I missed my man Ollie, but there were mad heads at his party so it was ok. I finally got some fundamentals of salsa and merengue. Now that I got some confidence about the vocabulary I can interject some latin ideas into my tops. Good fun and good dancing.
Salsa perhaps? Maybe a power hour? Definitely Newtron party late.
If it ends up being too much I'll just cut out the power hour. I'm taking a new stance on lessons. I always thought since I had no teachers early in bboying you had to go it alone in other styles too. Whatever, so hopefully this will be the first of more regular classes. Need to peep what Ollie is doing, I enjoyed his Sweat set.
Thursday
CMU session to go over routines!
No one there but Lillian, SwifD, Bowser and I. Then Chuck brought some of his heads. I had a really good practice. Warmed up with some tops and then went into further defining my routine ideas. I'm really glad heads weren't there, it prevented me from teaching the material prematurely. When I put my ideas into motion I realized that Devon can't yet do the movement required and that Teena is the logical choice as partner. Really have my ideas together. I got one full routine, a few commando ideas and an outline. OMG halo > headbridge tap > halo, an idea to keep. But at practice, I focused on headspins and trying to get that shoulder > halo move. I think I can get into headspins regularly from standing and that is helping with my headspin > 90 attempts. I did it pretty decently today like headspin x2 > 90 :). Still having problems with mill > headspin, I thought I had it down pat doing drills? Good stuff though.
No one there but Lillian, SwifD, Bowser and I. Then Chuck brought some of his heads. I had a really good practice. Warmed up with some tops and then went into further defining my routine ideas. I'm really glad heads weren't there, it prevented me from teaching the material prematurely. When I put my ideas into motion I realized that Devon can't yet do the movement required and that Teena is the logical choice as partner. Really have my ideas together. I got one full routine, a few commando ideas and an outline. OMG halo > headbridge tap > halo, an idea to keep. But at practice, I focused on headspins and trying to get that shoulder > halo move. I think I can get into headspins regularly from standing and that is helping with my headspin > 90 attempts. I did it pretty decently today like headspin x2 > 90 :). Still having problems with mill > headspin, I thought I had it down pat doing drills? Good stuff though.
Sweat before Heat
Fun on a Wednesday at Club P and with Streetz.
This was cool cool. The special popping addition of Sweat Wednesdays was fun. Not too many heads showed up, but you know Get Down Gang showed up. In full force, I wasn't even there most of the time. My homie was fucking me up so I got there hella late, very niggardly of me. It's ok to be a little late, because it's a party. Then you can rep hard and everything's cool. But my man had me waiting on him for hours. That meant I was an idiot for trusting him with my time and delayed me hours. Not cool at all.
So rant aside, I tried popping for real and cyphered with Matt some, but really with Chuck when heads left. We switched between bboying and popping and krumping (i didn't do any :)). Devon, Barry and Florentin was there too cyphering. We were rolling like you needed to do a zulu spin variation in your set. Good fun, Chuck helped clean up my popping. He cleaned up his footwork and Florentin learned zulu spins and freaked them a couple times. And we just jamming with the DJ. I think I understand the point of a jam now a bit more. Chilled with Streetz at Heat, even though the rap ranged from unoriginal to wack to down right offensive, shit still got done. Told Street and Jerome to come by practice and chill with the rest of the gang at CMU. They say they are coming through and Streetz is down with travelling for jams! Kinda geeked cause the United Styles in NYC has a 1 v 1 popping battle! Niggas ain't ready :)
This was cool cool. The special popping addition of Sweat Wednesdays was fun. Not too many heads showed up, but you know Get Down Gang showed up. In full force, I wasn't even there most of the time. My homie was fucking me up so I got there hella late, very niggardly of me. It's ok to be a little late, because it's a party. Then you can rep hard and everything's cool. But my man had me waiting on him for hours. That meant I was an idiot for trusting him with my time and delayed me hours. Not cool at all.
So rant aside, I tried popping for real and cyphered with Matt some, but really with Chuck when heads left. We switched between bboying and popping and krumping (i didn't do any :)). Devon, Barry and Florentin was there too cyphering. We were rolling like you needed to do a zulu spin variation in your set. Good fun, Chuck helped clean up my popping. He cleaned up his footwork and Florentin learned zulu spins and freaked them a couple times. And we just jamming with the DJ. I think I understand the point of a jam now a bit more. Chilled with Streetz at Heat, even though the rap ranged from unoriginal to wack to down right offensive, shit still got done. Told Street and Jerome to come by practice and chill with the rest of the gang at CMU. They say they are coming through and Streetz is down with travelling for jams! Kinda geeked cause the United Styles in NYC has a 1 v 1 popping battle! Niggas ain't ready :)
Tuesday
Session at CMU. Do something interesting.
Highlight: Backspin double ankle grab > thread right leg in to head and right leg down > mill thread right leg out > cross legged handstand ... I'll come up with a better finish. Most likely something piked.
Highlight: Backspin double ankle grab > thread right leg in to head and right leg down > mill thread right leg out > cross legged handstand ... I'll come up with a better finish. Most likely something piked.
Erik Rico and Ibiza
Went to this jam/show at Shadow Lounge per Selecta's request through Ron. Selecta played a bunch of house tracks in addition to the bboy/hiphop anthems. I got open in a way I never have. Straight all styles fool: house, african via house, bboying, hustle, some popping. I have always been a bboy purist, out of fear I couldn't do something without fully committing to it. That is bullshit and I now stand corrected. Fun is fun and as long as you aren't pretending like you are repping a style when you aren't, no one is hurt. Speaking of fun, Get Down Gang is turning into a community of people really repping truth through dance and music. Just goes to show that the best thing in life is finding/being with like-minded individuals. You can't even argue that. I then went to Ibiza and hung out with Heather, Liana and met Anna (sp?). All hot girls that know anything about music in Pittsburgh know each other. It's a real problem for me, I hope I just come off looking like a weirdo and not confused by the incestuous situation. Strobe's set was pretty dec and Bonics' set was quite good. I got there around 12:30 so I probably missed a lot of burners.
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