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Post by Mav-One (MCRz) on Mar 23, 2010 19:48:42 GMT -5
he hasnt been around for a while. and we have this on going thing that we hide disses amidst our posts. well at least i do. lol
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Post by BuddyRTC on Mar 23, 2010 20:13:33 GMT -5
Now I'm a bboy because I love dancing and expressing myself through the dance and all that other good stuff. But my reason for starting is kinda wack. I went to this summer camp 5 years ago, and this kid in my cabin could do the 6-step, and I learned it and thought it was fun and looked cool. So once I got home, I bought a "how to breakdance" DVD and learned the turtle, hurricanes, and the shittiest swipes on the face of this earth in about 2 weeks. Then I stopped. I would break at parties and dances, but I would just do the same set over and over again, and I wasn't dancing, I was flailing. Then, once I got to high school, I did crew (rowing). I did it for 3 seasons and then decided I hated it, so I quit. I then had a ton of free time to fill and I was a lot stronger than when I was in middle school. SO I decided to give breaking another try. I fell, had awful form, and didn't know what toprocking was, but I was having fun. 6 months later I found out about element-1, and starting learning the right way, and fell in love with the dance and the people. I've been breaking ever since (1 year 4 months). I may be new to the scene, but eventually I'll leave my mark on it and give back to the community that has given me confidence, fun, and a way of life. Peace Dope, you me and Hondo have all been breaking for the same amount of time haha. Word, I really got into bboying because my homeboy David Wang came to my school from Toronto and said he could do it. It was one of those things I'd always wanted to learn but felt no motivation TO learn (I hadn't even seen real battles, just media stuff). I actually didn't even know Michigan had a scene until we heard about MTA last year. I wanted to go, but had to work, and we honestly didn't even have a grasp that there were other crews in Michigan haha, Grand Blanc is so far out of the loop. My homeboys went to MTA and were just going bananas, talking about people doing airflares (we were so noob, we thought only Koreans could do them haha) and mad styleheads and stuff (they were talking about Blur lol). Anyways, they were talking about different crews that they saw that were dope, and later on, we made up our minds to go to Late Night Breaks that summer. We sucked at LNB, but we met a ton of dope bboys. I talked to Tora from Robotops (I was trippin over RTC at the time, was watching all of their old stuff because of what my boys told me about their MTA performance), and we hooked up at the end of the summer at an E1 session. Everything just took off from there, and everyone in the scene, especially Tora and RTC, has helped me out so much since then.
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Post by EPIC on Mar 23, 2010 22:49:29 GMT -5
i started in 2001 when i saw maveriks mom and i was like wow i gotta impress this chick so i can get in her pants. long story short i got good at breakin and did her alot, then moved on to maveriks sisters and so on. thas my story
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Post by Mav-One (MCRz) on Mar 24, 2010 10:56:51 GMT -5
i started in 2001 when i saw maveriks mom and i was like wow i gotta impress this chick so i can get in her pants. long story short i got good at breakin and did her alot, then moved on to maveriks sisters and so on. thas my story lmao....bitch.! ya then my mom found someone with strong wrists that could hold her fat ass.
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Post by EPIC on Mar 24, 2010 20:06:09 GMT -5
i healed like 4 years ago! the reason i hurt my wrists is cuz her ass was too fat tho
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Post by Mav-One (MCRz) on Mar 25, 2010 8:31:42 GMT -5
i healed like 4 years ago! the reason i hurt my wrists is cuz her ass was too fat tho lmao shouldnt been tryin to give her a piggie back ride.
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Post by EPIC on Mar 25, 2010 19:30:16 GMT -5
naw i was tryin to look for the wet spot but she rolled over n sat on my hands
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Post by BuddyRTC on Mar 25, 2010 20:48:10 GMT -5
K, this just got way too graphic. Lmao.
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Post by Mav-One (MCRz) on Mar 26, 2010 10:01:08 GMT -5
naw i was tryin to look for the wet spot but she rolled over n sat on my hands shoulda rolled her in flour. i bboy cuz i like to talk shit!
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Post by EPIC on Mar 26, 2010 11:08:51 GMT -5
i was gonna roll her in flour but i didnt wanna get confused and accidentally bake her into a giant cookie
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Post by Mav-One (MCRz) on Mar 26, 2010 11:21:35 GMT -5
i was gonna roll her in flour but i didnt wanna get confused and accidentally bake her into a giant cookie empanada....ha!
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Post by Scotty Pimppen RTC on Mar 26, 2010 14:06:49 GMT -5
lol.
I started because of The Crystal Method's "Name of the Game" music video.
I just though some of the shit they were doing was impossible... At the time I was a sponsored skater (inline) so I didn't have any time to devote to breaking.. but I tried moves off of flash how to animations online (Before youtube/video on internet). So breaking didn't really start for me until my senior year of High School when I got a nasty concussion skating and had decided to call it quits. Breaking filled the void that left and then some. I got Breakvision 2 in the mail and got my first peak at real breaking.
After searching online, I stumbled on the Michigan Bboy Forum... and then found out about Element One practices. After emailing Greg, I started driving up to practice once a week, and they'd sneak me into the CCRB to practice. There... homeboys like Stitches, Tori, Loopz, Matt Jennings, Dara, Tim Hong, Erwin showed me the ropes.
My I got into UofM... started school knowing E1 and met John (Switch) and Joel (JoRel) and started practicing with them in E1. Later that year we started battling together and Robotops was formed.
I think the reason why I kept with it... besides loving the expression, the movement, the music... is because RT and E1 became like fam. John and I can philosophize about shit for hours and hours, so we used to just come up with all these theories and ideas about how to get better (we still do). So like... I break for myself, but I also break for RT. Something that I created with two friends has become exponentially larger than I could imagine. So large that it means a lot to individuals that weren't around when we started it.... that's pretty powerful. Soooo yeah. I love the music. I love being active. I love the expression... the release you get from breaking. I love that every time I hear James Brown... or It's Just Begun... I have to start breaking... even if I'm at Target or something. Word
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Post by Scotty Pimppen RTC on Mar 26, 2010 14:32:55 GMT -5
it seems to me that the 'real' scene is slowly dying out, while the 'organized' side is taking it's place.... as for 'real' i mean that hip hop is a culture and it's funny that i don't see any dancers at these clubs/places/etc.....only see them at events and thats it.... in the day, it was about hitting up the clubs and spots and getting down..... but now, it's about events and prize money.....sure we used to have events in the day, but those same dancers you would see out and about at other clubs/etc and we all would still get down....... for me, it just seems that the 'culture' is slowly being removed.... i disagree. i think that maybe those "places/spots" have just changed over the years. i see and vibe with people all over ann arbor, east lansing, grand rapids, fort wayne, windsor/toronto, etc a lot for stuff aside from competition. grand rapids has blues on the mall, east lansing and ann arbor have spots all over (now thats its warm again) that u can see people dancing. ive danced at different events in fort wayne, and partied with other cats in canada too much... haha. as far as the club scene or whatever you want to call it, a lot of us are still too young to even get into those places haha. idk. i obviously wasnt around x years ago, but i would be really hard pressed to say the culture's "being removed." How many hip hoppers does it take to screw in a light bulb? . . . . . . . . wait for it . . . . . . 3... One to screw it in, and two to complain about how the old one was so much better. Point being.. shit changes, but all I can say is that I'm glad... because there are more cyphers, more REAL dancing, and more bboys in Michigan than ever before. Who cares if there won't be a huge turnout for a small thing in Detroit... isn't that something that concerns bboys from Detroit? If you do something small like that in A2... I'm gonna be there. I don't travel across the state to win battles... I do it to reunite with the scene... All those people that I've been seeing for years and years. How can you say now a days it's all about prize money? Come check out our session spots some time and you'll see that it's a lot more than kids training for the big competition... it's a group celebrating breaking, and teaching the history.
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Post by Mav-One (MCRz) on Mar 26, 2010 15:31:19 GMT -5
i disagree. i think that maybe those "places/spots" have just changed over the years. i see and vibe with people all over ann arbor, east lansing, grand rapids, fort wayne, windsor/toronto, etc a lot for stuff aside from competition. grand rapids has blues on the mall, east lansing and ann arbor have spots all over (now thats its warm again) that u can see people dancing. ive danced at different events in fort wayne, and partied with other cats in canada too much... haha. as far as the club scene or whatever you want to call it, a lot of us are still too young to even get into those places haha. idk. i obviously wasnt around x years ago, but i would be really hard pressed to say the culture's "being removed." How many hip hoppers does it take to screw in a light bulb? . . . . . . . . wait for it . . . . . . 3... One to screw it in, and two to complain about how the old one was so much better. Point being.. shit changes, but all I can say is that I'm glad... because there are more cyphers, more REAL dancing, and more bboys in Michigan than ever before. Who cares if there won't be a huge turnout for a small thing in Detroit... isn't that something that concerns bboys from Detroit? If you do something small like that in A2... I'm gonna be there. I don't travel across the state to win battles... I do it to reunite with the scene... All those people that I've been seeing for years and years. How can you say now a days it's all about prize money? Come check out our session spots some time and you'll see that it's a lot more than kids training for the big competition... it's a group celebrating breaking, and teaching the history. ya.....but if we had monthly cyphers how many people are gin to come out. ? why dont people come to detroit for our shindigs. just battles.? I like the light bulb joke. lol....
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Post by Bones on Mar 26, 2010 20:51:38 GMT -5
I'm a bboy probably due to the timing in my life. I became friends with Victor when I was a freshman in college (I started way late haha). During this time I was going through a lot of hard times and personal issues in my life and during this time Victor invited me out to MTA '08. I didn't have any idea who Born was and all I knew was that Red could flare and that blew my mind aha. At the Jam I asked Victor and Jake (who was a friend of mine from middle school and High School) to teach me some top rock. I never expected to get into bboying at all. In fact, it's kind of funny now that it's a huge part of my life. All I know after that point is that I kept wanting to get better and better. Eventually Victor decided to take me to the canton clan sessions when they were still in Canton and it was like a second home to me. I doubt anyone really realizes it but everyone who I broke with became like a family for me and it helped turn my life around a lot. Ever since that I've felt bboying as a home to me and a culture to me and that's why I never stopped.
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