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
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