Tuesday
13th September 2011
- 52
Hand Block. Also called "Jailhouse Rock" according to Mr Wigglez.
Prisoners from Rikers Island called it so perhaps as a reference to the card
game "52 Pick Up." Quoting Mr Wigglez - "you show someone some
card tricks, and the you say, you wanna play 52 pick up, they say yea, and you
spray the deck of cards on the floor and say PICK IT UP!"
- 52
Hand Block came from dirty boxing, Kung Fu Flix such as 36 Chambers, Master
Killa.
NOTE:
Wikipedia has a brief summary too
Not
sure how accurate this is.
Quote
"52 blocks has been referenced in journalist Douglas Century's Street Kingdom: Five Years Inside the
Franklin Avenue Posse, as well as numerous Wu Tang Clan songs and
Ted Conover's book Newjack."
Wednesday
24th August 2011
- In
this video Mr Wiggles displays his earliest thread done from a head track in
82-83. He also does the threads from the baby freeze, and chair freeze.
- In
his humble opinion, Mr Wiggles and Kwikstep were the first to do threads.
However the footage of Nico from Throwdown Rockers (Sweden) shows that he was
doing threads in '87.
- The
question so far is Nico doing the threads before or after Andreaus and Mateaus
from Sweden filmed Kwikstep doing the threads?
Wednesday
17th August 2011
-
Comment by Mr Wiggles
"IMHO
in the 70's Originally footwork was uptop, they called Rockin steps Footwork.
In My Own Experience, When i first learned Breakin, I never heard the use of
the word Footwork. It was just "Break" words like Drops, Dips,
Shuffles, Sweeps, and Russians and stuff like that. Footwork IMHO Represents
when Latino Rockers started Breaking and putting Intricate Rocking and Hustle
Steps on the Floor. That's my Humble Opinion. The first Shuffle pattern I ever
leaned was simply Drop on all 4's and Criss Cross your Legs. and then Sweep. (I
see BBOY TEKNYC do it allot. That was the first Shuffle i learned. Then i saw
another Puerto Rican Kid do it but on his Side! and i thought it was sooooo FRESH!
But the Criss Cross Shuffle is old school and they did that move on there
Elbow's, and that was another big move...Breaking on the Elbows (later called
Elbow Rock) lol.. simple but still funky for back then."
Monday
15th August 2011
-
Comment by Mr Wiggles
"BBoying
Came from a Funk And Soul Movement. in the 70's it was called Going Off,
Rocking, Breaking, and then HIP HOP. But Make No MISTAKE This is a direct shoot
Off of FUNK, and SOUL,. (thats why you always see Bambatta Make References to
FUNK!) Most of the Music being Played in these events is James Brown style
breaks and Latin Soul. (I cant even call them JAMS any More. I Call it BBOY
BALLROOM events, Cause in JAMS BBOYS Dance with BGIRLS) BUt what gets me is
that Cats Forgot that HIP HOP MUSIC (Be it BREAK BEATS, or RAP MUSIC) comes
from FUNK! and SOUL."
Saturday
6th August 2011
Quoted
from Mr Wiggles
"IMHO
BBoying is a Soul & Funk Dance done to Soul & Funk Music. So you gotta
dance with SOUL & FUNK. Period Dot. If you know the formula for Funk, then
you will understand the "1" (one) and when you know about the one,
you will understand that the "1" can be anywhere in the song. And
thats when you understand the musical structure of a Funk Song. This will come
once a BBOY Actually stops doing SETS, and Starts to FREESTYLE different to
every SONG. We should never dance the same to every song. Every Song will spark
different FEELINGS, and it is up to a BBOY/BGIRL to capture that Feeling with
Top Rock and Footwork, and you can't do it unless you let go of some of those
SETS and Start Freestylin more. IMHO"
Friday
5th August 2011
- Dino
Rock (RIP) behind Kid Terrific (2:26) is doing 52 Block Dance.
52
Block Dance: "It was actually Jailhouse Rock, Hand styles for Blocking and
catching punches from prison. and the streets. But allot of these hand styles
is in BBoying. allot of the gestures and positions come from what they later
coined 52 blocks." - Wigz
Friday
29th July 2011
-
During the shooting of the "Shango" scene in Beat Stree, Pow Wow
showed Mr Wigglez one of his trademark moves, the "front sweep back
sweep" combination. "Looks almost like a weird flare" - Wiggz.
-
Almighty KG (from Cold Crush 4, ex bboy from the 70s) taught Mr Wigglez, Kenny,
and Legs the "truck drive" style top rock during the photoshoot of
the Tribe Called Quest album cover in the 90s.
-
"My Background in Breakin was more within the Black Community. And i never
heard them use the word TOP ROCK. It was just BREAKIN. Weather you did it on
top or on the ground" - Wiggz
-
"...never heard the term 6 step or 4 step, ect... it was a different vibe
on footwoprk. Allot of russians, sweeps, kick outs, spins, shuffles ect..
prolly less structure and more freestyle, used to call it "GOING
OFF"" - Wiggz
Thursday
28th July 2011
-
According to Aby (TBB) a lot of the footwork we know today came from Rock and
hustle steps done on the ground.
Wednesday
27th July 2011
The
styles Mr Wigglez used are: Kickouts, Spiderman, Peek A Boos, and Sporadic
(Going Off).
- Mr
Wigglez made the spiderman style with Powerful Pex whilst experimenting with
Boogie Move combined with breaking. Then Crazy Legs turned it into the Spider Move.
Mr Wigglez then incorporate it into footwork.
- Legs
did the Spider Move against Lee (the actor from Beat Street) in the late 80s at
an underground club in Bronx. Legs vs Lee and Kuriaki vs Joe Swift.
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