Bboy Knowledge

I can’t remember how exactly I found this, but somehow I came across this really awesome blog on bboying. There are some legit contributors to this blog, such as Alien Ness, Ken Swift just to name a few. It’s really informative, insightful and it’ll give you some perspective on how breaking has evolved so much and how people view it nowadays. Check it out!

Bboy Knowledge Blog

LXD [The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers] & Madd Chadd

Jon M. Chu, the director of Step Up 2 has been doing this project called The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers aka LXD, where he creates the “most elite dance crew ever assembled”. He gathers great dancers of all types of styles: breaking, popping, botting, ballet etc. and combines them into one crew, LXD. He has made 2 teaser trailers, leading to this epic online dance adventure that will be released in the near future.

Trailer 1:

Trailer 2:

Recently, they performed on So You Think You Can Dance:

These guys are reaaally legit, and totally inspiring. I just showed DWu the second trailer and he was impressed by this popper/botter named Madd Chadd, one of THE BEST robotters I’ve seen in my LIFE! Go back to trailer 2 and look at 0:26 and you’ll see exactly what I mean. At first glance, DWu thought it was completely CGI and he didn’t believe me when I said it was a real person, Madd Chadd. He’s been a huge inspiration towards my botting skills ever since I first saw him a while back.

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REFRESH IS ON TV!!!! WHAAAAT?!?!

NBC covered Eberhard’s show today at 11 AM and you can see a glimpse of us in this video!!!

ReFresH on NBC Chicago!!

Check it at 0:55!!!!!!

Dopeness

So earlier today, a couple of us went to Willard to give a little workshop and a freestyle session for the freshmen to show what ReFresH is about, kinda like last year when Alan was a CA there. Unfortunately, they were on a tight schedule and could only do a session for about half an hour or so, so pretty much each of us, as in myself, Dwu, Jason, Kevin, Chris Nho, Joe Kim, Sam Jang and Han got to freestyle only once, some of us were lucky enough to dance twice, and then gave a very very brief workshop on how to break and pop. It was all good, got lots of people who were impressed with us, and hopefully we’ll get some new members.

Afterwards, Chris thought it was too short and randomly says, “Hey, session at the arch. Now.” He grabs his battery powered speakers and we head out to the dimly lit arch, and had a ridiculous session for an hour. LEGIT. We had crowds of people going, “Dude, that so sick.” Sometimes it got too loud, a cop car drove up to us to keep it down! I have to say that I always wanted to dance in front of the arch. But what made it epic was that it was at 12 AM!! Yeah, that’s right. We’re just that awesome.

Sure we had haters shouting random shit at us from passing cars, but screw those guys. They’re just jealous they can’t do half the stuff we can. We even had random people come up and do stuff for 2 seconds! I’d have to say that tonight was a pretty frickin’ epic night for ReFresH, and hopefully it’ll attract some new members. I’d definitely love to do this again sometime! I’m already excited for the new year!

ReFresH has a Youtube Channel!!!

Hey guys,

A random thought occurred to me the other day, and that thought was, “Hey, why doesn’t ReFresH have a youtube account?” It would be nice to have a separate channel for us with videos of our performances, instead of having to search for our videos that are uploaded by a bunch of other people. Why not post them in one convenient place?

So last night I made ReFresH’s account “refreshdancecrew” and posted all of the videos from the past that I could find/get access to, and reposted them in this channel! If you want to check out the page click the link below:

ReFresH Dance Crew’s Youtube Page

If there are other videos that you think I’m missing, please let me know! Hopefully we can use this as a good way to advertise to the incoming freshman class by showing our own youtube page so they can check out all of our videos. I’ve already been in touch with several freshmen after Sam and I wrote a little something about ReFresH on a dance thread on a Facebook group for the new freshmen. Let’s get excited for the new year!

Million Dollar Babies feat. REFRESH DANCE CREW (WHAAAT?!)

Thanks to Ray for taking the video, I just cut entire act to when we start dancing on stage.  WE WERE SO DOPE!!

WE KILLED IT AT KASA SHOW!! YEAAAH REFRESH!!!

The video you all have been waiting for!! I’ve uploaded it on my youtube account, but I’ll post a better quality one once I upload it on vimeo. AWESOME JOB EVERYBODY!!

Here’s the original file from Matt: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/560427/2009-05May-01%20-%20RFH%20%40%20Kasa%20Show.mp4

EPIC SUSHI!!!

Hey peeps,

I’m assuming that you guys read the email that I just sent regarding sushi, but if not here’s a copy of it (cuz I am le tired and lazy)

“WHY HAI2U AWESOME REFRESH-ERS!!

Awesome job tonight at rehearsal! I’m pretty sure we really really impressed KASA members. Actually, hell, I’m impressed that we pulled it together in the last 2 practices! Now I’ve been talking to a few people about this already, since I know that a lot of us have had a pretty rough week from exams and etc, that sushi would be a pretty epic way to end it, especially after teh awesomeness of KASA. It’s funny since I was just going to send an email before Kevin brought up the idea of the ReFresH potluck, but now that it’s been moved, I say LET’S GO EAT SUSHI THIS WEEKEND! I will make a post on the blog and respond to let me know who’s up for it or not. GET EXCITED! THIS. IS. KASA!!”

Soooo, who’s up for it?! RESPOND PLEASE! And if nobody responds, I’m completely fine with going with those who I already spoke with, and even some non-RefresH people.

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