The other night I had a dope, random, & unplanned session with my crew members Aqua, Seth, Joel, and a homie thats not in our crew but hes good peeps AllinSoul, what was suppose to be a photoshoot ended up being a session funny how things work out like that. Moving forward I was trying out new things and out of nowhere I hit something pretty dope that I couldn’t believe I was even strong enough to do it was completely accidental I wont spoil it because Im going to try and hit it at the next event if its perfected of course “key word being PERFECTED” I don’t do moves in battles I don’t have locked down, anyways what inspired this blog post is this phrase or two words right here “Accidental Discoveries”. For as long as I can remember I have always been the type to just accidentally hit certain moves that I have failed to learn by practicing them, for example I remember one summer LONG ago I was trying to learn how to flare it was the hardest shit i have ever tried and I seriously slammed my damn heel into the floor thousands of times I gave up probably a month into trying to learn how to do it, never did it again and moved on to something else, then one day out of nowhere i was just messing around and I was watching people doing flares I dont know what exactly happened but I just felt I could do it, I just understood how to by watching it like just made sense, so I go to my little 4×4 linoleum and I remember winding up and letting it rip i did one a complete one omg i was freaking out jumping screaming you name it! i was hyped trained it for weeks and started hitting like 10-15 of them, To me that was an accidental discovery, and alot of other bboys just say “damn I hate you” LOL, this happened to me for 90, for windmill, for airflare(recently) and even halo! so I always tell people you might surprise yourself and just hit it and i know a few people that have done this and gone through similar experiences.

Now when it comes to moves well lets just say alot of the stuff i have come up with has been seriously accidental, alot of the signature moves i do just happen im about to fall over and catch in a weird but cool way or i over rotate in something and hit some weird freeze lol for example check out the freeze below i seriously was going to do like a one handed back hand spring and idk i freaked out thinking i was going to eat it and BOOM i hit this and it felt crazy and i just kept trying it over and over finally i was able to stick it and it came out looking like this (BELOW)

So sometimes you have to keep in mind that you will just accidentally discover random shit and just go with it and build on it idk this blog post was random and short but guess i just had to share a little of my history with bboying and at the same time just share how accidental discoveries are actually the best and most common way of making up your own personal signature moves blow ups, tricks, footwork, whatever it may be, ight yall thats all short and sweet and shout out to my crew we doing the damn thang keep on the look out yeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

CIRCLE OF FIRE

SOULSHIFTERS

BEST KEPT SECRET……….SSSH

-LUCID

“ALMOST QUITTING EVERYTHING FOR MY LITTLE BROTHER WAS NOT THE ANSWER & LUCKILY I FOUND THE ANSWER”

So lately I have been going through a lot of personal problems involving my little brother and I have been doing everything I can to reach out to him and help him get through his problems in life, It has been a very depressing last two days but this story made everything better I think its because it helped me realize that I just have to be here for him and help him get through it all, which basically means not ever quitting on him or myself as I know God will never do to us both, Yesterday I seriously felt my lowest, helpless, like I couldn’t do anything for my little brother who is in need of help The crazy part is I was willing to give up anything and everything basically quit dancing quit anything I had to to get through to him and be there for him so if that means moving away and dropping everything in my life for him I was willing to do it, I laid at home most of the day sleeping and crying I think it was out of guilt and anger that I couldn’t do anything to help at that very moment, then out of nowhere I was online doing some research and I came across this very very veeeery inspiring story although it doesn’t fully apply to the situation me and my family are in it really made me snap out of it all and realize that I can do this I can help my brother get through all his bullshit and still dance and do me I just have to do it and most definitely not “QUIT” on him or myself and everything I have going in my life for any reason. I don’t know if this makes sense to anyone but none the less I got what I needed from the story and it really helped me through all this and now Im ready to get some ideas and plans in motion and conquer this issue at hand, no matter what happens or what gets in the way I know I’ll find the solution and get through all of this together…….after all thats my job as the big brother to be there for my little brother, to help him, to guide him, to love him, to fix his toy when it’s broken, to put a bandaid on his cuts, to protect him & to raise him when no one else can. 

This story is dedicated to my little brother Kevin Gabriel and anyone else that has ever thought about quitting anything in their lives.

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“FIGHT NIGHT: CHECK THIS VIDEO OUT BEFORE YOU READ WHAT I WROTE”

So I was recently surfing the huge youtube waves, catching video after video after video cheeeeeee hoooooo LOL if that doesn’t make any sense what I meant to say is I was basically checking out recent battles i may have missed or heard about and wanted to see for myself, i stumbled upon a lot dope battles but nothing stood out more then this and I think it wasn’t just because it was a dope, hyped and fun to watch battle but because there was DRAAAAAAAAAAAAMA!! aka someone was talking shiet and a fight broke out LOL why its funny? well because it wasn’t even the people battling that started it I mean they were talking shit to each other but who cares thats battling if you know anything about battling you talk shit to each other to throw each other off sometimes or just because your rivals and don’t like each other whatever the reason is when its the people battling I’ve always said let it be let em’ talk, and talk shit back when they go out if you WANT to or are INTO that sort of thang ya digs, Anyways getting back on subject a fight broke out during the battle between Battle Reflexes and Massive Monkees @ The Wreck Room 2v2 Grand Finale in Seattle, WA. from what I gather watching the battle is, its getting hyped and their getting in each others faces, its hyped, its intense but what you start to notice is this guy on the Battle Reflexes side popping up talking mad shiet and kinda taunting and instigating, eventually battle reflexes hit a dope routine and everyones blowing up for it during (more…)