Talk:Popping

Boxing, waving, and liquid

Someone should make entries for boxing, waving, and liquid.

Yes, they should. Waving is kind of done, I thought liquid was the same as waving, if that's the case it should be said of course. Many of these terms are extremely fuzzy, it really helps to sort out the lingo. For instance, I think I know most techniques only not their names (I've learned mostly from videos or other people who don't know the names either) so given rough definitions I could probably fill them in. Anyone? Arru 16:53, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Internet phenomenon

The keyword "electric boogaloo" originally linked to Breakin' 2, which clearly is by the meaning of the internet meme. Since the meme/movie title comes from the dance I naturally think the "electric boogaloo" should link to popping, but also that someone looking for the basis of the meme should be able to find it. Arru 16:47, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Pop-lock

There's no article for popping and locking, which this basically is. there needs to be some locking in this here poping article.

Hi!

I don't agree. Popping and locking are two different dance styles, and though they evolved in the same era and were both traditionally danced to funk music, there's a clear distinction in their appearance and feeling. The term pop-lock is generally used just like the term funk styles, as a way to group these styles together, but they're still different dances. What we need is a separate article on locking, placed at locking (dance), that deals only with locking. Of course both the popping and locking articles could link to each other.

- Wintran 09:56, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Wintran's right. "Pop-locking" is a misconception if referring to a dance style. Regarding liquid dancing however, I have suggested that it be merged with popping because these styles are extremely alike. Unfortunately the expressions "liquid" and "popping" have different cultural origins so this might be difficult. As a next-best solution we should at least make clear in both articles that they are basically the same.

Arru 12:33, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Popping and locking are two different styles that is correct, also a good deal of the history being posted in this (popping) article is quite innacurrate and misleading. Liquid dance is a popping tyle not a different type of dance or style it is a popping style. waving, tutting, ticking, diming, sinbad, ect are all poppign styles. Popping is merely the art of nongymnastic body manipulation and altering the viewers perception of reality through this. popping is not a style which is restrickted to hard and arbupt movments which seem stiff and robotic or jarring. Put Liquid in its position as a section of the article under styles.

Liquid and popping

I have suggested that the close relation between popping and liquid dancing be made more clear, preferably by merging their articles. Quote from Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages , reasons to merge pages:

"There are two or more pages on related subjects that have a large overlap. Wikipedia is not a dictionary; there doesn't need to be a separate entry for every concept in the universe. For example, "Flammable" and "Non-flammable" can both be explained in an article on Flammability."

The point is that:

• Liquid originated conveniently at the same time as popping went underground (around 1990), so it having originated on its own is a dubious claim at best
• When you are actually dancing, as opposed to talking about it, you really do the same moves in either one. Liquid has a few more moves which suggests that it perhaps should be used as title for the merged page. On the other hand, liquid as a name is more specific than popping.
• While the two dances may have different origins, nowadays dancers combine the two. Breakdancers attend rave parties and even the musical boundaries are blurring.
• When the descriptions of moves become more elaborated, it will be all the sillier to write the same descriptions in two places.

The phenomenon of liquid dancing is a bit new to me (unlike popping) and I may be missing something here. But I don't think the different cultural attachments are enough to pretend the dances are unrelated too.

Arru 12:33, 20 January 2006 (UTC) Suggestions: either

• Merge popping and liquid into "Mime dances" or something similar. There may be others to include to, strobing has a very short individual article at the moment.
• Maintain the separate articles but move the move descriptions to a common "List of popping and liquid moves".

Arru 12:53, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

I see what you mean, and I agree that this is a very complex subject, which we need to sort out as fair as possible, taking all aspects into concern. I also know more about popping than liquiding, but let me share with you my most recent observations:

As far as I've understood, popping can refer to two things:

1. An umbrella term for a number of different dance styles, effects and moves, such as hitting/popping (see number two below), boogalooing, botting, gliding, waving, strobing and so on.
2. The specific effect of popping (a.k.a. hitting), i.e. contracting and relaxing groups of muscles of your body in a controlled manner.

Liquiding is an umbrella term as well but focuses on styles that give a fluid-like effect, such as waving and gliding, but also moves not normally seen in popping, such as "waves" only in the hands and fingers, such as the hand flows and splits.

Even though popping and luquiding as umbrella terms share many dance styles and techniques, they have also grown into two different dance cultures. In these cultures, popping is primarily danced to funk music, though it's getting increasingly accepted to dance it to hip-hop and electronica as well. The main focus lies on the effect of popping different parts of your body to the emphasized beats of the music, though the other styles such as waving are used to create variation and contrast to the pops.

Liquiding, however, has its roots in the rave culture and is normally danced to rave music and trance, to build on the fluid-like feeling that is the main focus in liquiding, with waving and similar styles as the main techniques. Liquiding seldom utilizes the effect of popping at all.

Though, like you say, many people mix all styles of dance and music of today, there are still some who take this very seriously, not the least those who came up with many of these dance forms and umbrella terms in the beginning. Many of those wish to keep these cultures separated.

I think I'd prefer we keep the articles popping (dance) and liquid dancing separated, and work on describing these umbrella terms much more clear, and how they are by some considered to be unique dance cultures even though they share many elements in the dance itself. We can also work on all the articles about sub-styles and effects, and maybe merge some of these with each other or with the popping and liquiding articles.

I agree that we should avoid duplication, but I would say that instead of describing waving in both the popping and liquiding article we can link to waving (dance) or similar. This article would explain both "armwave" and "bodywave" as well, as these specific moves on the contrary do not need their own articles. I don't believe that this use really goes against Wikipedia's principles, or that additional articles that actually fill a purpose are harmful.

- Wintran 18:38, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, I guess the umbrella term strategy could work. I myself consider the separation of the styles kind of fundamentalist, and would like the wikipedia entries not encouraging this. I'm sure we can find some balace though.

Arru 23:18, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

I would like to inform you from the perspective of a dedicated and educated popper, that in your adoption of this strategy you are doing a disservice to those who are learnign about the art and it's history and are being highly innacurate as well. Liquid is a PART/style of Popping. Popping is a Dance style period, through miseducation the terms hitting and popping have come to be "interchangable" in the description of the muscle contractions which are integral to the art of popping. In correction of this mistake I inform you, that in the dedicated and most knowledgable community of poppers(those whom are currently in their 40's, have families and have been popping since their youth, such as Shabadoo, Boogaloo Shrimp, Boogaloo Sam, Mr Flattop ect.), here is only one term applicable, Hitting. Popping is the art form Hitting is ONLY the technique and Liquid is ONLY a style (albeit a well developed one), such as are Animal, Sinbad, Tut (Mr. Wiggles), Dime, Electric Boogaloo, and Robot/Mechanic. Hand splits and fingerwaves occur in popping as well. Tutting concentrates on the geometric movement of bodeparts in similarity to images an dfigures seen in egyptian glyphs, hence the name Tuttuing. In a diciplione of tutting which is necessry to know to become a well rounded performer and dancer, with a strong vocabulary in the art, one focuses on the synchronised movement and replacement of body parts in ausggested area of space creating the illusion of flows or sways, particularly in the fingers and hands. This technique is not only used by Tutters but by others at times in limited capacities due to the cross pollination that aoccurs in the popping world. poppers may often take affinity to and concentrate on a specific style and attempt to master and innovate it, the occurance of this does not isolate or sepaprate them from popping, into a different dance styel it merely broadens their specific corner of popping and thusly increases the variety of popping technique. Bring liquid and liquid dancers back home in education and unification ....we are all poppers.

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While I personally lean towards your point of view, this is not the consensus. Dancers rooted in the Rave culture contend that liquid is unique, originated on its own and just happens to be similar to popping. They would certainly not agree that liquid is just a part of popping, referring, just as you do, to its history.

I don't understand how the umbrella (mime dance) strategy would do those who want to learn the popping a disservice. On the contrary, the whole point is to open them to very similar dances. It sounds more like you agree, but would like the umbrella term to be...popping. Of course wikipedia should be accurate on the history, and I believe you are right in that regarding those facts. But don't confuse history with the present! Arru 12:32, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Notability of poppers

The Notable poppers section is an obvious target for self-promotion. A few of these I've heard of, but of course that's no reliable way of assessing notability. I'm going to remove any entry for whom I can't find a booking at some dance show/event, for lack of better criteria. Arru 10:00, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

• Agree. Thechamelon 17:26, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

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The following have been removed because I don't know them being notable.

Feel free to find a citation of their notability and re-add. As expected, sources are hard to find even for rather well-known dancers. I believe third-person sources (i.e. not dancer's own website), interviews, show booking and movie credits are acceptable (weighed with the credibility of the source itself), ordered in increasing proof value.

• Sam "Boogaloo Sam" Solomon
• Danny"blitz"hogan.
• Lonnie "PopTart"
• Lawrence "Funkmaster" Bower
• "Harry Berry"
• Ralph "Dr.Plik Plok" Montejo
• Chuco Flores
• "Mr.Animation"
• "Mr.Re"
• "The Rothwell"
• Paul "Cool Pockets" Guzman-Sanchez
• "Poppin'" Nam Hyun Joon
• "Pringlz"

Note: this is not because I believe your particular favorite popper is not notable, we just have to do a re-add with sources! Arru 23:12, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

The only one I feel might be famous enough to be re-added is Boogaloo Sam, as he is credited as the creator of popping itself and electric boogaloo (the style and the group). However, I'm sceptic to this section at all, as it'll be a nightmare to maintain. Wintran 11:16, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

• I'm afraid you are right about maintainability, but I also see the usefulness of a short list of famous poppers. Let's try for just a little while. Arru 11:59, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I know one thing: "Boogaloo" Sam Solomon needs to be readded immediately; how can you not have the creator of Popping on this page? Someone re-add him and find a notable source IMMEDIATELY. BishopTutu 05:05, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

As I have absolutely no idea about this scene and don't know where to look for "notable" sources, I'll just post it here: why isn't David Elsewhere in the list? As an internet celebrity and actor in quite some commercials, he is pretty much the only popper/liquid dancer most mainstream people (such as me) get to know. Promonex 18:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Here's my vote for Franqey. Some relevant links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbJoB9nliDQ - Teacher at URBAN DANCE CAMP 2009 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt30LTr_Xtw&feature=related - Teacher at URBAN DANCE CAMP 2010 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR57vI7Qp6Y - DRAW with Kaito "Kite" Masai at SDK 2009 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1az1d67meg - Exhibition/Demo at SDK 2010 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBaV3YqvlYA&feature=related - Winner Pop What You Got 2008 | Killazys (talk) 05:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

History

The main page states that popping originated from California, however, I have heard statements from very old school poppers such as Mr. Wiggles state that New York developed popping around the same time. Therefore I don't think it is correct to say that popping originated solely from California. Anyone else care to comment? Alee227 (talk) 03:39, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Do we have any sources that can support the current history section? Most other sources, except a few comments on various discussion forums, regard the Electric Boogaloo's story (that Boogaloo Sam created popping), as true. Wintran 21:42, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

• With the difficulties just to get straight moves descriptions, I think history sources will be hard to come by. Worse, most may be of the 80s nostalgica style, mixing together breakdancing, moonwalk and the robot in one made-up mess. The current history at least sounds reasonable, I would be sceptical of claims that any individual (or group) created a dance from scratch ;-) The influences of mime needs some mention though. Arru 01:20, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree that we cannot rely on standard media sources, as they usually call everything breakdancing anyway, but the only true knowledge we have from the old days are from respected old generation poppers. The most well-reputabled and oldest popping group that we know for a fact are the Electric Boogaloos, and most major pop icons of today, including those listed as our notable poppers, agree with their story of Boogaloo Sam being the oldest pioneer of popping (the technique, not all its sub-styles). There are some exceptions to this, but as the vast majority of serious articles and inteviews I've read state this, I believe it should be the main view of this article. We could include other views as well, but in that case we need to find respectable sources. Wintran 03:50, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I did some major changes to the history section using a lot of source citing. Feel free to check it out. Wintran 01:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps a mention of Earl 'Snake Hips' Tucker clip from 1935 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.31.172.231 (talk) 01:45, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Peter Crouch

I removed this from the notable poppers section:

• Peter Crouch

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/photo_galleries/5032866.stm

I don't know of this person, and perhaps he is good at his scoring dance routine, but he is notable for being a soccer player, not a popper, and he is certainly not on a par with the other dancers listed. Arru 23:29, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Video clips

I added two video clips to the article. It was surprising that there were none before, seems like a crucial asset for understanding what popping is about. (add more!) Arru 23:05, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

is there anything we can do to keep youtube links? the reason cited to remove them is copyright issues: WP:ANI#YouTube_link_deletion. well, i'd guess ALL of our direct video links have copyright issues (and/or reliability issues) the way they cite youtube for violations. as u say, video seems like a crucial asset for understanding popping, or any dance period. removing those links greatly lessens the utility of the article in my view. Wongba 17:48, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Has this still not been resolved since 2006? Videos are crucial; still images and text really do a poor job of description or differentiating popping from other dance forms. -Splitpeasoup (talk) 23:44, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

History of popping

When doing research on the history of popping I've come to realize that it contains some controversial stories. On one hand there's the Electric Boogaloos' story of Boogaloo Sam who came up with the foundation of popping and some of its related styles. As this is without doubt the most widespread story I've found many sources on this and included it as the major view of the article. However, on the other hand, I've heard some people argue (mainly on discussion forums) that popping existed in Oakland some time before Boogaloo Sam and the Electric Boogaloos appeared. Some of these even claim that the Electric Boogaloos intentionally stole credit from the people in Oakland who're said to be the true founders of popping.

Personally, I don't really care who came up with what, but the thing is that we need more sources on the Oakland story if we want to include it in the article. That's why I removed the following uncited text from the history section:

Starting around 1997-1998, this group made a comeback and went on a campaign to spread the notion that their group's founder was the creator of the dance and everything stemming from it. By stating that they created the dance, they were able to better build a following and make money off of the artform that was actually created by many many different sources, in a time period about ten years prior to them.

In reality, their group's founder (from Fresno), actually learned from the many dancers from the Frisco and Oakland areas, who would come down to Fresno during large gatherings for track relays, where during these relays, many dancers would come to represent.

Original Oakland Boogaloo was being done in the 60s, and it was via these track relays, that this group and it's founder were able to see it and build off of it.

Today they claim that they had no knowledge or existence of the history of the Oakland Boogaloo and Frisco Strutting dance styles, and that they created it on their own.

Wintran 01:19, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

• Edits carrying the same message again. I've excised them because they thrown into the article turning it into a discussion rather than an encyclopedia article. Note that

1. I do not reject this material outright - it may well have merit in the article (including its sources)
2. While of value, the history of popping is really the least interesting part of this article and shouldn't comprise half of its length. Street dances are constantly evolving and are in no way "owned" by the people who first practiced them. Cut material follows --Arru 00:45, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Many confirm that the Electric Boogaloos came up with the foundations of popping and some of its related styles, though it is interesting to note that these people who "confirm" are people who were not a part of the culture during that time period and before.

Those that were part of that time period and before state that popping (and Boogaloo) was started and existed during the 1960s in Oakland, California, before the Electric Boogaloos was started.
Easy to verify, is the public claim originally made by the Electric Boogaloo group (and their founder Boogaloo Sam) that they had no knowledge that a "similar" dance was being done, and just very coincidentally happened to have the same name (Boogaloo).
"One day, Sam was dancing around the house, when his uncle said, "Boy, do that boogaloo!" Sam, standing there looking puzzled asked, "What's boogaloo ?" And his uncle said, "That means you're getting down." From that day on he called Boogaloo Sam.
The name "boogaloo" was also used in an old James Brown song called "Do the Boogaloo" (around 1950- something). The things Sam was doing was weird movements with his hips, legs, & body. So, he borrowed the name "boogaloo", and Boogaloo Style was born. The name came before the style."
Popin' Pete (Sept. 1999)'"

http://web.archive.org/web/19991013040926/electricboogaloos.com/Dance.html



However, on an interview with Popin'Pete, he mentions a track meet in Fresno called the "West Coast relays". He said there were dancers there from all over California, including the bay area.

"Everybody would go to this big four-day track meet called West Coast Relays. Every night they'd have a dance down at the convention center, a place that holds like two to three thousand. Everybody from the Bay Area and L.A would go to Fresno. And L.A. at that time hadn't seen it. They had nobody to represent, so they were just checking it out on the side."

http://www.4dapoppers.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=41&page=1





Commonly known history to those in the Oakland, Frisco and surrounding areas, is that there were large track events called "track relays", held in the tiny cowtown of Fresno (where this group's founder is from), and at these large events, all of the best dancers from Oakland and Frisco and surrounding areas would come and dance and represent.


It is extremely unlikely that a person could live in the small town of Fresno, and not have any knowledge of a dance and of dancers, at such a large event like this, which was held regularly (starting from years earlier).


Also even more unlikely, is that a dance that is extremely similar in look, would have the same exact name, and also the same exact name of the subset moves that consist of the style.


"Boogaloo Sam" started his group in 1977. "Boogaloo Dana" for example, is an original Oakland Boogaloo Dancer who started in 1972. |url=http://www.medeasirkas.com |


It is now clearly seen, that this current urban myth is an ill-conceived lie, designed to help the Electric Boogaloo group to build a following and capitalize off of an underground dance culture, and very little known dance history.


Since this dance history is not widely known, and since it is also based in street culture, it becomes a somewhat easy target for those who wish to twist it.


Many people today who do not understand street culture and the artforms created from it, are easily fooled, as they are often looking for documented facts such as books and television, in order for them to be able to relate and understand it.


Unfortunately during that time period, video cameras were very uncommon, and especially in poor areas where artforms like this were taking place.


Many people are better able to relate with the Electric Boogaloos, who came along 10 years later, because they were the first group to be able to get on television and be seen widely. For those living outside of the Oakland and Frisco areas, this was their first experience witnessing this unique and awesome dance artform.


Currently, attempts are being made as best as possible, to document what can be documented. Some of the real oldschool pioneers have banded together and are attempting to share with interviews and video documentaries. | url=http://www.medeasirkas.com | | url=http://blackresurgents.com/ | | url=http://www.daveyd.com/FullArticles%5CarticleN785.asp | | url=http://www.brsaa.org |


| url=http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/MercuryNews/2004/06/16/490185 |

“Popular hip-hop dance styles such as roboting, boogalooing, strutting and popping are practiced all over the world now, and fortunately it finally has been recognized in recent years that the Bay Area was the birthplace for many of them. They emerged in the late '60s and early '70s from the Bay Area's funk music movement.

Unsung heroes such as the Black Resurgents, Pop Tart, the Androids and Media Sirkis (formerly Demons of the Mind) will be at ``True to the Game to break down the history in what promises to be a compelling discussion before the all-star battle.”

Ok I am not familiar with everything on this site, but may I ask who the heck are you "Wintran"??? Someone from Euroland, and wasn't even born when popping was at it's height in 83?!?!?!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.38.44.254 (talk • contribs)

Why does it matter who I am? I'm not pretending to be an expert in popping history. I'm just trying to write a good encyclopedic article on popping.

In either case, I'm glad you found this talk page. On Wikipedia you can make any changes you want, but if other people don't agree with your changes they might start a discussion trying to reach consensus instead of going into some mindless edit war. Wikipedia is not for people who ignore discussions and other people's opinions, or ignore the general Wikipedia policies. Please take some time to read about what Wikipedia is to get an idea of how we can work together to make this a great article.

I'm very interested in learning more of Oakland's view on popping history, and you got some interesting sources that I've not yet had time to check out. The reason why many have removed your material is that it looks unfinished (the references are not correctly formatted etc, probably because you're not used to how Wikipedia articles are written, which is not really a problem) and that it seems to be very biased. With such a controversial issue as popping history, we should not state things as facts and say that "this is the only truth", or draw conclusions like the following from your addition:

"It is now clearly seen, that this current urban myth is an ill-conceived lie, designed to help the Electric Boogaloo group to build a following and capitalize off of an underground dance culture, and very little known dance history." .

This sentence goes against two important Wikipedia policies, namely neutral point of view and no original research. This is how you might discuss things at a discussion forum, or write your own personal blog or article, but not how you write a Wikipedia article. Because of this I propose that instead of reverting each other's changes, we move your new edits to this talk page and start discussing and perfecting them here. If you're certain that you have the correct information, then you should not find this idea to be a problem.

I guarantee that I'm more than willing to listen if you're willing to understand and spend some time explaining. We have all the time in the world and there's no need to rush on controversial issues, especially as we need all the information and sources we can get. I definitely agree that my version of the history of popping was far from perfect, but please understand that we won't get anywhere if you attack me personally. Attack the content instead and tell me what you don't agree with, or which sources you believe are not reliable. Wintran 22:50, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

• I feel the same way about this. I think the "Oakland story" may well have some merit, although the popper Scooby cited seems on a warpath much like our unnamed friend above. However, as Wintran also says, there are neutral point of view-issues in this material and jabs at people and groups like this:

They have been largely successful in developing a following of young following, largely consisting of white, asian and latino kids from the suburbs, who want to be a part of an oldschool urban culture. (basically street gone studio)

(while this may or may not be factually true, the ethnicity of poppers is irrelevant to the state of popping culture)

So please stop reverting to the same edits again and again and discuss this on the talk page. And I might add that while interesting, the history of popping is trivia, since it's such an evolving and manifold dance style. Arru 09:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

since a lot of the dispute resides with boogaloo, maybe we should cleanup the history section above and move it to the boogaloo section. Wongba 15:47, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

• That could work. I say go ahead, I have no bias towards any of the "creation" stories, it seems like none is ever going to be truly verified anyway. What I do care about is: 1. that the article's history section does not contradict itself because of bad edits. 2. that the information in the article is useful to beginners too.

Actually I don't think we should mention any style/derivative of popping without a definition of how it looks and separates from other styles. Meaning that we should mention them but pay attention to how they are defined - there are a lot of duplicate terms in the field of streetdance, and Wikipedia may be the one place where those can be sorted out once and for all! Arru 18:38, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, we need to find a balance between how the terms are used today, and how famous poppers agree (or don't agree) that they should be used. As with everything, we should definitely aim for clarity through references. - Wintran ^(talk) 00:46, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I still believe there's as much dispute regarding popping as there is with boogalooing. It's true that we currently have and will keep having problems finding good sources, but we still need to compare sources and make use of the best ones we can find. One difficult part lies on finding the good sources, another on summarizing them fairly. The problem with the section above that was removed from the article is that I couldn't find a clear relation between the sources and the content, and in the few occasions I could, I was generally not convinced by the quality of the source itself. As I side note, I haven't had much time to work on this, but most of my material at Techniques and styles comes from Mr. Wiggles' and other poppers' instructional videos. I'll see if I can cite them properly when I get the time. - Wintran ^(talk) 00:46, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

• From the "Oakland" sources I checked, I came to the same conclusion. Also, for being such a controversial "scoop" the sources were of rather low value - including forum posts. Arru 10:33, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

References

Userbox

There is a Userbox for popping use the code: {{User:Protocoldroid/User popping|put style here}}

This user is into popping and specializes in {hitting, ticking, botting, etc}.

-- Protocoldroid 18:40, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Robotics?

The article seems to make no mention of robotics. As I understand it, robotics is a type of popping with very straight jerky movements. Am I correct in this? If so it should be included here somewhere, shouldn't it? LemonLion 15:53, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, if you take a look at the section called "Techniques and styles", a style called the robot (a.k.a. botting) is mentioned, and I think it's this style you refer to when you say "robotics". It also has its own article at Robot (dance). - Wintran ^(talk) 20:02, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Question: Syster Twisted

How would you describe the video Sister Twisted by Kinky? (I made an addition into Kinky article, but I'd like the opinion of experts.)`'mikka (t) 08:13, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

The dancer performing in this video must be David Elsewhere, or someone imitating him extremely well which is not very likely. He has quite a unique style focusing mainly on waving and liquid dancing to create that fluid style of his. These styles in combination with many other illusionary street dance styles are often collectively referred to as popping. - Wintran ^(talk) 17:07, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The dance group 1+1 was one of the frist bogoloo group ever. The black messengers are the badest bogoloo and robot group ever

Template:Popping (dance)

Is the popping template useful or redundant? Was the article better without the template? What can we do to improve the template? - Wintran ^(talk) 17:43, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Failed GA

This article came close but I had to fail it on account of criteria 2, references. There are many statements unreferenced (in the first four sections, but particularly in the third and fourth), particularly, as said, sections 3 and 4, although there are borderline original research statements in the other two sections. I would fix that up. DoomsDay349 00:01, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing the article! Great with some feedback. I agree with you that the references are indeed problematic. I'm okay with the references in most of the introduction and history section, if you have any critisism against specific parts of those or against existing references I'd gladly hear about it (it's easy to become blind when working on the article yourself). However, characteristics and music are newly written and greatly lack sources, though I don't believe them to be controversial or bad NPOV. Integrated styles section also lacks sources in many areas. Unfortunately, detailed well-written and respected sources are very hard to come by in street dance contexts, and much information and history is taught mouth to mouth by respected dance instructors and in various communities (such as online discussion forums). I might have to consort to videos, such as documentaries and instructionals, for references as there are a great bunch of these, though I would rather prefer online sources that everyone have access to. I'll try to expand the references before nominating the article again. Thanks. - Wintran ^(talk) 00:55, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

the reference issue w/ regards to street dances is extremely problematic. i don't know the current policy regarding video linking, but the best references to any type of subject that involves motion is a video. in the past, some wikipedians have make it their personal crusade to remove videos when these are the best sources available to us bar none. this needs to change. --24.214.236.85 15:21, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. I have access to some videos, so I did an experiment yesterday, adding an instructional DVD as a reference (Popin' Pete and Skeeter Rabbit in Old School Dictionary, demonstrating popping). Please tell me what you think.

Do you have any other videos to recommend? I think we should prefer videos that 1) ...are widely distributed and well-known, and 2) ...stars notable poppers. Old School Dictionary seems to fail somewhat on 1 (at least on Google in an international regard), but not on 2. - Wintran ^(talk) 15:44, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Mr. Wiggles. i've only seen his tutting vid, but he has uploaded trailers to youtube, so maybe this would be okay to link. example tut vid: [1]. --24.214.236.85 16:58, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Nam Hyun Joon

i have reverted hu's revert. to reflect a worldwide view, nam should be included in this list. there are numerous videos of him on youtube, he has been featured in several music videos in south korea, and he has performed at a world cup tournament where his performance was televised worldwide. few of the other poppers listed on this page can claim to have performed before a worldwide audience. also, as a disclaimer, i am NOT korean and i'm not pushing a nationalistic view. even if i were, his resume speaks for itself. he deserves to be on this page. --Wongba 18:53, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, from what I've heard he is notable enough to be listed here. However, the current sources might be a bit weak (which is true for others on the list as well). Do you have any good additions such as web links that could support his notability? I've had trouble finding them in English. Out of curiosity, do you have any more info on this world cup tournament performance? - Wintran ^(talk) 19:16, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

further links/info: [2] [3] [4]

still looking for world cup info. but the reason i knew about his world cup performance was because i actually watched it on tv in the US during the world cup. --Wongba 19:23, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

well i found the performance i saw, but apparently he performed it in korea and not germany. it was during world cup festivities anyways. [5] --Wongba 19:30, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

To Wongba: I asked myself why do I need verification from Jeff? People like Jeff was born during popping and only know it from the eighties and late seventies. His information is from the guys that learned it from the streets of Oakland L.A. and New York. If I saw him I would tell him that the history that he writes in his book is just the eighties and seventies accounts. If he wants to talk, maybe we can have a intellectual talk on popping.SoulexB (talk) 17:54, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

this is 2 years late as a response, but i'm not saying you need "verification" specifically from jeff (or any other hip-hop historian). i'm only saying that the information on this page needs to have a citation, and that jeff's ability to get things printed could allow some version of your information here. it's obviously a long shot that you would actively go seek him out and that he would print what you had in mind just for a wikipedia citation. this is a big limitation on information that isn't well documented, such as the popping history we're talking about here. but if you look at wikipedia as a whole, citations are needed because without them, anyone could say pretty much anything and have it stick. i find a lot of wiki policy onerous, so i don't edit much anymore, but i can see the logic of it even if i don't agree with it. --Wongba (talk) 18:34, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Buckethead

I've noticed this revision to the notable poppers list has been removed. With the influx in popularity over bucketheads music to the point where he is mainstream, it would be ignorant to not recognize his popping abilities. He dances several times during each live performance and does very stylistic moves, such as popping with a chainsaw or doing Nunchuku. So I'm wondering, how is someone who actually does popping not a notable popper, but Micheal Jackson who is known more for his trial, turning white, moonwalking and Billy Jean. Considered a notable popper? Note, I've removed Micheal Jackson from the notable popper section. He is not known for popping. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.89.231.228 (talk) 01:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

i haven't heard of buckethead but that doesn't mean anything. i disagree w/ ur statement about mj not being known for popping however. his wiki article is in fact linked to from this article. his signature move is a popping move. he learned how to dance directly from poppin taco. i'd say he's the most famous popper on earth, even if ppl don't know the name of his dance style. --Wongba (talk) 18:57, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Oakland Popping: In the year 1970

Many have their views on how popping started. My view is popping had a rough start not like the glorious view that many young people envision.

Popping started out as a foot shuffle by the Soul Experience Band horn section. It was a goofy walk not seen by anybody at that time. After the horn section did the hit-I would call the (Twenty million mile to earth move) they played the song O wow a sixties song.

Popping was awkward when it came out. When people went out to do their moves it was a awkward sight and out of place so people who "popped" started a subculture that many young people today in the twenty-first century do not know about.

It was adapted by the gangsters that did the supercar puppet moves (see fireball Xl5, supercar Youtube.com) at Castlemont and Mack High and Elmhurst Jr. High. Some of these moves where the Houdini, the Bruce lee, the swiss clock maker and vibrating and the aforementioned twenty million mile monster move, the first popping move. Vibrating caused the popper's hat to fall off the big bush natural which coined the term "poppin' or popping".

Popping gear: 1)Leather coat 2)Hat or derby 3)Black levi's 4)Black shoes 5)Cake cutter (comb)

Popping parties where held and everybody was cool with these parties. The only rule was that you do not get on the floor doing the Robot. It wasn't considered poppin and you were asked to leave.

The Soul Experience Band- the forgotten instrumental group played for all the poppers and they had this entourage of gangsters dancing while they played. The played songs by Cool and the gang, James Brown (superbad) Sly and the family stone and a little bit of Jimi Hendrix. Yes the SEB played Hendrix so you can say that Popping evolved out of Black Rock. Imagine the black punk group Living Color starting Popping.

Well believe or not, this is how popping started in the year 1970. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SoulexB (talk • contribs) 21:38, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

i'm not trying to be dismissive of this, but unless u have a citation, it doesn't matter on wikipedia how close to the original scene u were. it wouldn't matter if u were the original popper who started it all b/c of policy. if u are a true og, u might want to contact a hip-hop historian such as Jeff_Chang_(journalist) or someone like him so that it may be published somewhere in the future and then be cited here. --Wongba (talk) 21:06, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

poppin'

The Wik entry for Poppin' sends the interested reader to here (Popping), but there is no mention of this version )poppin')of the word in the Popping article. 211.225.37.48 (talk) 05:48, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

First televised popping competition?

On the season 4 finale of So You Think You Can Dance, the two guys(Phillip "Pacman" Chbeeb and Robert "Mr.Fantastic" Muraine) that were going to |Las Vegas earlier in the season but had to drop out for various reasons "competed" against each other in a popping competition to the song "Stronger" by Kanye West. The one dancer on the right side of the screen said that the event was "the first televised popping competition." Can I get someone to confirm this? Pmcginty (talk) 00:51, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

HIP-HOP

I THING THAT HIP-HOP IS THE BEST TYPE OF MUSIC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.130.18.184 (talk) 11:54, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Oakland Poppers- from the 1970's

I'm really just giving some real facts about Oakland-

I am one of the original members from the "Gentlemen of Production est. 1976 - 1984"

and as I recall we called our style of dance the Boogaloo! which consited of hard hitting,banging, posing and freezing mixed with the funk. Popping was another form of street dancing after the 70's.

Just check out some real Oakland Boogaloos @ www.myspace.com\thegents76

Dubb The Gents —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.181.26.146 (talk) 23:25, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

I am so happy...

I'm James "J-Wizz" Hathorn. I just wanna say that I'm so glad that wikipedia got it right. I live in K.C.,Mo. & I've been dancing for 27 years. I correct people all the time on proper terminology in dancing. There is no such thing as "pop-locking", just as there is no such thing as the "moonwalk". Calling popping "pop-locking" or "breakdancing" makes the same sense as calling a bird an airplane. Ditto w/ "moonwalk". Michael Jackson did not invent that move. Thats what he chose to call it. The proper word is backglide. Also is the sideglide & the frontglide. As for liquiddance, it is not popping, but more kin to boogaloo, which deals w/ rolls instead of hits. Also, it is a simplified form of waving.

List of notable poppers is incomplete :)

hello!

Sorry it is missing a name from the notable poppers. It is Kite (Kaito Masai) from Tokyo, Japan. Please do a quick research upon him, i don't know all his prizes but he is better than most of the people i have seen on this list. I think he should be on the list so we can get him as a reference in popping Thank you so much :) C —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.21.74.203 (talk) 20:01, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

WTAF

to the admin who has been removing notable poppers citing WTAF, i've removed the only red linked name. i don't understand the purpose of citing WTAF when there's only one red uncited popper on the list. i don't understand the logic behind removing poppers that already have their own wiki page. i do understand that WTAF assumes that editor brainshare will be taxed b/c of list editing, but look at my editing history. i rarely edit anything else in mainspace except this here list. i have no objection to removing the entire list of poppers if the list itself is an issue, but there's no logic that's been stated as to why certain poppers are removed while others are kept. --Wongba (talk) 19:27, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Page name should be changed

I really don't think it's appropriate for a search for "Popping" to land on this page. Surely the dance isn't more ubiquitous and well-known than, say, popping one's joints, popping one's ears, or popping corn. At the very least it should lead to the disambiguation page. I'm going to go ahead and do the deed, but let me know of any reservations you have before reverting. ☉ nbmatt 11:25, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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