Lance C
10-19-2009, 11:10 PM
I've been laid up for going on two weeks with a wonky ankle and got interested in comparing dancer training with Kenpo, and I came across Krump. They interestingly use a stomp, the energy from the stomp to a chest pump and throw wild arm movements which are totally random, scary and super fast... apparently it's an expressionistic form of dance where they taunt, battle and mass attack in dance. (Banging is not allowed, which is gang related body language / actual violence and the use of pride is disallowed to promote lesser dancers to interact with skilled dancers)
What I found interesting is the comparison of power building, intimidating moves either by power or cleverness and the actual execution... the dance is interesting to watch and the level of expression is incredible.
Note for Kenpo Research: Can a stomp and chest pump be used in kenpo (is it an efficient means to increase power? as they do in dance?) The breathing skills seemed identical and the patterns they follow seem much like self defense techniques ie attacks, defenses, intimidation by skill and the length grows with skill level.
personally I've seen several self defenses that use the stomp to catapult the next move, but also with a chest pop and an upper body exposion...?
Also the use of intimidating body language as in Krump could be used to scare people off, or would it only add enthusiasm to your opponents and give them a chance at a greater victory? How would witnesses react to your body language if it was (Rude style of Krump?)
The Krump dance uses a skilled dancer to challenge the lesser skilled dancers in the dance family to bring out their best and make them grow and usually they start their own families of dance or move to yet a higher skilled group of dancers. They had 3 levels of dance, the thinking while you dance, the rehearsed dancer and then the I'm dancing so awesome, I don't know what I am doing cause the dance took over (in Flaminco dancing they call it having the demon inside dancing, some superstitious dancers were worried they were being possessed at this level of automatic performance)
I found it to be rather remarkable similarly and thought I would post.
What I found interesting is the comparison of power building, intimidating moves either by power or cleverness and the actual execution... the dance is interesting to watch and the level of expression is incredible.
Note for Kenpo Research: Can a stomp and chest pump be used in kenpo (is it an efficient means to increase power? as they do in dance?) The breathing skills seemed identical and the patterns they follow seem much like self defense techniques ie attacks, defenses, intimidation by skill and the length grows with skill level.
personally I've seen several self defenses that use the stomp to catapult the next move, but also with a chest pop and an upper body exposion...?
Also the use of intimidating body language as in Krump could be used to scare people off, or would it only add enthusiasm to your opponents and give them a chance at a greater victory? How would witnesses react to your body language if it was (Rude style of Krump?)
The Krump dance uses a skilled dancer to challenge the lesser skilled dancers in the dance family to bring out their best and make them grow and usually they start their own families of dance or move to yet a higher skilled group of dancers. They had 3 levels of dance, the thinking while you dance, the rehearsed dancer and then the I'm dancing so awesome, I don't know what I am doing cause the dance took over (in Flaminco dancing they call it having the demon inside dancing, some superstitious dancers were worried they were being possessed at this level of automatic performance)
I found it to be rather remarkable similarly and thought I would post.