Talk:Popping

message: Someone should make entries for boxing, waving, and liquid.
Yes, they should. Waving is kind of done, I thought liquid was the same as waving, if that's the case it should be said of course. Many of these terms are extremely fuzzy, it really helps to sort out the lingo. For instance, I think I know most techniques only not their names (I've learned mostly from videos or other people who don't know the names either) so given rough definitions I could probably fill them in. Anyone?
Arru 16:53, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Boxing, waving, and liquid

message: The keyword "electric boogaloo" originally linked to Breakin' 2, which clearly is by the meaning of the internet meme. Since the meme/movie title comes from the dance I naturally think the "electric boogaloo" should link to popping, but also that someone looking for the basis of the meme should be able to find it.
Arru 16:47, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Internet phenomenon 

message: The Notable poppers section is an obvious target for self-promotion. A few of these I've heard of, but of course that's no reliable way of assessing notability. I'm going to remove any entry for whom I can't find a booking at some dance show/event, for lack of better criteria. Arru 10:00, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The only one I feel might be famous enough to be re-added is Boogaloo Sam, as he is credited as the creator of popping itself and electric boogaloo (the style and the group). However, I'm sceptic to this section at all, as it'll be a nightmare to maintain. Wintran 11:16, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

text: *I'm afraid you are right about maintainability, but I also see the usefulness of a short list of famous poppers. Let's try for just a little while. Arru 11:59, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I know one thing: "Boogaloo" Sam Solomon needs to be readded immediately; how can you not have the creator of Popping on this page? Someone re-add him and find a notable source IMMEDIATELY.  BishopTutu 05:05, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability of poppers 

message: The main page states that popping originated from California, however, I have heard statements from very old school poppers such as Mr. Wiggles state that New York developed popping around the same time.  Therefore I don't think it is correct to say that popping originated solely from California.  Anyone else care to comment?  Alee227 (talk) 03:39, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that we cannot rely on standard media sources, as they usually call everything breakdancing anyway, but the only true knowledge we have from the old days are from respected old generation poppers. The most well-reputabled and oldest popping group that we know for a fact are the Electric Boogaloos, and most major pop icons of today, including those listed as our notable poppers, agree with their story of Boogaloo Sam being the oldest pioneer of popping (the technique, not all its sub-styles). There are some exceptions to this, but as the vast majority of serious articles and inteviews I've read state this, I believe it should be the main view of this article. We could include other views as well, but in that case we need to find respectable sources. Wintran 03:50, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I did some major changes to the history section using a lot of source citing. Feel free to check it out. Wintran 01:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: I removed this from the notable poppers section:
* Peter Crouch
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/photo_galleries/5032866.stm
I don't know of this person, and perhaps he is good at his scoring dance routine, but he is notable for being a soccer player, not a popper, and he is certainly not on a par with the other dancers listed. Arru 23:29, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peter Crouch 

message: I added two video clips to the article. It was surprising that there were none before, seems like a crucial asset for understanding what popping is about. (add more!) Arru 23:05, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: is there anything we can do to keep youtube links? the reason cited to remove them is copyright issues: WP:ANI#YouTube_link_deletion. well, i'd guess ALL of our direct video links have copyright issues (and/or reliability issues) the way they cite youtube for violations. as u say, video seems like a crucial asset for understanding popping, or any dance period. removing those links greatly lessens the utility of the article in my view. Wongba 17:48, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Has this still not been resolved since 2006? Videos are crucial; still images and text really do a poor job of description or differentiating popping from other dance forms. -Splitpeasoup (talk) 23:44, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Video clips 

message: There is a Userbox for popping use the code: 
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:-- Protocoldroid 18:40, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userbox 

message: The article seems to make no mention of robotics.  As I understand it, robotics is a type of popping with very straight jerky movements.  Am I correct in this?  If so it should be included here somewhere, shouldn't it? LemonLion 15:53, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, if you take a look at the section called "Techniques and styles", a style called the robot (a.k.a. botting) is mentioned, and I think it's this style you refer to when you say "robotics". It also has its own article at Robot (dance). - Wintran (talk) 20:02, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robotics? 

message: How would you describe the video Sister Twisted by Kinky? (I made an addition into Kinky article, but I'd like the opinion of experts.)`'mikka (t) 08:13, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The dancer performing in this video must be David Elsewhere, or someone imitating him extremely well which is not very likely. He has quite a unique style focusing mainly on waving and liquid dancing to create that fluid style of his. These styles in combination with many other illusionary street dance styles are often collectively referred to as popping. - Wintran (talk) 17:07, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question: Syster Twisted 

message: Is the popping template useful or redundant? Was the article better without the template? What can we do to improve the template? - Wintran (talk) 17:43, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template:Popping (dance)]] 

message: I've noticed this revision to the notable poppers list has been removed. With the influx in popularity over bucketheads music to the point where he is mainstream, it would be ignorant to not recognize his popping abilities. He dances several times during each live performance and does very stylistic moves, such as popping with a chainsaw or doing Nunchuku. So I'm wondering, how is someone who actually does popping not a notable popper, but Micheal Jackson who is known more for his trial, turning white, moonwalking and Billy Jean. Considered a notable popper? Note, I've removed Micheal Jackson from the notable popper section. He is not known for popping.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.89.231.228 (talk) 01:24, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: i haven't heard of buckethead but that doesn't mean anything. i disagree w/ ur statement about mj not being known for popping however. his wiki article is in fact linked to from this article. his signature move is a popping move. he learned how to dance directly from poppin taco. i'd say he's the most famous popper on earth, even if ppl don't know the name of his dance style. --Wongba (talk) 18:57, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Buckethead

message: Many have their views on how popping started.
My view is popping had a rough start not like the glorious view that many young people envision.
Popping started out as a foot shuffle by the Soul Experience Band horn section. It was a goofy walk not seen by anybody at that time. After the horn section did the hit-I would call the (Twenty million mile to earth move) they played the song O wow a sixties song.
Popping was awkward when it came out. When people went out to do their moves it was a awkward sight and out of place so people who "popped" started a subculture that many young people today in the twenty-first century do not know about.
It was adapted by the gangsters that did the supercar puppet moves (see fireball Xl5, supercar Youtube.com)
at Castlemont and Mack High and Elmhurst Jr. High.
Some of these moves where the Houdini, the Bruce lee,
the swiss clock maker and vibrating and the aforementioned twenty million mile monster move, the first popping move. Vibrating caused the popper's hat to fall off the big bush natural which coined the term "poppin' or popping".
Popping gear:
1)Leather coat 2)Hat or derby 3)Black levi's 4)Black shoes 5)Cake cutter (comb)
Popping parties where held and everybody was cool with
these parties. The only rule was that you do not get on the floor doing the Robot.  It wasn't considered poppin and you were asked to leave.
The Soul Experience Band- the forgotten instrumental group played for all the poppers and they had this entourage of gangsters dancing while they played.
The played songs by Cool and the gang, James Brown (superbad) Sly and the family stone and a little bit of Jimi Hendrix. Yes the SEB played Hendrix so you can say that Popping evolved out of Black Rock. Imagine the black punk group Living Color starting Popping.
Well believe or not, this is how popping started in the year 1970.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by SoulexB (talk • contribs) 21:38, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: i'm not trying to be dismissive of this, but unless u have a citation, it doesn't matter on wikipedia how close to the original scene u were. it wouldn't matter if u were the original popper who started it all b/c of policy. if u are a true og, u might want to contact a hip-hop historian such as Jeff_Chang_(journalist) or someone like him so that it may be published somewhere in the future and then be cited here. --Wongba (talk) 21:06, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oakland Popping: In the year 1970 

message: The Wik entry for Poppin' sends the interested reader to here (Popping), but there is no mention of this version  )poppin')of the word in the Popping article. 211.225.37.48 (talk) 05:48, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  poppin' 

message: On the season 4 finale of So You Think You Can Dance, the two guys(Phillip "Pacman" Chbeeb and Robert "Mr.Fantastic" Muraine) that were going to |Las Vegas earlier in the season but had to drop out for various reasons "competed" against each other in a popping competition to the song "Stronger" by Kanye West.  The one dancer on the right side of the screen said that the event was "the first televised popping competition."  Can I get someone to confirm this? Pmcginty (talk) 00:51, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  First televised popping competition? 

message: I THING THAT HIP-HOP IS THE BEST TYPE OF MUSIC  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.130.18.184 (talk) 11:54, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  HIP-HOP 

message: I'm really just giving some real facts about Oakland-
I am one of the original members from the "Gentlemen of Production est. 1976 - 1984"
and as I recall we called our style of dance the Boogaloo! which consited of hard hitting,banging, posing and freezing mixed with the funk. Popping was another form
of street dancing after the 70's.
Just check out some real Oakland Boogaloos @ www.myspace.com\thegents76
Dubb
The Gents  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.181.26.146 (talk) 23:25, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oakland Poppers- from the 1970's 

message: hello!
Sorry it is missing a name from the notable poppers. It is Kite (Kaito Masai) from Tokyo, Japan. Please do a quick research upon him, i don't know all his prizes but he is better than most of the people i have seen on this list. I think he should be on the list so we can get him as a reference in popping 
Thank you so much :)
C  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.21.74.203 (talk) 20:01, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of notable poppers is incomplete :) 

message: to the admin who has been removing notable poppers citing WTAF, i've removed the only red linked name. i don't understand the purpose of citing WTAF when there's only one red uncited popper on the list. i don't understand the logic behind removing poppers that already have their own wiki page. i do understand that WTAF assumes that editor brainshare will be taxed b/c of list editing, but look at my editing history. i rarely edit anything else in mainspace except this here list. i have no objection to removing the entire list of poppers if the list itself is an issue, but there's no logic that's been stated as to why certain poppers are removed while others are kept. --Wongba (talk) 19:27, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  WTAF 

message: I really don't think it's appropriate for a search for "Popping" to land on this page. Surely the dance isn't more ubiquitous and well-known than, say, popping one's joints, popping one's ears, or popping corn. At the very least it should lead to the disambiguation page. I'm going to go ahead and do the deed, but let me know of any reservations you have before reverting. ☉ nbmatt 11:25, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page name should be changed 

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