BajaNomad - How Many break dancers are on this board?

How Many break dancers are on this board?

Bajamatic - 10-9-2006 at 06:33 PM

just wondering

feel the beat

Bajamatic - 10-9-2006 at 06:34 PM

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SiReNiTa - 10-9-2006 at 06:35 PM

aaaaaah nice..i love breakdance...i can't do it but i will learn...tons of my friends break but i havn't gotten around to learning yet...

couldnt resist

Bajamatic - 10-9-2006 at 06:36 PM

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COUNT ME IN!

bigzaggin - 10-9-2006 at 06:45 PM

I break, pop AND lock in Baja every chance I get. Last year, I threw down some cardboard squares just outside Coco's Corner and break'd for like, 3 hours in the noon-day sun. This year I am planning a trip to Mag Bay to break/pop/lock in late November...probably the best time to really do "the caterpillar" or a proper headspin along that stretch of coast.

check me out at www.bajabreakdancers.gov

Bajamatic - 10-9-2006 at 06:48 PM

I usually screen Breakin' and Breakin' II the first few nights of my baja trips just to get flowing, then robot till the break of dawn, from TJ to San Jose, hip hip hop and ya dont stop.

Capt. George - 10-9-2006 at 08:33 PM

looka George W go!!!!!!! yeehaw, where is some chit to kick?

Skeet/Loreto - 10-10-2006 at 03:58 AM

Will someone Please Define "Break Dancing": I am not sure if it is that stuff done by someone called Jackson{is that his Name} or is that the same Guy/or Gal that got run out of the States for Molesting Little Boys???

As I don't watch TV, listen to the Talk Shows, or read Time Mag. I must be missing something!!

"Break Dancing?? What do you Break?

Skeet

Bajamatic - 10-10-2006 at 08:16 AM

just to clarify:

Breakdance(media coined phrase), also known as breaking or b-boying, is a street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement that originated among African American youths in the South Bronx of New York City during the early 1970s. It is arguably the best known of all hip hop dance styles.

Breaking is one of the four elements of hip hop, the others being MCing, DJing, and graffiti.

The most current trend in B-Boying has been suth of the boarder, where rogue hip hop pioneers have been driving to remote regions of the Baja Peninsula to Break Dance, do the Robot, and headspin amongst the giant Cardons of the Vizcaino desert.

That explains it!

bigzaggin - 10-10-2006 at 08:42 AM

on a surf trip last winter, just north of Catavina, I saw 12-15 teenage Mexican kids standing on a couple of cardboard squares, beneath a few massive cardons, busting "el robot" to some old skool beats. Understandably puzzled, I pulled over to ask what was up...apparently they were two groups of kids from rival desert towns (or maybe GN?) who gather in the desert on weekends to settle disputes - not with their fists/knives/guns - but with a good old fashioned Brooklyn-style "break-off." Their moves, however crude, showed some promise and, despite the odd flare-up, the contest appeared to be fair and peaceful. I watched for a few, threw out a vintage "Bula Ai!" and got back on the road.

I've since heard of folks seeing similar scenes all over - not only in Vizcaino but elsewhere: Mag Bay area, Puertocitos, East Cape (Cabo Pulmo) and near Mike's Sky Ranch. Interesting how cultures bleed.

last trip to catavina

Bajamatic - 10-10-2006 at 10:31 AM

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Ken Cooke - 10-10-2006 at 09:08 PM

I can still pop and lock with the best of them. Just put on Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk, and watch the funk!

SiReNiTa - 10-11-2006 at 06:56 PM

they do have a sort of team here and they have the rappers to go with it...i hang out with some of them so if you want to schedual a duel i'm the one to call!!!!

Bajamatic - 1-26-2011 at 06:09 PM

Has there been much popping going down in the vizcaino?

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fishabductor - 1-26-2011 at 06:19 PM

I can do the centipede...The gay looking ground humping move...or at least I could last I tried... in 1990.

Is thjis a Baja subject?

mcfez - 1-26-2011 at 06:28 PM

Break dancing and rap music is banned in Baja. You'll be fined 150 pesos and three lashes with a rubber hose in some dark back room. Seriously...

Now.....the real music:

Well, East coast girls are hip
I really dig those styles they wear
And the Southern girls with the way they talk
They knock me out when I'm down there

The Midwest farmer's daughters
They all make you feel alright
And the Northern girls with the way they kiss
They keep their boyfriends warm at night

I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls

The West coast has the sunshine
And the girls all get so tanned
I dig a French bikini on Hawaii island
I'm lost by a palm tree in the sand

I been all around this great big world
And I've seen all kinds of girls
Yeah, but I couldn't wait to get back in the states
Back to the cutest girls in the world

I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls

I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls

[Edited on 1-27-2011 by mcfez]

Marc - 1-26-2011 at 06:29 PM

I can't even do the Twist. Well...maybe after three or four.....

Here's a new way to use a broom!

Ken Cooke - 1-26-2011 at 06:36 PM

tunaeater - 1-26-2011 at 06:45 PM

My favorite was doing a back spin from a maniac or after an intense nickle (windmill) while holding my privates. I used to also jump with one foot into the clasped hands of a partner and be able to back flip from it. I had a solid uprock and okay foot work. We used to battle quite a bit.

I once busted moves out by the pool at the El capitan to try an impress some females from Tecate...

...and THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD! Remember, White Men Can't Jump?

Ken Cooke - 1-26-2011 at 06:47 PM

fishabductor - 1-26-2011 at 06:47 PM

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Originally posted by tunaeater
My favorite was doing a back spin from a maniac or after an intense nickle (windmill) while holding my privates. I used to also jump with one foot into the clasped hands of a partner and be able to back flip from it. I had a solid uprock and okay foot work. We used to battle quite a bit.

I once busted moves out by the pool at the El capitan to try an impress some females from Tecate...

So...Were they impressed?

tunaeater - 1-26-2011 at 07:03 PM

Oh yeah they loved it.

This was the beat we liked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lDCYjb8RHk

fishabductor - 1-26-2011 at 07:10 PM

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Originally posted by tunaeater
Oh yeah they loved it.

This was the beat we liked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lDCYjb8RHk

What woman wouldn't be impressed by that. if not even just a little scared. If you could pull moves off like that on cardboard...just think of what you could accomplish in bed.
Like I said she may be a little scared when you start busting back flips

tripledigitken - 1-26-2011 at 07:55 PM

Most Nomads if they even try to dance will break something.

:lol:

Settle down I'm pushing 45 myself.

fishabductor - 1-26-2011 at 08:13 PM

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Originally posted by tripledigitken
Most Nomads if they even try to dance will break something.

:lol:

Settle down I'm pushing 45 myself.

shhhhhhhhhhhhsssssssssssshhhhhh...They are sleeping! :lol:

MitchMan - 1-26-2011 at 09:50 PM

Love to watch breaking, popping, locking and crumping. Very American, very very original, exceptionally innovative, and refreshingly energetic. Absolutely legitimate forms of dancing. I was a gymnast for 9 years and I especially appreciate it when some tumbling, free-x, and ballet is incorporated in the breaking (love the Thomas Flare).

TV shows like 'Love to Dance' and 'So You Think You Can Dance' give those forms of dance due consideration and respect and the general public loves it.

[Edited on 1-27-2011 by MitchMan]

toneart - 1-26-2011 at 10:59 PM

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Originally posted by Ken Cooke

Hey Ken! Wow! :wow:

How I remember. Best era, best dance, best music, I mean...Chaka Kahn...Ken...you gotta back offa her...she mine!...always was...still is...mo fatta now...tha's OK! When she look down at me from the stage and smile and sing Ooo Babybabybabybaby, I followed her to the Green Room in my dreams and never came back...Uhhhhh! :bounce:

shari - 1-27-2011 at 08:31 AM

great thread and oh yeah...real baja related!!!
Once a few years back I was at Carnival in Bahia Tortugas and there was the regular entertainment program that gets a bit tedious after seeing hundreds of fokloric dance numbers...dont get me wrong, I love fokloric dance...I'm just sayin...
anyway...all of a sudden out of the audience, wings etc come these outrageous kids decked out in street, cholo clothes and the music comes on and they performed incredibly complex break dancing routines...some of the best I'd seen..what an enormous and wonderful surprise!!! I think they were from La Paz and it was just fantastic and the crowd loved it too!!!

kinda cool to see some nomads into breakin...ya baby.

durrelllrobert - 1-27-2011 at 02:46 PM

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Originally posted by fishabductor
I can do the centipede...The gay looking ground humping move...or at least I could last I tried... in 1990.

when I was young I was arrested in Puerto Vallarta for SPRING BREAK dancing in the nude :lol:

Bajamatic - 1-18-2012 at 11:09 AM

any news on this phenom?

Does the 'Tarantula' count as Break-dancing..?

Pompano - 1-18-2012 at 01:01 PM

Well, I suppose this could have been called 'break-dancing' literally.

Anyway, lots of great moves going on at Humphrey's in Shelter Island on this night..whew. Lots of 'spinning', too...pretty sure I ended up on the floor 'twice', but then I was seeing double. :rolleyes:

The neck brace is already off, and I am fairly sure I will be able to walk normally again by 2013.

805gregg - 1-18-2012 at 08:24 PM

Have we gone back in time to the 1970's?

DENNIS - 1-18-2012 at 08:26 PM

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Originally posted by 805gregg
Have we gone back in time to the 1970's?

Don't you/we wish.

Available on Netflix!

Ken Cooke - 1-18-2012 at 08:31 PM

Breakin'
1984
PG
86 minutes
Kelly (Lucinda Dickey), a struggling jazz dancer, teams up with two talented break-dancers (Adolfo Quinones and Michael Chambers) in an attempt to win a big-time street-dancing competition. As Kelly becomes a break-dancing sensation, she must first overcome the disapproval of her formal dance instructor (Ben Lokey). The music score features the hits "Breakin' ... There's No Stoppin' Us" and "Freakshow on the Dance Floor."

Pompano - 1-18-2012 at 09:18 PM

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Originally posted by 805gregg
Have we gone back in time to the 1970's?

Like Dennis said, .....Don't you wish..although certain parts of the 60's weren't that bad either.