3 Things To Know

1) When a potential opponent says, “Want to take this outside?”, respond, “Yes, definitely outside.” Then, once outside, run. Fast.
2) Should your opponent ask, “What are YOU looking at?” or anything else controversial, pretending not to speak English is always beneficial. Then, in broken English, say something about the hometeam. A New Yorker about to pick a fight with you will quickly change his tune if you–a poor, helpless foreigner–also love the Yankees.
3) Turn the challenge into something else. Anything from a chugging-competition to a dance-off will work well. Of course, if you’re a wuss AND a bad dancer, you should probably drink at home.

1) Give a random compliment with a question attached. People love being complimented, and it will strike up a conversation with ease. “I love your earrings, where did you get them?”
2) When you’re running out of things to say, you can always go for a recap. Bring up something that was discussed earlier in the conversation. If you can’t remember anything you just talked about, you can default to saying “So earlier you said you liked ice cream?” They might not have said this, but chances are they won’t call you out on it, and besides, everyone loves ice cream!
3) Just consistently say their name. People love hearing their own name, and it will often bring a smile to their face. “Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve, oh Steve, Stevie!”

1) Your story should get better every time you tell it. Pay attention to what aspects the audience enjoys and emphasize those. Be sure to expand on “Helicopters go woooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!” and skip over the insignificant details.
2) Know your audience. Something they can relate to will make it more exciting.
3) People love hearing voices (even sane ones) make sure to not only describe the characters, but actually become them. Changing your tone of voice, hand gestures and other shenanigans are all but completely necessary to have in your arsenal.

1) Always try to point and nod at someone on the dance floor, especially if you make eye contact with them. Everyone looks cooler when they are pointing and nodding, and it will show everyone that you’re having fun. (Just try not to point at anyone bigger than you who might take it the wrong way).
2) If you’re clapping along with the music, try to clap on every 2nd and 4th beats of the bar (also known as the off-beats or the back beats) instead of the 1st and 3rd. Most popular dance and party music emphasizes these beats, so clapping along with them will make you look like you are a music expert and that you’re really feeling the song.
3) If you’re dancing with a girl, try to spin her. This puts the pressure on her not to mess up, and it also makes you look really classy. If you are a girl and want to be spun, make your dance partner spin you by lifting their hand up over your head and spinning underneath it.

1) Contrary to popular belief come with some writtens. Even the best of the best will have some lines brought from home. Make them generic that can be used on anyone, such as “You here to battle but you look like you’s about to raise some cattle” Anyone can raise cattle and if you are battling them clearly they are here to battle.
2) When they are battling think of a rebuttal. Listen to what they are saying and reverse it on them. If they call you fat come back with something along the lines about how you are going to eat them up in the battle (but don’t really eat them).
3) Practice every day outside of battle by thinking of a phrase and coming up with as many rhymes for that phrase as you can. Try to rhyme at least two syllables at a time (for ex. instead of just rhyming ‘hat’ with ‘cat’, you can rhyme ‘keyboard’ with ‘C chord’ or ‘math textbook’ with ‘fast left hook’. This will build up your rhyme bank and make it easier for you to bust out more complex, impressive rhymes in the heat of battle.