Peter Tsai Photography Blog » Romeo Navarro http://www.petertsaiphotography.com/blog Author of Austin, Texas: A Photographic Portrait, Travel and Environmental Portrait Photographer Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:31:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Bboy City 17 Finals 04/25/2010 – Austin, Texas (part 1) http://www.petertsaiphotography.com/blog/2010/06/22/bboy-city-17-finals-04252010-austin-texas/ http://www.petertsaiphotography.com/blog/2010/06/22/bboy-city-17-finals-04252010-austin-texas/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:04:33 +0000 Peter http://www.petertsaiphotography.com/blog/?p=1209

Bboy City, Romeo Navarro’s Annual bboy jam, was back in Austin with a vengeance for an amazing 17th time this April. As usual ( ever since Bboy City 8 ) I was at the Parish nightclub documenting the finals, capturing amazing powermoves and sick footwork from the best bboys and bgirls from around the world.

The beats were sick, the dancing was on point, and we actually finished before 2am this year! Props to United Jungle Brothers for winning the crew on crew battles – everyone has been pulling for United for years and I’m glad they finally took home the championship.

If you want to help me out with bboy names for the captions, please leave a comment and I’ll get the pictures updated ASAP. Also, be on the lookout for more Bboy City 17 photos coming your way soon.

Additional Bboy City 17 finals photos:
Bboy City 17 Finals 04/25/2010 – Austin, Texas (part 2)
Bboy City 17 Finals 04/25/2010 – Austin, Texas (part 3)

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Top Rock Mean Mugging

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Crew Routine Flip

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Bboy Crisis Airflare

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Bboy City 17 – 2 on 2 Routine with Bboy Thesis (close) and Bboy Flexum (far)

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Elbow Freeze!

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Kip up to freeze

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Bboy Thesis – Suspended in Mid Air

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Air Freeze

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Bboy Mini Headspin Contest

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Gravedad Zero Routine

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Flares

]]> http://www.petertsaiphotography.com/blog/2010/06/22/bboy-city-17-finals-04252010-austin-texas/feed/ 4 Bboy City 16 – Austin, Texas at The Parish – part 2 http://www.petertsaiphotography.com/blog/2009/06/14/bboy-city-16-austin-texas-at-the-parish-part-2/ http://www.petertsaiphotography.com/blog/2009/06/14/bboy-city-16-austin-texas-at-the-parish-part-2/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:54:11 +0000 Peter http://www.petertsaiphotography.com/blog/?p=564

Bboy City is an annual breakdance event held in Austin, Texas hosted by Romeo Navarro and the Bboy City Crew. If you haven’t it yet, click here to view my first post about Bboy City 16.

Some interesting info on Bboy City:
If you are familiar with show America’s Best Dance Crew, several of the best bboys on that show have been in Austin at some point for bboy city either to compete or judge the events (including members of the winning crew from Season Two – Super Cr3w).

Also, there’s a great documentary film called Inside the Circle directed by Marcy Garriott that follows the lives of Romeo and two of the most popular dancers at Bboy City, Omar and Josh, through many of the Bboy City events (I also make random cameos in the background taking photos). This film premiered at the SXSW film festival in 2008 to rave reviews and recently aired on MTV. It’s available on DVD as well. Bboy City 16 Austin, Texas at The Parish part 2

Enjoy the rest of the Bboy City photos!

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Marlon of Havikoro (winners of Bboy City 16) practicing Footwork before the event begins

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Toprocking in a practice circle during a break

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Headspin battle in a cypher – contestant #1

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Headspin battle in a cypher – contestant #2

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Shorty of United / Knuckleheads California doing Flares

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Little Kid Freeze

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Knee Slide

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Misa footwork

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Marlon suspended midair during the Havikoro / Masters of Mayhem final

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Toprock

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Footwork

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Bboy Elusive Freeze

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Happy Headspin

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Elbow Airflare

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Gravedad Zero (Mexican Crew) – Group Routine

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Bboy Zeshen of Havikoro (winners of Bboy City 16)

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Rhythm Attack (Chinese crew) – flips

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Rhythm Attack (Chinese crew) – splits after a flip

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Bgirl Misa invert freeze

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