So I thought I'd introduce myself by listing a little bit about me so here goes:

- I breakdance, do freerunning / parkour / tricking, and gymnastics

- Basically anything that gets me sideways or upsidedown and / or spinning, flipping, or moving quickly is something that I enjoy xD

- I've been a closet nerd for a long time. Most of my friends in real life don't even realize I game all that much

- I used to play Halo 2 at a very high level and until Halo 3 came out with some MLG pros. My quadshot was nice =]

- The first system I had was a PlayStation and I picked up the control "claw" the very first time I played without ever knowing that style existed... and this was while playing Nascar 98. <- Lol

- I still like playing first person shooters but I feel as though the genre has fallen off from a hardcore perspective. Honestly I feel as though if you had only two options to pick from I would choose anything from the Mario Party series as a more competitive FPS over Halo: Reach. I feel it's a terrible game in general which is incredibly disheartening because I used to really, really be into the Halo series until that game.

- In Halo 3 I was I guess pretty famous for learning the spawn system (If you happen to be bored look me up on youtube). There was some confusion over my "semipro" status. I actually never went to an event for the game other than one local one. I had other things going on in my life and I've learned it's too much fun to find other things to do in competitive games other than being a tryhard all the time. This is why I started learning the spawn system and did so much other stuff with the game.

- On a related note I'm rarely ever actually thinking about the game I'm playing while I'm playing it xD

- My favorite game ever is probably Final Fantasy X. That and Kingdom Hearts (the original) used to mean a lot to me when I was younger.

- For the last year or so I've been into starcraft 2 quite a bit because console game developers have been extremely disappointing to me when it comes to competitive games, which is the main thing that should be tailored towards me.

- I enjoy card games. I recently have had a resurgence into Magic: The Gathering.

- Which brings me to my final bullet: The main reason I found and visit this site is because of Pokémon TCG for the gameboy color and the main reason I'm making this first post! SCOOOREEEE =D

Welcome to Vizzed.



Wow that is a very awesome introduction. Most of the games you have in your post are on my favorite list as well. What is your favorite thing about break-dancing and gymnastics? I used to do Ballet and I absolutely loved how graceful and calming it felt. Anyways enjoy Pokémon TCG, it is really fun.

Thanks, felt like a decent way to go about things  I think my favorite thing about breakdancing is the versatility of expression in it. A lot of bboys and bgirls take a bit stylistically from salsa, house, and many other types of dance. I feel it's really a form that allows for a lot of expression or cooptation from any other backgrounds you have and allows you to focus on whatever you'd like to focus on because it's so diverse. There are so many great style-heads in the breakdancing community.

I think personally my form takes on a lot of balance when I breakdance because of my history previously to getting into breaking. I've only been bboying for a year and I've already taken half the time off because I got involved in it through gymnastics when I was away at college and when I transferred back to my home state I had a hard time finding the breakdancing community here because it's still so new and small here which was interesting to find out because the original scene I was introduced to was so big and coming home to a place where there is almost no power (that is to say power-heads as opposed to style heads) was something I was not used to. And actually I see myself as more of a power-head because of my previous background. I've got much better than average handstands and freezes, as well transitions and related things, than a lot of people who have been in the scene for a while, much less those who have been breaking for only a year. Lol. I definitely need to work on style a bit, but hey, power comes easy to me so I've had a huge leg up there.

Btw, there are people who breakdance extremely gracefully that I know of. I think the more common Canadian style with sweeps and such is a pretty good example of that =D I don't think it's all that calming to most people however because usually footwork is at a pretty quick pace and energy consuming and most power moves really take a lot of exertion. I suppose it is calming though in the sense that nothing really quite gets rid of negative energy for me better than heading outside and doing a couple quick flips but to each their own in that category xD

I like gymnastics basically because that's where I started I suppose. I guess it goes in the upsidedown and spinning category too I really like tumbling more than anything else. Floor's what I love the most. Sadly my gym experience has always been a bit lacking as last year was the first time I really actually hit a gym and I haven't been able to even go to an open gym since moving back here. It's a little depressing but I'll always have what I started with: open field =] Gotta use whatcha got! Lol