New member/family to What The Funk?! Crew

Happy to welcome Takuma "Tim" Iwamoto to What The Funk?! Crew!!

We had a great time chilling, fooling around, and doing initiation battle which featured PopN Todd!!! Welcome to the fam brotha!!!

What The Funk?! Crew and Disco Dave at Juste Debout 2013!!!

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What The Funk?! Crew Takala Land Showcase

Epic picture right? Well enjoy our epic performance.

WHAT THE FUNK?! CREW AT TAKALA LAND ANNIVERSARY 2013!!!

ENJOY!!! 

What the FUNK?! crew dissemination

Last night on July 24, an American package arrived at my house. Openned it ASAP lol
YES!! THERE IT WAS!! the 水神hat and What the FUNK?! logo shirt!!
Damn this looks SICK!!

can't wait to wear it on my upcomming battle!!

Sugaloo 駿　my brotha, Thank you soooo much from the bottom of my heart for spending your money and time to send me this.
TKO here I come!!

By TKO

What The Funk Crew Performing at Takala Land 6/29/13!!!

6/29/13, What The Funk?! Crew will be performing at 

TAKALA LAND DANCE STUDIO 2years Anniversary 2013

!!! 

There will be other amazing dance crews that will be performing! Just see the pic to find out who will be attending! SAVE THE DATE!!!

E.T Experimental Popping Get Down!

2013 CREW MATES ARE MAKING THEIR MOVE!!! (finally, its been me and ilya for too long man :O lol)

Enjoy!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hFmGYweB1X4#!

Glitch Hop Poppers

Featuring yours truly, Ilya Leyzerov a.k.a Poppin ILL!!!

I really love this footage and am truly proud of my boy! WOOOOOOOO!!!!

By SUGALOO

What The Funk?! In Japan

Our crew, What The Funk?! Crew was initially formed to become the best popping crew in NJ. Now, since we have couple of our members living in various areas of the world, we are striving to be one of the best on the east coast to begin and finally the beat on the planet! Lol

But lets put that aside for now and let me reintroduce my crew mate and a brother, Takeshi "TKO" Shindo.

TKO is our youngest and the most shy crew mate in our crew lol
But his love and effort towards the dance has been consistent and he has grown so much since I first started to teach him how to dance.

Yesterday, we were fortunate enough to reunite and team up to battle in an All Styles Battle in Japan.

3 years ago, I would have never thought that we can team up to battle like we did yesterday.
We just met a day ago, had no routines, and you know Japanese dancers are amazing at routines lol, but we were able to go to the Semi-Final! :D

We were both very happy and excited as hell.
It felt great.

I'm so happy for TKO as a crew mate and as an elder brother.

Unfortunately, video taping was prohibited. So we have no footage of some of the great and fun battle we had. But as you can tell from our pic, we repped the crew and had a great time!!!

Peace and God Bless to all the dancers we got down with!

SUGALOO

G.O.D (New York's Finest Week Long Street Dance Workshop)

READ MORE BY CLICKING THE PICTURE!!!

Ilya battle with Bboy(Omega) and Krumper (Hour)

Ilya a.k.a Popping iLL proving that poppers can smoke Bboys!!! Lol

Ilya's wish of the day, " I wanna battle some Krumper man" came true. Watch Popping VS Krumping in Queens New York!

Once again, big shout out to TAKALA LAND Studio for organizing a dope event. We all enjoyed it.

Happy 1st Anniversary to the Studio!!!

Official crew performance 2012

Our first performance at 1 year Anniversary of Takalaland Studio in Queens

We didn't get to rehearse much, but this is our first official performance that we actually got to perform in front of people.

Its been 3 years since we formed as a crew back in 2009.
We still need a lot of work and improvements.
But I'm just happy that on this day, we were once again together to share the floor.

Furthermore, it was exciting to see one of our youngest and active member, Ilya, to make it to Top 4 in the all style battle that was also held on the same day.

All of the crew mates were proud of his hard efforts and improvements within the past couple years.

What The Funk?! Crew 2012, from the left Erich, Ray Mak, Ed "E.T", Ilya, Karlo, and Sugaloo.

Bust A Move

BUST A MOVE= B.A.M is one of the HOTTEST Street Dance in CANADA

We've known about this event for couple years now.

Every year we enjoy watching battle clips that took place at B.A.M.

So many dope street dancers have attended this battle, Snap 2, Greenteck, Lady Beast, Heat Rock One, Monsta Pop, Venom, Namco, Tronik, Baby Boogaloo, Jr Boogs, Neo, Salah, Fire lock, Hurrikane, Scramblelock, Sam-O, Nemesis and many more.....

Man, this trailer is so damn awesome.......its making our souls hungry for some good get down and  exchange!!!

WE MUST TRY TO MAKE IT TO THIS EVENT THIS YEAAAAAAARRRR

Super Dope Funk Explosion 2

Photos and video clips!!!

Preliminary Poppin iLL (Watch it in HD)

 

Preliminary SUGALOO



Out of 40-50 popper's intense preliminary round (where the judges gave scores within 10 points to each poppers), SUGALOO passed the prelim with the highest score from the Judeges!



SUGALOO VS Jon Lock(NY) TOP 16 

Watch this in HD, and watch Jon's second round......INSANE....

By the way, SUGALOO got too excited that he screamed for no reason before Jon's second round Good thing Poppin Todd screamed right after that to make SUGALOO look less weird lol

 

 SUGALOO VS Mark Flux (D.C, Boston, LA) Top 8

 The way he expresses the music is truly amazing. Not only does he have great technique but he is a great popper that can create "WTF?!" moments within his get down. Much respect.

 

 SUGALOO and Poppin iLL had a great time during this event. We reunited and met with many poppers from all over the eastcoast.

The battle was on fire through out the event and it was VERY ORGANIZED. I think both of us did not complain at all.

We enjoyed getting down and represented What The Funk?! Crew to the fullest :)

Check out Daveshi's youtube channel and subscribe!!! Daveshi Youtube You can watch all the battles AND a judge showcase by Monsta Pop, Slim Boogie, and Poppin Todd.

What The Funk?! Crew 2011

Poppin iLL(RAIJIN), E.T, SUGALOO(FUJIN), Lazy Pop

BOOGIE NATION 2011

This event was the first event for us to rock our new custom made "Kamikaze hats"

Unfortunately, we DEFINITELY need to try MUCH MUCH harder to represent the hat lol

Over all, it was the most organized event we've been to in New York.

Every thing was on time and well organized.

However, music sucked. Some dancers who attended Boogie Nation addressed that they were using the same music as last year.

Furthermore, it was disappointing to find out that in the battle, DJ played the some songs he already used in the preliminary.

well, here is how we did, enjoy!

Battle Team, 神風(kamikaze) of What The Funk?! Crew.

The idea sparked from SUGALOO and Poppin iLL talking about becoming a 2 man battle team of our crew since we've been battling together at events constantly.

We chose the name 神風(Kamikaze) because we want to become battling poppers that destroy everything that stands in our way (opponent)to reach the goal(winning the battle) and also to bring new flavor to the scene.

According to the ancient story of Japan, Kamikaze is formed by two gods know as Fujin (風神）god of wind and Raijin（雷神）god of lightning.

They are also one of the most well known gods in Japan because the painting by Tawaraya Soutatsu titled 風神雷神図 Fujin Raijin zu(picture below) is preserved as a national treasure in Japan.




To make this vision and hope to life, I created a customize hat and shirt.

he hat is done and here it is



RAIJIN/God of Lightning (Poppin iLL)









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nah this is it LOL

RAIJIN/God of Lightning (Poppin iLL)



FUJIN/God of Wind (SUGALOO)




We will be rocking those to events starting Boogie Nation 2011!!!

If you are going to the event, we will see you there!

Peace n God Bless.

P.S For people interested in Boogie Nation, here is the Facebook information.

Place: Club 412
412 8th ave ( 31st Street ) Next to MSG / Penn Station
New York, NY

Time: 9PM-2AM

Hosted By: NYC Popping Academy

Boogie Nation NYC 2011 1 on 1 Popping Championship

$10 with flyer or RSVP
$15 with out
( so its really only $10 because why would you not rsvp nor have flyer printed ? )

Part of NYC popping dance week 2011

Hosted by Tommy Hypno Chan

DJ
Break Easy
Spinning all your popping music all night

Judge
Tiny Love
Big Mike
The people there! - Boogie Nation style


1 on1 Popping Battle
Group round if we have alot of people
If we can get everyone there and have the battle starts at 11pm then we can do 2 rounds each even if we have 16 people.
However we always want to keep the battle low # and short so there is more time for just open music.

King Tut Contest - only 4 to 8 dancer max .You get 1 min or 2 to do your thing. ( One round )

Come early because this not that long of an event. Event starts at 9.30 then come at 9.30

Have your $10 bill - we don't have change !

Bring your own water and have fun!

SUGALOO practice clips

Popping(General) Practice/get down



Electric Boogaloo Style Practice




Animation Style Practice

NEW GET DOWN CLIP

sup yall its been a while but we've been working...

I (SUGALOO) been going out for a lot of events for the couple month and picked up some new concepts about POPPIN

What I found most interesting was the knowledge I got from Kid Boogie(Machine Gone Funk).

What I learned was something called "Pop Separation"
Basically what it means is that you learn how to pop ur body parts separately.

If its the forearm, u only pop its muscle.
If its the triceps, u only pop that muscle.
If its the chest, u kno what I mean. lol

By doing so, u'll gain more control of ur body bc u'll be more conscious about how u body moves and that will help u to have more solid popping.

So me and poppin ill been worked on that for couple days.
Trying to dance using the pop.

and it actually dramatically changed the way we dance(especially Poppin ill).

We were more calm, relaxed and were taking time towards the music.
It may not look that amazing to u yet since this was after 3day's of training. But hope u can see the difference between ourselves in the past.

P.S btw Poppin ill edited the clip so it looks stupid LOL

STEP YO GAME DOWN 2010

Well. Let me tell you that I am being very specific when I state the following:

Step Yo Game Up 2010 SUCKED.

It was unbelievably hot in the venue. Incredibly disorganized (The event ended around 5am, I believe). A good number of the staff were incredibly rude and temperamental. Example: The Security Guard. Sure, security guards are supposed to be tough. But Stretch completely justified this security guard to be a complete asshole. There's no reason to be cursing people out and being rude (in a church) to dancers. He was SO MUCH OF A DOUCHEBAG that several amazing dancers from D.C. left after an encounter with him. And again, Stretch just encouraged it, if anything. Yelling, screaming, overreacting to everything.

The dancers there were dope though. Shout out to Japan for mass producing epic little dance androids like Lil Sho. And shoutout to France, D.C., Baltimore, Boston, Virginia and others! Cyphers outside of the event were also really sick.

My prelim sucked. Sugaloo got past prelim but uhm, well, we still don't know what the fuck happened in his battle against Breeze Lee....

NEXT YEAR, JUST EVERYONE MEET UP OUTSIDE OF THE EVENT AND WE WILL HAVE ENDLESS CYPHERS!!!! DONT GO IN!

Inspiration

I pose a question to the dance community:

Where do you get your inspiration from?

You see, I feel like I am a little bit different than other dancers in this regard, or maybe I just have not run into any others that think the way I do. I'm quite humble when it comes to my dancing ability (unlike the loud, obnoxious person-that-thinks-he's-funny that I am otherwise) but I suppose fairly imaginative as well. I can narrow it down to two sources being my experiences and amazing dancers. Sure, at first that sounds generic, but let me explain.

By my past experiences I mean that I am incredibly humbled and grateful for every person I've gotten into contact with, every place that I have been to, and so on. Due to this fact, I work much harder to not waste the opportunities I've had or to disappoint all the people that have helped me. So, my personal satisfaction is merely a by-product of the actual source. I become elated and satisfied when others acknowledge my success and hard work, when I have earned their good opinion. In a way, this is basically the same using raw improvement as inspiration, but not directly, since I am almost like improving for others. It's tough to explain.

Some, like my Sensei Sugaloo, view clips of amazing dancers and are just thrust back into a sense of inferiority, of feeling so incredibly behind and having to catch up (which he uses as fuel to drive him to improve). However, when I see a battle between Poppin J and Franqey (my favorite battle ever by the way), or an incredibly judge show by Slim Boogie or A.k.a kin or Gucchon or Acky, the list goes on and on, I undergo a different thought process. My mind immediately says "I can do that." Meaning, I am able to put in the massive amount of work to achieve the same level and be right up there with them. Now, please please PLEASE do not take this the wrong way, I am not bragging or saying I'm the best. I just get a sensation of possibility, a belief inside me, a little Thomas that says "I think I can I think I can, I think, therefore I can!"

Also, I am incredibly impatient when it comes with improving. This is both a negative and a positive. Others view it more as a negative, and they are right. Sorry, Madd Chadd, I'll try to be patient.

~Poppin iLL (P.S. for those of you that listened to my beat, hope you enjoyed it and thank you!)