Talk:Skank (dance)

message: I was thinking that it would be nice to put a video cause seeing what it looks like would help to understand. There's this one on You-tube:  I can't say that I'm into ska alot (but I try to learn more about this good music) but I can say that on this video it's skanking. I dunno how putting videos on wikipedia there's too much conditions, categories (faire use and etc) and rules and I don't want to "waste my time" reading them (I'm spanish and my english isn't good enough to read it fast and it would be very boring so... If could read a résumé yeah but THIS...no!) And if someone has a better video or think this one is sh**...maybe you can help. Instead or in addition of it, we can put a photography too...I suppose that some videoclips of ska bands features good skanking too. I saw some Madness (they're a f***ing great band) concerts videos and there's skanking but images are too dark. So if someone can help it would be cool!
It's the best example of skanking I've seen online--despite their being in a hotel (?) lobby and wearing fuzzy slippers! I'm going to go ahead and put a external link to it in.  --TK
*I deleted that video because it is not representative of skanking. That only shows the goofy third wave punk version of skanking. It would be more appropriate to first have a video from the 1960s, and then the newer one could be re-added for comparison.Spylab 14:10, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Third Wave skanking is a newer style but it is still considered skanking.   Perhaps we should talk about the different types. (75.53.202.247 (talk) 07:56, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah but where we'll find it? Don't you have a webcam? If so, you could recording yourself skanking, no? Do you know good video clips where there's skanking? Other suggestions?
Skanking going on here, or just speak to julie about it -unsigned
*I haven't looked at the link, but in general, videos aren't used as references in Wikipedia articles. Topics on Wikipedia are supposed to be decribed using words, not movies. Spylab 14:09, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  It would be nice to put a video or something like that 

message: i realize there's a need for sources, but for underground street dancing, sources just don't tend to be readily available. the best source is video, and yet some wikipedians make it their personal crusade to remove youtube links which give examples of the dance. this needs to change. --24.214.236.85 15:16, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *What is it about movies that makes them a less valid source than photos, which wikipedia abounds with? An image is ok but as soon as there's a few of them playing in order, it's off limits? 121.45.179.25 18:01, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, if the issue is the video, why did you originally remove a video because it showed the 'wrong' type of skanking? Surely the real issue was that it was a video? 121.45.179.25 18:05, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with them...In my opinion, the better way to show something like steps of dance is a video OR a set of pictures, that shows all the movements one by one, image after an other one. And this would be long...I think that making a video would be easier. And why not? There is some articles whith music, why not with videos? And wikipedia's articles must be discribed by words? Fine, so let's do it too. Why not writing about, first skanking in general, whitout distinction between skanking in third wave ska, hardcore, traditional ska and whatever. And after, explaning in details differences, specifications, etc. of all these "styles" of skanking. And if we can't put a video, we should instead of it put images...I don't care, but take a decision  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.15.212.224 (talk) 15:02, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: since there are a myriad of ways to skank, itd be nice to either have a more general description of the dance or to offer multiple common versions. thus far the article offers the very common thirdwave skank but does not exactly describe any of its predecessors. most definitions i've seen for the word have often included the phrase "a palms-up dance". it should also be noted that two stepping is indeed a very different dance and not merely another word for skanking. Glassbreaker5791 19:31, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  multiple ways 

message: Would it make any sense to try to find a legal picture of walt jabsco skanking? It's not exactly representative of the dance as a whole but its a pretty common picture associated with dance and its better than nothing. Glassbreaker5791 20:58, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Walt Jabsco 

message: I recall reading the phrase "the skank" somewhere, as in "doing the skank". Does anyone know if people actually said/say that, as opposed to "skanking"?
Also, why is "striking out" in italics? 71.90.131.109 (talk) 05:12, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The skank" 

message: On a recent sentimental tour of YouTube I looked up a video of Johnny Nash singing "Hold Me Tight" from 1968, which I had never seen performed at the time and hadn't heard since.  Someone commented on the odd dancing of the three girls in the background, to which someone else replied (with some exasperation at the misunderstanding) that they were "skanking".  If this is correct, then it is a good example and worth looking at, and very entertaining either way.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Intererested Party (talk • contribs) 10:57, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skank - Example on YouTube 

message: How about the logo of the band D.R.I.? Hanz ofbyotch (talk) 23:56, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  D.R.I. logo 

message: Wiktionary has a definition of moonstomp as a type of ska dance. Wikipedia re-directs moonstomp to this article but it is not mentioned. Ralph Corderoy (talk) 18:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moonstomp redirects here but it not mentioned