The cypher is also known as the circle where dancers get down. Usually its started by the energy of one dancer ripping and a few individuals getting caught up in that energy. Once that dancer harness’s enough FLO and starts going off more people are drawn to this energy and other dancers continue that energy thus creating a cypher. There is a art to creating cyphers and a balance that needs to be maintain between creation and evaporation of cyphers.  Sometimes dancers aren’t really ripping hard, there are many reason they may be tired, music is wack, there just not inspired, just too damn drunk etc. At these times its best to let the cypher evaporate and give the space and energy back to the crowd or the party dies. Once the dj does his job a hot track comes back on the cypher will create itself. Remember its ok to let it go and start over everything comes in cycles especially cyphers.

Then there are other times the when the cypher is hot, the dj is throwing down slamming tracks. The music could be the inspiration or maybe a new dancer shows up and hes hella feeling it and your feeding off their energy . Or even some hot chick  starts watching and gets into it (yes I said it haha)  don’t hate I’m just keeping it real folks. At these times the energy in the cypher is flowing and hot. This is when the most people are attracted to that energy and tend to feed the cypher. Either as a dancer or a spectator shit is happening.  Clapping ,shouting, cheering, flipping, flying,  just moving to the beats. There are many things that can happen in these cyphers, dancers can be feeding off each other building off each others last sets and keep going, and going, and going. This is what we dancers thrive for, those few cyphers in the night that made going out all worth it. Unfortunatley at these times is also when the drunk people decide they want to be dancers. Now I’m all for sharing the floor and everyone dancing having a good time BUT when a group of people are in a hot cypher they are sharing their little piece of the dance floor to clear room for a cypher so they can go off. THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO JUMP IN!! You wouldn’t walk in on a basketball game grab the ball and start playing soccer with it would you? Your ass would get jumped and you know that. SO why the hell would you kill the momentum with your drunk ass and SPILL YOU FREAKING DRINK all over the one space that all these people were dancing on? Then wonder why everyones pissed and about to kill you?? This is basic dance floor ettiquette. With that being said dancers should let other people try to vibe and dance as long as there not being super disruptive of the energy, if there not that good well thats ok cause we were all wack once =)

Heres some easy to follow rules of thumb. Granted theres always exceptions to the rule depending on the energy and whats going on but generally speaking you can be safe with keeping these things in mind.

1. Don’t walk through the cypher and be mad that you get kicked in the face. Do you get mad at the car when you jaywalk and get hit? maybe you do, guess what SUCKS FOR YOU

CLUE if there are a bunch of people spinning and flipping around it might be a good idea to go AROUND THEM.

2. Don’t dance with a drink in the cypher your not that kool trust me your not.

3. Don’t cut someone off,  only dance more then one person at a time if their trying to vibe with you. I mean its one thing for 2 people to vibe off each other its another when your ass decided i’m going ot jump in and kick around like a idiot every time someone else goes in. ITS ANNOYING AS HELL QUIT THE DRUGS FOOL!!! You can easily tell cause if there looking at you all crazy then shit please just STOP!!

4. No half stepping. This is the phenomenon when dancers want to jump in but they just take half a step foward and so does everyone else and no one jumps in. This causes the cypher to shrink especially when everyones in a hot cypher hungry to get in and everyone just keeps half stepping and no ones throwing down big to make the circle grow larger. This is a rookie move so don’t kill your own cypher and complain about it just look behind you if you have room tell the people next to you to step back and BAM you got hella room.

Now i’m sure there are others with different rules and ideas but again there are exceptions to everyone rules. Good example maybe someone walks in and doesn’t realize they did that cause that happens. They bump into someone dancing but both people are kool and suddenly there dancing together and everyone one starts feeling it and cheering. Shit happens  its about energy in a cypher your usually not talking and discussing things, its just happening. So be aware and be kool. That goes for dancers and everyone else. We all trying to have fun and listen to some good music.

peace

ODie