Have you ever looked up popping, locking, and roboting in the dictionary? Probably not, but here are the definitions anyway:
Popping - (v.) a funk dance and street dance style based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer's body, referred to as a pop or a hit.
Locking - (v.) a style of funk dance and street dance, which is today also associated with hip hop. It relies on fast and distinct arm and hand movements combined with more relaxed hips and legs.
Roboting - (v.) an illusionary dance style often confused with popping that attempts to imitate a dancing robot or mannequin.
OK, seriously. No one in their right mind would look up the definition of dance styles and/or techniques, let alone understand the dance styles while reading about it. And who ever heard of roboting imitating a mannequin?
Have you ever seen a dancing mannequin?
If you have, go see a doctor... you might need to be put in a psych ward.
When you read these definitions, you don't actually think about "quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk" while popping, do you? Of course not. You think about the movements and how they flow when you put them together. Another thing is the fact that the dictionary actually tries to describe some of the dance moves! This is insanity! When you read it, you have that clueless look on you face, picture the dance in your head, realize that it seems very stupid and try to look it up somewhere on the internet. There actually shouldn't be a definition for popping, locking, roboting, or any other dance style for that matter because dance needs no definition but the dancer's feelings and emotions put into it.
So whoever put definitions of popping, locking, and roboting up, you should be doing it, rather than writing about it and you'll feel better about it.
Some examples of the descriptions they gave of dance moves.
Dime Stopping - A technique of moving at a steady pace and then abruptly coming to a halt, as if attempting to stop on a dime. This is often combined with a pop at the beginning and/or end of the movement (Popping).
Groove Walk or Rock-Steady or The Bump - Stepping forward, the hip of your front foot is thrusted towards the front foot, brought back, dipped foward towards the front foot as you take a step with your back foot (sometimes used to get across the dance floor with some funk in your step) (Locking).
Instead, just watch dance videos on the internet, So You Think You Can Dance, Randy Jackson's America's Best Dance Crew, etc, etc. You'll save yourself the confusion.
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