Rock Steady Crew Breaking 9th July 1984 in front of Manhattan skyline

[@markesco8211]

I was born in 85. But this is awesome and I became a breaker in 2001 after watching beat street! This is special to me. Thank you! Never forget where breakin came from!

[@thefluiddruid]

@@markesco8211 still breaking these days?

[@markesco8211]

@@thefluiddruid unfortunately, No. I’m 39 but I know I can still do the windmill and footwork. That’s pretty much it lol. I do miss it.

[@nyclassic4ever130]

Born in 85? I feel for you. I was 10 by then and OMG...imagine seeing all this as it unfolded brand new to the mainstream world. 🤯

[@miked5289]

Legends and pioneers, all of them! RIP Kuriaki, Buck 4 and Frosty Freeze. So glad to know that the others are still doing well!

[@thefluiddruid]

RIP indeed. ❤️

[@DerekHarrison-ue9vv]

So much great OLD SKOOL footage turning up years later on KZbin.ROCKSTEADY, DYNAMIC ROCKERS ,NEW YORK CITY BREAKERS, a great era for New York City breakin.RIP 🙏 KURIAKI, BUCK 4(the 🐢 turtle master), and FROSTY FREEZE of ROCKSTEADY & GLIDEMASTER of NEW YORK CITY BREAKERS.

[@papabreak5979]

This is gold

[@thefluiddruid]

Thanks Sylvain! ;) I just uploaded a new one. At least it is new to me.

[@thrillagorilla11]

❤❤❤❤beautiful rare footage

[@adambrown3918]

Thank you so much posting! What an era to have lived in. 👏 😊❤

[@thefluiddruid]

Wish I could have been there, if only for a brief moment.

[@mdee8784]

Legends! Just after this in July they came all the way to Australia and did a tour. That was a big deal down here back then. Respects from Sydney

[@thefluiddruid]

Did you get a chance to be at that tour? Must have been mindblowing to witness breaking for the first time in real life as a kid back then. 😀🥁

[@mdee8784]

@@thefluiddruid yep! Was pretty crazy times kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5_JemBnfZpofKc

[@mdee8784]

@@user-ut4ns4zx1v yeah they did the comp on Countdown and a big show at The Hordern Pavilion in Sydney that I know of

[@gdupkwin9676]

This is gold it shows how great they were and how they could do it all pop break and flip RIP BUCK AND KURIYAKI they were huge in those years i wanted to be in the ROCK STEADY CREW when i was young

[@LoRock1]

Priceless❗️

[@paulkeddy404]

Wildstyle vid, the skyline in the background is great. Reminds me a bit of NYC Breakers on Ripley's Believe it or Not

[@thefluiddruid]

Great spot to do a shoot for sure!

[@doctorvonbrown881]

This is class! Plus i was born on this day and this year! Woohoo. Grew up to become a big HipHop fan. Respect goes to those who were there in the early days! Pure school!

[@thefluiddruid]

@@doctorvonbrown881 happy belated 40th. 🎉😊

[@doctorvonbrown881]

@@thefluiddruid Many thanks that's awfully kind of you!

[@kayaksnorkeluk8272]

Breakin in Dumbo. The wife and i went to NYC for the first time for the new year. Bought a very expensive vegan ice cream in a massive sugar cone from that cream building @2:38 and sat on the bench looking across to where they are breaking. That's another piece of break dancing and hip hop history ticked off my list. Also went to the location of the roxy entrance and 1520 Sedgwick avenue.

[@thefluiddruid]

Dope landmarks you’ve been too. I still have to make the pilgrimage myself.

[@kayaksnorkeluk8272]

@@thefluiddruid We are 100% going back so I can go the the east river summer stage location where the jam was at the end of Wild Style (was a 35min walk from it but our feet and legs were already knackered from too much walking). I wanna stand at the exact railings Lee was talking to Lady pink at. Also go to the subway I think on 53rd and 7th Ave as that's the subway battle location. Oh we also without realising stood in the spot of the very opening scene in Beat Street of them dancing on the lino. It's the statue in Madison Square park. I only found that out last night. Gutted I didn't get a pic like I did of the others as I was unaware of the significance.

[@MMAallday67]

This was so long ago it wasn't even known as Dumbo yet!😂

[@lemaquinista]

I love them

[@tyronwatkins7597]

Rest in peace Kuriaki & BUCK4

[@rayocasio4469]

Free flex

[@djskinnytaulilo-makaea89]

Rock steady crew

[@AndersBakfeldt]

thx for all these uploads!

[@thefluiddruid]

My pleasure! Glad you like them.

[@benji.B-side]

These influenced me to take up break dancing. There's a few old school videos on my channel of me and my friends in a battle and also freestyling, check them out. I feel so fortunate to have become a break dancer and performed many places. As much as I loved performing, being in a serious break dance battle was a buzz like nothing else. Respect, peace and love. B-Boys will always be boys!

[@thefluiddruid]

Loving the footage! The UK kept it alive in the 90’s. I started in early 2000 and still rocking till this day.

[@timgstar3585]

Wow 👌

[@thefluiddruid]

Nothing beats a good old RSC video

[@greyhardwearcap_snowboarding]

For most of the eighteen minutes the zoom of the camera has been incorrectly set. For the first three minutes the zoom is set too W. This means that dancers are occasionally not visible big enough. Then there are three minutes during which the zoom is correct. After that the remaining twelve minutes the zoom is set too T. Dancer's body only partially on screen, in worst case only feet, nothing else. Correct way to zoom when videorecording breakdancing is that the b-boy's or b-girl's full body is visible but not much around it.

[@Khultan]

Thank you.100%

[@thefluiddruid]

My pleasure 🙏🏼

[@Ashfaq1999]

Break Dance Legends.

[@basteo]

Fresh vidéo !!!! thank !

[@GaryHynes-im5di]

I was more into BMX at that time...

[@jayheywood9635]

good days

[@oldstyleanalog6459]

Rip And rip TWIN TOWERS

[@nyangel515]

I'm surprised someone else is looking at this video in This moment besides me😂

[@bustamango863]

Jeez….did you record this with your memory.

[@davidcoven9427]

At this point, where were Frosty Freeze, Mr. Freeze and Norm ski?

[@thefluiddruid]

I think this has to do with the rock steady crew record. Maybe they chose not to do be involved?

[@39Hundred]

This was around 1984; the Beat Street era. By then, they were no longer in the group.

[@dariobenini7532]

Video introvabile! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@breakweisernorthernsoles]

What'svthe song in the background?

[@thefluiddruid]

Cindy Mizelle - This Could Be The Night, which is also on the Beatstreet Soundtrack.

[@markgardner-oo6qp]

That song is also on the beat street movie. It's played when they're coming home from a night out.

[@MrEvilOtto]

The music sounds a little bit like the one in the cell at the beginning of Portal.

[@gubiks]

Is this an event, practice, or a promotional gig for Beat Street?

[@thefluiddruid]

I think it was purely recorded for a tv broadcast on “Breakdancing”

[@big_mike_nyc]

That song "This Could Be The Night" was in the movie, when they were all on the way to the Roxy for the Battle!

[@ivanIvanov-bn2bn]

​@big_mike_nycточно

[@davidpaxton6402]

@@thefluiddruid it looked like a full dress rehearsal for the Uprock music video which was mainly shot on a stage on the tennis courts near the East River and FDR Expressway. I recognise ALL the routines used in that music video.

[@guttaguttamagic7252]

I thought that was the place where leroy greens master/last dragon lived by the river for a sec

[@tyronebiggims1613]

thats me on right the tall one.. the boys got in to crack and split the gig up..

[@brianglade848]

Devious doze?

[@marksimons9359]

Crazy legs too?

[@wizcoolc1]

Who was doing the popping?

[@idieilik1069]

Oh shit! I see A young graffiti artist “Dove” he still around.

[@thefluiddruid]

Thankfully still Doing his thang.

[@st7728]

Why would you film the bridge and skyline, when you can film that anytime. You should have filmed just the dancing, because it was a moment in time, that you can't film anytime of the day. Such a rare moment and only half of the moment is filmed, damn...

[@thefluiddruid]

We all wish they would’ve shown more breaking.

[@mikedillingham462]

Gabriel " Buck 4 " Marcano's older brother Gilbert Marcano murdered Lorenzo " Kuriaki " Soto. It was retaliation after Buck 4 was murdered. Gilbert thought it was Kuriaki who was responsible for it.

[@thefluiddruid]

Crazy how this happened. RIP ❤️

[@brianglade848]

They shot Kuriaki in Mt Vernon in the street,Crazy Legs gave Gilbert his location

[@Loco-melaza]

​@brianglade848 is that why crazy legs says he did stuff he wasn't proud of in a interview damn he's no good.

[@brianglade848]

@@Loco-melaza yes, and when he's asked about Kuryaki he won't speak of him or the circumstances

[@ivanIvanov-bn2bn]

Думал?? Просто думал 💭💭💭?? Плохой из него детектив вышел бы, думал!! Чем?? Скорее всего не головой а задницей

[@pinebarrenpatriot8289]

I pisses me off they didn't build twin Freedom Towers to give lower Manhattan that iconic look back.

[@gaffle-411]

Dope crew but they should have stuck with Puma track suits. These puffy parachute suits were always an eye-sore to me.

[@jesusjustiniano-x4l]

Legends buc4kuriaky and kuriaky my brothers I grew up with but the drug game mess us all up at the end nobody was never the same so many stupidity things we did got into for the price of what nothing I loose somany good friends like brothers , crazy legs my homeboy yes kenswift baby love my homegirl facts we was all family Mr freeze and doze we was one big happy family but nothing lasses for ever ....well take care r.i.p. kuriaky and buc4the real turtle Master..

[@spaceorbison]

Literal Israelites

[@jabbarinnewyork7778]

THIS IS HIPHOP...SO I ASK, WHY ARENT THEY BREAK DANCING OR HIPHOPPING AROUND TO....RAP MUSIC? YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TO. PUERTO RICANS CREATED THE HIP HOP CULTURE

[@Loco-melaza]

So which crew you were from ...u invented this and Pioneered this which break dancing grupo u was from?

[@jabbarinnewyork7778]

@@Loco-melaza IM NOT PUERTO RICAN. I GREW UP IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY. WE WERE EITHER IN THE CHURCH, SINGING, RAPPING, LISTENING TO R&B, FUNK, SOUL, POP, SOMETIMES RAP MUSIC. PUERTO RICANS WERE WAY MUCH POOR AND UNFORTUNATE THAN BLACK AMERICANS. THIS LED PUERTO RICAN CHILDREN TO CREATE THE HIPHOP CULTURE. IN AWAY, BLACK PEOPLE WERE CULTURE VULTURES, WHEN IT CAME TO THE HIPHOP CULTURE.

[@matthawes4395]

This has to be 83

[@islanddreams4805]

back when breaking was cool but technology SUCKED>

[@Loco-melaza]

I remember the magazine called Ghetto Art in an article called " The NuYokRikans 🇵🇷PuertoRican art and style of Break dancing " back in the early 80s