Toprock

Toprock is a major element of b-boying and b-girling. It generally refers to foot movement performed from a standing position, relying upon a mixture of coordination, flexibility, rhythm, and most importantly, style. It is usually the first and foremost opening display of style, and it serves as a warm-up for transitions into the more acrobatic maneuvers of downrock.

Breakers may devote considerable time to developing their toprock, and the style they display is a point of pride.

Toprocking is a style of dance in and of itself, and the Indian step is the most commonly performed toprock "move". However, toprocking is very open to modification for individual style. For this reason, it has come to incorporate elements of salsa, Lindy Hop, Liquid dancing and the Robot. In particular, uprock, often confused with "toprock," is a competitively-oriented type of dance consisting of foot shuffles, spins, turns, and creative movements that may mimic combat.

Street dance

Hip-hop	B-boying Toprock Downrock Freezes Power moves Cabbage patch Cat Daddy Crip Walk Dougie Electric boogaloo Jerkin' Memphis Jookin' Harlem shake Krumping Locking Robot Popping The Running Man Turfing Uprock Wu-tang

House dance	Hustle Jacking Tecktonik Vogue Wu-tang

Rave dance	Hakken Hardcore Industrial Jumpstyle Liquid and digits Melbourne Shuffle Para Para Rebolation X-Outing

Jazz dance	Cakewalk Charleston Lindy Hop Swing The Loft Tap dance

Other	Air guitar Flexing Folk dance Headbanging Moshing The Loft Pogo Dancehall Salsa Gwoka Tango Waacking

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Toprock

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