breakereditorial

The topic of discussion this month is the old school and new school. It's

seems to me that many people are wondering whether the old school or new

school is better.

Well personally coming from the old school and still breaking through the

evolution I must say I am just glad breaking is coming back as strong as it

is. I was getting really worried about 1990 when the whole gangster era

entered and people were using there creativity in a very destructive way. I

believe that we are all creative and creative energy can either work for you as

in breaking or against you as being a gangster with no outlet for the energy

except violence.

Many people from the new school must remember that what we now call

breaking first started really only about 20 years ago, and though you can try

to compare the two generations, you also must remember in the old school

there wasn't any dance done like breaking before. Most of the moves were

being invented then so there were no videos to learn from or old movies to

watch it was just live as it happened, you just created it as you went. To

compare movements would be impossible it's like saying what is harder the

Wright Brothers inventing the airplane or the scientist who made it so it can

go faster than the speed of sound .... hmmmm

I do admit I am impressed by some of the new movements and variations

of the new school generation, it just proves to me that nothing is impossible

with determination. I'm sure Kurt Thomas (the guy credited for inventing

flares on the floor) never would have imagined someone doing a move like

airflares. Next thing you know the next generation after this one will learn

how to levitate in the air while doing windmills, yeah I know airtracks.... one

step closer...see it's already started.

One thing I do admit with the old school in the eighties, the crew members

at least tried to match each other, okay so we also wore parachute pants

with bandanas arround our legs or tight chino pants...hey it was the eighties.

Nowadays it's hard to know who's in which crew most just wear whatever,

back then you always wore your crews colors to every battle or dance.. it

was almost like a requirement... your crew colors represented your pride in

your crew even if it was just a sweat shirt with iron on letters( by the way

airbrushed sweatshirts were a big thing then also)

To summarize everything, I think trying to compare breakdancers from

then to now doesn't really matter the best of back then were the best at that

time with the moves that were created at that time and the best of today are

the best of this time with the moves of this time it's like at one time the best

music was from an eight track player, than it was a cassete player, now it's

CD... every generation at their time thought the music sounded great... it's

just the times... as long as you enjoy it, the feeling is the same . I'm just

glad breaking lives on and Thank God I was given the chance to be breaking

in both generations.

keep spinning

BREAKER