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ABD which originally was billed as Asian Break Dancers got renamed Advancing Beyond Dreams. If you can't guess by the title, we are a breakdancing group. It all started with a bunch of us at an AYPAL (Asian Youth Promoting And Adocating Leadership) club meeting. It was a sorta bingo game where we write our names on things where we were supposedly able to do. Danny (D-Flare) put down that he can breakdance, then someone said prove it, so he did 3 or 5 okay looking windmills. David (Psycho a.k.a Pure Insanity) saw this and asked him if he can show him some moves at his house. At that time, David's brother, Wilson (Bizzy Legs) saw them and asked if he can practice with them too. Danny then later asked Sheng (Hydro Boy) if he'd like to come over and practice with them at David's living room which had adequate space to break. Sometime later I (Deep Freeze) came in around winter break of 1998 and started learning the basics like handspin and six step. Around this time, time became a factor as 3 of the members were seniors and about to go to college and we all had doubts if we can still get together and break if everyone is going to different colleges. So we thought of bringing in new blood into the group. We had a lot of potential candidates that said they'd like to learn how to break, but only a handful were dedicated. From them, we picked Daniel (Rice Burner) and Cheng (Flip boy). Daniel stuck around but seeing that Wilson left, Cheng slowly disappeared from the group too.
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Breakdancing has taught me to be a little less fearful of life. After balancing on your head everything else doesn't seem so bad anymore.
As you get older, you will meet a lot of people that say they used to be a great breakdancing when they were younger. The best thing to do is smile and nod along. Sometimes they are for real, other times, I think they're just trying to make conversation.
Sometimes when I spin on my head, I feel like some of my intelligence is falling out of ears. But five minutes later, I get over that and go back to spinning. Sometimes you get so dizzy that you start seeing stuff that isn't there and couldn't be real. Like in that "Days Go By" music video, he was dancing so hard trying to recapture the girl that he had lost, that in his mind, he did win her back through his dancing. You can tell it's all an illusion because she's dressed the same way as he remembered her, while he's dressed in his current business attire. Which is sort of the same way people like watching teen movies because it helps them remember a happier time in their lives (high school) that seems way better than what they are currently going though.
Everyone from ABD came from Oakland High in Oakland California...
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Pacey: So what is the secret to our long-lasting and angst-free friendship? What is the one thing that keeps it going year after year after year after year?
Joey: We suck at meeting new people.