soooooo tempted to edit out the 'moby' in thread title


i compare this with your bio clip and see 2 major things that are different, and imo is hurting ur illusion atm

-theres alot less power and intent in your moves now than in the bio clip, especially with the legs

-the swaying you were doing with ur scarecrow seems really counter productive when paired with the extended arm/huge distance liquid your doing with your arms and hands. in the bio clip that style worked so well because of your stationary torso to compliment the movement of your arms but not so much here. i duno how well these 2 elements are gonna mix together even with practice, only one way to find out :)

-i wouldnt know how, but if u can try and make ur fold action a little more defined, i thought i saw some crazy hand angles but couldnt really make them out due to the less than stellar camera quality

Thanks for the critiques/tips, guys. I'll definitely make a conscious effort to get everything else loosey goosey and rollin around. I think what's really holding me back is that I feel like I don't want move a certain body part unless 'the flow' compels it to, but then that leaves me with little that I can actually move, at least at this stage. I guess it's better to have superfluous or redundant movements and trim the fat later than look stiff forever.

As for the legs, I'm really trying to get away from flat footed, which rules out a lot of my bio, but leg rolls might not be a bad idea. It's hard to describe and especially convey what I'm envisioning, but until this "hunt," I've just been moving my lower half because I had to figure out something to do with it. Some of it looked cool, but it was pretty arbitrary and wasn't because my lower half was just as much a part of the liquid as my arms. Ehhh it's late and I'm rambling.

EDIT: I know how to say what it is I'm trying to do, now. I'm trying to get away from "LPC" liquid (Fu/Freq/Red), the kind where a lot of the body/leg work is heavily influenced by popping poses and transitions. The difficulty is that I've only seen two people proficient at this, one of whom is ironically Eric and the other being Tien, a buddy I grew up with whom I haven't danced with for a long time.

I thought unlike some other guys' clips yours was truly raw becasue I remember you used to flow different,


I can't wait for the second clip !

EDIT: I know how to say what it is I'm trying to do, now. I'm trying to get away from "LPC" liquid (Fu/Freq/Red), the kind where a lot of the body/leg work is heavily influenced by popping poses and transitions. The difficulty is that I've only seen two people proficient at this, one of whom is ironically Eric and the other being Tien, a buddy I grew up with whom I haven't danced with for a long time.

One thing I've done in the past, and it may seem retarded, is to do jumping jack liquid. So it's like your bottom half is doing a jumping jack and the top is doing liquid. Try and smooth out the motion and shorten the leg separation and come up with variations like cross overs. That little hop can also transition into like a running man motion. I don't know if you want to mess around with that.

just a small suggestion, something I've tried recently.  Record yourself eyes closed...sometimes seeing yourself can really cause a block in creativity.  Just a thought, your unique, know all the lingo, so I'm thinking this is a rather small hurdle your mind is turning into something bigger then it should.