Glossary: breaking and app words

Breaking words

Word	What it means
Toprock	Dancing on your feet, standing up.
Footwork	Moves on the floor, with your hands down while your legs step and sweep around you.
Powermoves	Moves that spin or rotate again and again, like windmills, flares and headspins.
Freezes	Stopping still in a pose, often balanced on your hands, head or shoulders.
Cypher	A circle where breakers take turns to dance.
Jam	An event where breakers meet to dance, often with cyphers and battles.
Battle	Two breakers or two crews take turns to dance against each other, and a winner is picked. See Log a battle.
Set	Moves you have put together to dance in a fixed order. See Build a set.
Round	One turn to dance in a battle. On BATTLE › PLAN, a round is a stage of a competition, like Top 16 or Finals. See Plan battle rounds and entries.
Entry	One time you go out to dance. On BATTLE › PLAN, each round has entries that you fill with moves and sets.
Crew	A group of breakers who train and battle together. See Add rivals, sparring mates and crew.
Bboy / bgirl	A breaker. Bboy for a boy or man, bgirl for a girl or woman.

MovesBook words

Word	What it means
Execution Level	How well you can do a move, from 1 (Learning) to 10 (Excellent). See Set a move's Execution Level.
Execution Decay	Your library shows a move's level slowly dropping when you stop training it. The level you set is kept. See Keep moves fresh with Execution Decay.
Spotlight	The lightbulb on a move. Mark the moves you want to focus on, then show only those. See Spotlight your focus moves.
Set	A group of your moves in the order you dance them, on MOVES › SETS. See Build a set.
Round Arc	The energy curve of a set or a battle entry, drawn from each move's tension role. See Build a set.
Tension role	What a move does to the energy of a round: Flow, Build, Hit or Peak. See Give a move a tension role.
Lineage	The link from a move to the parent move it grew out of. See Connect a move's lineage.
Traits	Your own labels with values, like Spin: clockwise. Tag moves with them and filter by them. See Add and use traits.
Grind	A rep target for a move or a set, like 500 reps, on MOVES › DRILL › GRIND. See Set a rep target with Grind.
Tabata	A timer with work, rest and rounds, on MOVES › DRILL › TABATA. See Build a Tabata timer.
Spar	Battle rounds you train on your own, or 1 vs 1 with a friend. Start it on BATTLE › RIVALS › START SPAR. See Spar in rounds.
Comp Sim	The Competition Simulator. It runs your planned rounds like a real battle. Start it on BATTLE › PLAN › SIMULATE COMPETITION. See Run the Competition Simulator.
Battle Prep	A plan for a battle coming up, with training days, on BATTLE › PREP. See Prepare for a battle with a plan.
My Book	Your whole training record on REFLECT, one page per month. See Read your training record in My Book.
Stance	Your own score of yourself across the five O.U.R. perspectives, on REFLECT › STANCE. See Map your stance.
O.U.R. perspectives	Five areas from the O.U.R. Standards: Foundation, Originality, Dynamics, Execution and Cypher/Battle. In Full mode, a move can be tagged with them too. See Map your stance.
Replay Cam	The phone camera shows you a few seconds late, so you can watch yourself dance. Phone app only. See Watch yourself on a delay with Replay Cam.
My Notes	Short notes to yourself that show at the top of MOVES. They are not alarms. See Keep reminders in My Notes.
Far view	The FAR VIEW button on timer and Spar screens. It fills the screen so you can read it from across the room. See Build a Tabata timer.
Simple / Full mode	The switch on the move form. Simple shows a short form, Full shows every field. See Switch the move form to Full mode.