If anything was right with the world, the kids would put down their Wii’s, forget delinquency, loitering, anti-social behaviour and get dancing like this…This is simultaneously one of the funniest, cheesiest and uplifting dance moves I’ve ever seen. It’s like line dancing on acid!
It’s called Jumpstyle or hakken and originated in Belgium. Thank you our Lowland brethren. Fingers crossed, Summer in Ireland 2007 will be remembered as the year of Jumpstyle. Imagine… parking lots in Naas populated by boy racers having Jumpstyle battles! Mark McCabe could release a jumpstyle version of Maniac 2000! It could solve child obesity! Forget the election, Jumpstyle could turn this country into something beautiful again!
Schoolyard Jumpstyle!
Disco Jumpstyle!
More handpicked Jumpstyle videos after the jump (LOL! No pun intended).
Rural Jumpstyle!
Simpsons parody Jumpstyle!
Indie Jumpstyle (The Fratellis)!
Sorry, but this dance demands exclamations!
Tagged under: Dance / Electronic, Music, Video, WTF?
That’s really just like kids on one of those arcade disco machines except the arcade machine and dancing pads have melted away.
“It’s called Jumpstyle or hakken and originated in Belgium”
I beg to differ Niall- this style of dance originated in the UFO Club, Dublin circa ‘94!
It was a strange night I tell you.
;-)
Cheers,
C
I’m currently studying in Belgium and have seen this being preformed. Even getting a bash in the shin once because of it.
You have to admit though, it’s a much more productive way of someone using their drugged up time than chewing the face off themselves and pointing repeatedly in the air.
polka meets prodigy run meets paul van dyk
together at last!
that’s belgian morris dancing
They certainly are some sick moves. I’m hitting Erol Alkan in Galway tonight. I must break them out. Jumpstyle.
Scobie line dancing!
whoever invented that is a genius – making scobes the world over look even stupider than they already do!
Ahaha, I curious to see when this gets to Portugal, now it got a name! The most similar we got here is from ghetto boys dancing but It’s worst, they don’t dance to the rythm of the music.
Everyone check out Una’s riposte to Jumpstyle
http://unarocks.blogspot.com/2007/05/jumpstyle-shmumpstyle.html
Feck it anyway, still haven’t found the right quiet opportunity to watch the belgians do their thing.
Hey, article in Saturday’s Times about the Hairspray Ad/Song by your man Shane who has a blog too – present tense or something like that? Jim Carroll’s buddy. Some good points about product placement in tv and movies that’re just less obvious than the track etc
Anywhoo
Hope all’s well in nialler9 land
aoife mc
the indie hour
[quote post="395"]I’m hitting Erol Alkan in Galway tonight.[/quote]
I’d certainly like to hit him anywhere. any good? as good as these jumpstyle snippets?
Quite very good indeed. Should have photos and possibly video up of it on my blog soon.
http://thenewishjournalism.blogspot.com
Got to love the shameless plug. I am such a comment slut.
i’ve done this dance
Christ. It’s like someone with absolutely no taste went back and reinvented Uprock.
J.
there’s something a little disturbing about dancing in formation to that kind of relentless marching music. I just think ‘nazis’.
I reckon my mate could give them a run for their money http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2JneittqQ
fuck you all and shet your vedio
Pff.. wil y’all shut the hell up? ,, you think you’ve got the condition of the people who jump in Holland? I DON’T think so.. so just think before you say something stupid..
yoyo… theres a few of us down here in waterford at this, its fuckin savage.
[quote post="395"]yoyo… theres a few of us down here in waterford at this, its fuckin savage.[/quote]
Post a video then!
As the newly self-proclaimed drum’n'bass and electro house jumpstyle King, it was great watching those videos and I echo your sentiments and sincerely hope that summer 2007 is jumpstyle heaven!
What we need is those videos playing on big screens at dance gigs and obviously jumpstyle lessons introduced to PE classes in secondary schools all over the country.
The only thing is you need to be pretty damn fit to dance 2 hours of jumpstyle without dropping dead… or maybe I’m just getting to old for this???
As the newly self-proclaimed drum’n'bass and electro house jumpstyle King, it was great watching those videos and I echo your sentiments and sincerely hope that summer 2007 is jumpstyle heaven!
What we need is those videos playing on big screens at dance gigs and obviously jumpstyle lessons introduced to PE classes in secondary schools all over the country.
The only thing is you need to be pretty damn fit to dance 2 hours of jumpstyle without dropping dead… or maybe I’m just getting to old for this???
[...] Later Edit: I almost forgot that Multikulti as we are and inspire by the nialler9 blog, we also tried our skills at Belgium’s new sensationial dance “Jump Style” or Hakken… [...]
hello¡i like the jump style.Dance alwais my hause and from friend.
Well I think this type of dancing is absolutely beltaaa. Honestly, I really want it to be introduced in England. I would definately definately pay to learn this. But I live in a place where rave and jumping about like a tit is acceptable and cool. Lol. :) xxx
this is awsome my and a few friends have just started x
man i have just knowin this jumpstyle and i think this is realy amazen can eny 1 tell me how to get the songs :D a realy like them and am just learnen the jump and i wont to show it off but in the streets i have a car with good sound sityme but i need the songs plz help me out thx guys :D
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How this is “new” is beyond me. I myself even mastered this fine art at legendary institutions such as Asylum@Bowlers, and Helter Skelter, etc… in about 1993!
Still funny though, not sure my knees can take it now, but every so often, something happens… and a space clears on the dancefloor as everybody laughs at the guy who hasn’t realised times have prgoressed ;)
Holy shit, looks like Jumpstyle is actually going worldwide.
I’m living in Belgium and I go to clubs and big events to Jump all energy out of me, just, like to say that there are way better video’s then the ones shown here
Some links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKHcWboePOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I35BkWB-JW4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaHbZa4_YS8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2stNau0qjaM(tutorial, click more for the whole english explaination).
Anyway, just look up Tomorrowland, Bassleader or Reverze which are 3 huge dance events in Belgium, or Defqon1 in Holland, and check the whole atmosphere :D
If anyone wants some info about jump or some songs, just add me : exonite@gmail.com(msn)
The music originated in Chicago in the mid-1990s called “(Chicago) Hard House” – it is exactly the same music. The silly dance originated in Belgium later on, and the marketing gimmick used by the music media to flog it to the kids is called Jumpstyle, which is now commercial in Netherlands and in the charts.
**The music originated in Chicago in the mid-1990s called “(Chicago) Hard House” – it is exactly the same music. The silly dance originated in Belgium later on, and the marketing gimmick used by the music media to flog it to the kids is called Jumpstyle, which is now commercial in Netherlands and in the charts.**
This isn’t correct, it did originiate in Chicago, but they never build anything new on it, Belgian DJ Da Boy Tommy started a new label and they brought a new twist to the original Chicago Hardhouse, with that Jump was born as it is called in most Belgian Discotheques now.
Jumpstyle on the other hand originated in Holland due to Dutch DJ’s mixing Hardstyle beats and trance sounds through their sets.
I still prefer Hardtek(or Frenchtek) and the good ‘ol Belgian JUMP though.
Commercialisation sucks, I just hope it goes underground again soon
Don’t get too pepped up with this jump-rage. The majority of Belgian youth still considers it to be real stupid. With all the respect to you hardtek-fans. Jump is the worst rage ever to have conquered Belgium
List of stupid things that jumpers do or wair:
- handbags (pussies…)
- put on a cap so it points real upwards. the higher your cap points, the cooler you are (ridiculous)
- form gangs (13-year olds trying to start a fight)
- jump everywhere (for god sakes, go to a club)
- Ruin every good song. They even made a jumpstyle remix of the Belgian anthem (fuckers)
- walk around with mp3 players, without even listing to them, so all people can hear you’re playing jumpstyle.
- jumping to non-jump songs like hiphop and so on (oh brother)
- teaching their younger siblings to jump (toddlers even)
Heh ‘an 18-year old Belgian’ that’s a good point you got there, but I don’t consider those “jumpers” people who actually care about the music, they just follow the hype.
I went to Laundry Day the other day (mainly the Bassevents Outdoor stage), and it’s funny how you see the wannabee’s try to act cool and such.
It’s indeed a sad thing that commercialisation ruined the real jump, the actual core, but there isn’t much to do against, the real fans will keep jumping, the wannabee’s will fall off.
It’s just a matter of time…
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[...] NY Mag has video of “Jumpstyle,” the dreaded “Macarena 2.0″ that’s currently devastating Holland and that threatens to break “Cotton-Eyed Joe’”s Bar Mitzvah stranglehold over here in the very near future. Judging by this post over on Nialler9, I’m terribly late to the game on this one. And I am not at all bothered by that fact. [via Buzzfeed] [...]
i own those guys
[...] NY Mag has video of “Jumpstyle,” the dreaded “Macarena 2.0″ that’s currently devastating Holland and that threatens to break “Cotton-Eyed Joe’”s Bar Mitzvah stranglehold over here in the very near future. Judging by this post over on Nialler9, I’m terribly late to the game on this one. And I am not at all bothered by that fact. [via Buzzfeed] [...]
Where can i learn jumpstyle in england? right now im only learning on youtube and its kinda hard. plz someone get back to me.
Where in Cork can I learn jumpstyle.?
wow i wood not thot i wood get a reply but thanks just last year i asked where can i get the songs well now i have them all from 2000 up to 2008 just hard looking but then i have a friend that stays in Belgium and he told me where i can get the good songs but yeah this is going worldwide in scotland the number 1 jumpstyle song is scooter jumping all over the world and it is very good and i have masterd jumpstyle and the faces i get from people over is funny see the girls asking me to do the scooter dance but they do not no its called jumpstyle LOL but this is great i thot i wood never master it lol oh for the people that do not no it look up GOLD INFERNO he has a very good english video that tells you how to do it well the basecis good place to start of and u can look him up on youtube or google hope yous have fun coz i deff had fun learin it and still havein fun :D
i think that jumpstyle is a load of crap. you all dance like scotish dancers. if u want to dance, dance to better music like hardstyle u faggots.
Some more amazing jumpstyle – (canadian):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOXYfYCeEDQ
Hardstyle, Electro dance aswell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QObXk3GkXMU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaNtF1Q3yAY