Warren is back

Didn't think I'd practice today.

I thought it may have been just Devon, Kyle and I, but Warren came through later and so did Prabu.  Warren consistently teaches me the value of more.  Constantly adding complexity should be what we strive for.  As long as it's on the music.  Highlight: flare > mill > flare > swipe > mill > halo > baby freeze (clean).

Danny Krivit

Should be a paaaartae!

Nah, Pittsburgh is still wack. The people that mattered were there (GDG and a fly breezie).  So much good music, what do you do?  Dance as much as possible in as many different styles as possible (and appropriate).  Much of what the djs were playing transcends multiple styles so that wasn't too hard.  Danced for a good 4 hours.  That's the best extended performance I've had.  I took breaks when burned out then kept at it.  I'm glad that I'm able to cypher a bit with Matt and have him teach me things.  I think fundamentally that encapsulates the relationship between crew members.  I think crew should be a collective intellectual enterprise.  As such all members are students and teachers beholden to one another.  Right now I sense a "duh" moment coming on, but that's not how people act.  People crave stratification and all too often the reason to be in a group becomes finding themselves through comparison.

Title Town with Get'em Gump

Cool DJ, so I am summoned.  Hopefully the crew comes through.  What to wear, what to wear?

Get'em Gump didn't play (just chillin at the event), but Jay Malls was there to hold it down on the decks.  Dre Live was there and he was doing what he does.  Had a good deal of fun dancing and got waaaay too sweaty.  Dre Live still rocking hard and imparted some knowledge to us about training.  He also invited us to chill with him for a min in Ohio.  Dre talks a lot, but unlike most people that talk a lot there's so much substance and gab driven wit I didn't bounce on him.  I'm really tired.

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.

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.

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 :)

Saturday

Really this begins last night at Devon's crib, we got the heavy drink on and Matt Limm and I got fadski fresh. Matt Limm got wild on the funk and Charles and I tried to outsmart each other. Can't tell you how fun chilling with them is. Devon and I went ten rounds on a really ill tops battle. Musicality son, we knew most of the songs or we could guess. The session outside was not nearly as good. I thought it would be a bit cooler out, but whatever. I was supremely hungover. So I didn't do too much. Couldn't hit power runs completely but I had fun chilling with the homies. Kim and Ming came through that was tough.

Got a chance to vibe with DJ Selecta. Shit was official at New Amsterdam. I got to hustle/partner dance with two fine ladies! Liana is sooo fine. But anyways, really good dancing. I think I'm ready to pull the dancing where girl and guy are back to back. It's real simple from the holding both hands position. I wish I didn't have to be faded to realize it :) I mean really, it got serious. Don't care the level of my partner, we dancing as best we can with a few drinks in us. I wish I could dance with Teena Marie, but she can groove soooo ill on her own. Just nasty stuff, she's on the same tip I am and better. I mean that's really all you can ask for! The other girl Ruthie wasn't on the same tip, but she was very mallable. But with her I was able to get my groove on to Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine. FUN!!!! Straight fun nigga, I definitely tried the "I'll lead into a forceful lead, then you adlib out of it" and it was cool. Teena Marie might murder me on that, but it may be heaven. If I was dancing with Liana on that track it would've been magic. This is probably all to say that Selecta and his homie from San Fran were on the decks in a full way. More partner dancing!!!