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Back from Battle of the Middle Earth back in Jyväskylä, my old home city. A soulful cozy jam, had a great time.
I already posted this link on facebook a while ago but hey, gems need extra attention.
Bboy Workshop Parody by France’s own Bboy Chris (more…)
Got inspired to post this after Alien Ness’ topic “give ‘em a shout out”. Hip Hop’s always been about giving credit when credit is due, you gotta give respect to get respect! The topic is about giving props to your teachers, pointing out who helped you on your way a b-boy of -girl. Also Hatsolo’s blog post got me on the mood for some classic Gangstarr 
Like my friends know I’m a mixtape fiend. A stack on mix cd’s is essential for a decent practice session. A lot of the mixtapes I get I listen to once and they end up getting dusty while there’s some I still get back after almost 10 years.
Here’s a list of mixtapes that have influenced my dancing the most during the years, in no special order.
I’m sitting in an airplane back to Helsinki, back from the last trip of the year. It’s been a great year, had lots of work, trained really good, started school again and made lots of new friends. The trip back home has been the longest one in my life though. This is my fourth day traveling and finally reaching Helsinki in a few hours. The airports are in chaos on the east coast and UK, it’s weird how for us a snow blizzard is perfectly normal but can cause so much trouble for people who’re not used to it.
Over the Top 4 Poland last weekend!
Ill event with good energy:
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Decited to add my inspirations list training for this battle in no specific order:
This is a dedication to the dopest bboy jam in Europe. Circle Kingz.
When we started coming up and travel Europe a little in early 2000’s, European events were more, well, events. People came from all over only for the competition, stretched on the side, did their couple of solos and went home happy. Superstars of that time were more concerned about winning the most 1990’s contest than vibing. We were looked at weird and dissed on hard when we were making circles and the most terrible, doing footwork with out a single blowup. (more…)
A couple of clips for a cold sunday morning. First of all a thorough coverage of IBE, made up by Belarussian bboys. Really professional and still capturing the feeling of the event. A lot of legends of tape. Check out all the three parts, this is only the first one: (more…)
A lot of people always ask about musicality, how to be more on beat and so on. Even though the songs are always different the music structure is universal. Rocking the horn on the one with an airchair doesn’t make you a so called beat killer, while bringing out the feeling of the song in your dance with your own expression as extra spice might be a good start.
Now hold up, is it even possible to have an event with a guest list like this:
ALIEN NESS usa BRUCE YKANJI fra
FOCUS fin HONG 10 kor J-SMOOTH usa
KITE jap KEN SWIFT & SEVEN GEMS usa
KMEL & BOOGIE BRAT KIDS usa KOHFIE KONNECT hol LEFTIES SOUL CONNECTION holMAURIZIO ita MARTHA COOPER usa
Just finished a small Finland tour, three cities on one weekend. The weekend kicked off with a theatre show in the city of Tampere, followed by RedBull Streetstyle tour in Vaasa and Jyväskylä.
At Street Science festival I had a talk with the reporters of morethanastance.com, an ill US based webmagazine for bboys and bgirls. The final article is out, check the result at the website. Came out nice, that’s the best article ever written off me, I’m proud of these guys. The whole website is an ill concept, very refreshing in this day and age.
They also reviewed my newest dvd, here’s the link for it:
http://morethanastance.com/features/2009/09/focuss-b-boy-workshop-vol-1/
