The Triple S

Now there is a tousands of new school videos online but the footage from some bboy pioneers from way back will always give me special goosebumps ....

Inside the Circle Kingz by Manny and Spin from UK

Written by bboy Manny (UK)

It’s early afternoon on a quiet Sunday. Outside rain falls steadily from the grey sky. Inside break beats pump out of speakers as DJ Skeme Richards spins from a stage at the back of a large hall. Dozens of cyphers bustle with b-boys and b-girls from all over the world hoping to be noticed as one of the freshest in the room. It’s been three years and I’m finally back at CIRCLE KINGZ.

Circle Kingz (CKz), a breaking competition held annually in the city Lausanne, was created in 2005 by b-boy Amjad of the 7 Dollars crew (7$). Spotting the trend for breaking competitions to move towards big stages with no cyphers, and b-boys getting caught up in power runs, blow ups and tricks Amjad wanted to bring back what he considered to be the essence of bboying. CKz is a 2-on-2 jam where breakers get down in cyphers (free-for-all circles in which b-boys and b-girls compete for the free space in the middle) and the judges judge on musicality, style and originality looking for the breakers who interpret the music best.

I came to CKz for the first time 4 years ago an infant breaker. Fresh to the international scene my eyes were opened. I watched in ama...READ MORE

cloud's new video

Yo,

Every hiphop elements is all about creativity. Graffiti on a wall, djing and rapping with the music and bboying with movements

A bboy for me is somebody that is constantly thinking, creating moves, character, style etc..

no only on his art but on everything he does. The way he dress, the way he pose, the way he walks...

Fot those who haven't seen cloud 's new video..... here it is

the next level

Yo,

Sometimes people go way too far!

I have my own idea about what is bboying and when some people disagree, i always try not to be to extremist and let them do what they want...

This video is really the next level of...don't know how to name it ...stunting?...whatever

This video is a must see if you wanna die laughing

Focus & Hatsolo

Circlekingz 2010 just ended last week end and i have to say that this edition make a lot of pressure on my shoulder. When you do events...it's not only a hard work but also your reputation that is on the line.
Anyway...

i want to congrats Skill Methods for winning their second crown and all the rest of the crews for showing up, sometimes from far away (Hanibal from phily, smerk from nyc, Intact from Ukraine and many more)..it means a lot to me that theses guys wanted to come to Switzerland.


I just wanna give special props to 2 bboys who were in Circlekingz allmost every year. They usually rep all the way at the before party, during the jam and at the after party (dammned hatsolo, i missed you rap session in the open mic bar this year ;). Of course i m talking about Hatsolo & Focus

Focus told me at the after party that Ckz helped them to be in the front of the scene ..etc but
I told him that at the same time Flow Mo helped Circlekingz became what it is.
Years after years, showing their skills, having fun inside the jam and outisde in the parties and beeing really good guest to chill with...and true bboy exemples to follow.

And because they decided to retire from the CKZ competition, I just want to give them all my props publiquely and all the love they deserve.

Peace

Amjad,7$

"The 7$ Brothers"

When i see some dream team bboy group that join together just to win battles call themselves "... CREW"
that just make me wanna change our name to "7$ BROTHERS"!!!
...we more than that suckkaaaaaa!!

Mind Torture

Ask yourself when you're dancing:

Is it the music that makes me move the way i 'm moving right now or am I just executing the moves i have thought just before jumping in that cypher

Randoms Cyphers of Circlekingz 2009

yo

here it is A little clip made with half of a tape of my collection of 2009 from the Jam circlekingz...i still have 4 tapes to go

some more clips coming in the future for sure

Ps: don't ask for the song.....but if you really want to know, it's a circlekingz song, classic funk track that makes me have goosbumps

I always try to come out with some freshh new shit that nobody has never hear

Circlekingz 2009 random cyphers from bboy Amjad on Vimeo.

Crews vs Teams

I was interviewed yesterday and it came out from the discussion that many young people are confused about the CREW thing.

There are differents skemes that i have seen

What i call the TEAM: Some people really want to win competition so they build a team, They ask some people to be part of it not for human or same minds thinking reasons but more for Skills. Usually they think they have a lack of something in their team so they simply purchase it "Do you want to be part of our team because we need Power to win competitions", same with the "stylers", "trickser" or whatever thing the lack of

They usually will leave one member if he doesn't train enough or doesn't rep well enough for the team.

What i called the CREW COLLECTIONNERS

Generally quite good bboy that instead of representing their crew and their family and build with them, try to be in as much as crews as possible. They will generally ask to be part of the crew which is a nicht nicht for me "YOU NEVER ASK TO BE DOWN IN A CREW!"

some people use thoses more as a label. They will usually jump from crews to crews (El nino called them the Crew Hoppers). Me an my crew receive 1 or 2 request on how to be 7$ from people we don't know every month...or twisted is the game right now?

A CREW

My conception of a crew is some people that are friends first of all, They usually have the same visions of our art and click together really well. They will not hang out the phone when you call them at 3am in emergency. They will not kick out somebody of the crew because he doesn't train enough or rep enough. They will probably do extra activities together outside of dancing.

i like to see a real crew because sometimes you witness the dancing flavour that they created together by been influenced by each other practicing together and drinking together.

BBoy trip in Australia

I usually record some stuff and never do nothing with it...and i decided to put everything that i record together in some clips from now on.

I don't work too much on the editing...but..hopefully it's still watchable

In february 2010 I went to australia to chill with my crew mates RUSH, RED & LAMA. I was lucky to attend the boot camp from Rush with Bounce, Luigi and frankie flav. My 2 weeks trip was amazing and full of things. Chill in Sydney with bboy RED, Chilling at Mason Rose's house and surf with him and his wife, be at the boot camp, attend Lama's Jam in Paramata and practice at legendary Liverpool street with Will and the rest of the Sydney bboy scene...

As i grow up and mature as a good old wine, i realize that The best hiphop moments for me now are more to chill with people that have the same passion and same level of feeling of what we do and practice with them rather than battling in a contest against them...

bboy trip AUSTRALIA from bboy Amjad on Vimeo.

Circlekingz flyer

one of my thoughts about dancing

First of all i juste wanna say this thought is something i have in my mind for a long time and that i finally can put word on it...even if i'm not 100% satisfied of the way i wrote it (my english sucks a bit). So it's not The Absolute Truth but i just want to share it with other bboys to see if they have the same feeling about it or advice from them or complementation on that topic

Without talking about the performance aspect and blowups etc...but just on the Dance aspect.

What i consider as "real dancing" for me is to see the effect of a certain music on somebody's body. In that way, I'm more into Kool Herc's definition of BBOY (boy that broke something in his head listening to music than the also true other definition of a bboy that is boy that dance on the break of the record)

Usually i evaluate a bboy on how i feel when i watch him dance, the magic and the soul that emanate from his dance. The feeling i have is totally independant from difficulty, it's just a magic that happen, little details of his flavour, gossbumps that i have watching him really feeling that music. For me the music should dictate what kind of move you're gonna do, depending on how the music makes you feel...

I recently asked myself why i love so much to 90% of oldschool bboy footage than the 90% of the new stuf i see nowadays

If i think about it:

people do more complicated, complex, difficult moves now than before

People dance more than before...people do care more about music now than in the nineties

People are usually cleaner than before

So i questioned myself why do a prefer to watch old footage usually...

there is apparently no reason

It 's something I discovered little by little even if it's hard to put words on it

Maybe all those competitions make bboys work on their bboy dance almost like a work even if they do it with love. They usually practice moves again and again and give names for them and their solo during the competition is made by all thoses moves put together that they have practiced

A lot of time nowadays when people dance i feel they are executing some moves they have trained for. And when i have this feeling they EXECUTE sets or different patterns of moves to dance i feel less watching them dance.

I usually feel more watching somebody broke on the music do what their mind tell them to do even if it's not 100% clean that a good bboy executing his moves clean but more like a robot

Maybe that's the reason why .... when i watch oldschool footage i feel more SPONTANEITY and i think it's this SPONTANEITY that i miss watching new stuff, maybe that's the other reason why i love cyphers...people have less pressure (there is no winner and no looser..it's juts for the love of it so people have more opportunities to be spontaneous)

To be honest, now they have written this...i'm confused and i'm not even sure my answer is plausible and credible... but i needed to post it ;)

peace

bboy tour +Easy Rock interview

I've been lucky to go on bboy Tour last month and I have been blessed to meet a lot of people

MONTREAL CITY

My trip started in Montreal for the jam BORN to SERVE

This jam was a Seventosmoke and a crew battle.

it was dope because it's the perfect balance between the bboy side and the civilian side (big audience). The first day was strickly for bboys raw jam on the floor with some cyphers and the second day was on stage in a cool theatre place that remind me of brixton academy.

Raekwon did a concert after the battles and i was really surprised that everybody stayed. It seems that there is still some place where elements stand together.

I had a dope moments with the organizer. He seems more and more to me that all the events look like their organiser. I have the feeling that i could describe the organizer personality just by seeing his event.

I also had dope moment with Fresh Format drinking beer and dancing in his System's living room

I m also honored that my "bboy stand" became the logo of that jam...means this pause is freshhhh

it was quite funny to see me on the floor of the event and on the trophy etc...

Then i was mad excited to go to Los Angeles for bboy Summit,

It's really impressive to see big LA, chill at Venice beach and walk on Hollywood Blvrd for a fuckin' european

I was told that i shouldn't expect so much from bboy summit when i told them last thing i remember bboy summit is crazy legs throwing a dick at the police in venice beach....many people told me things have changed so i was quite curious to check it out

Concerning the jam, the first day was dope in a car park with some graff, then inside in a tiny room. Dope wibe but too many interuption bullshit blahblah on the mic....i witness what could have been the best "beef" battle stoppped because

of no music for 5 minutes..then one of the guy walk on because there was no music...

The next day downtown at the park looked more like a picnic so i really love it...popping cypher were fressssssshhh

Everytime i see popping i wonder why i break...i definitively popp more when my body will be fucked up to break

The last but main day was not so good

To do a resume of bboy summit, there were dopest bboy on a soso jam...to many shows, music interuption for me, once you get in you're not allowed to go out...and they didn't sell food inside

I again saw a beeef battle that couldn't have been legendary to witness...but too much blahblah on the mic about sponsors, too many hiphop dance shows etc killed it and the beef battle disseapered

The biggest inspiration and sharing moment i had was chilling with nastyray and practicing with SKMZ...it seems nowadays that the best hiphop moments doesn't really happen in the jams anymore but outside or offside the jam

but i

met easy rock (one of my biggest inspiration). This guy rocked every cypher i checked with still mad flavour and funky style.I took the opportunity to interview him after having made my own star on hollywood blvrd.

Easy Rock interview by Circlekingz from bboy Amjad on Vimeo.

Before going to London i went back to Montreal to catch wreck on the wall with some local dude and went on tagging missions...a bboy trip is not really a bboy trip if i can't paint

Then i went to London to chill with my crew and rep in the Cyphers at the UK champs

Beeing on a bboy week end with the some of the crew is allways dooope and as we are getting

older it doesn't happen everyweek so i was very happy we could do it.

I mainly chilled in the IBE room where music was pumping and there was a 20 minutes open cypher time every 2 hours...was really fresh even if i was expecting more people rocking the cypher....maybe too many people were keeping themselves for the competition.

I had great time and the wibe was like family wibe!

20 minutes cyphers at the time is cool but i miss the infinite cypher time were people after they have done their usual shit get really loose and really try new shit. or just get so loose that nobody even care of the rest or others opinions...

The next day at Brixton academy was how i describe it in my last post...

a lot of what i saw made me wanna quit dancing but thanks to some few dudes for the inspiration.

During the last meal i ate in London, i was introduced to a funny bboy game: somebody have to draw the head of a "famous"bboy then hide it then somebody do the body and hide it and then the last one do the legs...it ends up to make funny characters....here it is our art for the night

if you have nothing more to do, you can still try to guess which bboys are drawn

Circlekingz 2010 Teaser by "..."

Circlekingz Teaser 2010 by "...." from bboy Amjad on Vimeo.

Stunmen vs Bboys

Yo,

This week end was The UK bboy Championship in London. The organisation was "on point" and there was a dope wibe in the day1. During the day2 on stage in Brixton Academy, i had the impression that bboying has never been so close from Stunting.

I'm happy Focus said something about it on bboyinsiders because i realize now i'm not the weird narrow minded hater that sometimes i feel like....but that some other people had the same impressions.

I have this bad impression that many crews & bboys (influence by what the see on youtube and other big competition) are getting away from the real essence which is DANCING to focus more on Hardcore allmost IMPOSSIBLE moves. (Maybe they think that's what they should do to win?!?! WTF

Luckily not all where like this but a lot of crews were on that skeme

What we witnessed looked more to me to as a stunting show than a dancing competition. Many times i saw the crowd beeing real scared of people getting hurt. Many crews threw routines after routines...putting Blowups on the spotlight and lay aside the elegance of the movement

I think half of the audience allmost believed they saw somebody dying when this brazilian dude tried a front flip and a half from the shoulder of his crewmate! and land on his face

Do we have to wait somebody to die to be invalid to finally realize some people went to far?that a lot of crews go in the wrong directions?

The judge bench was dope and they all know what's up

It's time people realize and focus on the real deal

Maybe those big competitions should control the number of routine per battle to avoid those things. And let more space for solo runs where people that don t know how to dance can't hide behind their crew jumping from the routine stright into their blowup move

That's what i do in Circlekingz and it's only a 2vs2 so i think it's should be mandatory for crew vs crew battle.

Peace

Circlekingz 2010 aka "The Quest For Eternity" teaser by Dj Renegade

Circlekingz 2010 aka "The Quest for Eternity" teaser by Dj Renegade from bboy Amjad on Vimeo.

Why starting breakdance?

if nobody likes you....well you have one last option

let's dance rap on your head

the reason why you break from bboy Amjad on Vimeo.

Tony rock

I was spending time on the matrix when i saw this clip from my man tonyrock...

Fresh & Clean

i have to share it with you

Circlekingz 2010 teaser by Luigi

Circlekingz Teaser 2010 by Luigi from bboy Amjad on Vimeo.

Bboying Worldwide art

Yo,

I just saw the illest footage from a family reunion in Iran in 1991 and i have to share it with you

It's funny to see how this BBoying shit aka beeing free on the music and challenging your mind & body to try incredible moves and get down even if it's not your culture at all.

Interview from "More than a Stance"

More than a stance interview make sure you go on the website to check it out

I had the chance to be interviewed by More than a stance webzine and i had quite good feedback so might be interested to share it with you guys

Make sur you check this dope website at http://morethanastance.com , this website keep it real and raw

interview BY SKEME RICHARDS

LINK: HTTP://WWW.CIRCLEKINGZ.COM/

POSTED ON JUNE 21ST, 2009

In an age where big budget events and television dance seem to overshadow the smaller and under-the-radar events and cypher jams, Circle Kingz seems to defy all odds by sticking with the formula that has made it the hunting grounds for b-boys and b-girls whose ultimate goal is circle supremacy.

Recently on a trip to Switzerland, I had the opportunity to interview the man behind this event, Amjad of 7$ Crew, to figure out his take and definition of being a true Circle King.
“I remember when I had the flyers for the first Circle Kingz. I went to a jam to spread some flyers, and of my 300 flyers, I gave only twenty because I didn’t want most of the people to go to my jam. I always wanted quality instead of quantity.”
SKEME: What was your motivation behind starting Circle Kingz, and what is the concept?

AMJAD: I started this jam in 2005 for many reasons. I thought that the majority of the jams were not enough adapted for the b-boys. I was going to many jams from 2002 to 2005, and I wasn’t having a lot of fun.

I think that’s why a lot of good b-boys stopped during that time. They weren’t finding what they needed in the b-boy jams. Many organizers don’t understand what we want and a lot of b-boy competitions take away the essence of what b-boys are made of.

Their battles are on stage, there are no cyphers, [there are] wack DJs – fairy-flying b-boys were winning in the famous crowd-pleasing era. B-boying was losing its soul for me and becoming something I was not down with.

I created this jam to bring back what I like in b-boying: no stage battles, time and space for cyphers, uncut music, and judges judge musicality, style, freshness, attitude, and originality as the main criterions.

S: Most of the events around the world seem to have some sort of cash prize as the winnings, but Circle Kingz seems to be more about the respect factor, yet the attendance is always phenomenal. What separates your event from others that so many people attend without any money being involved?

A: I think the b-boys go to jams for several reasons: the vibe, getting famous, prize money. It depends on what they look for. I think that Circle Kingz has the vibes b-boys like, of what they’ve told me.

They go to some other jam or big commercial jams to get the prize money, to get the whole b-boy game process – being visible to get some gigs, etcetera – and that they come to Circle Kingz to vibe and feel some real shit.

I think big sponsors want a big stage and as many audience members as possible – civilians, parents, children, etcetera – because they want visibility. So of course they are not down to sponsor a jam that wants only b-boys, because they want a big audience.

I remember when I had the fliers for the first Circle Kingz. I went to a jam to spread some fliers, and of my 300 fliers, I gave only twenty because I didn’t want most of the people to go to my jam. I always wanted quality instead of quantity. And I think that quality made the other b-boys want to come too.

Why is there big prize money? The response might be, if an organizer does a jam which doesn’t really attract good b-boys with dope vibes and dope DJs, b-boys know it’s gonna be wack. The organizer better offer them big prize money. If not, they will stay at home.

S: I’ve noticed that you’ve expanded the operation and have Circle Prinz events in other locations around the world. Is there a strict guideline that those promoters have to follow in order to hold a Circle Prinz event?

A: My main goal since the start has always wanted to do the best for the b-boys and put b-boying on the track I think it should be. Many people congratulate me for Circle Kingz, and told me they were sad there weren’t enough jams like this.

I wanted to do a jam with a label. B-boys know what to expect when they go to a Circle Prinz: no stage, good judges, uncut music, time and space for the cyphers, etcetera.

So the answer is yes, there is a guideline, because the Circle Prinz have to look like the Circle Kingz. What is good too is that those Circle Prinz allow some b-boys that don’t have the cash to come to Circle Kingz to get free transportation, accommodation, and food to get the possibility to catch wreck at Circle Kingz.

S: Do you thing by throwing this event that other promoters will risk throwing these types of jams and possibly bringing a balance to the prize vs. respect events?

A: I wish I could do a respected jam and give a lot of money to the winners. That’s what b-boys deserved!

In the same way, I think that because there is no money in this b-boy game, it still has a lot of vibe and soul. B-boys dance for the love of the art and not for the green love – money.

I hope other promoters do some dope jams because I still travel to a lot of jams in Europe, and I want to have fun! But in the same way, I think the b-boy community needs some big commercial competitions to pay their bills and make our dance famous to the civilians.

The ultimate shit will be if others promoters do respect-based events that keep b-boying as pure as it is. If that happens, then my goal will be achieved.

S: When it’s all said and done at the end of the day, what is your ultimate goal to achieve with Circle Kingz?

A: The ultimate goal is the same as in surfing; we search for the perfect wave. I don’t know about the other organizers, but personally I search for the perfect jam — the perfect system that keeps this art as pure as it is.

That’s why I change the system every year. I’m still searching for the perfect mode. And until I find it, I will always bring some modifications.

S: Lets talk about your crew, 7$. What year did you guys form, and are you all based in Switzerland?

A: We almost all come from some villages close to a city called Morges, near Lausanne, Switzerland. We all went to the same school and were down with HH since the beginning.

We were doing all the hip-hop activities in an abandoned Biscuit Fabrik since about 1998. Then we formed the crew 7$ in 2003. The four original members were KASH, ADER, SERVAL and me.

At that time, we felt a bit alone because we didn’t know anybody with our vibe. Everybody was into the tricks-power combos. And after some travels, meetings and cypher sharings, we found some people with the same vibe that had the same values of our art and real mind connections.

So they became 7$: Australia’s LAMAROC, RUSH, RED, PEPITO and NACHO POP, Switzerland’s BULLET, $BILL and FAZI, Japan’s KATSU, Indonesia’s KREATE and FAHRAN, Philadelphia’s DOWNROC, Singapore’s FELIX, and finally the UK’s LEGENDARY PERVEZ.

S: One thing that I’ve noticed about your crew that is very traditional but is almost nonexistent in other b-boy crews is that you guys are involved not only in the b-boy element, but you guys also have graff writers as well. Is this something you that you purposely set out to do, or was it a natural progression to be involved in multiple aspects of hip-hop?

A: We did graffiti before breaking. Serval, Kash and Ader were painting since around ‘93. And then they started b-boying after. So of course, that became natural. All our friends were involved in other hip-hop activities, and it was normal for us to do many things – I remember some dope improvisational rap sessions in the car.

Our scheme of jams when we started was the German style of jam, all to include graff, breaking, rap, barbecue, and DJing.

And we continued officially with graff and breaking.

S: I heard a rumor not too long ago that 7$ has a snowboard team. How true is this?

A: [Laughs]. Okay, to tell you the truth, we are involved in a lot of things together. We go snowboard together in the Alps, we do surf travels in France, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and Africa; we do bowl riding – skateboarding – at Miday.

We are more than a b-boy crew; we are friends before everything, and we enjoy life together. Some crews are formed just for b-boying, and then they try to be friends; we are more true friends that started b-boying together.

S: As a b-boy and a promoter, what is the most important thing you look for when throwing or going to a jam?

A: Okay, I will give you my secrets, which aren’t really secret. But you know I still don’t understand why some organizers fail on these three things, in order of importance.

One: good DJs.

Two: a good floor.

Three: good judges.

Four: the rest doesn’t really matter.

S: Any last words or shouts?

A: Big shout out to my biggest inspiration, A.K.A. my crew, all the real b-boys out there that truly represent our art. Keep it funky, and see you sweating on the floor. Peace.

Inspiration Tribute 1

Me and my crew had the habits that every jam we use to go, one of us (we took turn every jam) had to buy a VHS Vidéo

We were buying or a Graff vidéo or break vidéo it depends the feeling and the wibe of the moment

Then I think it was a jam in Basel that still make history in our mind, There was Ken Swift, maurizio, point blanc, antonio, emilio, and some others that blew our mind.

The kind of jam that lights a fire in young kids heart!

we came back with one of our first tape aka The Swift rock vidéo.

we didn't really knew him by that time and we maybe chose the video because of the front cover

but this vidéo made history for our crew and we watch it a hundred time. The song A seed's a star became his property after this.

So here is my inspiration tribute number 1

How to act in a cypher

The whole cypher concept was a common sense back in the days because there was no real competitions, so people had to cypher to show people their style and share their artform.

This changed with the time. With the organisation of more and more competitions What we’ve seen during the time is that people were more warming up, stretching in the venue and keep themselves for the battles.

Some now just dance when the speaker ask them to dance. Only when they have to battle in the competition.

All those facts made natural raw cypher disseaper with time (and for me, turning our art into a sport format).

That’s one of the reason i did circlekingz…TO BRING BACK THE CIRCLES and that essence from back in the days

That’s also why i changed the qualification systhem into the cypher qualifications. A system where people have to break in the circles to get qualified for the next rounds instead of waiting their turn and do their qualification run...

I THAUGHT I WOULD BE THE HAPPIEST MAN IF I SUCCED…but i wasn’t and i’m still not !!!

Some years ago the trend to dance in the cyphers came back so i was allmost happy but I forgot one thing…

Even with the best qualification system…i can be unhappy because A LOT of bboys don’t know how to act in a Cypher. For me it was like Communism….a rea good idea…but people were fucking it up

To pupose of this dance is to impress your opponent and the other bboys and the judges

People don’t judge only your dance at the jam but also your behaviour, your character, the way you dress and of course the way you cypher

Here is some advices and things not to do in a cypher :

- If somebody is dancing, let him finnish

- If you are 2 to jump in a cypher, don’t humiliate yourself trying to uprock him or touch him or whatever…step back, let him dance and take the next turn

- QUALITY over QUANTITY. You’re gonna humiliate yourself if your repeat a hundred times the same moves or if you Spamm the circles doing the same shit over and over. Show you at your best, go from time to time when your energy level is up again and then watch the others.

- Some people nowadays think that they have to look tuff so they act the angry guy and do the mugsy. Don’t forget it’s a funk dance, IT'S ALLOWED TO HAVE FUN and you don't need necessarly to battle. And even if you battle, you can humiliate your opponent with the smile (for exemple, watch ATA battling somebody).

- When you arrive in a cypher..ALWAYS check what’s going on, check the wibe of the cypher. And if it's for exemple a toprock or a footwork cypher, don t jump in and do a power combo. If there is a battle don't enter the circles till the battle iso ver.

- If you battle somebody…make it clear and loud. Don’t do the sneak battle were your opponent doesn’t even know you’re battling him.

Hope it makes echo for some that didn't really get it ...and for all the rest, keep it fonky like a spaguethi!

Mr Wiggles interview

It's a short interview i made last year
I'm sorry it's a bit noisy in the background sometimes because the interview was made in the backstage smoking room of a club

It's all about SWAG!

peace

Wiggles Interview for CKZ from bboy Amjad on Vimeo.

Circlekingz 2010 Teaser by Skeme Richards

Circlekingz 2010 Skeme Richards teaser from bboy Amjad on Vimeo.

Concrete Session

Sometimes i think that every day could be a special day
It's just a matter of taking the phone, call some friends, organising things and the day can be memorable


Here is one of those dope days where a lil organisation made a day that you remember
What's best that hanging out with your crew during a lil concrete session with a live band

thanks to Ader7$ for the vidéo

Time Less

Yo,

I just want to express my feeling about something...
People that read this should just feed his brain with it and throw it away if it doesn't make sense for them or keep it in mind if you like it...

I've been watching some videos since i started in the last century ;)
i ve experienced the VHS style then the first style2ouf clip that we needed to download
there was maybe one clip per week and sometimes was capoeira or other gymnastic stuff

then youtube arrived in 2005 with many clips till the overflood of new bboy clip nowadays...
I don't know what really happen but 99% of the todays clip i watch make me wanna quit bboying, like i can't watch a whole clip nowadays...or it's really rare to watch it end to end. I can still think what they are doing is incredible and mad hard, but inside i feel nothing and reverse the 99% of the old clips are like GOLD to me
I remember what JUNIOR rock from the Bay area (SF) told me....that the goal is to be TIMELESS!
even if people on a fucking flying car in 2056 see a clip of you and they have to think that your style was way too fresh!!!

I have that feeling with only a few bboys nowadays and i think it's time bboys focus more into the whole movement that into a compilation of hardcore moves. By movement i mean a style of moving which is the flow.
Moves will always be improved by the new generation but the Flow is Timeless...

Old generation was alll about the flow, and that was how i understood it when i speak with OG's, that's why it's a STYLEWARS...and not a Movewars. Style was above everything and in all the element graffiti, Djing, Mcing...
maybe the cause is that bboys nowadays want to win battle so they think they need moves. that's why they train for (judging system should be rechecked by the way...style is underated compared to moves)
With dope moves you win competition but with a dope Flow you earn respect.

here is a classsic video that is timless and that will always be like OFFICIAL to me

BBOY JAMS

it's just a topic about bboy jam

I have been to many jams and experienced the best and the worst
Here it is my few advices to all the bboy promoters around the world
it's not to dissrespect anybody but just to give some advice to bboys that organise jams...or want to organise jams.
Orgabnising a jam is a big responsability...when bboys go to a waaack jam then they loose their motivation and they might stop going to jam if they go to too many waack jams in a row

1. Choose a dope venue (the floor is the most important)
chose a venue that fits perfectly the audience that you wait
it's better to have a packed small venue than a big empty one, nothing worse than that
BBoys, we like to dance on the floor and feel the audience around us...try to have this skeme...but i understand that it's not really possible with a really big number of audience (like more than 500)

2. Don't spare money on a good DJ...you can go to the best venue with an incredible floor...the motor and the heart of the dance is the music...and if the music is not good..the jam can be destroyed. The most importnat thing on a jam is too create a good wibe with a good dj and a good host that make people have good time. try to avoid the screaming host (i have seen in some countries some host insulting the audience for not calpping and even worse...)
The dj motivate the dancers
The speaker entertain the crowd

3. Don't try to put too much competitions in the same jam
D'ont be scared about having free time where people can dance for fun or talk and chill...nothing worse than one day full of (2vs2, one footwork battle, one powermove battle, one king of the cypher..etc and finally not enough time to do them..or even worse been allmost kick out of the venue becaue the jam overpass the limit of the time, or doing a 2 minutes crew battle because you don t have time left)

4. Noting worse than a jam that last for more than 6 hours....try to make the qualification systhem faster...when you're too long in the same spot...and wait between the battles...it's boring!


There is more about organising a jam but thoses points are the most important for me and if you have them on point than nothing bad can really happen
A good jam is not a jam where there is a lot of people, it's just a jam where people that attend the jam have FUNNNN even if there is 15 persons.

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