Dance

The main argument of the second paragraph is "...popping is just impressive because of its 'magic' movements..." However, the Melbourne Shuffle also includes what looks like "magic" movements. While dancing you "step" or "stomp" in a forward direction, however your body moves backwards. Your debate in the third paragraph just reinstates your first response, as seen in the first debate -> "Also, it matches the style of accompanying music (usually hard trance or hardstyle) perfectly, with each glide matching the timing of the bass. Your last statement was "After watching popping, someone says, 'Whoa... That guy did some crazy movements.' After watching the Melbourne Shuffle, someone says, 'Wow, now that's a cool dance that matches this genre of music.'" Not necessarily. I am a street performer and the reactions I've received were very vast but mostly comments about how my popping goes amazing with the music I perform to. So once again, you're implying that one can only dance to hard and heavy bass genres of music. However with popping you can choose any genre. To the general audience the Melbourne Shuffle looks very repetitive. However, popping has many variations. If you refer to my video, you will see that the first scene of the video includes Liquid Style Popping, at 0:53 you will see Gliding mixed in with Liquid, and at 1:45 you will see Isolation and Bone Popping (aka True Popping). Every popper has their own style of popping, ie: Bone Breaking, unlike the Melbourne Shuffle in which you must combine a certain set of moves such as the T-Step, the Running man, Glides, and Spins. Also, in your first paragraph you stated "...such as kicks and spins." In the Melbourne Shuffle one does not kick, if kicking were to be mixed in with the Melbourne Shuffle it would easily be turned into a modified version of Jumpstyle. Technically you are not kicking, you're extending your leg and touching the ground with either toe or heel, which ever is more appropriate to combine a previous movement with your next one. A kick requires your foot to stay off the ground (see Jumpstyle dance as example : http://www.youtube.com...). As you can see from the video provided as a link along with the Jumpstyle example, a kick is when your foot extends and does not touch the ground. My first argument was body control. As we have debated the voters can easily see that the Melbourne Shuffle only teaches you about leg and foot control. However, Popping teaches the performer about full body control with gliding, isolation, bone breaking, tutting, botting, and many more. Gliding teaches foot control (see example : http://www.youtube.com...) . Isolation teaches the performer control over almost all the joints in the human body. Bone Breaking teaches control over the dislocate-able joint of the body (see link for example : http://www.youtube.com...). Tutting teaches the performer wrist, knuckle, and finger control (See Example : http://www.youtube.com...). Botting, the most common type of popping, it teaches the performer control over breathing and muscle control (see example : http://www.youtube.com...). So once again, to restate my original debate, popping is one of the best solo dances one could learn because it teaches about complete body control.