Keep it Fresh!! Review~~!

Sup yall!!

Hope yall ar enjoying a great weather we ar having today!

So last weekend I went to Baltimore to Judge a popping 1 vs 1 competition (also reppin What The Funk?! to the fullest like u see in the pic with 2 other popping judges Mike the popper&Jett Jaguar from the Regulators).

The place where the event took was really nice but the size of the event were small.
This was due to lack of time and management to put together an event(that's what I heard from the organizers themselves) and it would've been much better.

For example
-The place were steaming hot cuz they could not open the window due to the fact that the building right outside had a Easter ceremony going on.
-With the size of the space they had, they could've sold some goods like drinks and maybe sponsored T-shirt or smt to improve its financial planning.

Although it seems many people had a great time at the Jam:)
I believe this was due to the unexpected high level battles on both Popping and Breaking Battle.

There were less than 15competitors on both sides but I saw something very interesting and fun to watch on every battle.

Popping side was especially interesting since the competitors brought many different styles and flavor.

There were Animators,Funk Stylers,G-Stylers,and straight up trick dancers;D lol

One of the epic battle of the day for me was

Tito(Philly)VS Wookie(Baltimore)

This is Tito(somehow I had his pic but not wookie lol)


The two represented there style to the fullest and it was really hard to judge.
Tito had west coast funkstyle mixed with animated feeling.
Wookie had Asian flavor Beatfreaking Animation style.

Tito stuck to the basics while wookie presented his unique style and was the crowd pleaser of the battle.

Tito changed his style as the music did from round 1 to 2 which was amazingly done, however, I thought he wasn't able to maintain the energy and the intensity he brought on the 1st round.
Wookie stuck to his favorite style on both rounds. Although he managed to maintain the energy and was able to change the way he approached to the beat.

This was a REALLY CLOSE BATTLE and now I think back, I feel like we should've done a tie breaker since both are great poppers

The winner of this battle was WOOKIE

I gave my vote to wookie because of the reasons written above and cuz I thought wookie attacked to the beat more.
It is really important to go with the flow of the music in dancing, no doubt. But when u are battling u have to attack the beat with ur flavor and show supremacy against the opponent and prove that u can rock the beat better than the opponent.

Overall I had a good time at the event!!
I kinda regret that I judged cuz there were a lot of great poppers to battle against!

so NO JUDGING FOR A WHILE!!
gona stick to practicing and battling :)

Big props to the organizers for putting together a good event,all the competitors who is keepin popping and breaking scene on MD real and to those who won the event!!!

Peace

~~Posted by SUGALOO~~