AHHHHH. I'm sitting at my desk, and I can't think about anything but dancing. I'm getting soooo many ideas for tops and footwork sets, and I just have to sit here and work. Crap!
Last weekend was soooo busy. I didn't get home until 6am friday, saturday, or sunday. And I was out till 2 or 3 on tues, wed, and thursday. So I'm one sleep deprived bboy. Saki wednesdays may be back. Been going the past 2 weeks and seeing exit and seth again. And always good to party with joni and her crew.
Thursday was an amazing night at modern. There were actually girls there!!! But that never intimidates the halfstep hahaha. But it was a strange night. Usually hot girls ignore me in peace, but for some reason that night I was on point. It all started when I heard my jam and hit the circle hard....a little too hard. I knew my leg was coming off, so I just kicked it off. I guess there were a lot of new comers to modern that night, cause all I heard over the music blasting was a few gasps then loud ass cheers. And my halfstep footwork was on that night. I LOVE MODERN! Anyway after my set i crawled over to the booth to put my leg back on and I got mobbed by like 3 girls. It was nuts. And I was really glad because MJ finally decided to come to modern. Its always nice to see girls who love to "dance". And by dance I don't mean booty shaking. I mean all out this is my floor, my song, ....BYYAHHHHH. That kind of dancing. Anyway its always good to vibe with fresh faces. Then CAB crew hit up cheesesteak factory afterwards and just chilled, it was a good time....although I didn't get to bed till 4 that night.
Friday was fun too. Although I can't say I love eye-bar....cause that places sucks. They should rename it to club sardine, cause that's what I felt like. Even though I went early. There was no one in the techno room early though, so I busted out some headspins all over the floor haha. Threw a lil sum sum down. But then all the Virginians came and the club became butt crowded. Why was I at this dress up only, don't dance unless you're drunk into oblivion spot? It was my homie jenny's bday. So I had to come out and show some love. Got to see a lot of my ex-coworkers which was pretty cool. And I also got to hang out with Jenny's sister cindy who is also pretty cool. Friday night, arrived home at 5:30 haha. Nights of little/no sleep in a row (4)
Saturday was fun too. I started off the day early....11am (ok its early for me on a weekend) When I had to go to House's house workshop. Sound funny enough? House your name is too confusing! Anyway he was teaching house dance, which I am really interested in and the class was a blast and I think I learned a lot. Although I probably still look like a fool on the floor haha. But now I know a little foundation and can practice it. After that I had to head to the jam in manasses. It was a pretty funny jam. Ironman was one of the judges, and we all showed up too late to enter the battles, so we were a little salty. But we laid out an open challenge for anyone to battle cab crew and had a little exhibition battle against some people. It was fun, but I don't think I did as well as I should have. I always get too hype at jams .... Need to practice on that and learn to chill out and just kill the music. After the contest was over, we had a huge MD vs VA battle. And being the only DC cat, I battled everyone!!! hahaha. Ya, halfstep WHAT?! I ended up losing my leg again, and someout managed to do a 2.5 spin headspin drill. My first! I'm so close to headspins I can taste it. My taps are coming along and I'm starting to get more balance. I just need to learn to control my legs a little better. After the jame everyone bum rushed IHOP and we had a lot of fun. After that we drove all the way back to college park and hung out in one of the dorms with some other bboys, and some weird as pot heads. I almost forgot how weird potheads could be.... But it was a lot of laughs and a ton of new inside jokes! Time I got home: 6:00 am.
Sunday was another early day (11:30 ya shutup). Had another workshop, this time from YNOT of rocksteady crew. It was mainly a tops class and really inspired me to come up with some new stuff. Plus I finally got a step that I couldn't figure out for the longest time!!! So now I got some more vocab, and some new ways to increase my flavor. After the workshops I had my culture shock xmas party at dave and busters. It wasn't as fun as I'd hoped. I wasn't really getting any vibes from the place, so I ducked out kind of early and went back to DC dance collective for the workshop after party. Ok after dancing 2.5 hours earlier in the day, I danced from 10pm-5am. Ironman was killing it on the wheels of steel. I met an awesome houser/locker from philly and got to cypher with Ynot. He told me earlier in the day he really liked my style! I had a lot of fun jamming that night. There were only like 10 of us there, but it was sooo fun. Russ brought out a lot of records I never heard him play and that place was just bangin. I can't believe I didn't get home till 6am. Today I'm soooooo tired. Just going to go to sleep when I get home and die haha. Gotta recharge my battery for the trip back to chicago this weekend.
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Halfstep
Monday, December 18, 2006
Thursday, December 07, 2006
YEEEE HAWWWW!
Damnit I typed this long ass post and accidentally clicked a mousebutton that makes my browser go back and lost it all :(
Anyway this post is to share my weekend. A fun filled time in Houston Texas. It was the most fun I've had at a jam ever, and made me want to start travelling more for bboy events. I also got to chill with some members from my crew (Ironman and Joe Cool) and get to know them a lot better and to have hours of laughing my ass off.
The weekend started thursday night with me being incredibly late to meet up at the airport. Interstate 495 was created by satan. Its the biggest parking lot known to man and I hate it with every fiber of my being. How does it take 2 hours to go 20 miles? Anyway the plane ride was good until we got to houston. I got my first dose of "Southern Hostpitality". When getting off the plane, aparently some woman (of middle eastern decent) was trying to get her suitcase off the stowaway compartment which she should have checked in. Me and my crew were having a discussion, and we didn't really notice. So some asshole redneck looks at her and us and says "Ya got 3 gorillas right here, one of em should help the babaganoosh." WTF? I understand the gorilla thing, but Wtf is babagonoosh? Please use racist terms people can understand. And second, DONT BE A FUCKING RACIST PRICK. My friends shrugged it off, because its probably not smart to get in a fight at an airport, so far from home. Then when we are claiming our checkin luggage, he walks up to russel and is like: "Hey sweetness I heard you were talking shit." Russ just laughed and was like I don't know what you're talking about. Then the guy was like "See that you don't cupcake." At that point we all started laughing our asses off. Now thats the coin term for eachother, cupcake or sweetness. Thanks for giving us some laughs you racist prick, I hope karma catches up with you really soon!
When we got to the airport we met some cool kids from nyc (footclan) and started sessioning with them in a meeting room at the hotel. We stayed up late as hell, and somehow woke up in time for the free breakfast. That breakfast was the bulk of our meal every day haha.
We decided to be on time for the jam so we didn't have to wait in a long ass line to get in. They said doors open up at 3:30, so thats about what time we got there. Doors really opened up at 5:30. So we were standing around forever. But we did get interviewed because we were the first people there. Maybe I'll make the video haha. The battles didn't start till 10. The cyphers were pretty weak. Everyone was just practicing powermoves. No one (except us eastcoast cats) were dancing. But that didn't stop us from repping hard! I was killing the cyphers. Getting mad respect from everyone. No one the whole jam clapped the beat for people, or gave a lot of O's. But at one point I saw an empty circle and got mad, so I hit it hard. Everyone started up the clap, and gave me mad props. Even gamblers!! Haha it was dope.
I watched all the prelim battles so I could get an idea of every crew's style. All the crews except for the east coast crews, furious styles, and flexflave were just pulling power. It was kind of sad. But the power was ok to watch (the first day at least). It was dope to watch gamblers (for the first battle anyway). I also got to see bebo from ground fx again, that guy is cool as hell! And I met a lot of NYC and philly cats. It was really cool. I met wak from Breaks crew nyc, he's so cool, and has a really unique wacky style. But he knew like EVERY song, every word, every strange beat, every piece of musicality, it was dope!
The second day was good too. They told us to show up at noon. We though we'd learned our lessons and didn't come till 1. We were among the first there AGAIN. And they didn't even start playing music till like 2. But we spent most of our time that afternoon in the house/funk room. I met some really cool djs ("big titties" and dp1). "Big titties" is a crazy ass guy. He had us cracking up the whole weekend. And dp1 spun some awesome breaks. And he would even come cypher with us. I think out of the 2 rooms, breaks and funk. The funk room was a lot more fun. It was straight up party atmostphere and everyone was having a good time. Not just practicing like in the breaks room. I even got to meet Flat top, HE IS such a sick popper. He was barely moving, but he was so isolated and so animated. It was amazing. And he gave us props!
The bboy battles the 2nd day were about the same as the first, but here are my highlights. My favorite moment of a battle was Repstyles + Russ vs Gamblers. One of the gamblers tried to rock one of the guys from rep styles. Don't try to rock us east coaster!!!! Anyway the rep styles cat stuck his hand out like he was going to spear him, and the gablers guy just stopped his whole dance and looked really shocked. But he never touched him haha. Everyone was laughing.
My favorite battle was Furious styles vs Gamblers. They really brought it, had dope routines, and the bgirls from that crew were awesome. House and Stuntman have mad mad flavor. I really think they should have won that battle, but it was given to gamblers.
My least favorite battle: havikoro vs flex flave. Flex flave really brought it, had good style, good power, and dope routines. Havikoro is an awesome crew don't get me wrong, but they were being way disrespectful, interupting their routines, touching the other crew. And when they lost, they came out and were whining about it. I can understand if you think you took it, but don't interupt the whole jam. You can talk to the judges later. But they did, they came and asked why. The judges told them the way they voted and why havikoro lost. But they just got mad about it. The judges said lets squash it right now and keep the trash off the message boards...but I heard from my friends, havikoro was talking trash on the message boards. In my opinion flex flave did win it. I think it was way disrespectful on the part of havikoro to interupt the jam and disrespect the judges. It was really sad too, because all the crews in that area really look up to havikoro. And I think a really bad example was set. Its not good for the scene. I give props to the judges for not changing their minds and giving a tie breaker.
I didn't even watch the final battle because i was so mad that furious styles got cheated. So I went into the funk room and they were there. So I got to cypher with them. They are a really cool crew. They seem really close knit and they were all having a blast cyphering together. They treated me really well and I had a lot of fun too.
The house battles were amazing! House(my friend) was going crazy. There were soo many talented dancers. I don't envy the judges. I got to meet Kate's friend from AZ We:Whum, he was really cool. And a really good houser. I suck at house still haha. But I still had a lot of fun. The highlight of those battles for me was seeing a houser called cricket do a 10 foot head glide. It was just plain amazing. They had the final house battle in the main room which kind of sucked, because most of the people weren't into it, so it would have been hard as a dancer to perform 100%.
All in all the jam was just plain dope. I want to travel more. I'm trying to go to evolution in March and even try to get my crew to battle. We gotta train hard though. I feel like I opened up a lot more and really enjoyed hanging out with my crew. I got to understand more about hip hop culture and the bboy scene. I'll be writing more about that later. But MAD MAD props to all the bboys from the ho down. Everyone that came. AND MOTHA FUCKIN CAB CREW REPP'D THAT SHIT HARD!!!
peace
Halfstep
Anyway this post is to share my weekend. A fun filled time in Houston Texas. It was the most fun I've had at a jam ever, and made me want to start travelling more for bboy events. I also got to chill with some members from my crew (Ironman and Joe Cool) and get to know them a lot better and to have hours of laughing my ass off.
The weekend started thursday night with me being incredibly late to meet up at the airport. Interstate 495 was created by satan. Its the biggest parking lot known to man and I hate it with every fiber of my being. How does it take 2 hours to go 20 miles? Anyway the plane ride was good until we got to houston. I got my first dose of "Southern Hostpitality". When getting off the plane, aparently some woman (of middle eastern decent) was trying to get her suitcase off the stowaway compartment which she should have checked in. Me and my crew were having a discussion, and we didn't really notice. So some asshole redneck looks at her and us and says "Ya got 3 gorillas right here, one of em should help the babaganoosh." WTF? I understand the gorilla thing, but Wtf is babagonoosh? Please use racist terms people can understand. And second, DONT BE A FUCKING RACIST PRICK. My friends shrugged it off, because its probably not smart to get in a fight at an airport, so far from home. Then when we are claiming our checkin luggage, he walks up to russel and is like: "Hey sweetness I heard you were talking shit." Russ just laughed and was like I don't know what you're talking about. Then the guy was like "See that you don't cupcake." At that point we all started laughing our asses off. Now thats the coin term for eachother, cupcake or sweetness. Thanks for giving us some laughs you racist prick, I hope karma catches up with you really soon!
When we got to the airport we met some cool kids from nyc (footclan) and started sessioning with them in a meeting room at the hotel. We stayed up late as hell, and somehow woke up in time for the free breakfast. That breakfast was the bulk of our meal every day haha.
We decided to be on time for the jam so we didn't have to wait in a long ass line to get in. They said doors open up at 3:30, so thats about what time we got there. Doors really opened up at 5:30. So we were standing around forever. But we did get interviewed because we were the first people there. Maybe I'll make the video haha. The battles didn't start till 10. The cyphers were pretty weak. Everyone was just practicing powermoves. No one (except us eastcoast cats) were dancing. But that didn't stop us from repping hard! I was killing the cyphers. Getting mad respect from everyone. No one the whole jam clapped the beat for people, or gave a lot of O's. But at one point I saw an empty circle and got mad, so I hit it hard. Everyone started up the clap, and gave me mad props. Even gamblers!! Haha it was dope.
I watched all the prelim battles so I could get an idea of every crew's style. All the crews except for the east coast crews, furious styles, and flexflave were just pulling power. It was kind of sad. But the power was ok to watch (the first day at least). It was dope to watch gamblers (for the first battle anyway). I also got to see bebo from ground fx again, that guy is cool as hell! And I met a lot of NYC and philly cats. It was really cool. I met wak from Breaks crew nyc, he's so cool, and has a really unique wacky style. But he knew like EVERY song, every word, every strange beat, every piece of musicality, it was dope!
The second day was good too. They told us to show up at noon. We though we'd learned our lessons and didn't come till 1. We were among the first there AGAIN. And they didn't even start playing music till like 2. But we spent most of our time that afternoon in the house/funk room. I met some really cool djs ("big titties" and dp1). "Big titties" is a crazy ass guy. He had us cracking up the whole weekend. And dp1 spun some awesome breaks. And he would even come cypher with us. I think out of the 2 rooms, breaks and funk. The funk room was a lot more fun. It was straight up party atmostphere and everyone was having a good time. Not just practicing like in the breaks room. I even got to meet Flat top, HE IS such a sick popper. He was barely moving, but he was so isolated and so animated. It was amazing. And he gave us props!
The bboy battles the 2nd day were about the same as the first, but here are my highlights. My favorite moment of a battle was Repstyles + Russ vs Gamblers. One of the gamblers tried to rock one of the guys from rep styles. Don't try to rock us east coaster!!!! Anyway the rep styles cat stuck his hand out like he was going to spear him, and the gablers guy just stopped his whole dance and looked really shocked. But he never touched him haha. Everyone was laughing.
My favorite battle was Furious styles vs Gamblers. They really brought it, had dope routines, and the bgirls from that crew were awesome. House and Stuntman have mad mad flavor. I really think they should have won that battle, but it was given to gamblers.
My least favorite battle: havikoro vs flex flave. Flex flave really brought it, had good style, good power, and dope routines. Havikoro is an awesome crew don't get me wrong, but they were being way disrespectful, interupting their routines, touching the other crew. And when they lost, they came out and were whining about it. I can understand if you think you took it, but don't interupt the whole jam. You can talk to the judges later. But they did, they came and asked why. The judges told them the way they voted and why havikoro lost. But they just got mad about it. The judges said lets squash it right now and keep the trash off the message boards...but I heard from my friends, havikoro was talking trash on the message boards. In my opinion flex flave did win it. I think it was way disrespectful on the part of havikoro to interupt the jam and disrespect the judges. It was really sad too, because all the crews in that area really look up to havikoro. And I think a really bad example was set. Its not good for the scene. I give props to the judges for not changing their minds and giving a tie breaker.
I didn't even watch the final battle because i was so mad that furious styles got cheated. So I went into the funk room and they were there. So I got to cypher with them. They are a really cool crew. They seem really close knit and they were all having a blast cyphering together. They treated me really well and I had a lot of fun too.
The house battles were amazing! House(my friend) was going crazy. There were soo many talented dancers. I don't envy the judges. I got to meet Kate's friend from AZ We:Whum, he was really cool. And a really good houser. I suck at house still haha. But I still had a lot of fun. The highlight of those battles for me was seeing a houser called cricket do a 10 foot head glide. It was just plain amazing. They had the final house battle in the main room which kind of sucked, because most of the people weren't into it, so it would have been hard as a dancer to perform 100%.
All in all the jam was just plain dope. I want to travel more. I'm trying to go to evolution in March and even try to get my crew to battle. We gotta train hard though. I feel like I opened up a lot more and really enjoyed hanging out with my crew. I got to understand more about hip hop culture and the bboy scene. I'll be writing more about that later. But MAD MAD props to all the bboys from the ho down. Everyone that came. AND MOTHA FUCKIN CAB CREW REPP'D THAT SHIT HARD!!!
peace
Halfstep
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