You Got Served - Take It to the Streets (Dance Instructional) | 
| Director: Billy Pollina
Actors: Dave Scott (ix), Richard Steelo Vasquez, Christopher Jones (ii), Harry Shum Jr., Kristi Crader
Studio: Sony Pictures
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 31714
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 67 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 1404959157
UPC: 043396057821
EAN: 9781404959156
ASIN: B0002234RW
Theatrical Release Date: June 29, 2004
Release Date: June 29, 2004
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If you enjoyed the dancing in You Got Served and wondered how they did those moves, this 54-minute dance instruction DVD will give you a hint. Choreographer Dave Scott leads a group of dancers in three routines. He breaks down each move slowly, then combines several and speeds them up. Each pattern uses complex footwork, armwork, and body isolations, and unless you're an experienced dancer, you'll need to stop and reverse frequently to practice and memorize. "You've got to listen to the music and hit everything in the pocket," he says, referring to the rhythmic challenges. And if you discover that the routines are too advanced for you, you can enjoy sitting back and watching the process of dancers learning a routine. Additional features include technique instruction (ticking, waving, freezing) and demonstrations of different styles of street dancing. Hip-hop stars Marques Houston, Omari Grandberry, Christopher Jones, Robert James Hoffman III, and a team of athletic dancers help Scott demonstrate routines and techniques. English, Spanish, and Portuguese subtitles are available. --Joan Price
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 MUCH better than expected June 30, 2005
joy (Atlanta, GA)
51 out of 52 found this review helpful
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.
 A Medicore Dance Instructional July 14, 2004
Lee (USA)
25 out of 29 found this review helpful
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.
Great instruction video July 2, 2005
Fineliving style (NYC)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
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.
 DO NOT BUY IF YOU WANT TO BREAKDANCE!!! March 27, 2005
Brent Hopkins (Atlanta, GA)
16 out of 23 found this review helpful
You Got Served was a horrible misrepresentation of what the b-boy scene is actually like and this instructional video pushes that misrepresentation even further. If you want to learn to breakdance buy the Breakdance step-by-step dvd released by bboy.org or any of the films in the Breakvision series.
 hmmmmm.....not too sure if you should take it to the streets April 28, 2005
Bam-Bam (London, England)
14 out of 20 found this review helpful
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)!
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