that stands for able-bodied style trooper with rapid agility and knowledge

there's a lot of layers to my background just like anybody else

I'm really deep into martial arts last have been for the last seven years

I am also into a lot of videography and filmmaking so I'm hoping to actually I'm

I'm gonna really be releasing a lot of different things throughout the

the months and years of passion projects that I have coming out

other than that you know I mean I'm originally from New York Brooklyn New

York and I was raised in Manhattan, lived in the Bronx for a little bit and from

there in 1994 I moved to Florida and not until like '95 I didn't start really

breaking you know I used to just go to these clubs and just freestyle

dance against people and I wound up battling some guy in 1994 he was doing

windmills and ever since then I actually have non-stop breaking and I actually

got in some breaking because of a talent show in my school and I met this guy

from California which is my Ryan Gonzalez he got me into breaking and uh

ever since then I haven't turned back but before that you know my freestyle

dancing was actually inspired by my boy from Connecticut him and his brother

Janou and T, they were emcees but there also were hip-hop dancers and

before breaking that's what I was doing I was dancing to Hip Hop and I was dancing

to techno house and a little bit of house so that's my little brief history on that

I think anyone around me, my little circle you know. From Ryan Gonzalez to

my boys Janou and T, to my crew just seeing them from scratch just looking

you know all of us everybody looks wack when they first started dancing you know

and then they progressed to greater things if they keep pushing it so

they're my biggest inspiration even up until this day and then beyond that was

always you know like Ken Swift & Storm and Mauritzio, quickstep to name a few

even rivalries were and that biggest influence because it would help me

you know reinvent myself you know to be better

it's difficult because you know

the crew is not that together you know there's been a time a period of time

that we kind of disappeared and um there's a period of time that we

disappeared and you know we just recently started staying close together

you know staying in touch so it hasn't been you know what people you know

outside that circle think that it is you know it's it's uh it's basically like a

family like you know there's difficulties and families all the time

and you have to rekindle those relationships if you can

the crew always tries to stay connected you know especially up until recently

you know really it's ironic because

before, if you know who MexOne is

before MexOne passed away we were starting to connect with each other and when that

day happened I really reached out you know to them, " look man we need

to really connect with each other forgive each other as much as we can

for whatever reason that we don't speak to each other so ever since then you

know we are on a little Instagram chat group and we just send each

other funny stuff and just try to keep each other entertained you know and

know that you know we're there for each other no matter what no matter how far

Even if it's through a text I know sometimes a text is impersonal but it's

better than nothing and some members we haven't spoken in years so

it's very hard to keep a crew together you know especially when it's like a family

I've been dancing for 23 years so that's basically training for 23 years that's the way I

see it so even if I don't get to practice you know I have a sense of

movement and muscle memory but you know certain movement might not be as sharp

but how did I sustain myself? Well I mean it's been a

difficult last couple of years or five years you know you're kind of like,

after a while you kind of lose, sometimes you might, you know you lose the desire the

motivation to keep going. You question why are you doing this? So there's a lot

of times where I question why am I doing it but ultimately I never turn my back

on the dance you know. I'll tell you if anything I'll turn my back on a scene

and that means you know just I don't have to go to a jam all the time you know.

Even if I'm in my living room I'm still dancing it's part of my life is my

lifestyle you know I'm saying I'm not you know it's not like I'm in a club and

meaning like a set team club that I have to go to every now and then and you

know perform this character because you know as corny as it sounds breaking is a

lifestyle you know I'm saying it's you it's my life it always in my life

it was my career for 12 years so whether people see me dancing or not and if you

know depending, you know no matter how much time I put into the dance

I'm still dancing you know, my meditation and I love it and it's

what's created the artist in me you know from dance is what I have discovered many

other talents you know it was a for dance I wouldn't have the desire to film

you know I wouldn't have the love for movement, for doing martial arts even

though one as a kid I did martial arts. Even as asked as a kid I did break. You. know

And I stopped and I went back to it. You know because ultimately movement is

what I love, I love movement and where it can take you know.

How you can you know, redefine physics in a way.

India overall was amazing. I mean, its like

the guys- All For One, the guys that I met. they're like I mean I have so much

love for those guys and I've met so

many people throughout the years but there's something about them that's so

genuine and they're just like my other brothers from the other side of the

world you know and I still keep in contact with them you know I'm still in

touch with them I want that bond to continue because it's

times where I'll stay connected with some people for like a week after I

leave there's their continent, their country and then that's it you know. But

with those guys I don't know I have like a strong I feel a strong bond with them

so Original Street Dance, the event and just the people was amazing you know

I don't know it was just a different experience that just like in anything

for you do it to know what it's like you have to experience it just like

breaking like for people to that are looking outside in you know that don't

understand what breaking is they would have the experience it's who actually

understand it in their form. So India by far one of the best places I've been to

and I just can't wait to go back I'm supposed to go back so it was definitely

a beautiful experience and I want to continue that experience for years to come

I did connect with a lot of the b-boys in India during the workshop after the

workshop. That's always my intention when I go to these events. I want to connect

with people in a personal level philosophical level just to see how they

think. Not just me expressing how my philosophy of dancing is interpreted

but I want to hear their voice as well you know there's so many other, there's

so many people out there that have, you know their philosophy might

you know influence mine. I always look to connect with anyone in any country that

I go to and I did interact with a lot of the b-boys on a personal level dancing

and spiritually, so yeah it was amazing. I wish I could have documented that but I

actually documented A.F.O. you know, All For One Crew. I'm actually working

on this project it's called momentum and one of the first one of the features is

India and one of the first features is going to be Josh, incredible Josh from my crew.

But I'll probably talk more about that later

for me like I always say anywhere that I go you're always gonna have a handful of

b-boys that are really dope and you're gonna have a handful of people b-boys

that are, you know they're gonna be dope so I think it's like that

everywhere you know and everywhere has their own foundation. Sometimes you can

kind of tell when India I just see the happiness and the passion that they have

in there you know. What stood out? what stood out was the person in the

b-boy and that's what my the project that I'm doing is actually about you

know it's the person within. You know some people's like oh so you know

when you kind of like film an artist or any type of artist it's always like all

the artists within the person but now like I want to flip that there for me

what stands out is the person in the artist you see what I'm saying

that means a lot to me so I think I think b-boys in India are just as good

and great as any other b-boy in any other country

Foundation versus blow-ups.

I think that balance is Yin and Yang. Look Yin and Yang. I think it's needed you

got you know I'm saying whether you want to look it like that or not you know.

Blowups, foundation, there's foundation

in blow ups as well, so it's it depends on what you like you know, the you know

Everybody shouldn't dance the same anyways see what I'm saying, but my

my my philosophy has always been, what if your foundation is your blow up? You know

you don't have these blow up sets for me that's how I've seen my

breaking the way I break, I feel like my foundation is my blow up you know well

that whatever angle I hit, how I do it, direction,

that's my blow up. So I don't hate on any dancer on what they do, I respec t every

dancer on what they do as long as they got you know their intention is correct

and what I mean about correct, like it's not they're not just a-holes about it

you know I'm saying cuz you could be the nastiest dancer but if your intentions

are wrong and just bad then you're just not a good person overall and I don't

even care to be around you but um you know blow-ups

I mean it's necessary you know. Its a great way to win battles. Like let's

say if you have foundation and blow ups you know you don't have to use

an entire set even if it's freestyle to win a battle.

You could just go in and do like two or three blow ups and save your moves or your

your rounds for another battle if that makes any sense.

so I mean if people are not dancing it's okay because they will acknowledge that

they need to dance eventually and what's happening now is what happened in the

past you know we would go against as far as my crew or anybody from Florida will

go against other people and weren't really dancing didn't get it and then

years later along the line they started dancing and I'm implementing dance

within their blow-ups and they just look phenomenal now like even if they're all

school like they just look at all so eventually people will catch on it's

always like that you know it's like they say history repeats itself.

so you know just obviously just like anybody would say just work on your

fundamentals dissect the music to to its core. You know you have

different tracks, different sounds what they call stems in a track if the track

has let's say one track has five stems that means that there has a melody, it

has a drum, it has a bass line, you know it might have vocals and then it has a

it can have percussion which I said drums already ready but anyways you get

the idea you know break that down that's what I

used to do it just break down music and you can go to different tempos because

people think about worry about like a song being too fast or song being too

slow even a slow song there is a even if you don't hear the tempo you can create

the tempo so if you have a slow song and you have the idea like oh maybe yeah

what's the fast part of that song and it could be the hi-hat that's not even

there or if there is I hat right you can double that in your in your mind and

you're still gonna be on beat so think about it like that

you know I think that everyone's job as a dancer in anything in any form of art

everyone should you know tap into the foundation let's say you know you

have these blow-ups but you don't have like just a simple fundamental of how to

play it off when you mess up something simple is a corkscrew something simple

as a little freeze you know it doesn't mean that I wouldn't consider somebody a

big way it's just people should learn how to dissect dance and music in general

foundation is also what you create you know whatever artist creates

their style that's their foundation you know so there's different ways of

looking at foundation and to think oh but I want to be different

everything has been done everything mostly everything has been done with the

exception of like crazy movement but you know if it wasn't for a specific

foundation of those crazy moves they wouldn't get to that level right so

foundation is very important you know if foundation is like I said it's not just

like top rock and freezes and it's it's the it's the simple basic tool or move

to get you to the next level for that blow up whatever that is if it's a blowup

The only advice I have I mean it depends on what you want to know you know some

people ask me "What do you think I should work on?" so I ask them "Where do you

want to be? how how skillful do you want to be? As far as what level what

exactly do you want to be efficient at what exact what kind of movement do you

want to master then you master those moves but also don't