P.E. Q3

• Recreation is a therapeutic refreshment or relaxation of one's body and mind. Activities done for this purpose are called recreational activities. Its main objectives is to revitalize the physical, mental, social and emotional aspects of a person.
• Dance is a recreational activity that can develop our physical, mental, social, and emotional health. It is part of our lifestyle that can surely sustain our fitness but should be coupled with proper eating habits and weight management in order to have a healthy life.
• Street dance is an umbrella term for a large number of social dance styles such as: breakdancing, popping, locking, house dance, waacking etc. Social dance styles have many accompanying steps and foundations, creafed organically from a culfure, a moment in time, a way of life, influenced by natural social interaction.
• Street dance refers to dance styles that have evolved outside of dance studios. It is performed in streets, dance parties, parks, school yards, or in any available space and 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.
• Types Of Street Dances:Dancing on the streetDancing in the yardDancing at the parkDancing at the rave
• Examples of Street DancesHouse Dance, Rave Dance, Punk Dance, Hip-hop Dance
• Hiphop - 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 among 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. This also refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip- hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. Hip-hop music incorporates a number of iconic elements, most notably DJing and rapping, along with things like beat boxing, sampling, and juggling beats on turntables.
• 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 1970s. 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.
• B-boying or breaking

  Four Movements:Toprock footwork-oriented steps performed while standing up

  Downrock footwork performed with both hands and feet on the floor

  Power moves comprise full-body spins and rotations. that give the illusion of defying gravity.

  Freezes stylish poses done on your hands
• 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. It forces parts of your body outwards, similar to an explosion within parts of your body. Popping also contracts muscles, but it is followed by relaxation that gives it the jerking appearance of popping.
• Locking or campbellocking, was created by Don Campbellock Campbell in 1969 in Los Angeles, California. It was popularized by his crew, The Lockers. It can be identified by its distinctive stops 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. dancers hold their positions longer.
• The lock is the primary move used in locking. It is similar to a freeze or a sudden pause. A locker's dancing is characterized by frequently locking in place and after a brief freeze moving again.
• Krumping is a form of dancing that originated in the African- American community of South-Central Los Angeles, California and is a relatively new form of the "Urban" Black dance movement. It is free, expressive and highly energetic. Most people paint their faces in different designs. Krumping is a dance style to release anger. It is reported that gang riots in the United States decreased because of krumping style.
• 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 and this positions seen in these portraits that have been adopted by dancers today. Tutting is still a greatly respected move and King Tut aka Mark Benson is widely acclaimed for pioneering the style.
• ShufflingThe 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 of 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.
• 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. It 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.
• Our LIFESTYLE is the way we live. It is composed of a variety of elements and habits: what we eat, what we drink, our level of exercise, how well we sleep, how well we manage stress and adapt to stressful situations, our behaviour and how we interact with people, not forgetting our sense of belonging and purpose in life. It is also affected by how we think and how we see life in general and by our attitude and the choices we make when confronted with the changes and challenges of life.
• A BALANCED LIFESTYLE is the way in which we live and reflects that the different elements of our life are in the right amount and proportion. Adopting a balanced lifestyle is of growing importance because it has immediate and long-term effects on our health and well-being. This is confirmed by many recent studies,which clearly show that conditions such as heart diseases, stroke, cancer, diabetes, as well as many other chronic diseases may be preventable and even reversible by changing our diet and adopting new attitudes and lifestyle.
• A balanced lifestyle will have positive effects on our longevity as well. In his exceptional book, Defy Aging, Michael Brickey, (PhD) has reviewed and put together the conclusions of thousands of scientific studies and references about longevity. One of the important conclusions of this extensive review is this:"Researchers estimate that 30% of longevity is due to heredity and that 70% is the consequence of our beliefs, attitudes, coping skills and lifestyle".
• Adopting and maintaining a healthy and balanced lifestyle is our own responsibility. By maintaining a balanced lifestyle, we are increasing our chances of living a significantly longer, better, and happier life.