Active Recreation
Recreation is a therapeutic refreshment or relaxation of one’s
body and mind. Activities done for this purpose are called
recreational activities. Its main objective is to revitalize the
physical, mental, social, and emotional aspects of a person.
In today’s world that is full of stress and pressures, we all
need to engage in recreational activities to relieve our tensions .
Physical Activity Assessment
Eating Plan for Healthy
Living
Eating is an intentional act. Each day people choose from the
available food, prepare the food, decide where to eat, which
rules to follow, and with whom to dine with. These make up your
eating habits. Convenience is only one factor that drives food
choices.
Assessing your eating habits is central to maintaining your
weight. To lose weight, you have to eat fewer calories and use
more calories than you take in. This can be challenging for many
people to do for an extended period of time. Emerging research
shows that sticking with an eating plan may be more important to
losing and maintaining weight than the type of eating plan you
Hip Hop Dance
Street dance refers to dance styles that have evolved outside of dance
studios. It is performed in streets, dance parties, parks, school yards, or any
available space. It is often improvisational and social in nature, encouraging
interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers.
A full street dance is a collection of various similar dance moves and styles
put together into one practice and regarded as the same dance.
Hip-hop is a cultural movement best known for its impact on music in the
form of the musical genre of the same name. It has its origins in the Bronx, in
New York City, during the 1970s, mostly African Americans and some influence
of Latin Americans. Hip-hop culture is composed of the pillars such as DJ-ing,
rapping, breakdancing, and graffiti art.
Hip-hop dance, on the other hand, refers to street dance styles primarily
performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture.
TYPES OF HIPHOP DANCE
• Locking
• Breakdancing
• House
• Jerkin
• Turfing
• Lyrical
• Krumping
• Boogaloo
• Freestyle Rap
• Liquid Dance
• Uprock
• Reggae
• Popping
• Breaking
• Funk
• Stepping
• Breaking Dance Style
Street and Hip-Hop
Dance Styles
Moderate Physical Activities
Physical activity simply means movement of the body that uses energy. You can choose moderate
or vigorous intensity activities, or a mix of both each week. Activities can be considered vigorous,
moderate, or light in intensity. This depends on the extent to which they make you breathe harder
and your heart beat faster.
Street and Hip-Hop Dance Styles
B-boying
B-Boying or breaking, also called breakdancing, is a style of street dance and the first
hip-hop dance style that originated among Black and Puerto Rican youths in New York City during
the early 1970’s. A practitioner of this dance is called a b-boy, b-girl, or breaker. Although the
term breakdance is frequently used to refer to the dance, b-boying and breaking are the original
terms.
Popping
Popping was popularized by Samuel "Boogaloo Sam" Solomon and his crew the Electric
Boogaloos. It is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk
in a dancer's body.
Shuffling
The Melbourne Shuffle (also known as Rocking or simply The Shuffle) is
a rave and club dance that originated in the late 1980s in the underground rave music
scene in Melbourne, Australia. The basic movements in the dance are a fast heel-
and-toe action with a style suitable for various types of electronic music. Some
variants incorporate arm movements. People who dance the shuffle are often
referred to as rockers, due in part to the popularity of shuffling to rock music in the
early 1990s.
Tutting
It is a creative way of making geometric shapes forming right angle using your
body parts. The style was originally practiced by young funk dancers. It is derived
from the positions people were drawn in during the days of the Ancient Egyptians.
Tutting is still greatly respected move and King Tut aka Mark Benson is widely
acclaimed for pioneering the style.
Street and Hip-Hop
Dance Styles (Part 2)
Vigorous Physical Activities
Only moderate and vigorous intensity activities count toward meeting your physical activity
needs. With vigorous activities, you get similar health benefits in half the time it takes you with
moderate ones. You can replace some or all of your moderate activity with vigorous activity.
Street and Hip-Hop Dance Styles
Locking
Locking or campbellocking, was created by Don Campbellock Campbell in 1969 in Los
Angeles, California. It was popularized by his crew, The Lockers. Locking can be identified by
its distinctive stops. It is usually performed by stopping the fast movement that you are doing,
locking your body into a position, holding it, and then continuing at the same speed as before.
In locking, dancers hold their positions longer. It is similar to a freeze or sudden pause. A
locker’s dancing is characterized by frequently locking in place and after a brief freeze moving
again.
Waacking
Waacking is an African American form of street dance originating
from the 1970’s disco era of the underground club scenes in Los
Angeles and New York City. Waacking consists of stylized posing and
fast synchronized arm movements to the beat of the music. Today,
waacking is a popular element of hip-hop dance.
Krumping
Krumping is a form of dancing that originated in the African-
American community of South Central Los Angeles, California and is
relatively new form of the “Urban” Black dance movement. It is free,
expressive and highly energetic. Krumping is a dance style to release
anger.
My Personal View
Activity 1: What is your Personal View?
[Link] the statement.
It is said that the youth is the hope of the nation.
But some teenagers enjoy dancing while making it as a
source of income and they end up having poor academic
performance; or worse they stop schooling.
Is this a sound decision?
My Fitness Plan
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