For me, it’s relaxing to just waves with my fingers at this
point. I do it constantly, not just to practice because it’s muscle memory. I’ll
do it when I need to relax. A lot of my friends enjoy seeing light shows so
much they say it’s relaxing to watch, like watching fireworks. At this point,
the feeling of waving my fingers is like meditation to me, it’s how I relax and
I hope that one of you can turn this hobby into a form of meditation.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Where to bring your gloves O.o
No lie, I bring my gloves everywhere I go in case a friend
wants a light show or some random stranger seems… happy enough to enjoy one. It’s
just a casual thing I bring around now. For you! I suggest bringing them to a
party people always find it interesting and it’s a great conversation starter.
But if you really want to show off your skills or just screw around an EMD concert
or show would be the best place to bring them. You’ll find the most people
there with them and it’s the best atmosphere for them.
The Spread of Gloving.
When ever you go to a show you can find people with the
light up gloves. A lot of people don’t always know how to do the fancy tricks
but they just wear them for fun. It is starting to become a trend at shows for
people to wear them. It’s always fun to go to shows and show kids the potential
that they can do with gloves and all the fancy tricks. It’s like a small community
that has evolved from a few kids who could wave their hands around to people,
doing it as a dance, and it’s still growing!
Why i Glove
I have to be honest with everyone this is a very… oh how do
you say strange hobby. A lot of people ask me why I learned how to do it and I just
say the same usual thing: I shrug and say the same thing “I don’t know it’s
kind of fun”. I do it because it’s like a hobby and to be honest at this point
muscle memory. I love to go to shows and give people who are up on cloud nine a
show and see how they become amazed at the tricks. It’s a lot of fun to see a
light show and it’s not the most famous thing in the world so why not help
spread it around to people. Find you’re reason for gloving and embrace it!
IT’S DOUBLE LIGHT SHOW ALL THEWAY!
Just as a fun little thing I have meet up with some other
kids at my college who glove and I have been able to practice a lot; I hope you’re
all practicing if you’re trying to learn! We started looking up double light
shows which is when two people work together to make a show. It takes a lot of
practice to learn how to do it and both people need to be in perfect sync. It’s
a lot of fun to do and I strongly suggest that you should convince a friend to
try gloving and try to give a double light show.
This is amazing well coordinated and shows off the discipline
that it takes to master this. Although as a fun side note try to find the error
in the video, :D and practice with someone.
My Heros
There are some glovers that get sponsored by companies who
make gloves to advertise the gloves in videos and at concerts. I love to watch these
videos because they can show a person new tricks that can be built off of and
can show a person good songs to give lightshows to. One of my personal
favorites is Gummy the bunny. He doesn’t do too many fancy tricks but he puts
on one hell of a show with perfect flow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uO4WkidpCE
If you want to see something fancy then Stunna’s your guy.
He can do some mind blowing tricks that I have never seen before.
MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!
:DDDDDDDDDDD This is my absolute favorite part of
lightshows. You can use almost every genre of music for lightshows but
obviously there are some genres that work better than others. For beginners you
should stick to EDM music like house, dubstep, and trap. They are the easiest
to give a lightshow to. For house I suggest you use anything made after the
Martin Garix song animals because of the style he made it changed house and
added fun features to the songs. Any type of dubstep will work you just have to
know how the drop sounds and be able to keep up with the wubs. Trap is always
fun but might be a challenge because of the off beats.
SET UP!
For those of you who have passed the first test and gotten
real gloves, I’m going to explain something that is commonly over looked. ALL
LIGHTS GO ONTOP OF YOUR FINGERS. THE
THUMB LIGHT GOES ON THE BOTTOM WITH THE LIGHT FACEING TWORDS YOUR PALM. They do
this because it will show the most light to have the thumb on bottom instead of
top. You don’t have to do this but it will help a bit. I went a long time
before I made the switch.
FIRST GLOVES pt 2!
For those of you who are looking for a serious pair of
gloves then I have some advice for you! INVEST MONEY. The more you put in, the
better the gloves will be and the longer the gloves will last. For this I’m
going to help you be a “baller” on a budget. First let’s go to this site:
Start looking around for a pair of gloves that has colors
you like. They will all have a product video to show you what they look like in
action. I personally suggest the Mardi Gras pair. They were my first pair and
have the brightest color scheme, my personal favorite. Once you find the pair
you like you I highly suggest that you use anything but the default casings for
the lights. This will make them work so much better and last a lot longer.
FIRST GLOVES pt 1!
Hopefully, at this point, you’re thinking about maybe
getting gloves to practice with or to screw around with. The best thing for
this is to use pre-wired gloves. You can order them online, through a site or
you can get them at a Spencers’, a store found in most malls in the US. These
gloves are made for beginners, so they will break very easily. If you intended
to keep them for use, you should find someone who can saunter. The gloves wires
are held onto the board with glue so they will break extremely easily. If you
scrape off the glue and saunter the wires on then they will last much
longer. Now you have a permanent fuck
around with pair J.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Your own style
If you have been keeping up so far you should be able to
give a really basic light show but none the less a light show! So now, let’s talk
about styles. Every Glover has their own style and some even manage to make their
own moves. You have to remember a key fact when gloveing, do not copy a style
and do what they do. If you see a cool move try to add your own flare to it
make it unique. I try to free style most light shows I give because I find it
more fun that way and every once in a while I figure out a new trick. I highly
suggest you start by giving a lightshow to a mirror for practice.
Tutting
I hope
that the finger roles are coming along nicely and you’re ready to learn a new
move! This time I’m going to explain what tutting is. Tutting is when you use
your arms, hands, and fingers to make shapes (usually 90 degree angles). This
took me a long time to learn and I’m still practicing it so don’t be
discouraged if its extra difficult with practice you can learn how to. I suggest that you practice stretching your
wrists so they can bend more (this video will explain how - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXnfZ0WjvOg).
But besides that I have another video for basic tuts. It’s the same video I
used and its pretty helpful - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9N1UhWxU8s.
best of luck!
Finger Rolls
If you start watching gloving videos then you can see that
it seems a tad bit overwhelming at first but I’m going to try to help you learn
some of the basics for now. In my personal opinion I think that the most
essential move any Glover should know is how to do a finger role. A lot of the
harder moves that you learn will revolve around this simple trick so it’s
pretty wise to learn how to do it early. Before you practice take a minute to
stretch out your fingers. This video will help teach you how -
After I
learned how to do this I started to work on tutting which I will go over in the
next post. For most people you won’t be able to do this first try so you have
to practice often! It’s really easy to practice so if you’re ever just bored
and have nothing better to do try doing a couple finer roles and soon you’ll
have it down!
What it is
Today I am going to explain the different parts of gloveing
and why in fact people glove. Gloveing was born when someone at a rave one day
put led lights on his fingertips and wore white gloves so it looked as if his
fingertips were glowing. From then people began to make incorporate tutting
which is a form of dancing with your hands and arms and didgets which incase
you don’t remember revolves around your fingers. After time light shows started
happening which is gloveing with your hands close to there face so they can
only see the lights. People all over the world started comeing up with crazy
new moves. There are someplaces that will hold tournaments for it but I prefer
just to do it for fun. If you plan on getting into this then you will need some
motivation to keep you going because this can be difficult to learn.
Welcome!
Hello to everyone who is reading this. My goal is to try to
explain what 'gloveing' is and how people learn to do this crazy new dance. For
those of you who are already interested in learning im going to try and help
you learn to get better and with my past experience encourage you to try new
moves and styles. To start off Gloveing is a type of dance that revolves mostly
around your fingers. Now if this is your first time reading about this then
just using your fingers doesn’t seem that impressive or entertaining. This
would be the case but gloveing requires a special set of LED lights and gloves,
I will get into more detail about that later.
As a example of what Gloveing is please watch this video -
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