While I was writing the Common Ground entry, I stumbled on
something of theirs which I thought was hilarious. Here is a list of things
that will assure you that you are a bboy/bgirl. All credits of course go to the
Common Ground Crew :)
You know you’re a bboy:
- When you buy clothes, you think “Can I break in this?
- When the word “serve” has completely lost its original meaning.
- When you schedule things around breaking instead of the other way around.
- When at least once a practice you get impatient nearly killing yourself trying something that may not be possible for human beings.
- When you find nothing funny about the name “Iron Monkey”.
- When your hoodies have faded spots on the top.
- When you hurt your wrist (or whatever) and tell yourself “to be safe, today I’m gonna just work on toprock”, yet somehow 14 minutes later you find yourself in an airchair.
- When you think dope bboys on videos are celebrities.
- When you look in the dictionary for some dope names.
- When you make up a move… then find someone on a video doing the same thing.
- When you grow your hair out for padding.
- When you have hella pads.
- When you have hella holes in your socks from breaking on carpet.
- When you wonder how peaceful the world would be if everyone bboyed.
- When you set up battles over the internet.
- When you remember your first competition and how nervous you were to bust in the circles.
- When you go to a family reunion and ask everyone if they break.
- When you remember how happy you were when you hit a dope pose that was like, once in a life time.
- When people leave stuff at your house after a session… then you wear it the next day.
- When you read this then laugh and say, that is sooo me!
- When you hit something dope then try to get it on video, but it turns out crappy.
- When you go to a dance club then break and get kicked out.
- When you mentor for your school’s dance programme and teach little kids how to break.
- Whenever you go out to town or the mall, you just have to break.
- When you break on an elevator while it’s going down.
- When you make your own beat when you up rock.
- When you make little sound effects when you break.
- When you have crew meetings but end up messing around.
- When you make your dog air flare.
- When you find yourself playing with action figures to make them do poses.
- When you think twins are biters.
- When you get hella hyped after seeing breaking on music videos.
- When you use bboy jargon for everyday use. (Like telling mum she's mad dope for cooking dinner and give her props)
- When you think terms like “corkscrew” come from bboying instead of gymnastics.
- When someone says 3-steps or windmills and you immediately think of the bboy moves instead of its generic term.
- When you check the floor everywhere you go, and when it's good you bust a move or two.
- When you think anyone who owns a pair of Puma Suedes must be a bboy/bgirl.
- When you see a baby trying to tumble and think he's going to be a bboy someday.
And that's about it. Got any more? Post it up!