Post by roldare on Dec 24, 2010 0:19:08 GMT -5
STORY TIME WITH ROLDARE:
MANY, MANY YEARS AGO THERE WAS A "BIG EVENT" THAT WAS TO TAKE PLACE AT MCCORMICK PLACE...THIS "BIG EVENT" WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SO ENIGMATIC THAT GROWN MEN WOULD CRY AT THE MERE MEMORY OF THE EVENT...$10,000 IN PRIZES WAS THE BAIT...BIG CREW NAMES FROM AROUND THE WORLD WERE BLASTED ON THE FLYER...SO THE DAY CAME: THE ROLDARE NATION WAS FRESH AND READY TO GO EMBARK ON THIS EPIC JOURNEY....BUT THE MIGHTY WINDS OF CHANGED CRASHED DOWN UPON THE CHICAGO LANDSCAPE....
BIG EVENT?.....WHAT BIG EVENT?....I DONT KNOW NUTTIN' ABOUT NO STUPID BIG EVENT....
...TALL TALES SPOKE OF A BIG GIANT HOAX THAT SOMEBODY TOOK TOO FAR...THERE ARE LEGENDARY TALES OF CREWS FROM A FAR SHOWING UP TO THE VENUE ONLY TO BE TURNED AWAY...FRAKIN' FAKE EVENT...
BUT NOW WE TURN TO MODERN DAY CHICAGO...AND ANOTHER MCCORMICK PLACE EVENT IS SCHEDULED...THIS TIME ITZ BEING PUT ON BY ROLDARE AND CONNECT FORCE...BUT UNLIKE THE GHOST OF MCCORMICK PAST, THIS EVENT WAS REAL.
SETTING:
MAYOR DALEY'S SPORT-FEST IS A YEARLY EVENT AT THE GI-NORMOUS MCCORMICK PLACE...THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TAKING PART IN HUNDREDS OF SPORTING ACTIVITIES...BUT FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE CITY OF CHICAGO OPENED ITS DOORS TO A BBOY ACTIVITY CENTER....SURE THERE HAVE BEEN BBOY PERFORMANCES IN THE PAST ON THE B96 BOOTH, BUT NEVER HAD BBOYS HAD THEIR OWN SPACE TO DO THEIR THING....
MARKING OUR TERRITORY:
WE CONSTRUCTED A 22 X 24 FOOT FLOOR...IMMEDIATELY WE STARTED WORKING THE CROWD...BLASTING HIP-HOP, HOUSE AND BREAKZ....MY GUYS HIT THE FLOOR...SURROUNDED BY BASKETBALL COURTS, A GIGANTIC SKATE PARK AND HOCKEY RINKS, WE WERE DEFINITELY GONNA HAVE TO PROVE THAT WE WERE REAL ATHLETES TO.
THE BATTLES...DAY 1
AFTER SESSIONING FOR ABOUT 31/2 HOURS, WE STARTED THE 1ON1 BATTLES...
ITZ CRAZY HOW EVEN A COMPETITION THAT WAS ONLY OFFERING PARKING LOT MONEY TO THE WINNER, BROUGHT ABOUT SO MUCH SKILL.
EVERYBODY WAS BRINGING IT: FROM WAR VETERANS LIKE BEESTBOY AND HOUNDBOY TO 2 GUYS THAT NEVER EVEN BATTLED BEFORE... IT WAS AWESOME WATCHING THESE FRESH-OUT-THE-PACKAGE BBOYS EARN THEIR STRIPES AT MY EVENT...
SO WE HAD SOME SOUR APPLES, SOME JMC, SOME CYPHER RANGERS, SOME CYPHERHEADZ, SOME SOLO-INDEPENDENT ACTS AND OF-COURSE SOME STYLIN OUT....AND ON THIS DAY: THEY ALL WERE PART OF ROLDARE NATION
USING THE SELF-X METHOD OF SETTING UP BRACKETS...THE CROWD GOT A CHANCE TO WITNESS WHAT ITS LIKE TO GET CALLED OUT...AND SO DID THE COMPETITORS FOR THAT MATTER.
BUT A BRUTAL AFFAIR , IT CAME DOWN TO FIZZ OF CYPHERHEADZ VS. JFUNKY OF STYLIN OUT. KEEP IN MIND, FIZZ IS THE LITTLE BROTHER OF PRESSING PRODIGY RAM, SO FIZZ GOTS SOME BBOY IN HIS BLOOD. BUT JFUNKY HAS HAD A BREAKOUT YEAR: FROM ELEMENTAL BREAKDOWN TO REMEMBER THE NAME....MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: IF FIZZ WAS GONNA WIN THIS BATTLE, HE WOULD NEED HELP FROM THE PRESSING GODS OF MOUNT META....
AFTER DEFEATING RAM IN THE OPENING ROUND, JFUNKY FIGURED HE HAD ELIMINATED HIS TOUGHEST OPPONENT....BUT FIZZ AINT NO PICNIC, FIZZ HAS ABSTRACT FLAVOR WITH FLEXIBLE STACKS....UNFORTUNATELY THAT WASN'T ENOUGH....JFUNKY WITH THOSE HEAD TRACKS AND FUNKTIFIED STEPS WINS!!!!!
CITY VS. SUBURBS
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, THE CITY VS. SUBURBS BATTLE: LIKE A DREAM, THERE IS NO END AND NO BEGINNING TO THIS BATTLE...IT SORT OF JUST PASSES THE TORCH TO THE NEXT GENERATION... SO THEY CAN MAKE THEIR MARK ON THIS LIFELONG BATTLE...
WITH RAM LEADING THE SUBURBAN PACK AND JFUNKY LEADING THE CITY PACK...THIS WAS SIMPLY "BAD-#SS"....BEESTBOY CHAIRS VS. OCTO'S CHAIRS...OSMOSIS FLAVOR VS. VIRGIL STYLE....THEY JUST KEPT AT IT...NOBODY EVER REALLY WINS THIS BATTLE, THEY JUST RE-FUEL FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER....
DAY 2
...THE INVASION OF LIL SYNDROME WAS LOOMING...THE CLOCK WAS TICKING AS THE X-MAS BREAKZ CIRCLE AWAITED THE ARRIVAL OF HUY AND FRIENDS....
BY THE TIME LIL SYNDROME ARRIVED, THE CIRCLE WAS HOT...CYPHER RANGERS WERE THERE AT 10AM....SOUR APPLES AND ROCKERZ WERE THERE TO...ALONGSIDE STYLIN OUT AND A HOST OF SOLO BBOYS, THE TOURNEY 2ON2 WAS ABOUT TO POP OFF...
CYPHER RANGERS, FEATURING OSMOSIS JONES AND RANK REALLY SHOWED THEIR GROWTH....THE SOUR APPLES DIDNT DISAPPOINT, FREDDY AND CHAMERE WERE A TAP AWAY FROM THE FINALS...BUT IT CAME DOWN TO STYLIN OUT VS. LIL SYNDROME....
JFUNKY AND VIRGIL VS. HUY AND JEFF...OH YEAH...IT WAS ON LIKE DONKEY KONG...VIRGIL'S FLAVOR/ELBOW FREEZE JUST STARTED IT OFF....BUT IT WAS HUY'S CHAIR-AROBICS THAT ENDED IT ALL...CONGRATZ TO LIL SYNDROME ON THEIR WELL EARNED CHAMPIONSHIP...
SHOUT OUTS
*WAYNE GRAVY: A TRUE TEACHER OF THE GAME
*OCTO: THIS CYPHERHEAD HAS REMEMBER THE NAME II POTENTIAL
*SEK 1, DISHWASHA, EDOUBLE AND FREDDY BOY FOR BANGING IT OUT ALL DAY LONG...
*CYPHERHEADZ: DAY 1 WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE SAME WITHOUT YOU GUYS
*CYPHER RANGERS: ITS AWESOME TO WATCH YOU GUYS GROW INTO LEGIT CONTENDERS.
*ALCHEMIST: IS THERE ANYBODY MORE DEDICATED THAN THIS KID?
*UNIVERSITY OF HIP HOP: FROM THE ILLEGALZ TO THE ROCKERZ, YOUR PRESENCE WAS UNFORGETTABLE...
*ETHAN: RANDOM AS HELL...THAT WAS QUITE A TREAT.
*GARY ARMSTRONG: THANKS FOR JUDGING AND FOR BEING THE OLDEST MAN ON THE FLOOR...
*OMEGA: STOPPED BY WITH THE FAMILY...
*KBEV: DRIVE BY PHOTOGRAPHER
*JAM1: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
*FOOTBAG KING: THAT DUDE HAD SOME SERIOUS FOOTWORK...
SPONSORS:
KWOC: YOUR GEAR WAS LIKE CHUM AT A SHARK FEEDING FRENZY....GONE!!!!!!!THANKZ GUYS
XS ENERGY DRINK: SWALLOWED UP BEFORE NOON...
ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK: WAY TO DONATE 2 CASES TO THE WINNERS.
FINAL THOUGHT
XMAS BREAKS WAS AN OPPORTUNITY I COULDN'T PASS UP...AFTER YEARS OF PARADING THE SPORTFEST ACTIVITIES, I ALWAYS KNEW THERE WAS A PLACE FOR BREAKIN' AT THE FEST: SO INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR THE FLOOR TO OPEN UP...I BROUGHT THE FLOOR MYSELF. THESE YOUNG BBOYS THAT CAME OUT TO REPRESENT AND HOLD IT DOWN, REALLY SET THE TONE OF WHAT COULD BECOME A YEARLY EVENT. IF THE NEW MAYOR KEEPS THE SPORTSFEST AND MY CONTACTS KEEP THEIR JOBS, WE WILL MOST DEFINITELY BE BACK IN 2011...AND IF NOT, THE PLATFORM THESE BBOYS TOOK HOPEFULLY CATAPULTED THEM TO ANOTHER LEVEL...
ROLDARE NATION
MANY, MANY YEARS AGO THERE WAS A "BIG EVENT" THAT WAS TO TAKE PLACE AT MCCORMICK PLACE...THIS "BIG EVENT" WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SO ENIGMATIC THAT GROWN MEN WOULD CRY AT THE MERE MEMORY OF THE EVENT...$10,000 IN PRIZES WAS THE BAIT...BIG CREW NAMES FROM AROUND THE WORLD WERE BLASTED ON THE FLYER...SO THE DAY CAME: THE ROLDARE NATION WAS FRESH AND READY TO GO EMBARK ON THIS EPIC JOURNEY....BUT THE MIGHTY WINDS OF CHANGED CRASHED DOWN UPON THE CHICAGO LANDSCAPE....
BIG EVENT?.....WHAT BIG EVENT?....I DONT KNOW NUTTIN' ABOUT NO STUPID BIG EVENT....
...TALL TALES SPOKE OF A BIG GIANT HOAX THAT SOMEBODY TOOK TOO FAR...THERE ARE LEGENDARY TALES OF CREWS FROM A FAR SHOWING UP TO THE VENUE ONLY TO BE TURNED AWAY...FRAKIN' FAKE EVENT...
BUT NOW WE TURN TO MODERN DAY CHICAGO...AND ANOTHER MCCORMICK PLACE EVENT IS SCHEDULED...THIS TIME ITZ BEING PUT ON BY ROLDARE AND CONNECT FORCE...BUT UNLIKE THE GHOST OF MCCORMICK PAST, THIS EVENT WAS REAL.
SETTING:
MAYOR DALEY'S SPORT-FEST IS A YEARLY EVENT AT THE GI-NORMOUS MCCORMICK PLACE...THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TAKING PART IN HUNDREDS OF SPORTING ACTIVITIES...BUT FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE CITY OF CHICAGO OPENED ITS DOORS TO A BBOY ACTIVITY CENTER....SURE THERE HAVE BEEN BBOY PERFORMANCES IN THE PAST ON THE B96 BOOTH, BUT NEVER HAD BBOYS HAD THEIR OWN SPACE TO DO THEIR THING....
MARKING OUR TERRITORY:
WE CONSTRUCTED A 22 X 24 FOOT FLOOR...IMMEDIATELY WE STARTED WORKING THE CROWD...BLASTING HIP-HOP, HOUSE AND BREAKZ....MY GUYS HIT THE FLOOR...SURROUNDED BY BASKETBALL COURTS, A GIGANTIC SKATE PARK AND HOCKEY RINKS, WE WERE DEFINITELY GONNA HAVE TO PROVE THAT WE WERE REAL ATHLETES TO.
THE BATTLES...DAY 1
AFTER SESSIONING FOR ABOUT 31/2 HOURS, WE STARTED THE 1ON1 BATTLES...
ITZ CRAZY HOW EVEN A COMPETITION THAT WAS ONLY OFFERING PARKING LOT MONEY TO THE WINNER, BROUGHT ABOUT SO MUCH SKILL.
EVERYBODY WAS BRINGING IT: FROM WAR VETERANS LIKE BEESTBOY AND HOUNDBOY TO 2 GUYS THAT NEVER EVEN BATTLED BEFORE... IT WAS AWESOME WATCHING THESE FRESH-OUT-THE-PACKAGE BBOYS EARN THEIR STRIPES AT MY EVENT...
SO WE HAD SOME SOUR APPLES, SOME JMC, SOME CYPHER RANGERS, SOME CYPHERHEADZ, SOME SOLO-INDEPENDENT ACTS AND OF-COURSE SOME STYLIN OUT....AND ON THIS DAY: THEY ALL WERE PART OF ROLDARE NATION
USING THE SELF-X METHOD OF SETTING UP BRACKETS...THE CROWD GOT A CHANCE TO WITNESS WHAT ITS LIKE TO GET CALLED OUT...AND SO DID THE COMPETITORS FOR THAT MATTER.
BUT A BRUTAL AFFAIR , IT CAME DOWN TO FIZZ OF CYPHERHEADZ VS. JFUNKY OF STYLIN OUT. KEEP IN MIND, FIZZ IS THE LITTLE BROTHER OF PRESSING PRODIGY RAM, SO FIZZ GOTS SOME BBOY IN HIS BLOOD. BUT JFUNKY HAS HAD A BREAKOUT YEAR: FROM ELEMENTAL BREAKDOWN TO REMEMBER THE NAME....MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: IF FIZZ WAS GONNA WIN THIS BATTLE, HE WOULD NEED HELP FROM THE PRESSING GODS OF MOUNT META....
AFTER DEFEATING RAM IN THE OPENING ROUND, JFUNKY FIGURED HE HAD ELIMINATED HIS TOUGHEST OPPONENT....BUT FIZZ AINT NO PICNIC, FIZZ HAS ABSTRACT FLAVOR WITH FLEXIBLE STACKS....UNFORTUNATELY THAT WASN'T ENOUGH....JFUNKY WITH THOSE HEAD TRACKS AND FUNKTIFIED STEPS WINS!!!!!
CITY VS. SUBURBS
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, THE CITY VS. SUBURBS BATTLE: LIKE A DREAM, THERE IS NO END AND NO BEGINNING TO THIS BATTLE...IT SORT OF JUST PASSES THE TORCH TO THE NEXT GENERATION... SO THEY CAN MAKE THEIR MARK ON THIS LIFELONG BATTLE...
WITH RAM LEADING THE SUBURBAN PACK AND JFUNKY LEADING THE CITY PACK...THIS WAS SIMPLY "BAD-#SS"....BEESTBOY CHAIRS VS. OCTO'S CHAIRS...OSMOSIS FLAVOR VS. VIRGIL STYLE....THEY JUST KEPT AT IT...NOBODY EVER REALLY WINS THIS BATTLE, THEY JUST RE-FUEL FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER....
DAY 2
...THE INVASION OF LIL SYNDROME WAS LOOMING...THE CLOCK WAS TICKING AS THE X-MAS BREAKZ CIRCLE AWAITED THE ARRIVAL OF HUY AND FRIENDS....
BY THE TIME LIL SYNDROME ARRIVED, THE CIRCLE WAS HOT...CYPHER RANGERS WERE THERE AT 10AM....SOUR APPLES AND ROCKERZ WERE THERE TO...ALONGSIDE STYLIN OUT AND A HOST OF SOLO BBOYS, THE TOURNEY 2ON2 WAS ABOUT TO POP OFF...
CYPHER RANGERS, FEATURING OSMOSIS JONES AND RANK REALLY SHOWED THEIR GROWTH....THE SOUR APPLES DIDNT DISAPPOINT, FREDDY AND CHAMERE WERE A TAP AWAY FROM THE FINALS...BUT IT CAME DOWN TO STYLIN OUT VS. LIL SYNDROME....
JFUNKY AND VIRGIL VS. HUY AND JEFF...OH YEAH...IT WAS ON LIKE DONKEY KONG...VIRGIL'S FLAVOR/ELBOW FREEZE JUST STARTED IT OFF....BUT IT WAS HUY'S CHAIR-AROBICS THAT ENDED IT ALL...CONGRATZ TO LIL SYNDROME ON THEIR WELL EARNED CHAMPIONSHIP...
SHOUT OUTS
*WAYNE GRAVY: A TRUE TEACHER OF THE GAME
*OCTO: THIS CYPHERHEAD HAS REMEMBER THE NAME II POTENTIAL
*SEK 1, DISHWASHA, EDOUBLE AND FREDDY BOY FOR BANGING IT OUT ALL DAY LONG...
*CYPHERHEADZ: DAY 1 WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE SAME WITHOUT YOU GUYS
*CYPHER RANGERS: ITS AWESOME TO WATCH YOU GUYS GROW INTO LEGIT CONTENDERS.
*ALCHEMIST: IS THERE ANYBODY MORE DEDICATED THAN THIS KID?
*UNIVERSITY OF HIP HOP: FROM THE ILLEGALZ TO THE ROCKERZ, YOUR PRESENCE WAS UNFORGETTABLE...
*ETHAN: RANDOM AS HELL...THAT WAS QUITE A TREAT.
*GARY ARMSTRONG: THANKS FOR JUDGING AND FOR BEING THE OLDEST MAN ON THE FLOOR...
*OMEGA: STOPPED BY WITH THE FAMILY...
*KBEV: DRIVE BY PHOTOGRAPHER
*JAM1: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
*FOOTBAG KING: THAT DUDE HAD SOME SERIOUS FOOTWORK...
SPONSORS:
KWOC: YOUR GEAR WAS LIKE CHUM AT A SHARK FEEDING FRENZY....GONE!!!!!!!THANKZ GUYS
XS ENERGY DRINK: SWALLOWED UP BEFORE NOON...
ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK: WAY TO DONATE 2 CASES TO THE WINNERS.
FINAL THOUGHT
XMAS BREAKS WAS AN OPPORTUNITY I COULDN'T PASS UP...AFTER YEARS OF PARADING THE SPORTFEST ACTIVITIES, I ALWAYS KNEW THERE WAS A PLACE FOR BREAKIN' AT THE FEST: SO INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR THE FLOOR TO OPEN UP...I BROUGHT THE FLOOR MYSELF. THESE YOUNG BBOYS THAT CAME OUT TO REPRESENT AND HOLD IT DOWN, REALLY SET THE TONE OF WHAT COULD BECOME A YEARLY EVENT. IF THE NEW MAYOR KEEPS THE SPORTSFEST AND MY CONTACTS KEEP THEIR JOBS, WE WILL MOST DEFINITELY BE BACK IN 2011...AND IF NOT, THE PLATFORM THESE BBOYS TOOK HOPEFULLY CATAPULTED THEM TO ANOTHER LEVEL...
ROLDARE NATION
