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You Got Served - Take It to the Streets (Dance Instructional) [VHS]

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(9)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

After reading the reviews I thought the DVD was going to be horrible, but it's actually pretty good, and so far one of the best instructional hip-hop videos I've seen (I own a Groovaloos DVD and Tina Landon DVD and have used Darrin's Dance Grooves), and the instruction is also better than some teachers I've taken classes from.

In general, nothing beats actually having a good teacher and choreographer so they can critique your form and technique. However, I very happy that the instructor, Dave Scott, DID give some tips on technique instead of only showing moves to copy. (The fundamentals section is too short, but pretty good). I only wish he gave more tips on technique.

He also breaks down routines at different tempos (which most instructional videos do not do), and this is essential! I think it's important to get the fundamental moves right at a slower tempo first, rather than rushing through the movements just to get through the song.

He does turn around from the camera a few times so you can follow the moves without confusing your left and right, but I wish he did that more.

The only main problem I had is that there are only two real routines you can learn, and that's it's not very "Take it to the Streets" oriented. No breakdancing instruction, really, or street dancing tips. So if you want to improve your breakdancing, this isn't the best DVD to buy.

Overall, it's a good DVD for the price and I would highly recommend for intermediate to advanced dancers looking to expand creative moves, improve their ticking/waving, and get ideas for choreography. For beginners, it would still be a good investment but will be fairly difficult. I would suggest that instead of matching the moves, it might be good to just mirror the instructor so you can at least get used to moving your body in certain ways.

Great video for beginners to learn sophisticated moves to take to the dance floor. Dave Scott is a very good instructor. The camera work isn't annoyingly fancy like other video's causing unnecessary rewinds to learn the moves.

First off I'd like to say that You Got Served really was a horrible movie, but the choreography was very well done, which maybe evened it out to an okay movie, if they had just cut out all of the acting it would have been a good movie.

Now what might be misleading with this DVD is that you may think that this DVD will give you all the routines, or at least the best routines from the movie, however they don't, the two routines they teach are the dance sequence with the all girl's crew and a routine from the semi-finals. The semi-finals routine however, isn't even Wade or Elgin's crew, its the routine with the crew that the choreographer, Dave Scott, was leading.

Along with this there is a third routine that Dave Scott choregraphed, that wasn't in the movie, and what is almost a small documentary on some b-boys, b-girls, and krumpers. There is also a special feature where Omarion and Marques Houston do some cheesy talking and then Omarion does an okay job of freestylin.

Now the best part of this DVD in my opinion, well perhaps the most well instructed, is the segment on how to tick and do the wave. I think that segment was very well done, even if it was kind of short.

So If you want to learn/improve on ticking and waving, go ahead and get this DVD, but if you're lookin for the really badass routines from you got served, well...guess ur gonna have to look somewhere else.

I first watched the You Got Served movie and loved it. I love hip hop dancing and break'n and this movie rocked. It was a high energy movie. I loved the movie so much that once the You Got Served Take It To The Streets Dance Instructional Video came out, I had to have it. The Dance Instructional Video sucked. It is not for beginners. It is very fast paced and you have to do alot of rewinding to follow along. Dance video shows some routines they do in the movie but do not go in depth or break it out by steps. I was very dissapointed and feel that a better dance instructional video could have been made!

The "you got served" movie was awsome i loved it so much i bought it.. So i thought i would buy the "take it to the streets" too but when i saw it it was the most dissapointing clip i have ever seen. it had 2 short routines from the movie, a little interview thing with breakdancing and krumping, and their "hot & new" routine that wasnt even that good. i am a b-boy and i do a little bit of hip-hop and believe me there are better things to waste your money on than this

Join choreographer Dave Scott as he teaches you all the hot moves from the hit film You Got Served! Special DVD includes interviews with the cast and crew of the movie, Freestyling with Marques Houston and Omari Grandberry, "Ticking, Waving and Freezing" featurette and more. 67 min

Program:

1. Introduction and Warm Up
2. Instructional #1 (Semifinals routine)
3. Instructional #2 (All-girls crew routine)
4. Shane Sparks: Underground (Tips and B-Boy battle)
5. Fundamentals (Ticking, waving, freezing, posing)
6. Instructional #3 (New routine)
7. Dave's "Good-Bye" & Freestyling
8. Credits

Features:

1. Freestyling with Marques Houston and Omari
2. Interviews
3. Jump to the Music
4. Jump to B-Boys and Krumping with Shane Sparks

Strong points:
The film's soundtrack provides the music, instructions are well-articulated and demonstrations are shown from different angles so that you get down the idea of every move.

Weak points:
The following features are nothing more than parts of the program repeated: Jump to the Music, Jump to B-Boys and Krumping with Shane Sparks and one other.

The absolute hottest routines from the film (like that at the beginning with Boog and his boys poppin those pelvises) are not here. :(

i recieved it within a week and i am really enjoying the product. i couldnt ask for more. cheep and fast.

I liked the "You got served" movie and actually wanted to learn the moves and how they did what they did. I did not want to learn the actual routines of what I saw in the movies due to the fact that I can't use them at the club or to freestyle. The only reason I gave it a three was that during the middle of the DVD the instructor teaches a basic point of ticking, waving, and popping. That actually meant something to a basic person that doesn't have a clue about dancing. To me ... it meant nothing. I think 2 people can get this DVD. A person that wants a session of ticking, waving, and popping that lasted around 3-4 minutes or a person that wants to learn routines done in the movie that you also need a couple other people in sync with you to make it look actually nice.

Well.... I was really excited when I found out that 'the official learn-the-dance moves DVD from the creators of the hit film YOU GOT SERVED!' was being release. I didn't particularly enjoy the movie as the acting was terrible and there wasn't much of a storyline...but the dances moves were BANGING! But to be honest when I bought the take it to the streets DVD...I was disappointed. The moves didn't turn out to be so `hot' and me being a quick learner I thought that the routines were too rushed. Out of the whole 54 minutes, the only thing I did enjoy, was watching Omari Grandberry's freestyle (which only lasted about 3 minutes)!

The movie was good, making you want to buy this DVD to learn the dance move. I think it was a great instructional video, but it went by too fast. It took my sister and I hella times to get it, and we are easy to learn dancers. It's just that if you want to learn the moves slow, I recommend buying the VHS.