[mikeyice]

Originally Posted by iggy

ok look bboing was imspired by many things such as capoeira kung fu tap dance and much more hipjop is made of many cultures it doesnt discriminate

capoeira wuz already a dance in africa & slaves were trade it to brazil hunderds & hundreds ago..
of years ago before the hiphop movement african slaves didn't know anything about bboying before they came to america period..but that's not the point bcuz disscussing races issues on the net is not even cool but the knowledge behind what the guy is talking about is 100% true if you wuz caught doing a 1990 or anything with movement you wuz not called a biter you wuz getting your hands chop off point blank & belive me slaves got there hands & feet cutt off just for the love of dancing but today it's all family & love i am glad we have a bboy seen & i am glad i can commuincate with you guy's the now generation so it's really up to you guy's to carry on tradition i been doing it all my life & i have documentation of it i wanna see 100 more mikeyice out there showing there video's from today 30 years down the road you gotta think like that..just dont get all caught up into the flash bcuz belive me air flares are gonna get old & so will you but history will tell you if you were the truth!

[xixinho]

Originally Posted by mikeyice

the people in this video is the freshest kids!

The guy said to watch the movie only cause in a scene they also say that they don't believe b-boyin came from capoeira. It has very close ties but the moves are only similar by chance. As someone with family from Brazil i gotta tell you that in the 70's there were little to no brazilians in NYC. Brazilian are a very small population even today in NYC. What I'm saying is that although it is amazing how it has its similarities (b-boyin has similarities to almost any form of dance, and that's what Capoeira really is- a dance) but to say B-Boys in the 70's, 80's and even early 90's were influenced by capoeira is very very improbable. Especially considering even today there are people that think brazil's national language is spanish. However that clip you showed was awesome.

[SBY]

I knew that they did flips and kicks, but hollows and headspins? Hell, I've saw one of the africans do a clean pike. Nice vid mikey.

Edit:
This one kid I know said capoeira came from bboying (he said he knows people who capoeira). I thought he lost his mind or he's retarded. Note: he "used to breakdance" and doesn't know what it means to be a bboy.

[mikeyice]

Originally Posted by xixinho

The guy said to watch the movie only cause in a scene they also say that they don't believe b-boyin came from capoeira. It has very close ties but the moves are only similar by chance. As someone with family from Brazil i gotta tell you that in the 70's there were little to no brazilians in NYC. Brazilian are a very small population even today in NYC. What I'm saying is that although it is amazing how it has its similarities (b-boyin has similarities to almost any form of dance, and that's what Capoeira really is- a dance) but to say B-Boys in the 70's, 80's and even early 90's were influenced by capoeira is very very improbable. Especially considering even today there are people that think brazil's national language is spanish. However that clip you showed was awesome.

i totally agree with you on your subject!

[AlphaTrion]

xixinho's definitely correct. The first school in america was opened up by Jelon Vieira in 1975. By that time, B-boying had already gone through it's first period of popularity and was considered a "dead" dance. B-boying didn't really see any direct influence from capoeira until the late 90s/early 2000s with Circle of Fire.