
@awerey Since when has the meaning changed? You hit on beat when you pop end of discussion. Who says it has a different meaning. If popping is no longer hitting on the beat what is it? explain to me what is!
@BoogieCharmander Popping is a dance with 5 elements? I have no idea where you got that concept from, but I've never heard it explained that way. I've heard of people defining popping as an umbrella term in which many styles fall under, which include the styles you've mentioned, but it's not specifically those 5. You MUST HIT to be a popper. Everyone debates the definition of popping, but almost every sub sect of popping demands that you hit on beat, whether it be G-Style, EB, Boppin', whatever.
just because i don't have a video doesn't mean i don't dance. i may not be known on the youtube community but i do have actual credit for dancing from people who know me or know of me. i have been in battles. i'm not in my garage filming myself. =P
@TheRinc3wind Aye.. I don't think you truly know what you're talking about. Popping is evolving but the foundation will always be there, without a foundation to build on how can it truly be popping. Oh and Djidawi does indeed use hits, he's not a hard hitter, but he for sure uses hits. You should know that if you really admire him lol.
@TheRinc3wind hmm djidawi does not actually have good musicality. He just hits kick-snare-kick-snare, random beatfreak. His waves are nice obviously but you cannot say that his creativity is in the same league as Popkun.
I don't get it, so popping is about hits ?I thought it's about musicality, style, creativity. Hits are just one of many techniques in popping, although I agree with sentence "djidawi has not hard hits" Djidawi has the craziest waves i've seen, perfect flow and incredible musciality which makes him one of the best poppers in the world.
I'm trying to find out what the name of the song is that has the lyrics, "Tonight, I feel like I wanna do something." Can anybody please tell me what song it is?
home game for djidawi but man is popkun getting slept on or what?! djidawi's sick but just cuz popkun's not flashy doesn't mean he's not funky. and popkun is POPkun for a reason lol, stays true to the core, the foudations
real popping never had any boogie in it, the boogie style is something that has came in the last decade,........i prefer popping without the boogie aspect of it.
Salah Poppin John vs Pepito Djidawi JUSTE DEBOUT 09 - Djidawi dancing without hits and pops - How the hell they won if they weren't dancing popping on a popping competition ...wait I know it's because pops and hit's are technique and the dancer decides what technique he wants to use. Times when the poppers had to pops all the time to win a battle has gone
@TheBlacktionMan Popping now envolves lots of styles, not only popping, it's like doing newstyle withou bounce, it is legit, back in popping pete days popping didn't envolve bogaloo, neck-o-flex, puppet style, etc, the style beeng called now popping envolves everything, changing the shape of ure waving, small rotations, quick twist-o-flex, replace the snare priviledged position of hitting, junior bogaloo shows that, popping taco shows it, if u don't know these names im sayng, u should not discus
