Storm's Footwork Fundamentals #13 - Outro

Hey what's up everybody, my name is Storm!
I'm b-boying since 1983 and now by the year 2005 I thought it was necessary to bring out the footwork tape with the main footwork stuff that we were doing throughout the years. It's a lot of
ancient stuff on this DVD. I hope that you appreciate it. It was a lot of work to shoot all that stuff! I hope that you're gonna get some motivation out of it, I hope that you going to continue and bring this culture forward.

I never thought that b-boying was going to be as big as it is today, and I really appreciate it. So even if it's just a little bit of motivation that you get out of this tape it's gonna make me happy.

I can only say it again and again and again and again: There will never be a complete b-boy tape or a complete learning video, instructional video, or something like that when it comes down to our dance. Everybody started different, everybody has a different background, and everybody learned from somebody different or with different people. So of course, it's always going to come out different.

Plus, our culture only made it that big because it always got reinvented. When you look at its different
cycles that went through and where b-boying is now and how many styles you actually have all over the globe, then you will see that pretty soon, there are other moves are going to come out and it's
going to look different again and again and again. Every time when there's somebody new coming out who has a different kind of flavour or is kicking some new stuff, people are jumping on it eventually. It's normal when there's something that is motivating you or when there's something that looks brilliant, of course, it's going to give you inspiration to either practice something similar or that has given you inspiration on how to transform it, kind of like, into your style, so you can continue of something, and you come up with something.

But that's what I love about this culture.

So, take this DVD, get some motivation. I don't care whether you do it exactly the way I'm doing it or your way or whatever way. I really don't care, as long as you do it to the music. The flow is the most important thing. A lot of times now I see dancers who are doing some footwork, who are actually nice and skilled and all of a sudden, they stop and then they go on some crazy move. That is interrupting the flow which is not good. You should keep the flow and you should keep things unexpected, the same kind of like in the music. When you listen to a break or when you listen to it, a nice track or something with a nice rhythm, the rhythm is rolling and the drummer when he's changing, he's still keeping the flow. And that's important! Otherwise, he would break the song. I mean we can compare it to rap for instance. If I would say, let me rhyme in German. If I would say: “Gestern war ich auf ‘ner Party und schaute in ‘ne Gewehrmündung. Ich lief nach Hause und … bekam ‘ne Schleimbeutelentzündung.“ You hear, when I hear “Schleimbeutelentzündung” which would be the Power Move, it would be really really really hard to say that right? Especially for a foreigner. So, you would have to think about it. But if you break the flow and you wait for too long until that word is coming, then the audience is getting bored by then. So, you have to say: “Gestern war ich auf ‘ner Party und schaute in ‘ne Gewehrmündung. Dann lief ich nach Hause und bekam ‘ne Schleimbeutelentzündung.“ Then you have the flow!

So that was it, party people. That was my DVD. I hope that you liked it, I hope it inspired you and that you're going to continue like I just said it. It's lovely when I see how this culture grew and I hope really, really hope, from the bottom of my heart that is going to continue like it was, yeah?

Keep it tight, make it happen! And don't forget after all: Think positive, whatever happens!