Bboy Battles On The Basketball Court. Then and Now

Reminiscing on our last lecture, the Professor mentioned the battles on the basketball court where youth would come and battle each other breaking to the music and calling each other out to settle disputes through dance and music. I still cant stop thinking about the brilliance of that idea as a way to mediate disputes on the street as opposed to the street violence of a street sweeping blast of a AK47 in gangland California.

We discussed the originator Afrika Bambaata et. al, the Bboy/Bgirl breaking and grafitti culture, the phenomenon of the ghetto blaster, and now the basketball courts as a place to gather and watch some freestyle ball or see a breaking battle between rival crews, which I vividly remember seeing for myself once, when in Greenwich Village.

Below is an interesting synthesis of Afrika Bambaata's beats and freestyle basketball moves that mimic breakdancing poplocking and the whole shabang.

Enjoy it as much as I did, you can't get iller than this: