Noted from Profo Wons

Profo Won's history:

As quoted from his own words:

- I was 7 around 1982 and my cousin was part of the breakdance scene

He taught me and Rob (Rob Nasty my twin brother)how to do the worm and wave and stuff

lil things here and there

Then around 1986 Breakin was considered played out for us in the Bay

At that time people were gettin into party dances like the smurf, the pacman, runnin man stuff like that

That was around 1987 to 1989

Rob and i started to play around with those dances

but it wasnt until 1991 that the dance really talked to us

In that period it wasnt really Bboyin yet

We had a movement which we called Housin

(Not house dancing)

The fasion was more of a tribal look afrocentric look

panchos afro hair

like how Tribe Called Quest looked like in there first album

actually we didnt have crews we had tribes like

Jughead Tribe

Bubala Tribe

360 Tribe

Jedi Clan

Raggamuppets

StankWinos

just to name a few

There was this local HipHop tv show called Home Turf

on there featured Dj Qbert and his dancers called the KnucleNeck Tribe was eventually became West Coast Rocksteady (one of the first chapters of RockSteady outside of NYC)

One guy that myself, Bboy Wicket and Remind actually all of us was a influenced by a Bboy named P-Kid

He had a really dope style and mixed his powermoves in there he was kinda like our Spy of NorCal

around 1993 i would say was the Return of the BBOY style

where it was strait influenced by Beat Street

Sean Ortiza member Sidewalk Breakers a crew from San Jose from the 1980s came back

and at that time he was doing strait up combos

Flare-90-windmill headspin

we wernt used to that cuz all we saw was multiple windmills or headspins not combos

At this point came back the bboy Crews

from the 80s like

Rock Force Crew

Renegades Crew

Rock On Productions

UBC

And then the SIdewalk Breakers tape came out

A battle between the new SIdewalk and the orginal Sidewalk

(Poe One correct me if im wrong)

This tape was from 1985 and man it was crazy

Like guys that literally danced like Ken Swift, Crazy Leggs,

Buck 4

but they had advanced power

and the concept of stackin back then

even a spinal flare that looked like an airflare

this tape influenced a Elmer from Rock Force

and he did combos no one did before that we saw

and he influnced Jazzy J from the Renegades

and Jazzy J influnced a whole bunch of people

esp Bboys in Korea cuz his combos where to crazy

At that time in my research no one had a scene in North America

Like New York and LA had good bboys

but no scene where there was a jam every weekend

We did

The Bay Area was having there Hip Hop Golden age

1991-1994

Mcs we had Hiroglifics Souls of Mischief

Djs we had Mix Master Mike, Qbert, Apollo, ShortKut

Graff writers we had a legal wall called Psycho City were everyone from around the world would come in and do a piece or throw up

Bboys a jam every weekend where i would see Crazy Leggs

Zulu Gremlin and Lil Ceasar

this is all when i was 16 to 18 years old

so i can say i saw it before the competitions

when girls (yes girls used to go to all the jams)

used to shout your name as you go out

Guys in the corner with their black books doin throw ups

and Dj Qbert was spinnin at these jams

those were the days

i got a lot more but ive said enough

till next time -