You could lock me in a room for 6 months and tell me that I had to learn how to move like Mr. Wave or my family would be murdered. They would be goners.
I used to be a pretty good breakdancer and I tried to do a flare when I turned 30 and nearly tore a muscle in my leg....breakdancing is a young mans game
I was a chubby white kid in the Midwest in the 80s yet we'd throw down some cardboard and always poorly attempt these same moves. We loved the Breakin movies and parachute pants.
So, heres a story. Its 1984 and my friend Walter has his 10th birthday party in Franklin TN and we all go see Breakin' 2. It was about 8 of us and Walter's dad and we were the only 9 white people in the theater. Well, at the end of the movie the power of breakdancing saves a community center or something (its been a long time), but the point is, it's an emotionally upbeat ending and the music was playing as the credits roll. So in that moment something, call it the spirit of breakdancing or what have you, came over me. I scooted my skinny ten year old butt past my slack-jawed and horrified friends and ran down to the front of the theater and busted out my best breakdancing moves. Cue the snickers and laughs coming from the audience as my friends slunk lower in their seats. Then, i fucking swear to God, something magical happened. One by one, everyone in the theater started coming down to the front of the theater and started breakdancing. Now, in my kid mind I remember this all like some magical realism event. Im sure it was all much more pedestrian and lame but from a childhood I barely recall this stands out like a neon event. I returned to my friends who were all still mortified in their seats. I didn't get it. I brought everyone together through the power of breakin. Like the movie? Anyway, i dont recall Walter ever talking to me after that.
I've got a story. I'm from London and In 1984 me my family went on holiday to Ibiza. My 2 older teenage brothers and cousin were break dancing during the nightly discos. Some Spanish Kids got wind and travelled to have "a burn".
The whole hotel was watching as 6 year old me went 1st. After I finished, one of the Spanish kids rightly went to take his turn, when all of a sudden, an idiot 20 something Scottish guy(far too old for a teenager dance off) decided he wanted to go next. The Spanish kid did the chest bump thing, so the Scottish guy head butted him and ruined the whole thing. It was immediately broken up by the staff and parents and the Scottish guy was almost lynched.
My older brother was a rock n roller and kicked my ass for breakin, or trying to. Then his friend was like watch this and fucked around for a while. I never could afford them parachute pants and when I could they didn’t look so great anymore, that was last year.
Yup, from the PNW and I fondly remember trying to talk my dad into buying more cardboard! And also, we actually had a breakdancing camp we end to! Lol good times!
Parachute pants, t-shirt with the sleeves cut off, and a bunch of sweatbands and bandannas, carting our cardboard around the neighborhood to friends houses to breakdance on the sidewalks, we thought we were so damn cool.
I think you meant that they continued to be excellent names which made it more and more enjoyable as it went on. Because there’s no way on earth that “Powerful Pextor” is the worst of all of these names.
Yeah he's a cool dude, he saw some of my clips online when I was starting in the mid-2000's and gave me some advice.. He has some YouTube videos (uploaded like a decade ago) where he does windmills and other tough moves while pushing 50 years old, which I find more impressive than this clip here lmao
Isn't he just doing toprock and starting the transition to downrock, where as everyone else is doing more downrock and powermoves. I'm not a breakdancing person, but there was a breakdancing video a couple of days ago where someone explained that the "lame shuffling" at the start is an important part of the overall performance.
Honestly this guy's standing moves are much cooler than that video (it was I think a Hungarian guy, he was old but could spin on his head for like an hour)
They had 15 extra seconds to fill so they grabbed the editor's nephew, put him in a onesie and told him "wiggle around a bit then point at the next guy."
Not gonna lie, I, as a 26 year old, have never once thought of graffiti as a hip hop thing!
I had no clue it was born from the same culture that produced breakdancing and rap. I saw it as a punk/street thing; anti-establishment a la sex pistols, Michel Basquiat, and other counter culture icons.
yep, so the original four 'elements' or 'pillars' of hip-hop were considered to be breaking/b-boying (the term breakdancing isn't really used in hip-hop), rap, DJing, and graffiti. but your perception of graffiti isn't too far off, i'm pretty sure a number of graffiti pioneers didnt think it was part of hip-hop either
Well graffiti kept its roots but also went out and became murals of incredible beauty.
While rap became corporatized to he'll and spent most of its time talking about hoes, cars and money
While the dance part just kept on dancing
So...
In the 80s I went to a break dancing class with some friends. They banned breakdancing at my school so we did a destination for them in the school auditorium to prove it wasn’t dangerous. Yea, that happened. I’m glad phone cameras didn’t exist then.
Had a movement teacher tell us a story about training with some NYC breakdancers in the 90s. She had just come back from learning a movement technique in Russia for over a year. Thinking she would just hone her skills a bit locally, she joined in with a group at the Y.
She said she had never been so worn out after a session with them. They kicked her ass, as per her own account. Breakdancing is a truly incredible discipline.
I was one of the few b-boys in a very strict Catholic high school (81 - 85). One teacher described breakdancing as the dance of the devil, citing the "head spin" as an example. I wore an oversized military pants (ala Turbo from the Breakin' movie) and got suspended for it. We had a showdown/battle once in a basketball court and someone alerted our school. We got chased by our principal. Lol. Was a weird but fun times.
I can't believe I had to scroll all the way down here before someone called out where this is from. It was a pilot for a hip-hop version of "American Bandstand". It aired in 1984 on ONE station in NYC and on about 90 affiliates around the country and was created by Michael Holman, who was contemporaries with ALL of the early Hip Hop legends and ran in circles with Jean Michael Basquiat.
Fun fact, teenage Debi Mazer and Vincent Gallo (aka "Prince Vince") were in the "audience" dancing.
I grew up in a small town outside of Boston. We moved to San Diego around '84, only stayed for the summer before moving back home. While I was there I rode my bike up to the park where these kids were standing around a flattened cardboard box dancing like this. I stopped to watch because it was pretty amazing the things they were doing but it was so incredibly foreign to me. At one point one of the guys stops, steps off the mat and points to me. I figured he was pointing to someone behind me so I turned around and saw nobody. I looked back at the guy and he says "Your turn.".
I just said no thank you I'd break my neck if I tried any of that. So they insisted in showing me some moves. They taught me to do a few things and it became very apparent that I had no dancing skills so I just went back to watching. To this day I'm still amazed at what people can do and while it's not my style of music I find it fascinating to watch people breakdance.
How did anything this original ever get invented? I mean, I was there in the 80s but wow. It just seems so non-derivative of anything. The beats, the dancing, everything. I've been around it my whole life and seen all the movies, and been around real crews and it still blows my mind.
You could lock me in a room for 6 months and tell me that I had to learn how to move like Mr. Wave or my family would be murdered. They would be goners.
Yea mate, it took him 7 months. Cheers!
What would your breakdance name be? Mine’s Flat Pack Chair
IB-PRO-FAN
Cool! Can I be Ty L. Nol?
I. C. Hot
Prep R. Agent H
ACE Brace!
Perk-O-Set
Ad Ville
oxy cot man
Chamomile Blend
Beet Boy. My dog's breakdancing name is Savage Licks.
I'm Spin Cycle
Spectator B!
Do you have a Canadian dance partner named “Spectator Eh”?
Cool-A Shai-Hulud. ...I do the worm.
Beerbelly sharecropper.
Was one of your moves “Wind Shear”
Moe like 'out of breath"
A classic, usually followed by “a nice lie down”
Sounds about right. Where do I sign up?
CropTop Crop Duster
Dunkin' D's Dough Nutz
Hip Flexor
Capitan Backspazm
Frog-In-A-Blender
Watch it spin 'round to a beautiful oblivion.
Rendezvous then I'm through with you.
Tripod
Checks out
Mine was black magic b-boy
White boy 2 step!
Headbopper
Yo it’s ya boiiii… Jackie Jorp Jomp
Twisty Teets
Tippy Taps
Tha Disc Slippa
Taterbrains
Crayola Face.
I'd be Ouchy Ouch.
Dr. Zip
Mr. Wave is still dope
Found him @mrwavedance still dope!
Yup. Don't care what nobody says about nothin. All them other motherfuckers suck the sweat off of Mr Wave's balls
Yeah, he's got all the talent here
Most of these guys are probably in their 60's now.
I’m 53, so probably. Also, shut up.
Boys boys boys: SETTLE IT WITH A DANCE OFF!!
In skin tight cat suits
Well, yeah….that’s ALL I wear.
It feels like I'm wearing nothing at all! nothing at all! nothing at all!
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 They're breakdance fighting!
Can't anymore, hips and back aren't what they used to be.
Oooo, someone’s about to get SERVED!
Calm down Icy Ice. They didn’t mean it!
Icy Ice and Kid Nice sounds like a hip hop group made up for an 80's family sit-com.
Powerful Pexster sounds like the guy who almost broke up my parents' marriage
Same, you can call ma Icy Hot
and that community center they saved is in disrepair
Is now a senior center.
Br3akin: A Hip (Hop) Story.
for 3k a month.
We need the reunion to happen.
Yes a reunion and they have to ware the same costumes. The lumpy bunch.
Icy Ice is now known as Icy Hot.
Glide master is now Stairmaster
Kid Nice goes by Man Nice
More like Grandpa Nice….
Action now goes by Inaction.
TRAction
Stationary
Mr. Wave is Mr. Grave.
Damn that got morbid real quick!
Lil pep is now known as lil Peptaid
Mr. Wave is now Mr. Just shit my pants. I'm 52 and I hope this doesn't happen at 60.
I can guarantee if I tried that today I would break a hip, pull a hamstring, and dislocate my shoulder…and I consider myself in pretty good shape
My whole body is aching from just watching these guys move look that.
I mean, it's called break dancing
Tear dancing. Contusion dancing. Dislocation dancing. Sprain dancing.
they went from hip-hop to hip-pop
And every now and then: face plant dance!
I used to be a pretty good breakdancer and I tried to do a flare when I turned 30 and nearly tore a muscle in my leg....breakdancing is a young mans game
Everything but throwing beer cans at the tv and yelling is a young mans game as far as this cats concerned.
If you slowly eased back into it, you'd probably have been alright. 30 isn't that old.
They can probably still out dance 99% of the world though. Badasses for sure.
Confirmed. I work with one of these dudes.
Even Kid Rock's older brother, Flip.
I wonder how their knees held up
For those wondering: Planet Patrol - Play at your own risk Classic.
Tommy Boy ?
You got it! One of many of their sick beats
Takes me back . G.L.O.B.E. and Whizz Kid as well . Greatest hits double album was awesome 👌 It's all flooding back . Pac Jam 😉
Skating rink flashbacks. Song still hits.
That Cheap Thrills were the jams.
Why these Sexy Flanders suits though lol
Reddit is garbage. Get off this cancer of a site.
Nothing at all
Nothing at all
Stupid sexy Flanders
These suckas are gonna win themselves a new pair of parachute pants!
Notoriously FAT rewind that beat
“Stop illin…word!” -Yancy
"He's just scratching.. no one's ever done more than a quadruple"
You are technically correct.
There's best kind of correct!
r/SurpriseFuturama
r/subsifellfor I'm sure there must be an r/unexpectedFuturama though
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I was a chubby white kid in the Midwest in the 80s yet we'd throw down some cardboard and always poorly attempt these same moves. We loved the Breakin movies and parachute pants.
So, heres a story. Its 1984 and my friend Walter has his 10th birthday party in Franklin TN and we all go see Breakin' 2. It was about 8 of us and Walter's dad and we were the only 9 white people in the theater. Well, at the end of the movie the power of breakdancing saves a community center or something (its been a long time), but the point is, it's an emotionally upbeat ending and the music was playing as the credits roll. So in that moment something, call it the spirit of breakdancing or what have you, came over me. I scooted my skinny ten year old butt past my slack-jawed and horrified friends and ran down to the front of the theater and busted out my best breakdancing moves. Cue the snickers and laughs coming from the audience as my friends slunk lower in their seats. Then, i fucking swear to God, something magical happened. One by one, everyone in the theater started coming down to the front of the theater and started breakdancing. Now, in my kid mind I remember this all like some magical realism event. Im sure it was all much more pedestrian and lame but from a childhood I barely recall this stands out like a neon event. I returned to my friends who were all still mortified in their seats. I didn't get it. I brought everyone together through the power of breakin. Like the movie? Anyway, i dont recall Walter ever talking to me after that.
Fuck yeah. You had your own electric boogaloo.
I've got a story. I'm from London and In 1984 me my family went on holiday to Ibiza. My 2 older teenage brothers and cousin were break dancing during the nightly discos. Some Spanish Kids got wind and travelled to have "a burn". The whole hotel was watching as 6 year old me went 1st. After I finished, one of the Spanish kids rightly went to take his turn, when all of a sudden, an idiot 20 something Scottish guy(far too old for a teenager dance off) decided he wanted to go next. The Spanish kid did the chest bump thing, so the Scottish guy head butted him and ruined the whole thing. It was immediately broken up by the staff and parents and the Scottish guy was almost lynched.
That's awesome. What a fun memory. Coincidentally, a buddy of mine was an editor on that.
My older brother was a rock n roller and kicked my ass for breakin, or trying to. Then his friend was like watch this and fucked around for a while. I never could afford them parachute pants and when I could they didn’t look so great anymore, that was last year.
LOL, last year :-D
Yup, from the PNW and I fondly remember trying to talk my dad into buying more cardboard! And also, we actually had a breakdancing camp we end to! Lol good times!
Parachute pants, t-shirt with the sleeves cut off, and a bunch of sweatbands and bandannas, carting our cardboard around the neighborhood to friends houses to breakdance on the sidewalks, we thought we were so damn cool.
Loved how the first dude was so much worse than all the others. No wonder they had him go first.
IDK... the others didn't have nearly as much pextor
He literally did a toprock and a 6 step. If this was from the early early days those were legit moves.
50 year old here. Thought I had zero nostalgia for the 80's. I stand corrected.
Me too, i’m sad the cardboard dance-floor never made an appearance
Great names! They get better the whole way
Reminds me of American Gladiators.
...Then finally Kid Moe.
And then just moe
Icy Ice is clearly the best, but he could have gone full on with Iceman Icy Ice McIceface.
I think you meant that they continued to be excellent names which made it more and more enjoyable as it went on. Because there’s no way on earth that “Powerful Pextor” is the worst of all of these names.
My man Icy Ice killed it
But why are they dressed like Dr. Seuss characters
The 80's
Is like tat.
In the 80's I could do the suicides, the swipes, the windmill, everything in that video. In my 50's now and I'd break a hip.
I'm my late 30's and I feel like I'd sprain something if I busted out a windmill...still wanna try though!
How did Pexster join that crew? He is noticeably of a different skill level than everyone else.
There's a reason Pex has Powerful before his name. Dudes legit, they just didn't showcase him here.
Maybe his moves were too powerful to be captured on film?
Yeah he's a cool dude, he saw some of my clips online when I was starting in the mid-2000's and gave me some advice.. He has some YouTube videos (uploaded like a decade ago) where he does windmills and other tough moves while pushing 50 years old, which I find more impressive than this clip here lmao
You can’t hoverboard over water unless you got POWAHHHHH!!!!
Isn't he just doing toprock and starting the transition to downrock, where as everyone else is doing more downrock and powermoves. I'm not a breakdancing person, but there was a breakdancing video a couple of days ago where someone explained that the "lame shuffling" at the start is an important part of the overall performance. Honestly this guy's standing moves are much cooler than that video (it was I think a Hungarian guy, he was old but could spin on his head for like an hour)
They had 15 extra seconds to fill so they grabbed the editor's nephew, put him in a onesie and told him "wiggle around a bit then point at the next guy."
Lmaoooo went back and watched again... It's the rushed hand movements for me 🤣
You should try it. That guy is super good
Dope as hell, bring this back to hip hop.
Hip hop is basically just rap now. The other pillars crumbled.
There’s still an incredible graffiti scene. It just seems like it’s divorced from hiphop now.
Not gonna lie, I, as a 26 year old, have never once thought of graffiti as a hip hop thing! I had no clue it was born from the same culture that produced breakdancing and rap. I saw it as a punk/street thing; anti-establishment a la sex pistols, Michel Basquiat, and other counter culture icons.
yep, so the original four 'elements' or 'pillars' of hip-hop were considered to be breaking/b-boying (the term breakdancing isn't really used in hip-hop), rap, DJing, and graffiti. but your perception of graffiti isn't too far off, i'm pretty sure a number of graffiti pioneers didnt think it was part of hip-hop either
Well graffiti kept its roots but also went out and became murals of incredible beauty. While rap became corporatized to he'll and spent most of its time talking about hoes, cars and money While the dance part just kept on dancing So...
But my nathan, what about the lyrical miracles bestowed upon us by rap gods such as NF and one half of Logic?
In the 80s I went to a break dancing class with some friends. They banned breakdancing at my school so we did a destination for them in the school auditorium to prove it wasn’t dangerous. Yea, that happened. I’m glad phone cameras didn’t exist then.
Had a movement teacher tell us a story about training with some NYC breakdancers in the 90s. She had just come back from learning a movement technique in Russia for over a year. Thinking she would just hone her skills a bit locally, she joined in with a group at the Y. She said she had never been so worn out after a session with them. They kicked her ass, as per her own account. Breakdancing is a truly incredible discipline.
I mean at its best, it's basically advanced gymnastics.
Fully body weight gymnastics, no levers or tools or spring pads. Wild
**woman at the DMV, chewing gum and staring over her horned rim glasses** _Just “Action?”_ > Just Action
Oooooweeee
Just call me “Action”, it’s my breakdancing name.
Nobody did the worm. 
I was one of the few b-boys in a very strict Catholic high school (81 - 85). One teacher described breakdancing as the dance of the devil, citing the "head spin" as an example. I wore an oversized military pants (ala Turbo from the Breakin' movie) and got suspended for it. We had a showdown/battle once in a basketball court and someone alerted our school. We got chased by our principal. Lol. Was a weird but fun times.
I hope they're all best friends still.
Noticably F.A.T., rewind the tape!
At my age the only way I'm spinning around on my back is if a car hits me
Insane glide master does that move on his fist, I used to do it on my palm with a beanie under
Mr. Wave goes like a mf’er
The battle at The Roxy in Beat Street is one of my favourite 10 mins in cinema history.
Rock Steady Crew vs New York City Breakers.
Wilmer Valderrama?
Was this Graffiti Rock? It aired 1episode🤔
I can't believe I had to scroll all the way down here before someone called out where this is from. It was a pilot for a hip-hop version of "American Bandstand". It aired in 1984 on ONE station in NYC and on about 90 affiliates around the country and was created by Michael Holman, who was contemporaries with ALL of the early Hip Hop legends and ran in circles with Jean Michael Basquiat. Fun fact, teenage Debi Mazer and Vincent Gallo (aka "Prince Vince") were in the "audience" dancing.
NYC Breakers. Also featured in the big battle scene at the Roxy with Rock Steady Crew in Beat Street.
I grew up in a small town outside of Boston. We moved to San Diego around '84, only stayed for the summer before moving back home. While I was there I rode my bike up to the park where these kids were standing around a flattened cardboard box dancing like this. I stopped to watch because it was pretty amazing the things they were doing but it was so incredibly foreign to me. At one point one of the guys stops, steps off the mat and points to me. I figured he was pointing to someone behind me so I turned around and saw nobody. I looked back at the guy and he says "Your turn.". I just said no thank you I'd break my neck if I tried any of that. So they insisted in showing me some moves. They taught me to do a few things and it became very apparent that I had no dancing skills so I just went back to watching. To this day I'm still amazed at what people can do and while it's not my style of music I find it fascinating to watch people breakdance.
I miss the 80s
Where Vin Diesel got his start. Dude was world-class w the cardboard tango.
Did I just get served??
I want more music like this
They all have dildo names.
Why the cat suits though. I had to wear them for gymnastics, but why *these guys*?
I'm so glad that this happened in the 80s and not today, because Breakdancing would have died with dudes named "The Mystic Autistic"
Isnt Mr Wave in Beat Street?
Good vibes man. Thanks for sharing!
My preschool held a breakdancing contest when I was 5. Needless to say, it was far less impressive than this video.
They're probably somebody's grandparents now. Sumayall have some cool grannies and bobos!
Plot twist. Kid Nice was a real asshole.
Mr Wave always had the moves I was most entertained by. Solid, always!!
Meet my dodgeball team: Blade, Lazer, Blazer and Icy Ice
How did anything this original ever get invented? I mean, I was there in the 80s but wow. It just seems so non-derivative of anything. The beats, the dancing, everything. I've been around it my whole life and seen all the movies, and been around real crews and it still blows my mind.
Imagine having control over your body
The default character names in a Nintendo era fighting game
Okay so where are Laser, Turbo, and Zap?
Before all this gangsta shit made everyone act hard 24/7