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personally, i think everyone on this thread is just jumpin on another band wagon, talking about how dope the 90's were etc etc, everyone nowadays is a clone etc. yo you don't like that? then break different. you love the 90's ? then get some reebok or adidias cross trainers, wack djs, dry fits and gear that don't match and hit the floor, toprock badly then crash out of your predicable freeze coming after your sloppy drop and wack "original" footwork. cause with an exception to a few crews out there, that was the majority of bboys in the 90s.
as fas as the "clones" are concerned, well there were clones in the 90s too. and when 2000 rolled around and cats were wearing makeup and masks doing some fucked up shit on their elbow tips, or standing/sitting on their hands, there were whole states of "clones" that jumped on that bandwagon too.
what i see now is that everyone reaches a standard level really really quickly (foundational footwork steps - 6, cc, 3, shuffles etc / basic power - swipes, windmills, backspin / basic freezes - baby freeze, chair freeze, w), everyone recognizes that you must be in tune with the music and be on beat and really thats a good thing. cause everyone has their basics down, everyone is speaking the same language, we're all dancing on beat you can actually compare bboy A and bboy B and see who you prefer. not A did only power but can't dance and crashed and B did only sitting on his hands type shit and tried to do some complicated sloppy threads but didnt dance plus hes wearing makeup.
sure you got a lot of bboys out there doing the same shit and not pushing the limits but thats never changed. there has always been people that follow trends and never elevate this dance. then you got cats that are just taking it to a whole new level, combining the best of the 80s 90s and last decade plus throwing their own twist on it and really pushing the limits of this dance (casper, spee-d, kevo, kid david, el nino, focus, ata, luigi, ynot, physix, menno, stripes, katsu, thesis, etc etc etc) and i tried only naming people that have really blown up in the last 5-6 years
go back to bitching now.
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