Brazil Baby!

So my bad I didn't update the rest of the trip sooner. I mean come on, I was in Brazil having a good time. Wouldn't you. Nah no excuses. Especially with my IPhone. I guess I got to get used to doing short updates instead of my usually long ones. I just like to take my time when I write. So back to why I was in Brazil. Yea cause you guys have no idea why I was out there. Haha. I was hooked up with a job to go out there and judge their official national battle. Yea it's called Master Crews. You can check out their website at mastercrews.com.br . It's an event done once a year at the end of the year to see who is the best crew in Brazil. The only way they get invited is with a lil demo video. They pre-select 8 top crews. Then they pick another 20 to battle for the 8 open slots for the second day of battle with the top 8. So bboys from all over the country love and respect this event. This is the first time they got funding from the government so they decided to bring bboys from outside the country. Sooooo they picked 3 bboys from different areas but have history and tradition behind their names. Yours truly, Wary from Dynasty Rockers and also Poe1 from Style Elements. They also had 2 local judges. One member from Zulu and another bboy who was their old school guy. So the event is very traditional based and very old school influenced. So since it was the first time having bboys from outside in this event in Brazil they had workshops for free the first day. Here they had only 20 bboys in each class. Nearly 300 of the bboys participating in the battles signed up to learn info from all of us. But they seperated all the bboys and gave to the first ones signed up. So the bboys out there are hungry and eager to learn. So what I teach and show people is what my pops teaches me. So I showed them a glimpse of how Dynamic Rockers train. Well the traditional way. That's all I know. I don't try to teach them philosophies and dictate what I think breaking is. A lot of bboys do that. They take advantage of these bboys who don't know any better and dictate their beliefs and tell them what to do. This is how trends are either started or encouraged. So in my class I show them how we train and tell them why we do certain things and what it helps with. Brazilian bboys learned from videos and made up their own names for moves. When they ask me questions I am more than happy to answer them and I still don't tell them what to do. I give advice.

So check out this quick lil demo they made of me. Yea they actually made it themselves to promote me as a judge and an instructor in their workshop. It's dope. I hate the last pic of me though. hahaha. I look mad deranged. Well check it out. Supposedly it's famous in Brazil.




So that's a lil bit of why I was in Brazil. What they did was cool this year. To demonstrate why the judges were judging, they had me and Wary do kinda of a 7 to smoke kind of thing with the local bboys from Brazil. It was dope. I give respect to that. They called it Burn Breaking. There was 7 invited bboys which include me and Wary. But also 2 selected bboys from specific crews in the crew battles. The crew had the option to pick their own bboys to represent their squad. Yea son! So I'll get back to you about that in a lil bit. See ya!