• Street dance battles have become an important aspect of street dance culture, requiring technical skills, creativity, and showmanship to succeed.
• Dance battle tactics are used to outperform opponents and gain an advantage in a battle. They can intimidate, distract, or showcase skills and creativity.
• There are three main categories of dance battle tactics: confrontational, dominant, and storytelling.
• Confrontational battle tactics are more geared toward mental strategies, involving intimidating opponents up close, and are effective in styles like krump, breaking, and hip hop.
• Dominant battle tactics involve showcasing dominance and excellence through execution of techniques and skills, either up close or from a distance. It can work for any style of street dance but is most effective in styles like locking, waacking, popping, and house that require a high level of technical skill and precision.
• The technical battle tactic is all about showcasing excellence and cleanliness of technique in movement, including the quality of movement and tricks such as hat tricks, shoe tricks, flips, splits, and other athletic physical abilities.
• The goal of musicality battle tactics is to create a visual representation of the music and impress the audience and opponent with the dancer's rhythm and timing.
• Mimicry battle tactics are about imitating the opponent's moves and adding one's own style and flavor to them, showcasing adaptability and creativity while putting a personal spin on the opponent's moves.

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