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Machine has more energy then almost any BBoy out there, some people rev up and build up intensity but he goes from 0 - 200 instantly. It always looks effortless and I was curious what the deal with him and other lifelong bboys that could go from a dead stop to all out intensity instantly, without looking like they were even trying. I know machine personally and I read a book recently that answered it for me and helped me understand my own street dance progress and training better.
I just read a book called "The Talent Code" about what creates world class talents in sports, art, music and everything else. I'm a Psychology Major and to understand how to improve, you have to understand that every thought and every movement you make comes from split-second electrical impulses in your brain that trigger thought and movement. When you do a math problem, smile, or lift your arm to fix your hair it's caused by your electrical impulses in your brain.
Star performers start out like everyone else but over the course of 10,000+ hours over years of effort they improve their knowledge and the wiring in their brains. When you want to follow a certain movement, like a 6 step, body wave or a toprock, specific areas of your brain activate in sequence.
Most of the electrical impulses in these sequences die out out along the journey through your brain. If your brain starts out with a signal at 100%, most of the signal is lost along the way, at first only 10 or 20% will reach the muscles.
Focused concentration and practice on these movements, slowly wraps the areas you concentrate on in myelin sheathes which insulate the pathways, wrapping around them like rings on a tree trunk and keeping the electrical impulse from leaking out along it's journey. It's like the difference between trying to warm up outside in Winter in Alaska in a T-Shirt, and trying to warm up there wearing 10 thick coats. The insulation doesn't create the energy, but it traps it in, and keeps it inside.
Beginners may have no myelin sheathes for insulation in areas of their brain at all, experts may have up to 50 layers of myelin insulation. This means the same mental exertion that a beginner puts out, can come through with 50x more focused speed, intensity, and finesse then a beginner, because the physical makeup of their brain has changed, it insulates their mental pathways so no energy is lost and their brains use their electrical impulses much more efficiently, which leads to big moves with out mental strain.
There are plenty of little tricks to improve your practice and results, but there's no way to become a true world class talent other then concentrate and practice your ass off for a decade, but it's still interesting to learn that improvements in street dance are just as much internal as physical. You could have 2 bboys with the exact same bodies, who know the exact same moves, but if one has more myelin sheathes built up, he's going to be able to do his moves bigger and better with less effort.
Break Smarter. If you just go through the motions and do a move sloppy, you don't build myelin sheathes. To quickly build myelin sheathes and improve your "muscle memory" you have to practice with deep concentration and focus. Your better off practicing an hour a day and being on point, then practicing sloppy for 2 hours a day. One key for deep practice is keep goals in mind.
Don't just say I'm gonna go dance, get very specific and train that area repeatedly. For example say: I'm gonna really work on linking my arms and legs together in my toprocks today, and spend half the practice making that your key focus.
Or if your working on for example a headspin to windmill combo, and you keep messing up on your transition from headspin down to windmill, don't drill trying to do 20 headspins then 20 windmills, just focus on the transition on the one area your having trouble with, one headspin down to one windmill. That way you can get way more time focusing on your actual problem areas, not just repeating what you already know. I've got other tips, but this is a good start. Thank you for reading, I hope this helps you. - BBoy GRIZ / CypherStyles.com
Machine has more energy then almost any BBoy out there, some people rev up and build up intensity but he goes from 0 - 200 instantly. It always looks effortless and I was curious what the deal with him and other lifelong bboys that could go from a dead stop to all out intensity instantly, without looking like they were even trying. I know machine personally and I read a book recently that answered it for me and helped me understand my own street dance progress and training better.
I just read a book called "The Talent Code" about what creates world class talents in sports, art, music and everything else. I'm a Psychology Major and to understand how to improve, you have to understand that every thought and every movement you make comes from split-second electrical impulses in your brain that trigger thought and movement. When you do a math problem, smile, or lift your arm to fix your hair it's caused by your electrical impulses in your brain.
Star performers start out like everyone else but over the course of 10,000+ hours over years of effort they improve their knowledge and the wiring in their brains. When you want to follow a certain movement, like a 6 step, body wave or a toprock, specific areas of your brain activate in sequence.
Most of the electrical impulses in these sequences die out out along the journey through your brain. If your brain starts out with a signal at 100%, most of the signal is lost along the way, at first only 10 or 20% will reach the muscles.
Focused concentration and practice on these movements, slowly wraps the areas you concentrate on in myelin sheathes which insulate the pathways, wrapping around them like rings on a tree trunk and keeping the electrical impulse from leaking out along it's journey. It's like the difference between trying to warm up outside in Winter in Alaska in a T-Shirt, and trying to warm up there wearing 10 thick coats. The insulation doesn't create the energy, but it traps it in, and keeps it inside.
Beginners may have no myelin sheathes for insulation in areas of their brain at all, experts may have up to 50 layers of myelin insulation. This means the same mental exertion that a beginner puts out, can come through with 50x more focused speed, intensity, and finesse then a beginner, because the physical makeup of their brain has changed, it insulates their mental pathways so no energy is lost and their brains use their electrical impulses much more efficiently, which leads to big moves with out mental strain.
There are plenty of little tricks to improve your practice and results, but there's no way to become a true world class talent other then concentrate and practice your ass off for a decade, but it's still interesting to learn that improvements in street dance are just as much internal as physical. You could have 2 bboys with the exact same bodies, who know the exact same moves, but if one has more myelin sheathes built up, he's going to be able to do his moves bigger and better with less effort.
Break Smarter. If you just go through the motions and do a move sloppy, you don't build myelin sheathes. To quickly build myelin sheathes and improve your "muscle memory" you have to practice with deep concentration and focus. Your better off practicing an hour a day and being on point, then practicing sloppy for 2 hours a day. One key for deep practice is keep goals in mind.
Don't just say I'm gonna go dance, get very specific and train that area repeatedly. For example say: I'm gonna really work on linking my arms and legs together in my toprocks today, and spend half the practice making that your key focus.
Or if your working on for example a headspin to windmill combo, and you keep messing up on your transition from headspin down to windmill, don't drill trying to do 20 headspins then 20 windmills, just focus on the transition on the one area your having trouble with, one headspin down to one windmill. That way you can get way more time focusing on your actual problem areas, not just repeating what you already know. I've got other tips, but this is a good start. Thank you for reading, I hope this helps you. - BBoy GRIZ / CypherStyles.com
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