| Locking is once again in a pretty healthy state with | | | | modernize and update with the times then you may be |
| new interest in it, especially in the Asian region which | | | | happy with the current changes. |
| has seen a significant growth in interest. | | | | There is little to doubt that there is a healthy amount of |
| However many of the lockers of today do not look | | | | interest in the style at present, and interest in the style |
| like the OG lockers that started the whole movement. | | | | fosters new dancers to take it up. The debate centres |
| There are differences in style and while there may not | | | | mostly on whether the new lockers are as good as |
| be a lot that is entirely new in terms of moves, the | | | | the OG's. |
| stylistic differences are hard to ignore. | | | | Here we're not really talking about The Lockers |
| So are these new lockers as good as the old ones? | | | | themselves as no one can realistically claim to be |
| This is a difficult question to answer because different | | | | better than the people who created the dance style. |
| people will offer different responses. | | | | We refer mainly to the first lockers that sprung up in |
| There are those that would argue that locking is as | | | | each area and were there at the beginning of its |
| healthy as it has ever been and its positive state will | | | | evolution. |
| continue for a long time still. There is also a pack of | | | | Debates will go on but it is worth remembering that all |
| people who believe it is all going downhill. | | | | things will change whether we like it or not and even if |
| So which of these groups is correct? Well it all | | | | things were to retract back to the way they were, |
| depends on the way you look at it. If you are | | | | there would be a subset of people who would say |
| steadfast in your identification with the old style lockers | | | | that this sticking to the past is what's holding it back. |
| or else have learnt to dance from one of them, you | | | | So perhaps it's best to embrace all that is new as long |
| may find it hard to swallow the wholesale changes to | | | | as it still holds true to many of the important things that |
| the style that have occurred. | | | | distinguish locking such as the locks and keeping the |
| On the other hand if progression of the dance is | | | | movements funky. At the end of the day diversity is |
| important to you and you believe like all things in life | | | | not a bad thing and makes it more interesting to watch |
| such as music and technology, that the style has to | | | | from a viewer's perspective. |
