Understanding Popping & It's Origins

Hello IDALites!

Welcome back to my new blog. I hope you all might have witness our latest course on IDALS which is on Foundations of Popping conducted by one of the OG's in India Mihir karelia AKA Mik62.

Mihir is an excellent teacher and performer. The way he has helped to curate and structure the course for the beginners is really appreciable. The basic popping drills which has been taught under the course is very much in detail which can be easily understood by the beginners.

In this blog, I want to put some highlights from the places where Popping has been originated and the level of practice and efforts required to master this style.

As you all might have seen in our introductory videos, where our IDALS Instructor Mik62 has explained about the origins of Popping and it actually clear some of my misconceptions. For the past few years, I was under the impression that Popping was evolved from only Robotic style which we all have been reading on wikipedia and may be some other resources. But looking after Mihir's way of explanation, it has cleared many of my points.

Popping as you all can see from our introductory has been evolved from various places of US. Different places have contributed in a certain way to make this style grow as we look up to it today. Places such as Richmond, Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles has significantly played a crucial role. Starting from Richmond which has been a place for Robot dancers, many dancers who practiced and inspired the robotic style movements became a quick capture of the eye. If you see this style has widely been popularized by the famous Shields & Yarnell in many of their videos which has inspired many of them to follow this style. Now, we can see many poppers making use of this style in Popping as well. Then, we have Oakland, which actually laid the many foundations and introduced other styles such as Boogaloo, rolls, worming, etc. San Francisco was another major place where people practiced styles like Strutting, Waving, Boogaloo and Dime stops. People from Los Angeles are called as the real hitters as their pops looks much louder as compared to other poppers. These styles are not part of popping but individual separate styles which enhanced the style of Popping when people started incorporating in it. Popping as we all know is just contraction and relaxation of muscles  and many of us believe that it evolved only from Fresno in California but there are many places which has laid its foundations. 

Many dance groups and influencers such as Black resurgents, Media cirkus, Robotroids, Criminions, Electric Boogaloos, James Brown, Temptations and many more has helped the style of Popping to grow and made it popularized all around the world. For more detailed information, please look into our Introductory videos where our Instructor Mik62 has explained it really well about its Foundations. You may attend the course through the following link Foundations of Popping

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