Step Up or Get Smoked Review~!!!!

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DID YALL COME TO THE EVENT?????? I HOPE SO CUZ IF U DIDN'T, U'VE MISSED AN AWESOME BATTLE EVENT!!!!!!!

As I've explained on the earlier post, we've had 3 styles

The event started off with the House Section.
This section had less competitors than expected, thus, some non-House dancers (including our member Karlo "Mr Panda"lol) registered to fill the spot.

people were having fun with this section since we were able to see serious battles and some battles we can laugh at lol

The Winner of this section was Glytch from Intermix/Groove Kings crew!!!
His unique groove and creative dance moves entertained the judges and the audience through out the battle, Mad props.

I don't have the footage again so plz wait till I find them on YouTube lol

Next was Hip Hop

Now a lot of trouble happened in this section.

1.The judges of Hip Hop section decided that since Hip Hop is too broadly defined, they've made a rule restricting some dance styles,specifically Break Dance. This caused some controversy between some of the competitors and the judges throughout the event.
Thanks to Spex, we were able to make things settled.

2.The judges had tie decisions continuously because I believe the music they had for this section was not really for battling.

3.The judge announced THE INCORRECT NAME OF THE CHAMP AT THE FINALS!!!!

So yea, there were lots of drama lol

Although the battle was SICK

Many raw and fresh talent went head to head against each other and the crowd was going CRAAAAAAZZZYYYY!!!!!

The winner of HIP HOP was Dezmin"Alph Alpha" Staley from SOUL'D crew!!!
His combined style of Hip Hop Party groove and sharp and precise poppin move shined on the battle field and smoked some of the coolest hip hop dancers in NJ! MAD props

Don't have the Champs Battle footage but here is one of the battles



The Final Section Was POPIN!!!!!

I was able to judge the poppin section but lets just say that I regret doing it cuz there were too many dope poppers to battle that night!!!

From Philly we had BOOG from 360

From NY we had Killa Watts from Part Time Models

From D.C we had C-lo,Wu Bott and Jett Jaguar from Regulators

and from NJ we had What The Funk?! Crew and Boogie Mind from the Boogie Bots who competed at ABDC season 2!!

Now all these names u see some of the best poppers from their states, and so as u can guess, this section had one of the DOPEST BATTLES OF THE NIGHT !!!!!

All the battles were on fire and were really difficult to judge.
We were really glad to have Spex, one of the oldest and experienced dancer from NY to judge with us that night.
Therefore, I feel like we able to judge the battles fair and reasonable.

The Champ of this intense section was Jett Jaguar from the Regulators!!!

His musicality and creativity outmatched the rest of the skilled dancers and took the title of becoming the best popper at Step Up or Get Smoked 2010

Here are one of the hottest battle of the night, Jett Jaguar VS Boogie Mind!





Congrats to all the Champs and a great job to all those who competed!!!

Cant wait to attend the next Step Up or Get Smoked!!!!

Peace

Step Up or Get Smoked 2010!!!

Yes the event I'm helping to organize and judge is happening this Saturday, March 6 from 8pm!!!!

Its called

"Step Up or Get Smoked 2010"!!!!!

As u can tell from the name, this battle competition expects u to bring the best u can do or else get smoked(defeated) by the opponent!!!

The event will be held at Creative Image Studio
Address are displayed on the side link of this blog :)

This time Step Up or Get Smoked will hold 3 different street style competitions.

First House


Second Hip Hop


Finally Poppin


Incredibly, many skilled competitors are expected to attend this event,
including my crew mates, E.T,Karlo,Poppin iLL,Ray Mak,Samgician,and TKO

I have high expectation to see the best battles of the day in poppin section since it have more competitors than the other two. Also dancers will be coming from all over east coast such as D.C, Philly,NY,and NJ.

Come and see how What The Funk?!Crew gets down and witness the best dancer of these styles!
Support and be part of the REAL UNDERGROUND HIP HOP CULTURE!!!


Facebook Event Page

Peace

Who The What Now?!?!

Sup ya'll my name is SUGALOO, Member and one of the creator of What The Funk?! Crew.

many of u might be wondering why we chose such ridiculous name for our crew, well since this is beginning of another new journey for us, (well just something I have to do for skool LMAO)
I would like to explain how we came to be who we are now.

April 2009
At the time I had no knowledge about the area and its dance community,thus, the only reliable source was the Breakdance.Org. There I finally found a session spot where I can drive up to and that was called P.A.L of parsippany.

At first, I was kinda disappointed by the low level of the dancers there lol
However, I stuck around cuz the guyz were all nice and I felt at home instantly, and perhaps cuz I met Ilya(only white boy in our crew lol)

He was the only popper around the area and when I saw his dance, well let just say he wasnt a popper at all lol. But that was only cuz he never had the chance to actually learn from anybody who know how to dance poppin.

Although he had energy when he danced and also was seriously curious about poppin. After acknowledging that he only need another popper/teacher who can teach him, I decided/promised to stay and cultivate his skills to make him a sick popper

May&June 2009
Surprisingly, the number of dancers practicing at P.A.L gradually grew. They were mostly B-Boys(Since the session was called P.A.L Breakin Session) but we were blessed to meet E.T,Karlo,Ray Mak,Charles and Rezno.
Unlike Ilya and TKO(My little brother), they knew how to get down.
Since we were the only poppers they've met in NJ, we soon began to get down constantly and share knowledges,concepts,techniques and battles.

Now here comes the reasons for our crew name!!!!

one day karlo started a conversation about forming a poppin crew since there wasnt any in NJ.

At first, we(E.T) came up with the name cuz wanted to show/introduce the NJ dance community a pure and original form of poppin, EB Style/Funk Style. So that when they see us poppin, they would say "What The Funk!?" instead of "What The F**k!?" lol
and also we thought it was really catchy lol

Although now I feel like we have another main reason for having this name.

WTF?!Crew have diverse styles of poppin
and they all have original flavors.
Right now we all are trying to cultivate those flavor to be UNIQUE

We want to be DIFFERENT.

We want to be UNIQUE

so UNIQUE that when u see us get down, u will be flippin out shouting our name,,,,,,,


WHAT THE FUNK?!?


Peace