So I, BBoy GRIZ owner of CypherStyles have a confession. Despite having a solid BBoy and House Dance Background, I never really learned how to pop and lock. Thanks to Mr. Wiggle's Menu series I can do some basic glides and body waves, but I've never really put serious time into training Funk Styles techniques. Yesterday I watched Hypno's Ultimate Edition How to Pop 1 DVD and it's the first DVD I've seen that completely broke down popping down into a super simple method that I fully understood and could really follow. It slowly broke down the moves with extreme detail and made it easy to follow along. I think the video would be too slow for an advanced popper, but for a beginner it's a godsent, I never felt rushed or lost. Hypno's video clearly showed me how to do and improve my forearm pops, back arm pops, back pops, leg pops and neck pops. Hypno slowly, step by step explains each move, and then shows you how to combine them and gives you a workout pattern to follow along with to make your popping stronger and faster.As I said, I don't have any background in popping and I've always been a slow learner when I tried to learn popping but this really made the basics clear and showed how to get your pops harder and more precise over time. Hypno also provided great advice on how to avoid bad habits and injury, hit the beat of the music, and plan time for training. The audio tracks on some of Hypno's dvd's are from the camera mic, but this DVD's audio track has a crystal clear voice over that explains everything Hypno's doing as he demonstrates it. Some Street Dance teachers don't seem into what they're teaching, but Hypno's got alot of enthusiasm and makes it fun to do the moves along with him. Practicing the basic popping movements gets addictive, I was practicing leg pops in the shower this morning and almost slipped and died, but hey that didn't stop me from practicing forearm pops on my drive in today :) The moves are best practiced in a studio, but what can I say, Hypno's got me hooked. The DVD also includes some tutting and waving combos to practice. The waving and tutting sets aren't broken down as slowly as the popping section so you may have to rewind and watch them a few times before you get them, but they're good sets for beginners and they look fresh. If your looking for a great DVD to learn the basics of popping or improve your popping this is absolutely the DVD to get. I give it a 4.5 out of 5. --BBoy GRIZ / Barry Rabkin - CEO of CypherStyles., Inc. / Pittsburgh, PA