Did anyone used to do breakdancing/bodypopping in the 80's when, in my opinion, it was at its best?
The Limit nightclub on a Saturday morning used to hold a breakdancing club, did anyone used to go, or have any other great memories of the time/music etc? :love:

Did anyone used to do breakdancing/bodypopping in the 80's when, in my opinion, it was at its best?
The Limit nightclub on a Saturday morning used to hold a breakdancing club, did anyone used to go, or have any other great memories of the time/music etc? :love:

Breakdancing was great (still is) and loved the breakdance film and the music, was it Ollie and Jerry who did "theres no stopping us" ?. Old mates of mine Mark and Paul use to tell me they went to the Limit breakdance club although i never went myself.

I was there lisalee! Limit was good and the challenges on Fargate and up by Roxy's on a Saturday afternoon.

i remember an event at the nelson mandela building about '84. i represented our youth-club (miners welfare, high green).

i was about 10 years old and must have been one of the youngest.

i also remember the lads that used to dance in jd sports about the same time - smack 19?

good days indeed. loved the music/clothes/dancing.

wonder if the forum has a breakdancer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL5zbmNlNh8) as good as this kid :hihi:

Breakdancing was great (still is) and loved the breakdance film and the music, was it Ollie and Jerry who did "theres no stopping us" ?. Old mates of mine Mark and Paul use to tell me they went to the Limit breakdance club although i never went myself.

Yep, it was Ollie and jerry, great film and soundtrack :hihi:

wonder if the forum has a breakdancer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL5zbmNlNh8) as good as this kid :hihi:

Thats more bodypopping than breakdancing hun, and that kid's got to be made of rubber to be able to do that!! :hihi:

I was there lisalee! Limit was good and the challenges on Fargate and up by Roxy's on a Saturday afternoon.

Were you there with your piece of lino and portable cassette player, with the Electro albums on it??? lol! Oh the good old days! ive hunted high and low for those albums, theyre like rocking horse poop!! :hihi::hihi::hihi:

i remember an event at the nelson mandela building about '84. i represented our youth-club (miners welfare, high green).

i was about 10 years old and must have been one of the youngest.

i also remember the lads that used to dance in jd sports about the same time - smack 19?

good days indeed. loved the music/clothes/dancing.

I remember Smack 19. The music was great, Ive still got the 12" of Hey You by The Rock Steady Crew, Breakmachine and Fat Boys albums on vinyl lol! :hihi: Id love to have all of the Electro albums, but I cant find them anywhere :(
The clothes were perfect for a tom boy like me! :P
I dont like the modern day breakdancing, its too much like gymnastics for me, gimme old school anytime lol! :D Ah, the good old days :love:

I was there at the limit satdis. plastic glasses and the mirrored wall to practice dancing. also remember me lino and subway challenges next to roxy. Smac 19 were the best in town. We had a crew of six twoz the best times ever. now 36 and found me self drunk at a wedding doing flares . electro albums and breakdance party. kappa tracksuits and shell toes

I was there at the limit satdis. plastic glasses and the mirrored wall to practice dancing. also remember me lino and subway challenges next to roxy. Smac 19 were the best in town. We had a crew of six twoz the best times ever. now 36 and found me self drunk at a wedding doing flares . electro albums and breakdance party. kappa tracksuits and shell toes

Yeah Smac 19 were the best if I'm honest, but seen as I went out with a member of 'Street Crew' for a while, I'm a bit bias to them! I have a video of them all (that I recorded off the telly in '85! LOL) when they held the Calendar break dancing comp at Nelson Mandela building in Pond Street. There's just about every Sheff breakdancer on there either in a crew competing or in the crowd! I went through a phase a few months ago, playing it to see who I could spot from back then! My lad is into street dancing and I got the video out to show him that us 'oldies' have been there and done that one! And he was well impressed LOL! Those were the days! Still see quite a few of the lads from back then and they haven't changed that much (well some of em!) though I'm not sure they'd manage to be still doing drunken flares at weddings! LOL - nice one silki1 - would have liked to have seen that! Which crew were you in silki1?

If I remember right wasnt there Sham 69 too?

Were you there with your piece of lino and portable cassette player, with the Electro albums on it??? lol! Oh the good old days! ive hunted high and low for those albums, theyre like rocking horse poop!! :hihi::hihi::hihi:

i have electro 1 / crucial electro on vinyl :)
aswell as the crush groove soundtrack and loads of grandmaster flash vinyl and stuff.
recently i downloaded the wildstyle film / soundtrack too :)
i never got into breakdancing being a punk but i used to hang around with some body poppers at woodhouse, used to go graffiting with em, they first put me in touch with the early (punk) beastie boys stuff too

i can remember them being on calender a mate o mine has got the video of it we once battled street crew in barnsley they came to one of the schools

I remember Smack 19. The music was great, Ive still got the 12" of Hey You by The Rock Steady Crew, Breakmachine and Fat Boys albums on vinyl lol! :hihi: Id love to have all of the Electro albums, but I cant find them anywhere :(
The clothes were perfect for a tom boy like me! :P
I dont like the modern day breakdancing, its too much like gymnastics for me, gimme old school anytime lol! :D Ah, the good old days :love: hi im from barnsley and have all the electro albums even the first ones on mp3 if you would like a copy

hi im from barnsley and have all the electro albums even the first ones on mp3 if you would like a copy

i can remember them being on calender a mate o mine has got the video of it we once battled street crew in barnsley they came to one of the schools

I can remember Street Crew going round schools! We arranged for them to come to ours to dance (I was going out with one of them at the time - I was 15) and because me and my mates knew them, we were flavour of the month! :hihi: Seems like yesterday!

I was there at the limit satdis. plastic glasses and the mirrored wall to practice dancing. also remember me lino and subway challenges next to roxy. Smac 19 were the best in town. We had a crew of six twoz the best times ever. now 36 and found me self drunk at a wedding doing flares . electro albums and breakdance party. kappa tracksuits and shell toes

god i used to love electro last xmas my hubby managed to get me of the internet all the electros from 1 upwards brought some right memories back x

use to breakdance at caterlodge youth club with my mates we had smack 19 come and learn us some moves we even performed at hacky club them were good days

There used to be nothing better than getting the lino out on the street corner.

Beat Street was a great film back then too

my brother & his mates used to go to the limit they used to call themselves "the cosmic crew" they used to idolise the older breakers the name "yellow man" seems to stick out also "pele"

Were you there with your piece of lino and portable cassette player, with the Electro albums on it??? lol! Oh the good old days! ive hunted high and low for those albums, theyre like rocking horse poop!! :hihi::hihi::hihi:

I just got the Electro albums box set at Christmas from Cargo Records. All 22 albums on mp3 on 2 cds and a dvd of some classic vids. Well worth the £50
cargorecords.co.uk

whay dvds do you have i have beat street breakdance 1 and 2 and wildstyle i also have various uk bboy championships

In The House

a very good friend and work mate of mine was in street crew,his name is dez but i belive he was known as yella back in the day.

In The House

Ooooh now which one of Street Crew could you be?! lol

eyup, used to breakdane in 80's, in 42nd street crew from Barnsley, sharif and asif, slacky, me, couple of others did a thing wiv smac19, we came to sheffield few times, they came to a school near us in Barnsley, made maes with junior and a guy i think they called budgie or parrot, can't remember his name now.
there was another crew rom Barnsley who were good, can't remember names but they used to wear blue/grey nike windjammers.....ahhh no matter.
Years later ended up workin with juniors sister in theatre andwe met up again at after show party.
we used to have black track bottoms and red/black adidas windjammers, total cool, lol, plus compulsory lino and ghetto.
we used to do our thing at Rebeccas club in Barnsley and couple times at Rooftop gardens in wakefield.
we used to cruise wiv a guy called johnny playing electro full blast. Newcleus was one of our favs.Beatstreet was great film, rock steadys were gods, lol
still got the original vinyl of newcleus somewhere.
all you old breakers, watch "stomp the yard" made me think back to my breaking days.

u are joking i was in 42nd street crew we used to meet at sharifs and asifs house then go up to kexborough school to practice the other crew who wore blue i cant remember there name but tony shauny and others wre in they had a mega popper called bo i used to go upstairs in market with em my nick name was powersy whats you name remember in our crew there was also ramo my mate has a video of us practising

eyup, i must remember you, but cant put face to name, there used to be me (keith or Rami) sharif, asif, daniel, slacky, ben, i used to be in same class as sharif n slacky, i used to live opposite high school, up road from shaz's house.
was that film at high school or at sharifs?
i used to be in 9th dimension crew wiv carl shaw, remember them, his dad owned dimensions hair studio. We used to go down to ron n shirleys at ardsley to use their upstairs.lol
Johnny walker was the bloke with the volvo, he lived up towards california at staincross, remember him?
my dad still lives up there but i live in sheffield, seeing sharif in couple weeks.

random, u on facebook?send private mssg if u are.

Keef

Check out the vid STREET CREW JUST 4 FUN in the group URBANBEATZ RADIO SHOW on Facebook & have a laugh...We just can't leave it alone lol.

u are joking i was in 42nd street crew we used to meet at sharifs and asifs house then go up to kexborough school to practice the other crew who wore blue i cant remember there name but tony shauny and others wre in they had a mega popper called bo i used to go upstairs in market with em my nick name was powersy whats you name remember in our crew there was also ramo my mate has a video of us practising


tony faulkner and shaun broadhirst were members of unique all stars from barnsley,although i dont think shauny b did much breaking,i remember bo,
he taught me and my brother a couple of poppin moves in upstairs in barnsley market in 86 lol..if i remember,brian was good at headspins..
i did some breaking at sheffields tuesday club in 2003 ,that was a good laugh,
doing power windmills and stuff, got a little crowd going...

Yeah Smac 19 were the best if I'm honest, but seen as I went out with a member of 'Street Crew' for a while, I'm a bit bias to them! I have a video of them all (that I recorded off the telly in '85! LOL) when they held the Calendar break dancing comp at Nelson Mandela building in Pond Street. There's just about every Sheff breakdancer on there either in a crew competing or in the crowd! I went through a phase a few months ago, playing it to see who I could spot from back then! My lad is into street dancing and I got the video out to show him that us 'oldies' have been there and done that one! And he was well impressed LOL! Those were the days! Still see quite a few of the lads from back then and they haven't changed that much (well some of em!)

Hi footiefreak,
any chance of uploading that video please?
I could probably point a few out to you as i used to live nextdoor to Carlos and Andre from Smak19, i used to watch them practising on their back garden with the rest of them.
Their older brother Denton was a podium dancer on Top of the pops aswell.

hi all! has anyone ever heard of a crew called scratch mix?? :confused:
my boyfriend claims to have been an 'amazing' breakdancer in sheffield back in the day, and I am dying to find some footage!
would have been mid 80's as well. haven't seen the crew mentioned above though, he says their name changed a lot...sounds a bit like an imaginative crew to me, which would explain his dodgy breakdancing skills :hihi:
please let me know if you know anything!

btw, what's this about tv footage??? anyway to upload that on here? :partyhat:

hi all! has anyone ever heard of a crew called scratch mix?? :confused:
my boyfriend claims to have been an 'amazing' breakdancer in sheffield back in the day, and I am dying to find some footage!
would have been mid 80's as well. haven't seen the crew mentioned above though, he says their name changed a lot...sounds a bit like an imaginative crew to me, which would explain his dodgy breakdancing skills :hihi:
please let me know if you know anything!

btw, what's this about tv footage??? anyway to upload that on here? :partyhat:

Yes I remember Scratch Mix! They did exsist! Greg Edwards was in this crew if I remember correctly! Think they night have been on the 'Calendar' t.v.footage? :-) think they were one of the younger crews around at this time.

Hi footiefreak,
any chance of uploading that video please?
I could probably point a few out to you as i used to live nextdoor to Carlos and Andre from Smak19, i used to watch them practising on their back garden with the rest of them.
Their older brother Denton was a podium dancer on Top of the pops aswell.

If I had a pound for everytime someone asked me for a copy of this vid!!! :-)

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Yes I remember Scratch Mix! They did exsist! Greg Edwards was in this crew if I remember correctly! Think they night have been on the 'Calendar' t.v.footage? :-) think they were one of the younger crews around at this time.


ooh, really! so they DO exist! thanks for that :)
were they any good? his name is Mark btw.

And, joining the clamoring masses on here, I would so love to see your video!! :D
is there really no way? filming the tv screen with digital cam maybe? his 38th birthday's coming up and it would be such a perfect present...
in any case, now i know they really did exist I will scour the internet!
thanks! :partyhat:

if its on vhs you can record to dvd recorder, then rip to the puter with something like dvd decrypter
then upload to say youtube, googlevideo
or rapidshare, divshare, megaupload or similer
or even torrent it on a site such as piratebay

blimey this as brought back good times i was a reguler at the limit and roxys on the stairs, used to come out of the limit almost deaf, smac 19 were great but there was also smac 19 juniors who were brill also remember scratch mix being good especially a blond curly haired lad

Blast from the past! I remember scratch mix and the was scratch attack too. One guy had the fastest turtle in town! They were some of the young ones back in the day. Think they were both on calander outside the old roxy club. I remember the limit on west street too.

smac19, steel city breakers and full force crew were older guys, remember yellow man the bendy popper and spanner who was wicked at locking. :D

Blast from the past! I remember scratch mix and the was scratch attack too. One guy had the fastest turtle in town! They were some of the young ones back in the day. Think they were both on calander outside the old roxy club. I remember the limit on west street too.

smac19, steel city breakers and full force crew were older guys, remember yellow man the bendy popper and spanner who was wicked at locking. :D

omg sure is a blast from the past!! ive known MCnige for years and hes currently doing a live radio station along with some of the old crew one being yellow man i also work with another old skool breaker called hutchie (steve hutchinson) and MCnige and yellow man sometimes bust a move (yep they still got it ) lol

Blast from the past! I remember scratch mix and the was scratch attack too. One guy had the fastest turtle in town! They were some of the young ones back in the day. Think they were both on calander outside the old roxy club. I remember the limit on west street too.

smac19, steel city breakers and full force crew were older guys, remember yellow man the bendy popper and spanner who was wicked at locking. :D

apparently scratch mix and scratch attack were one and the same...my boyfriend says they weren't always decided on their name.
and i remember having a conversation with him about this guy with the fastest turtle!!.. which prompted some hilarious breakdance moves :hihi:

i wish someone had photos or something!

apparently scratch mix and scratch attack were one and the same...my boyfriend says they weren't always decided on their name.
and i remember having a conversation with him about this guy with the fastest turtle!!.. which prompted some hilarious breakdance moves :hihi:

i wish someone had photos or something!

hi iv just googled scratch dance crew an there is loads of info

hi iv just googled scratch dance crew an there is loads of info

really? i can't find anything... :confused:
it all seems pretty contemporary to me

i googled 80s breakdance crew scratch mix

i googled 80s breakdance crew scratch mix

:( I must be blind, can't find anything relevant, besides this forum :(

Did anyone used to do breakdancing/bodypopping in the 80's when, in my opinion, it was at its best?
The Limit nightclub on a Saturday morning used to hold a breakdancing club, did anyone used to go, or have any other great memories of the time/music etc? :love:

hi do you know that the furious 5 and kurtis blow are at the plug this thursday

eyup, used to breakdane in 80's, in 42nd street crew from Barnsley, sharif and asif, slacky, ......

Hey I was 42nd Street crew too - upstairs in the Market on the lino! And Rebeccas and also a few 'battles' against the team from Dimensions? I think

Aww what memories.....

tony faulkner and shaun broadhirst were members of unique all stars from barnsley,although i dont think shauny b did much breaking,i remember bo,
he taught me and my brother a couple of poppin moves in upstairs in barnsley market in 86 lol..if i remember,brian was good at headspins..
i did some breaking at sheffields tuesday club in 2003 ,that was a good laugh,
doing power windmills and stuff, got a little crowd going...

I was in unique allstars in 85 n' 86, we used to practise upstairs in the old Barnsley Boys club in the gym, Tony,Pete,Stew,Jase, me and Seany and his mate Roger used to come along although Seany & Rog didn't do any dancing they were more into DJ'ing and Grafitti, remember a kid from Royston called Lloyd i think as well, i did a bit of breaking but me and Jase used to do loads of popping routine's - Boo used to knock about with us in the market but wasn't officially in the crew, we did a load of demo's around youth clubs in Barnsley and used to go to the Limit in Sheff on saturday afternoons and battled a few times in there - in the market it was all a bit of soft as there weren't really no-one to take us on properly we reckoned by 85/6 we were the best crew in Barnsley

remember outside roxys on saturdays
still got some old electros albums

i used to go to the limit on saturday smac 19 were the best beat street the best film and i use to by electro tapes for my ghetto blaster great days