TRUE or FALSE: How much do you know about Popping and Locking?
Elena Hecht | July 30, 2008
TRUE or FALSE: How much do you know about Popping and Locking?
 
 
1. Popping and locking were developed on the East Coast.
true/false 
 
2. Don Campbell formed locking technique in the late 1960s, inspired by his trouble doing the funky chicken.
true/false
 
3. Popping is about freezing, while locking is about nonstop movement.
true/false 
 
4. “Boogaloo” Sam Solmon developed popping in the late 1960s.
true/false 

5. Don Campbell started a dance troupe called the Campbellock Dancers.
true/false 

6. “Boogaloo” Sam Solomon’s brother is named Timothy “Popin Pete” Solomon.
true/false 

7. In locking, there is a move called Uncle Rabbit Points.
true/false 
 
8. In popping there is a move called Dime Stopping.
true/false 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ANSWERS: 
1-false– West Coast
2-true
3-false– Locking is about freezing, popping is about nonstop movement
4-false– In 1975
5-true
7-false– There is one called Uncle Sam Points, and another called Skeeter Rabbit.
8-true 

 
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