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.
Title Town with Get'em Gump
Cool DJ, so I am summoned. Hopefully the crew comes through. What to wear, what to wear?
Thursday with an Early Show
Rocking a show with Extra and Stealth. Hope to rock out some new power I've acquired. I came up with two easy commando routines (Stealth in, X in). I hope the space is dope! After the show it's practice time son, hopefully. If I get back in time, I'd work on mainly mill > shoulder > halo, airflares and popping. Yes!
Oh man, the show was terrible. I mean so bad that I needed to go immediately to practice without passing go; however I did collect $50. If there wasn't a UC practice after that I would've been stewing for a while. Practice was fun, because of my ill advised split at the show no air flare practice. I did do mill > shoulder > halo, but I can't do it on command yet. There was a good deal of popping too! Matt Limm told me to get more out of each hit by maintaining the pose for a bit longer. He also said for practice I double up on hits in the same pose and think primarily about the pose.
Oh man, the show was terrible. I mean so bad that I needed to go immediately to practice without passing go; however I did collect $50. If there wasn't a UC practice after that I would've been stewing for a while. Practice was fun, because of my ill advised split at the show no air flare practice. I did do mill > shoulder > halo, but I can't do it on command yet. There was a good deal of popping too! Matt Limm told me to get more out of each hit by maintaining the pose for a bit longer. He also said for practice I double up on hits in the same pose and think primarily about the pose.
Gymsport Returns For Real
Stealth and yours truly hit the gymnasium.
I had a bit of fun there! I did feel extra black and suspect there, but hey it's a mostly white establishment and we are strangers to them. The skills always speak for themselves, mid way the lady was more or less speaking at us putting feelers out on if we would teach bboying at the spot. I looked into ground with the, "nigga i'm trying to practice" face. Highlights: cartwheel > side flip (limbs extended), mill > elbow (couldn't pop it to the 2000 but i'm almost in the right position!). Having no shoes kinda messed me up until I got use to it, but Puma Baskets please!
I had a bit of fun there! I did feel extra black and suspect there, but hey it's a mostly white establishment and we are strangers to them. The skills always speak for themselves, mid way the lady was more or less speaking at us putting feelers out on if we would teach bboying at the spot. I looked into ground with the, "nigga i'm trying to practice" face. Highlights: cartwheel > side flip (limbs extended), mill > elbow (couldn't pop it to the 2000 but i'm almost in the right position!). Having no shoes kinda messed me up until I got use to it, but Puma Baskets please!
Tuesday
I want to get a hard practice in. Whatever.
Pretty good practice, I hit some moves but I crashed nearly 80% of my sets :( Plus we had some photo shoot thing with this journalist sitting in. Just distractions, but that made it hard to dance for a while. Highlight: close to shoulder bump > halo (need to keep the legs wide)
Saturday
Fadeski. Got some moves in at Classic Material. Participated in a soul train line. Stabbed a bunch of people, shook off my knife and put it back in the left leg sheath. Went to the after hours and chilled for a hot minute. Good times, nothing too crazy.
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.
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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