In 2007, history was made.. RAW took out the crew battles and the 2k in prize money. Tas took out the 1 on 1's and won himself a trip to South Africa to hang out at BC 1. Cole took looking fresh to the next level..

Ducky, Milky, Kid David and Beast all made their way down, ciphers, battled, ran FREE workshops, and showed everyone what's up..

But that doesn't even hold a flame to what's going down in 2008!!!

Hypnotic Capture Entertainment and REDBULL BC1 are proud to present:

SHADOW WARS III.

WHEN: Saturday 30th August
TIME: 12pm
WHERE: Sydney Australia
 
PRELIMS: Friday, 29th August
TIME: 5pm
WHERE: 21 Mays street, Sydney
 
CONFIRMED GUESTS: ROTATING JUDGES AND EXHIBITION

• HONG 10 (Drifters, KR)
  
• ROXRITE (Renegades, US)
  
• LILOU (Pokemon, FR)
  
• PHYSIX (Rivers, KR)
  
• BENNY (Hand Brake Turn, ZA)
  
• PELEZIHNO (Tsunami All Stars, BR)
  
• SUGA POP (Electric Boogaloos, US) 

Who has the goods to take the crew Battles?? The 1 on 1's??? To take the international bboys in the ciphers??

2008!! Shadow Wars III!!! ALL OUT WAR!!!!!

Brisbane City Council in association with Brisbane Festival 2008 and Channel Direct present:

The Ultimate Block Party

BATTLE CITY 7

7PM, Under the Turbot Street, Overpass, (off Roma Street), Brisbane City. 4x4 B-Boy/B-Girl Battles.. $500 cash prize

Featuring:
Impossible Odds, Contact Crew, Shift-1, Hiatus, Cerius, Cean, Danny Cool, DJ Bacon.

Judged By:
K-Bigs (Christchurch, NZ)
Arch Rival (WF, Melb)

Hosted by:
Sammie D & Doesa

Wassup peoples, one of the things that's been a little disappointing lately is the lack of events or social gatherings where B-boys and B-girls can just get together and jam. I mean, most people KINDA do it at training, but its just not the same thing.

A few people always ask: "Hey Lama whens the next event?" and in the back of my mind I'm like, I don't have a budget to get guys to a jam and give them prize money...

But then again, since when did events need to always be about tournaments with one winner? Why not an event with multiple battles, something like what the Hybrid Formz hold at Bankstown once a month which gives you a chance to ease into freestyling and battles... but also tie in the other elements of Hiphop which as an organiser I think are very important for our culture.

I think their approach of mixing experienced bboys/girls with not so experienced bboys/girls allows for a good environment for EVERYONE TO GROW, and I think we need more than the next competition to encourage our dance styles to evolve. Its like local footy matches and the little leagues they have and how that evolves into the big matches and eventually the Grand Finals. Think of it as Breaking Cyphers that lead to Competitions.

So we're trying to create an HIPHOP environment where you can take workshops of MC'ing, DJ'ing and B-boying for the first hour of the day, which leads onto a 3 hour cypher of all the styles, basically creating the vibe of a Hiphop Party.

This format may change, but the vibe is that, the DJ plays a variety of tunes in 30 min blocks: 90's Hiphop, Funk Breaks, G-funk, party funk, Electro, recent Hiphop, Disco breaks , Rock Breaks etc whilst the DJ's, B-boys/girls, MC's and hopefully some Writers too cypher on the floor, on the decks, mic and in the Blackbooks.

This evolves into, name picked outta the hat battles, for example, a pro(fessional) - am(ateur) situation -or- a 2 on 2's with one professional and one amateur, or even just simple call outs.

If the B-boys and girls on the day feel down for a gold coin pot winner takes all kind of battle, then we can go with that too. In the meantime MC's would be freestyling over beats and rapping about topics and having battles, DJ's will be cutting vinyl with their scratching jams and practically doing what the B-boys/girls do but keeping it all together and keeping it HIPHOP.

It sounds chaotic, but I think we can make it work. Simply put, there's a time and place for everything, so it won't be pandemonium for 3 hours straight. Everyone will get their say.

And also I think B-boys and B-girls need a place to show their power and tricks, a place to show their new toprock steps, footwork and uprock and play with the notion of 'show and tell' with their Breaking. If not then its a free for all, anything goes, let's all get hyped circle... who knows it's really up to you and what we as a community create from these kind of events.

Plus every month you get free food. On the menu this month is Filipino Food. Fried Lumpia (Spring Rolls) Vegetarian or Meat with Fried Rice. Next month might be Greek, Ethopian, Tongan, Irish, even Martian... but most likely it'd be Filipino, cos Mama's a great chef :)

We aim to do this on every third Saturday, once a month.

So please come down and support~

RELINK THE ELEMENTS

• Entry: $10
• Dress code: Fresh
• Saturday July 19th
• 1PM - 5PM
• @ The Crom
• 138 Cromwell Street
• Collingwood (just near Collingwood Station across the road and a block away from Hoddle Street.)

For more information please email me on: Anthony.l@culturalinfusion.com

Sunday July 13th
3pm till 9pm
Manning Bar
Lv3 Manning House, Sydney Uni

Tickets
Presale $20
Door: $25

2 on 2 Bboy Battles
3 on 3 All Style Battles

DK Students Showcases

Bboy Judges:
Dany - Addictos, Spain
Ill-Fx - ACC, Sydney
Hideboo - RAW, Sydney

All Style Judges
Nacho Pop (Star Connection)
Rihiannon (SYTYCD Top 8)
Nao (Nu Skool Club)

Competitors need to be at the venue for registration at 2pm. Please don't be late!!!

Eliminations start at 3pm.

Following the success of our Foundation @ Dank St Krump event in 2007,  we're back in 2008 to give it another go. So, the details are :-

FOUNDATION2

Date: Saturday 12th July 2008
Time: 4pm
Location: Parramatta PCYC, 12 Hassall St, Parramatta
Cost: $10

This is an all age event, so for anyone interested in joining in or just coming along to watch and get caught up in the energy of the battle, come on down!

There will be heaps of give-aways and opportunities for 'Lil Homies to battle for existence. If you're new to the game, here's your opportunity to step up and be counted.

Sponsors & Prizes:

Nike: Air Force 1s(Jordan Fusions),  Caps, T-Shirts
New Era & And 1: (Packs) Cap cases including 2 Caps and a belt inside
LGR: Clothing
Eagle Entertainment: Krump instructional DvDs (Krump 1.0)

For more info, please just contact Darrio on Mob: 0409 772 143 or web: www.darriostreet.com.

Get in and support these events, and support the people making sure the dance is on the right track from the start.. We don't want to see the same shit that happened to bboying happen to Krump..

It's that time again, been a while since we had a jam so decided to do one. Hope you can all rock up!!!

When: 6:30 - 10pm - Friday July 4th 2008.

Where: Bankstown PCYC (55 Meredith St, cnr French Ave, Bankstown)

How Much: $5 for all.

What: NO Judges, just Fun - Guest DJ Matt Fernandez and just confirmed "Jam Tarts" - Older Womens' Network's very own Drumming group

Exhibition Battles

• Dan (FP) vs Taz (HFz)
• Kotic (HFz) vs JP (JUSE)
• Don (SKB) vs Jules (FP)

,and more TBC - please contact me if you want a battle set up for the night ( MSN: ass_whoopa@hotmail.com or send email to khai@superroundbox.com)

Spin Comps - categories are: 90's, 2000's, headspins, backspins, handspins, knee spins, bum spins, shoulder spins you will need at least 4 people entering otherwise it won't happen. Some will be judged on the number of spins - others may be the fastest - eg...  spins in X seconds

Ciphers - the Music will be blazing all night so cipher any time.

After a year of waiting HypnoticCapture is proud to present to you the new edition of sevenshadows. I know you'll be wanting to jump into the moving picture and re-live the dope ass moments some of us got to experience through the year past but to be usured to see the full feature film on the big screen you'll have to make it over for the shadow wars event on the 30th August 2008 in Sydney. If you didn't already know sevenshadows is the engeene that drives shadow wars, it started with the dvd 12 years ago and here we are today with an international event flying in guests and flying out winners to events around the world. Its good to know we have a foundation focused on giving back to all the bboys accross Australia. Peace to all and i hope to see you fresh motherflippers at shadow wars 2008. M.

Cultural Infusion will create a truly unforgettable Hip Hop experience in Moonee Valley next weekend, hosted by Australian Bboy Champion, Lamaroc.  Cultural Infusion is delighted to provide this platform for local youth to try out the latest techniques in free Hip Hop interactive workshops, being held at Niddrie Hub on Saturday 28 June from 1-5pm.  ‘How Do You Want It?' Hip Hop Forum is an initiative by Cultural Infusion and Moonee Valley City Council targeting youth in the City of Moonee Valley and surrounding areas.  

The aim is to provide basic but essential mentorship of “how to do it and how it's done” and any real outcome and benefit to the youth MUST come from the rites of passage involving getting them out there and ‘just doing it.'  “We want the kids to walk away from this session with something they can work on in their own time, so that when the opportunity comes for them to get up and dance elsewhere, they can do so with confidence… in essence we want them to learn how to freestyle using proper vocabulary from these arts,” says Anthony Lawang (aka Lamaroc).

HDYWI? is a rare opportunity for youth to engage with Professional Hip Hop artists and practitioners in an informal environment, where their knowledge of the art can be passed on with the aim of starting the journey for the next Hip Hop generation, with the cream of the crop assembled including:

• Kaos aka Subliminal from the Kaos Fam / Royal Fam / Grrilla Step posse specialising in the art of Krumping.
• Lamaroc aka Boogalama aka Luv'n Lama from the Fresh Sox / Nomadic Funk / Zulu Kingz / Cyphersapiens specialising in the art of B-boying (Breakdance) and 70's Funkstyle: Popping (Boogaloo Style)
• Jay Jamero, Daisuke Fujino & Deloy de Jesus from Jigsaw Sneakers / Cyphersapiens specialising in Freestyle Hiphop Dance and 70's & 80's Funkstyle dances: Locking & New York House
• MC Aim hailing from Glenroy specialising in the art of Beatboxing and Emceeing (Rapping)
• and special guest from Switzerland, DJ C.T.B specialising in the art of DJ'ing Old School Classics, spinning tunes throughout the day and teaching basic vinyl ‘Scratching' techniques.

The aim is to establish a ‘professional artist-to-student exchange', a way to boost self-esteem, courage and confidence, which is an example of a ‘real' mentoring process from professional artists and an outcome drawn from ‘true grace under pressure' situation.

The purpose of the event is to gauge the interest of the Moonee Valley youth community, with the mantra of ‘for the youth by the youth'. Using the artists ‘street rep(utation)' as a marketing tool, the aim is to encourage new youth to join and be part of the greater Victorian Hip Hop and Streetdance community. As Notorious B.I.G put it: ‘…if you don't know, now you know.'  Following this initial session, the next step is to then begin workshopping in these styles.  For video footage of Lamaroc and other Hip Hop artists, please go to: http://www.myspace.com/hiphopinstructors

PREPARE!!!!!!!!  Australia's longest running bboy battle series is on again for 2008!!!! DANCEKOOL VOL 22!!!!

The legacy continues, but with a few small differences.. This is the first Dancekool Volume that I know of without Tsuyoshi.. It signals the end of one era, and the beggining of a new.

So without further adue, Dancekool Studios Presents:

Many have seen him on vid's, some have seen him in the flesh (SYGU2), but now world renowned BBoy Taisuke, the 17 year old destroyer from Nagasaki, Japan will be bringing the heat to Sydney, Australia for Shadow Wars II on August 30th..

Taisuke (All Area Crew, Japan) vs Hong Boy (Hong Kong)

If you don't know.. You better ask somebody..