Sometimes the simplest things are all it takes to turn a bad day/week/month to a good one. I’ve been having a pretty hardcore string of bad luck lately, so this video came to me at just the right time.
Juste Debout is in the middle of a worldwide tour, and this video comes from its first stop in Japan. Although there is plenty of dancing, there isn’t any b-boying. But just bear with me. The sequence between two and three minutes in has to be one of the most heartwarming things I’ve seen in a long time in a dance video. If you’re a fan of kids, dancing, and horseplay, then you’ll be smiling like an idiot like I was.
The rest of the video is topnotch as well, but that one-minute stretch helped me end this week with a smile on my face.
Our friend Carlo Cruz recently hit us up to let us know about some crazy behind-the-scenes pictures he got at this year’s Red Bull BC One in New York.
If you previously read our interview with Carlo, you’ll know that he captures some of the most surreal and, as much as I hate to say it, “epic” pictures of b-boys ever–and these latest shots don’t disappoint.
In case you haven’t seen our interview in Birmingham Magazine or memorized our About Us page, you might be interested to know that we’re based out of the Southeast (Alabama and Georgia, to be more specific). This means we’re pretty pumped that the next three weekends featuring three back-to-back international events.
So when our good friendZapper asked us to help let people know they should buy tickets to Evolution 4 (Dec. 4-6 in Atlanta) because they might sell out, à la BC One, we were like, oh yayer.
It goes without saying that you should also most definitely check out Who Can Roast the Most 11 this weekend (Nov. 28) and Outbreak 5 on Dec. 11 and 12, both in Orlando.
Although cameras were not allowed into this year’s Red Bull BC One yesterday in New York, someone managed to sneak one in and record the final battle between Cloud and Lilou. Readers: enjoy the video. Red Bull: please don’t hate us.
Congrats to Lilou for winning his second BC One. Hit the jump for a highlight video from this year’s Red Bull BC One.
If you haven’t already noticed, we’ve been rolling out lots of new stuff from this year’s Notorious IBE.
Click here for the photo gallery, and click here for our Breakumentary featuring the likes of Poe One, Thesis, Ducky and more. Check back soon; we’ll be debuting more exciting stuff in the next few weeks.
As always, if you like what you see, please post and share this at all your favorite b-boy/b-girl watering holes, both online and in the real world.
Much love to all our fans worldwide, and special thanks to all the IBE heads who showed us love.
There are two ways to cover a jam like Jean Claude Van Jam, where battles like this one take place:
1. Report on all the weirdos dressed up in masks and Speedos while trying not to let them touch you.
2. Out-weird them all.
Thankfully, Strife.tv chose number two and put out a great video about a b-boy jam with absolutely no footage of b-boying in it at all. Because really, isn’t being weird and wearing masks what b-boying is all about?
It may the first and last one ever, but today is officially Trailer Tuesday at More Than A Stance. We don’t usually post this kind of stuff (we figure the countless b-boy forums and YouTube spammers already have that on lock), but these caught our eye, and I can’t resist sharing them.
First up, up above is a nice clip sent to us by the people at Breaker NYC. The title says it all; the video shows a compilation of New York City’s best b-boys, past and present. For those who don’t know, consider it a lesson, and for those who do, it’s a nice stroll down memory lane.
Click the jump to see our other pick–a stylish and notorious one, at that.
Congratulations to K Breezy and b-boytrixion! Check your e-mail for instructions on how to claim your passes. Thanks to everyone who dropped us a line!
You may not see him, but you can see what effect he has on b-boys.
If you wanted to, you could probably make a pretty good argument that a lot of b-boy jams nowadays look more like workout sessions at gyms. You stretch. You warm up. You do some physically demanding stuff. You go home.
Not so for The Notorious IBE, says DJ Skeme Richards (who we wrote about here, and who wrote some dope stuff himself here).
According to Skeme, who’s attended the event twice, IBE is more like a shopping center than a gym. A really, really dope shopping center.
Just Do It of Rugged Solutions has made a name for himself by battling and judging (and winning, duh) around the world. It also probably doesn’t hurt that he has one of the best b-boy names in history.
It’s hard to talk about any form of hip-hop without mentioning freestyling. On the other hand, even people who “freestyle” always go through a few stages of pre-planning, especially if they plan to win battles.
So he’s not hesitant to bestow such a title (with a “probably,” mind you) to The Notorious IBE. He’s even willing to interrupt an episode of Weeds with his wife to talk about it. In fact, he’ll be bringing his new wife with him to IBE as a last stop of a tour of his favorite places.
Only time will tell how many rounds will Bebe need/want at IBE.
In case you haven’t already read our previous feature with him, Bebe is fiercely proud and protective when it comes to Ground Zero Crew. When you’re infamous for your aggressive battle style and for drop-kicking people who get in the way of your runs, people tend to assume you don’t play well with others.
If you ever ask Thesis of Knuckleheads Cali/Them Team about his experiences at IBE 2008, be ready to cover the ears of any nearby children.
“Oh my god. It was the best fucking jam ever. In the world,” he says. He’s blurting into the phone at an airport in Utah waiting for a flight to Texas for a jam.
