His statement starting @4:03mins is hands down the most important aspect of this entire tutorial. For a long time all I did was learn moves from various lockers and continue to practice the moves daily, but it was only when I actually looked into the history and era of this style that really allowed my locking to be executed properly. Not only do you need to educate yourself about this dance, but you've gotta make the effort to re-live the era, the era of funk. Your locking will improve significantly in both speed and style once you've understood what "Funk and Funky" is, 'House music is a feeling' so is 'funk' music.
Ken Lee thanks for pointing it out man！！ i just started recently and the town where i live doesnt have anyone who practices this dance so i just have to teach myself by mirroring youtube clips
I've been dancing for 20 years and surprisingly it took me 10 years till I realized I was focusing too much on routines and was thinking too much! It's almost entirely about muscle memory! And thanks for the video I studied many forms of popping but never really could get locking down!
Thats whats up. Im glad to hear that. I notice that videos other then breakdancing get less views on my channel so im glad to hear that someone appreciates it. I am really big on pushing all elements of hip hop so whether it gets views or not im planning on putting out videos to expand everyones knowledge of the hip hop culture.
It's one of the moves, but not all moves incorporate locks, it's an overall funk/soul dance style, which can be very smooth and at times done without thowing in a lock at all. The main reason is because this single move was invented by Don Campbell, who ended up being nicknamed "Campellock" for it, but he had his own entire dance style which had all sorts of moves, so people called it "Campbellocking" style. When a group of dancers (incuding Don) came to together and became the "Lockers" based off of that, the style was then called "Locking", though the "Lock" dance move only makes up a very small portion of it. So it's mainly about the man it was named after, as opposed to the "whole style" being all about doing locks all the time (though many people do).
This video helped so much!! Im a 12yo kid whose parents never let me learn locking or popping eventho its my dream to learn! I decided to start to learn myself! Thanksss
i love watching all your tutorials. and most of all i love how they are quick to the point, and dont spend minutes on repetitive steps which makes the video long and drawn out. (i guess other tutorials dont get that YOU CAN REPLAY IT lol!) All in all, its Short, Sweet, and Genius!!
Great drop. Learn why it happened. That'll give you the 'groove' if you identify. Locking's groove is in the 'feel' and if you identify with its message. Otherwise its just technique but you can't feel the other's message and reply in a dance battle. Once you learn that, it's another language of love and respect (very missing in most lock battles)
Ozone did those over & over. All pop & not to much tick locking. I was in a crew when the NYC Breakers were on Soul Train. lol. People are amazed when they see me lock & break, but I don’t have enough repertoire to put anything together. You guys are awesome & Im looking into learning how to do this again for fun.
I am a dancer. I know some tuts and waves but no locking yet. Thanks for teaching me some basics. I gave this video a thumbs up and shared it. Have a good day.
When Moon said "Uncle Sam Points", instantly in my head I start singing in an Asian accent "Do da Unco Sam da Unco Sam da Unco Sam" from WongFu Productions xD
this is great for places that don't have a big community that supports all the other styles. I know breakdancing is pretty widespread, but locking/popping/waacking/etc. isn't as much. thanks for the video =)
Well you have to be aware that people who first saw your breakdance video's subscribed to you for just that initially. So it's only natural to have more views on your BD video's, good thing you want to post a variety of stuff cause I'm most def interested!
It's nice to show diversity(spelled?) in dancing Vincanity :) I am always told, that you grow as a dancer, if you learn different types of dancing. So in the end you won't be calling your dance something like breakdance or anything like that, but freestyle :) Make your own style with the moves you enjoy :) Btw great initiativ with making a channel with tutorials and stuff like that :) enjoy every single one
Yo Vincanity! Feature something on some of the old school stuff. & a lil bit of Boogaloo. Cause that's something people have very wrong concepts about. and for the effort you put in... Thumbs Up Man!
Anyone has an idea where I could do a loser flip softly? I was thinking of using a bunch of blankets on a wide open space floor with pillows underneath it and attempt to flip...
His statement starting @4:03mins is hands down the most important aspect of this entire tutorial. For a long time all I did was learn moves from various lockers and continue to practice the moves daily, but it was only when I actually looked into the history and era of this style that really allowed my locking to be executed properly. Not only do you need to educate yourself about this dance, but you've gotta make the effort to re-live the era, the era of funk. Your locking will improve significantly in both speed and style once you've understood what "Funk and Funky" is, 'House music is a feeling' so is 'funk' music.
Ken Lee thanks for pointing it out man！！ i just started recently and the town where i live doesnt have anyone who practices this dance so i just have to teach myself by mirroring youtube clips
Thanks!!
Is it Boogalo Sam I should read up on?
I've been dancing for 20 years and surprisingly it took me 10 years till I realized I was focusing too much on routines and was thinking too much! It's almost entirely about muscle memory! And thanks for the video I studied many forms of popping but never really could get locking down!
I could never get popping down but I could do locking lol
Thats whats up. Im glad to hear that. I notice that videos other then breakdancing get less views on my channel so im glad to hear that someone appreciates it. I am really big on pushing all elements of hip hop so whether it gets views or not im planning on putting out videos to expand everyones knowledge of the hip hop culture.
I've been trying to learn some basic locking for a while now, definitely appreciate this!
So, the "lock" dance style is basically called that way because you *lock* a part of your body while some others keep moving?
Yeah it seems like it
I guess
yup that's exactly it
It's one of the moves, but not all moves incorporate locks, it's an overall funk/soul dance style, which can be very smooth and at times done without thowing in a lock at all. The main reason is because this single move was invented by Don Campbell, who ended up being nicknamed "Campellock" for it, but he had his own entire dance style which had all sorts of moves, so people called it "Campbellocking" style. When a group of dancers (incuding Don) came to together and became the "Lockers" based off of that, the style was then called "Locking", though the "Lock" dance move only makes up a very small portion of it. So it's mainly about the man it was named after, as opposed to the "whole style" being all about doing locks all the time (though many people do).
@@Mr-Tibbster wow! Well, thank you! 😊
This video helped so much!! Im a 12yo kid whose parents never let me learn locking or popping eventho its my dream to learn! I decided to start to learn myself! Thanksss
Hows it goin bro?
icant believe im going to learn this all for a project that my groupmates wont even help me with
Cyannoir Rain XD
Did you succeed? I hope so!
we did actually HAhahah our group had the highest score
i love watching all your tutorials. and most of all i love how they are quick to the point, and dont spend minutes on repetitive steps which makes the video long and drawn out. (i guess other tutorials dont get that YOU CAN REPLAY IT lol!) All in all, its Short, Sweet, and Genius!!
Great drop. Learn why it happened. That'll give you the 'groove' if you identify. Locking's groove is in the 'feel' and if you identify with its message. Otherwise its just technique but you can't feel the other's message and reply in a dance battle. Once you learn that, it's another language of love and respect (very missing in most lock battles)
at the end when you teach the combos you are doing it very fast so it becomes very hard to follow sometimes
Superbly easy tutorial. Just loved it
Thanks for showing the basics!
Ozone did those over & over. All pop & not to much tick locking. I was in a crew when the NYC Breakers were on Soul Train. lol. People are amazed when they see me lock & break, but I don’t have enough repertoire to put anything together. You guys are awesome & Im looking into learning how to do this again for fun.
OMG I'm just starting lockin' I know this is basic but is helluva tough to learn all that lol.
Vince you are the best and u always bring the best thx alot u made many people know how to breakdance and we all see that u are the best teacher
Start on top and work your way to the ground.
I am a dancer. I know some tuts and waves but no locking yet. Thanks for teaching me some basics. I gave this video a thumbs up and shared it. Have a good day.
Thanks for the Tutorial. I’m from Brazil and I used your video to practice with my little daughter for a school presentation
Simone Souza daughter? Ur a fully grown dude then
Love the move break down. Perfect to build vocabulary and bring to freestyle. I've been doing a lot of these moves quite sloppily lol
thank u u saved my life
that freestyle at 4:20 was epic!
haha I do have him teaching tutorial on my channel. I am the one who taught him how to breakdance.
This is perfect man. After seeing Locking Khan and his tutorial, I've been wanting to work on these forms
S'Nice! thanks for putting so many moves in one video.
I started with Breakdance, but i also love to learn more about other kinds of Hip Hop :D
Wow this is awesome! Keep doing it! We also have Locking tutorial taught by our own dance instructor.
When Moon said "Uncle Sam Points", instantly in my head I start singing in an Asian accent "Do da Unco Sam da Unco Sam da Unco Sam" from WongFu Productions xD
XD
this is great for places that don't have a big community that supports all the other styles. I know breakdancing is pretty widespread, but locking/popping/waacking/etc. isn't as much. thanks for the video =)
Perfectly explained
Thanks for sharing. Got started and that's great!
+Leo Vossi of course! hope you enjoy!
is this mirrored
Nice work Guys.. 👍👍👍
The view of background is PRICELESS THO😻😻😻😱
the clouds look awesome ! nice locking
Best dance teacher!!!
thanks for the tutorial....always wanted to learn this dance!!!
Thank you very much for thise tutorial ❤🙏🏻
Well you have to be aware that people who first saw your breakdance video's subscribed to you for just that initially. So it's only natural to have more views on your BD video's, good thing you want to post a variety of stuff cause I'm most def interested!
1. toprocks
2. footwork
3. flow basics
4. freezes
5. power moves, this takes alot of time because it requires alot of strenght
NICE NICE job on this. Moon is one of my favorites to watch get down!! Stay funky bro!
Finally a locking tutorial from you!
THIS GUY JUST CAME IN TO INSTRUCT MY DANCE CLUB1
It's nice to show diversity(spelled?) in dancing Vincanity :) I am always told, that you grow as a dancer, if you learn different types of dancing. So in the end you won't be calling your dance something like breakdance or anything like that, but freestyle :) Make your own style with the moves you enjoy :)
Btw great initiativ with making a channel with tutorials and stuff like that :) enjoy every single one
Good job guys!
I see this dance first time . I love it !!! Locking is perfect to me. Rate , comment and subscribe for your all of tutorials . Thanks for Tutorial
i started with breakdance when i saw your video's and i get how to windmill and flare from your video's :) thank you .
Thank you!
Locking and breaking! love it!
respect. 👌
his da best i can see
Can we get more locking tuts? Slowly realizing how awesome these movements will fuse with my toprock.
god bless you. thanks.
잘봤습니다!! 안그래도 궁금했는데 감사해요!!
Why didn’t u show Scooby kick? I love that move or even Scoo bot hop? Idk if I’m spelling this right
good teacher !
excelente video
Thanks sir & love you sir
I ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THIS . THANKYOU
what about a krump tutorial that would be cool and awesome video btw !
Whats the background music?please 🥺🥺
Critical tutorial!!
I wanna learn more on locking
Yo Vincanity! Feature something on some of the old school stuff. & a lil bit of Boogaloo. Cause that's something people have very wrong concepts about.
and for the effort you put in... Thumbs Up Man!
impressive
I've been doing the lock wrongly and finally fixed it. And the scooby doo as well
Gracias
Amazing bro
lol i gt a goood feeling on mixing locking and break dancing lol
Thanks bro
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is that a fake cloud?? are you guys done this tutorial on the green screen??
watch flukey luke tutorial for accurate lockings
perfect tutorial! i like all your videos so please continious! =D
Could you please make a separate video just explaining the Uncle Sam points move. It’s way to confusing like this
AWESOME
Wow , sweet. Pleaseee upload more lockin vids ! :D
Peace.
awsm video... and thank u so much
can u also do some popping, dubstep, and the waving ( stuff that the jabbawockeez and quest crew do) . like for him to see so we can learn.
Amazing
more groove :) thats all thanks for the tutorial
Awesome
Awesome stuff :)
I usually dont lock, but sometimes I mix it with my mimes
its the Rerun dance !
Can you do a thread tutorial plz?
hey vincani if im a begginer, what can I do to get used to these moves?
Can you plz make some popping tutorials
Nice
You should do some popping & waving tutorials c:
I'm off beat dancer can u suggest something ,so that I can improvise ..
This is awesome! I also have the locking basic video and other videos. Come and check it out!
Hey vince, how bout a halo tut ?
Can u please make a 1990 spin tutorial
Thank
Who came here because of Taki?
Tysm 👌
We are learning how to clap
isnt your arm not supposed to be fully straight when pointing, and isnt it "wrist roll"
ttv-MaxxTrax yeah I think it’s wrist roll
Anyone has an idea where I could do a loser flip softly? I was thinking of using a bunch of blankets on a wide open space floor with pillows underneath it and attempt to flip...
good
is there a how to lock playlist ?
grafiti tutorial??