BBOY STORM - STAY HUNGRY

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🗓️ 16 April 2017

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Niels “Storm” Robitzky is a German choreographer and hip-hop dancer, recognised for hip-hop techniques B-Boying, Locking, and Popping in Europe. He won several dance competitions and became World Champion in Breakdance in 1992.

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Chapters:

00:00 Trailer.

02:11 Brian’s thoughts on the episode.

04:32 Brian’s introduction.

05:15 Why Brian got into break dancing.

07:09 What led BBoy Storm into B-boying.

15:35 How B-boying spread across the world from the Bronx.

18:34 An immediate desire to excel at B-boying.

20:27 Continuing with his dream during drop in popularity of B-boying from 1984

31:16 What B-boying means to BBoy Storm.

35:02 Why B-boying and hip-hop etc., came from the Bronx.

38:10 The part music played in the development of B-boying and the graffiti.

48:18 Going to the Bronx where he learned the need to stay hungry.

55:40 What happened to him during the period 1992 to 1999.

58:24 What makes a great B-boy.

1:07:07 Why is it called a battle, is it dangerous?

1:12:44 BBoy Storm’s training schedule.

1:21:42 The 2016 battle with Crazy Legs.

1:28:08 No retirement plans; diversification, but don’t call it street dancing.

1:36:56 Working in other dance genres and venues.

1:42:22 Break dancing will be in the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games.

1:45:11 Current state of B-boying now and in the future.

1:51:54 How BBoy Storm feels about fatherhood.

1:57:04 Success secrets.

1:57:54 What he and Crazy Legs teach their students in their university classes.

1:59:07 What keeps BBoy Storm awake at night.

2:03:21 Phone call to the twenty year old BBoy Storm.

2:04:19 Best advice he ever received.

2:08:57 Advice to the young people watching who want to be like BBoy Storm.

2:15:58 Brian’s summing up.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I wanted to play different so and in that dance I could just develop freely.
0:07.0	It was about me what I develop my movement.
0:12.0	Create a world within the world.
0:14.0	That's what this play is about,
0:17.0	you create something better than actual life.
0:27.4	Even back then when I saw the first moves I was so fascinated that I really like I want to do that. The struggle that I had in the days just to tell people this is what I want to do for a living.
0:37.0	They were all shaking ahead. Nobody believed me, nobody.
0:42.0	Because from that minute on, from that moment on, I knew that I was going to be happy until the end of my life if I just continued dancing. I never retired. No and I don't plan to even in the
0:58.0	wheelchair I could still do my robot trust me. You recently had a battle with Crazy Laid and who won?
1:07.0	I won. I won.
1:15.0	I kind of like found out the hard way that I have to stay hungry in order to be happy. And the the You're going to. This week on the show we welcome Storm who is one of the master OG B boys from Europe.
2:18.6	What's a B boy? It's a breakdancer.
2:20.7	So when I jump a little bit of this. The reason I care is because I've been
2:28.0	breakdancing for the past 14 months and I'm super honored to have one of the guys that was doing it back in the 80s back in the 90s
2:35.3	He pretty much won every single competition that Europe had and now he's here in London to referee the UK B- Boy Champs.
2:43.7	Storm has an amazing way to look at movement.
2:46.2	He pops, he locks, he does all the B-Boying,
2:49.7	and it's just amazing that a guy from Germany
2:52.3	picked up a form of dance and movement that started in the Bronx in New York and took it to the next level.
2:58.5	And he's got some great ideas about what it takes to be human, how to progress in any endeavor, and he's got a really good
3:04.6	perspective on life in general.
3:06.8	So sit back and enjoy one of the OGs of Beeboyne Storm.
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