That walk to the floor to battle was everything

I will never forget when this movie came out and how iconic it turned out to be! It was a great time to be alive and young I’m 57 now!!!!!!!!!!!!

@kotvas1

7 күн бұрын

Same age was an excellent time to be alive! Wish my body still worked when I was like 16

Gees. 30 years later this is still the best dance battle scene of all time.

@beeboy6967

9 жыл бұрын

B Michaels WORD my brother !

@GC0077

9 жыл бұрын

B Michaels Gimme a hell yeah!

@October3074

8 жыл бұрын

word!

@ephelps616

8 жыл бұрын

i agree hands down...best battle scene of all time..can't really judge who won tho

@slashingblade1968

7 жыл бұрын

I remember watching this time and time again when it came out on VHS in 1984 as i just loved this scene. Being a b-boy myself at the time. The opening move; windmills, back spin to knee freeze is the best move and they throw it out first, but it is over ruled by baby face as being a b-girl no matter what move you did you could not beat a girl. Remember this was way of fighting without physical contact, hence the name break dancing (break from fighting and dance instead). Apparently the New york city breakers (Beat street grew in the film) are winning on the best moves against Rock steady crew (Bronx rockers) as you can tell from Kuriaki face (8.00 mins in) after NYCB steal the swipe moves. How it works is; Someone comes on and does their move, if a member from the opposite side thinks they can beat it they challenge it. You could never come on do your same move twice only once. Flips or holding parts of your own body and speed along with style of your move to show the difficulties of your move gave you the advantage.Your footwork was a big player too if you could swipe your feet and spin and turn on the spot. Kuriaki comes on, does perfectly fast no handed windmills closer to the floor and more flatter on his back keeping in the same spot not travelling, which were very difficult to do in that era. Windmills were the top move back in them days. Rock steady crew gain the advantage as they have kept their best move till last.( If you watch the opening first move the windmills are higher meaning he is on his shoulders, also his legs slightly bent and slightly travels off his spot, still a class move though. As for Kuriaki his are smoother, legs perfect straight and closer to the ground, also you will notice his move from windmill to back spin to freeze he does not travel off his spot that shows top control in your move. The same is for Gino guy with the red head band his windmills pointing more up than flat to the ground (still top windmills must admit) You may have to pause and play and watch slowly to see the difference. After glide masters fist spin into backspin into head spin stand freeze, Rock steady crew are beaten for sure with the most outstanding move. That is why glide master puts his hands up looks and says beat that!!! Crazy legs comes on and does normal windmills backspin but because he takes his shoes off and flips into a freeze, (hence having no hands to flip with) he takes the move. Rock steady jump for joy and victory is theirs. You can see the NYCB debating saying no way as the scene ends. My view NYCB wins on more better moves but that's how it was played out in them days.

I'm 13 Again, watched this at the Odean Woolwich. Never will HIP HOP be this pure,the breakers, Beats. Attitude & ALL in peaceful surroundings no gats naked girls,drugs or thugs. Real HIPHOP.

I have no idea how many times I’ve watched this scene and it still twitches a nerve and I’m 54 years old, I watched that scene in my teens over and over trying to learn some moves while dancing in the kitchen on the old linoleum floor 😂🤣

@seanwright8786

5 ай бұрын

Same here bruh and I'm 53. That means you saw it in the movies l8ke me then.😅

@bugynites09

4 ай бұрын

Doing it noooowwww lol my feet hurt (53yo)

@kotvas1

13 күн бұрын

I'm 57 just had back surgery lower lumbar fusion. Back in 83 we'd go up to Washington DC from Virginia Beach and there would be awesome battles! Miss those days very much!

@rolloutred852

12 күн бұрын

@@seanwright8786 oh yeh, saw it at the only cinema in my area at the time and hid in the cinema and watched again 😂🤣

no phones, no facebook, just hiphop

This is the most 80's thing ever. Their clothes, hairstyles, music, dancing and dance battles. All in one clip.

I was there with the filming of this scene and a DJ still today and past Breaker NYC. Nothing... and I mean Nothing beats the breaking, the music and the atmosphere of New York City itself! If you don't know where it started don't begin now because you saying you're a DJ on a computer does not make you a DJ, if you're saying you know how to breakdance like we did and danced back then your truly mistaken you don't know what you're doing today be honest. The younger generation and younger cats have destroyed what we made back then and turned it into a circus show, nothing will ever replace what we did back then it will always stay alive even from 2023 on!!!!

Yo, 80s Hip Hop Culture was the joint. I loved those times. What a decade. Sometimes I wish we could go back.✌🏻

I could be bias....but this was probably the best dance scene of any movie.

@carsonrossbills69

6 жыл бұрын

royuncg2 true true the subway way scene was good also

@liljons6753

3 жыл бұрын

And the sub way uprock

@Mr-Keyes

3 жыл бұрын

It was definitely the best. My cousin was there, and told me that both crews were battling even when the cameras were off. They need to release the unedited full battle of this.

@lordbison

Жыл бұрын

#Facts!

@wyntonblue4995

Жыл бұрын

Definitely the 1st battle from you got served was good

Most EPIC dance scene ever made. Can never get enough of this clip. Those times back in the 80's were magical, everything was so fresh and vibrant. I'd pay good bucks to relive it!

@DJDanceClassic

10 ай бұрын

More epic than “dancing in the rain” with gene kelly

@racerx1189

4 ай бұрын

@Violinistic Me too Bro.

@racerx1189

4 ай бұрын

​@@DJDanceClassic Be realistic. Gene Kelly stands apart from this genre. He was special in that world. ✌🏻😊

@user-uc5vs1kv7x

3 ай бұрын

Me too Bro, ill be 58 in july! Thankyou youtube❤! Love ya.

Breakdancing was not only a dance, it was one of the dances that stop the violence in the streets. Where people got together and had fun.

You can't consider yourself a true Bboy if you've never saw this video and dreamed to be like them! :)

@durterebelz

Жыл бұрын

THIS #bboyshit

@DJDanceClassic

10 ай бұрын

Bboys beware cause 2 sisters are here

@claytonbrown7100

7 ай бұрын

@@DJDanceClassicAnd they’re coming at High Noon.

Still get goose bumps at 54 year old watching da Roxy battle

@Bhodisatvas

5 ай бұрын

Same here, me and my friends in the UK used to hire the VHS movie out and watch it over and over taking notes on breaking and graff as much as we could, great days!!

That Flying windmill from the third guy from BeatStreet crew is still to this day the best windmill i ever seen💯👊👊

@zone3-atl-ga-ewc217

Жыл бұрын

THE 4TH GUY TO DO THE WINDMILL FROM STANDING UP

I wore out my VHS copy back in the 80's I watched it so much, just the best movie ever and 31 years later I still watch it (but now on DVD !)

@bboydrew71

5 жыл бұрын

Same here , still a bboy at 47 ktf

40 years later, that battle is still.epic.

I rewatch this again and again and again. And I have the movie in my collection. These guys were going at it for real! Awesome scene. CLASSIC!

Best 11 minutes of any movie ever made for me. I was 14 when this came out and in a crew called Floor Lords just across the river in New Jersey. "Lee" was our hero!

@durterebelz

6 ай бұрын

Real Heads know.

30 years past, I remember it like last night. Where does the time go?

The guy @6:15 blew me away when i was a teenager with that move and it’s still smooth as heck

@Bhodisatvas

5 ай бұрын

This and the little guy from the NYC Breakers after Crazy Legs, he literally 1UPs him on all his moves.

8:33 that move Kuriaki did was so underrated

@starhope9630

Жыл бұрын

Yeah...he went down full momentum in one direction - and then instantly switched direction.😀 Awesome!

@monstavation1642

Жыл бұрын

...FACTS and Mr. Wave tho'.........!!!!!!!!!

@rroberts2023

Жыл бұрын

Not really the whole battle was underrated. Both crews could dance at a much higher level than this.

@rwarren4637

Жыл бұрын

Complete body control. Definitely a nice intro move

Ken Swift & Lil Lep's style is that real uprock and b-boy footwork!

Best breakdancing movie ever made, the story line all the characters in the movie, it's just pure 80s gold here and all the songs on the soundtrack are exceptional. Very underrated movie. If I'm not mistaking, Siskel and Ebert both gave it thumbs up.

Lisa Fisher only love (shadows) still sounds great now

People who say they are down with hip hop and yet they aren’t even aware of how iconic and important this is and that bboyin is a vital element of hip hop man!...this stuff here is the real deal!

Beat street over breakn any day!!!

@grahamsherlock261

8 жыл бұрын

+40missedcallz knee spin was about all they could manage… 'plastic' as we used to say circa 1983-5

@heavycoins

8 жыл бұрын

+Graham Sherlock please refrain from talking to me until you speak with knowledge.....

@MiketheCabbie

7 жыл бұрын

Breakin'--as much as I liked that movie--always came off to me like Hollywood's attempt to do for hip-hop culture what "Saturday Night Fever" did for disco: to make it easier for mainstream audiences to accept and embrace. Thankfully, it didn't work, or hip-hop might have gone the way of disco.

@melvinbridgewater6165

7 жыл бұрын

40missedcallz Yeah I Feel That

@melvinbridgewater6165

7 жыл бұрын

MiketheCabbie Your Right

I was 14 when Beat Street dropped. I'd already been into the breakdancing but like so many of us outside of New York Beat Street was the absolute pinnacle. I didn't see Wild Style until years later and, as much as I'll always have a soft spot for Beat Street, Wild Style took you even deeper into the culture of hip hop.

@durterebelz

6 ай бұрын

Good times fam. Keep the stories alive. Each one, reach one.

Much respect Rock Steady Crew, Incredible Floormasters (NYCB), Dynamic Rockers, Rockwell Association, Scrambling Feet, Hot Feet Rockers, The Bronx Boys, Furious Rockers, Magnificent Force, Shake City Rockers, Midnight Breakers, L.A. Breakers, Pony Express, Unique Dominoes, Electric Boogaloos and The Lockers, Rock City Crew, Young City Crew, Canadian Floormasters and all iconic and legendary B-Boy and B-Girl crews..

@coreyano

10 ай бұрын

Dope

RIP B Boy Buck 4(RSC),B Boy Kuriaki(RSC),and B Boy Glide Master(Floor Masters aka NYCB)

@nuwavegurl

9 жыл бұрын

Amen!

@MrAntiSellOut

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your response. When it comes to the culture of Hip Hop,I never forget those cats. Especially B Boy Frosty Freeze who also should've been in Beat Street. But at least he was in a much better Hip Hop culture movie namely Wild Style.

@nuwavegurl

9 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. And you're right. Frosty was cold as ice...pun intended. I just got finished watching Wild Style for the umpteeth time. I've been craving the early hip hop years lately and can't get enough of these legendary films and the b boy icons that are forever immortalized in them. Sometimes you have to go back, watch the films and listen to the music to remind yourself what hip hop was all about, especially with all of this hip slop and (c)rap dominating the airwaves these days.

@MrAntiSellOut

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your comment with mine,sister.

@nuwavegurl

9 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, dear!

Any of the dancers in this scene get eternal legendary status.

Best Battle - Best Music!

Break dance old school. I learn some moves from this film 😂 on 1984 when i was 14 😋

Best dance ever I was a breakdancer and a DJ in the 80's

everytime i see this it brings me back to When i was 15 damn where does the time go!!!!

I remember watching this film religiously in 1984 copying the moves. Wonderful, beautiful times. I am so glad I experienced the 1980s. Breakdancing forever!

I was in the 11th grade when this was on the big screen and man all we did was break-poplock, DJ, rap, tag up..donno how I graduated..good times!!

The memory attached to this film brings so much joy to my soul. This is B-Boy gold...40 years later.....thats right FOURTY YEARS ago this film was carrying the swing. London went b-boy crazy. From ghetto blasters on the train, people dancing on 12ft lino squared on the concrete at Carnaby Street, London where we'd pop, lock and spin on our heads for the hustle...From Planet Rock to Electric Kingdom to West Street Mob's Breakdance...tunes tearing up the dancefloors on radio and in the clubs....My goodness did we have it good or what.. Priceless days of some of the best days of dance. ♥🎶♥

Der Film war abssolut cool, einmalig!

I miss the Roxy. Had so much fun there.

I wonder if those dancers had the faintest idea that they were making history? A cult scene indeed!

@gtedwards

6 ай бұрын

They did not. Many of them were actually high at the time. They were street kids, although gifted, who were into having a good time, dancing, and getting paid.

Gotta give it to the film editor for cutting the scene and keeping them on beat! All time classic dance scene!

Great GREAT battle... ... Pexter with that dope intro freeze in the beginning. ... Mr. Wave cRuSHed 'em with that tick/spin move. Absolutely CRUSHED! ... Ken Swift cRuSHed 'em with that sick uprock and freeze against Pexster. ... Buck 4 killed 'em with that blazing spinning turtle. No one on NYCB could top it. ... Fliprock was clean... almost too clean. ... Lil Lep burned Crazy Legs with the headspin. ... Legs came back with a dope, yet simple move calling the next dude out. ... Kuriaki's windmill had the NYCBs in awe. They resorted to making biting gestures. ... Legs burned the whole crew with a dope move (shoes off into a backbridge). It gets no better than this!!!

@iambiguno

9 жыл бұрын

DJ GaFFLe yeah I thought the beatstreet crew don't know the official name for them had crazy crew beat until crazy's move at the end.. that dude Gino if that was his name @ the 6:14 mark on the beatstreet crew was clean as hell.

@Kaketobilo

9 жыл бұрын

DJ GaFFLe BRAVO

@bhmch39

8 жыл бұрын

flip rock killed his scene too. mr wave was so smooth they didnt even challenge him.

@iambiguno

8 жыл бұрын

+B H Mch true very true

@gaffle7646

8 жыл бұрын

B H Mch Ha! Who in that entire crew could pop like that? They would have needed o'le Normski to stand a chance and I don't think he was with RSC at this juncture.

The best dance scene in film history

Thank you for this is the best footage ever 🙏🙏🌠❤❤❤❤❤1980'"*$$$ all the way but from the west Coast movement moms grew up with ICE T I tried to go to every party when I was a kid teenager a new ART LABO personally went to all his concerts since the 1990s -- 2015 i will see them again one day but love all and a good man of God bless 🙏💕🙏🌉🌆🌉🌆💯💯🛼🛼🔥🔥🤯🤯🕯️🕯️🫨🫨😇😇💪💪🙏🙏

Remember when this movie came out, we were all breakin in my town lol ... those were the days and no dance movie comes close to this masterpiece!

1984 Was Lit 🔥! 10th Grade Los Angeles High School ! 🤙🏾🇺🇸🇨🇦🇹🇭🇬🇧🇹🇼🇵🇭🇰🇿🇮🇹😎

Wish I had a time machine, back to the 80’s for me

You know, I like to put on my shades indoors too when someone/something grabs my attention.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Definitely epic dance battle as well as the subway battle...but the scene where Beat Street and the Bronx Rockers squashed the beef and then united for Ramos celebration are my most unforgettable moments! When the breakers slide in during the gospel song me and my lil bro lost it GREAT TIMES,GREAT MEMORIES!!!

Mr. Freeze, n Bboy Rockers', That shit is SO Freeeeeeeesssshhhh... 30 yrs Later!!..They still Doing THIS shit out Here!!!!..Shit Neva gets Old!!!!

This is a sport!!!🔥🔥🔥

bboy fo life...started in breakin in 1982 still remember the best days...and i'm fitty and still lovin this, altho my windmill isn't as good as it used to be haha......thanks for the upload :)

Damn I wish we could go back to this where everything was normal but now we can’t even go to a dance club anymore.

(7:52) FAST EVOLUTION OF THE AIR FLAIRS FROM CRAZY LEGS-TWO FEET TOUCHING TO LIL LEP ONE FOOT AND THEN WE HAVE TODAY NO FEET TOUCH(AIR FLAIR). LOVE THIS SHIT.

ICONIC ❤❤❤

When goin 2 tha clubs were fun. Yu gotta luv tha whole decade of tha 80s

🎶🎶🎶🥰🥰🥰🎼🎼🎼🎼🤙✋برنس أوف راب من أجمل وأحلا وأروع كوبليه في عالم الرقص ولها ذكريات جميلة جدا جدا وجذابة أيام التعليم 🎉🎉

I love this!

Cult scene? More like the most electrifying hip hop Roxy live club scene ever filmed there WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING BETTER!!!!! 💯👑💯👑

@asaldou

9 ай бұрын

Love that❤

ken swift is so badass he made the donkey kick look tight lol

best break dance movie of all time

@melvinbridgewater6165

7 жыл бұрын

Antonio Diaz Yep Yep

Now this what a hip hop beef looks like in the good ol days. 😊

Best dance battle then and still is currently.. IMO

5:57 even Lil Lep got a kick out of that move

I AM 48 YRS OLD TILL THIS DAY THIS SONG STILL GETS MY SOUL!!B GIRL FOREVER!!

Fantastic 🤩

This battle and Arhur Baker's Breakers Revenge is nothing but legendary!!!!

i love when special k say its working

Different fashion, different dancing, different backgrounds and everyone having a good time and not giving a shit.

HIP HOP BROUGHT ME HERE X

God I miss the 80's 😎 Saudades 💕 Best time ever! United Youth of America 🎶👏

Thanks mom for putting us on to this movie

Legendary Beat Street Dance Battle, Crazy Legs moves are still awesome. Arhur Baker's Breakers Revenge, I´m so old, I´m still same age as Master Yoda.

Priceless.

40yrs on this 80s legendary movie Beat Street inspired my generation a dance art that is accepted and recognised in the same category as jazz, Ballroom, ballet, to me will always be the greatest breakdancing film of the 80s

what i would do to live out just one year in the 80's

@TheLexiconDevils

4 жыл бұрын

I lived 10 years. It wasn’t that great ...

@carlramsamugh1170

4 жыл бұрын

Me too bro! Would go back right now. 80's forever!

@garywallace4440

3 жыл бұрын

I lived 8 years of the 80’s. Unfortunately it will never come back.

@brianglade848

Жыл бұрын

Cocaine and mustaches....pretty much it

This is my fav scene of all time..along with blade nightclub scene

Grandisimo Baile de Break para la epoca 1984

The best breakdancing movie of all time!!

Now this is beats and cuts.beautiful mixing @ 9:32. OMG

This why New Yorkers ARE sooooooo passionate about HIPHOP. They. Invented the S** T NOT FORGETTING it's Jamaican roots in Dancehall. Nuff respect,DJ KOLL HERC,GRANDMASTER CAZ,AURTHER BAKER AFRIKKA BAMMBATTA MELLE MEL AMONG OTHERS GOD BLESS U ALL . PEACE ✌️ ☮️ 🕊KENNY-O LDN #288_The.i kingz

✅ Salute the real life Rock Steady Crew! 👊🏾🎤🔥

That opening move by Kuriaki. Wow.

@Bhodisatvas

5 ай бұрын

R.I.P Kuriaki

This is the best part in the whole movie because both sides put on a great performance.

So freaking dope!!!! Doesn't get any better than that!!!!!

I own this classic movie 🎬 💞🙌💯

Man, I was 10 years old and in love with this movie!

@user-sw4wk3op9f

8 ай бұрын

Me too, born in 74 and would rewind the shit out of this part

When i first seen this i was 6, and i was like crazy legs didn’t go in like he should have. Seems like he held back. Mr wave and flip rock killed it. Kid nice back spin into a head spin was ill… I wanted that beat street jacket like my life depended on it

WE NEED CLUBS LIKE THIS NO DRAMA

I always loved and still love that song BREAKERS REVENGE

As a kid I loved the Rap and breakin' but now I love this scene for the Freestyle music

ROCK Steady Crew and NYC Breakers friends for many years much respect from My Crew CHICAGO WINDY CITY BREAKERS BBOY PHAZE 2 wat memories when my homies Rock Steady Crew Came to Chitown for there reunion Amen

Everyone looks so happy dancing

Rest in peace Kuriaki and Buck 4

This scene changed my life

Ya 30 sene önce ne güzel günlerdi o günleri bugün parayla geri getiremezsin çok güzel dans ediyorduk egleniyorduk

Sickest dance movie ever...very close is Breakin...shows the different styles of east coast and west coast...80s baddest time ever!

@TheLexiconDevils

4 жыл бұрын

It’s not a fucking dance movie you dickhead

rsc was actually a better crew the wanted to do more routines in the movie but were not allowed because it would me NYCB look bad overall i luv both crews i am talkin to MR wave on fb as we speak lol swift and crazy legs cool guys i took them to a club here in TO they danced against some crews here at the end of the battle crazywas running out of moves he asked me what move should i do i told him do the shoe move from beat street well.... the crowd went nuts classic night for me!

@suchasin

4 жыл бұрын

New York City Breakers were the better crew by far

@seanhodges3562

9 ай бұрын

That's dope!

I'm the 80s babies I remember this shit👍

@wandawhigham7576

6 жыл бұрын

I’m an early 1970’s baby. I Sho’Nuff remember this!