Salt, pepper & Spice

Yo!

i was recently chilling in different countries around the globe and i noticed something really interesting.

It seems that SOME (not all, but a majority) of people that learn break in dance studio (even if the break teacher is a Boss with knowledge) will have what i called a sterile style...They have some moves, it looks pretty ok when you see it from far but SOMETHING is missing. It's like eating plain rice with no salt in it....

I met some people in Cuba dancing in the street learing hardly and with allmost no moves...but it felt different, same in Mexico. So i ask myself what was the reason...

What i noticed is that people that learn dance in a studio sometimes don't live like bboy in the everyday life (checking the tags in the city, wanting to have some dope shoes, collecting records, beeing music lovers, doing dance session in the street when they feel it, having that bboy character in them...etc etc..). They just decided to break for other reasons like (fashion, sport activity, to impress girl at school...) but not for the love of the culture.

And i checked that people that live like bboys in the everyday life have that essential flava when they dance, i can see it when they dance...they might look like a shitty fried rice but i can feel some spices.

Discussing with Poe1 about it yesterday and he felt the same and i though it might be good to share it on bboyinsiders

so If you're a studio bboy try to live the bboy life everyday (dig the history) that would put spice, salt and pepper in your dance

and if you're a break teacher in a studio, try to get your student to embrace the culture by doing extra studio activities to show them the lifestyle....