So anyway, I started looking at videos, trying to imitate some of the moves, and I also looked at tutorials on youtube. I even started taking lessons from a guy who taught electric boogaloo style popping. It was the closest thing to what I wanted to learn that I could find in my area (Melbourne, Australia) but I didn't feel that what I was learning was close enough to the style that I wanted to have (I prefer illusion with, perhaps, a bit of funk, rather than funk with a bit of illusion), so I stopped after a few weeks.

Anyway, it's several years down the track now, and I feel I've not learnt much. I started checking out what people are doing with contact juggling these days, and so many people have started combining it with liquid and many are actually really good at it. While it's inspiring for me, its also depressing because I see how far I should have come in this time, and really I've gotten nowhere.

Part of the problem is that I have the impetus to practice and to learn, but I really don't know how to do it. When I was learning the basics of contact juggling, there were plenty of good tutorials for all sorts of different 'tricks'/moves, and I could sit there for hours practicing them. With liquid, it seems that there aren't a great deal of tutorials out there. Many are by people whose skills I'm not that impressed by, so I don't think they're necessarily the best to learn from, and most of them cover the same one or two moves.

So I'm hoping by getting involved on this forum I'll be able to learn more through communication with others than I've been able to do on my own. For me, it's all about illusion. I've seen people tutting where they look like they're dancing for an nsync film clip, but I've also seen people doing moves that look almost identical, but the way they doing makes it look like they're doing impossible stuff, like their arms should get twisted up or something. It's that sort of illusiory stuff that I want to be able to do (i.e. NOT the nsync video :P). It doesn't matter if it's tutting, liquid, digitz or whatever. It's the effect of the illusion that I'm after, and it's the same thing that drew me to contact juggling. I would say that the quintessential reality-breaking dancer is elsewhere.