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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
There's a very big dance scene in Shinjuku. Mainly on the weekends, dancers of all different styles hit up this one office building courtyard that's only a couple minute walk from the station. Crews practice their routines and individuals work on techniques. Many people pull all-nighters to practice after the trains stop. A good friend of mine from America is a popper and he found this place so I've been going with him to check out the dancers. From what I've seen and what he's told me, there's a HUGE difference in western and Japanese dancing. Just watching him pop and a Japanese guy next to him do it looks like a completely different style.
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I guess ur right. I haven't seen a lot of Japanese poppers, mostly Korean so I can't judge japanese that well. But if I compare Korean poppers to Western, I think the Korean's (especially Hojin) has so much more flow and style if u get what i mean, so I guess at the end of the day it ends up looking very different because of this.
simply put Koreans are WAY better poppers than westeners^^
Japanese bboyers is different though. There are a lot of crazy good Japanese bboyers that I've seen, unlike poppers (and again there are also really good Korean bboyers)
But I think honestly popping requires a lot more technique and style than bboying, because bboying moves look the same no matter which person does it.
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Originally Posted by CoolNard
Woyeah, I've seen them, Hojin is the shit. *favorites link*. I think Koreans got the hip-hop culture going for them longer and deeper than the Japanese. It's in a lot of their MV's, too. That's why they seem so naturally predisposed to popping and the likes.
@WingsToDiscovery Thanks for the information, that's certainly a convenient place I'd check out, if I ever make it to Japan. I wonder how my own Asian style will fare against the Japanese. Do their moves look slicker than Western styles?
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Dude check this video out
YouTube - Uk championship 07 Korea - Lia vs Hojin
The first one is a girl, and she's scary good for being a chick. But Hojin kills it in this one hands down!!!
Don't know why she won it, probably cuz she was a girl, and I bet shes hot =P