How to Krump

What is Krumping?
Originating from America, krumping is a style of street dance which is expressed through free, exaggerated and expressive movements. Krumping involves four primary move: jab, arm swings, chest pops and the stomp.

Step 1) The most basic thing you need to learn is the right stance, a lot of people have their own unique stance when krumping but the basic stance is to bend your knees and keeping your feet nice and wide making it strong while keeping your upper body upright, this will create a more aggressive look which is great to get you in the mind frame, while also helping make your moves more powerful.

The jab
Step 1) Take whatever arm you comfortable with and make it into a fist, keeping it very strong.

Step 2) imagine there is a square in front of you, with your fist, punch each of the corners of the square quickly bringing it back when you extend your arm.

Step 3) take your other arm and and repeat the previous steps.

You have mastered the Jab!!!

The arm swing

Step 1) Make sure you have a lot of energy because arm swings will drain you out very quickly.

Step 2) Extend your arm and imagine that you are grabbing something up high.

Step 3) Now throw that hand down very hard as if what ever you had in your hand you want to break it on the ground.

Step 4) Experiment throwing that imaginary object in certain directions, you may even want to use two hands to pick up the object.



You have mastered the arm swing!!!

The chest pop

Step 1) Breath in and using your diaphragm you and to make your chest expand outwards.

Step 2)  When you breath out, with a sharp movement, concave your chest, this will create a popping like effect.

Step 3) To maximise the effect of the move, only create that popping effect when hitting a beat.














You have mastered chest popping!!!

The stomp

Step 1) while in your stance, swing your knee, so that your foot it in the air.

Step 2) With a controlled but hard motion, swing your foot down to the ground, trying to dig your heel to the ground.

You have mastered the stomp!!!

last step is to mix all those moves together and practice makes perfect so don't be discouraged if you don't look right at first. Have fun krumping!!!!



Here are some videos of some pioneers of krump, showing off their moves:

This is what krump looks like when used in choreo:

Written by David