Waving for the first time

[ceech]

It was a sunny afternoon in Cherry Chase Elementary school in Sunnyvale, California 1984. I was a fifth grader standing in line waiting for our home room teacher to come open the door to let the class in after our lunch break. Standing in the next line, was another boy, I don't remember his name. He said, "yo cliff, check this out." Cliff was my homie, and he was standing in line in front of me. This boy raise his arm to the side, and waved it from his hand into his body. I just remember being completely amazed. It was the first time I saw anything like it. Then, my homie Cliff said, "do it again, let me see it again." That boy said, "nawww man, that's mine."

At that time, some of the kids in school had seen the movie "Break'in". Maybe he was able to learn from the movie, or maybe he was taught by someone. But as for me, I had not seen it on TV nor on movie. So, it was an amazing sight for me. Not more than 5 seconds of him doing his arm wave, I knew that I wanted to learn how to do it. However, that boy was the only in school who knew how to do it and he wasn't about to teach it to anyone, so I was out of luck.

Man, if i ever have a time machine, i would go back to that day and teach myself ( the 5th grade version ) how to do it. hehehe

[DocLock]

Haha that was a fun story Ceech! Messed up that the kid wouldn't share. That's just how it was for the longest time even almost 10 years earlier. hehe


It's a trip about waving and such. The wave was a move that you just learned at the beginning of dancing back in my time back in 78. I can't remember NOT seeing it. Like it was always a part of the dance.

The waves were very controlled. There had to be a purpose for how they started and ended.

There were 3D waves with ticks/stops.

Cobra looking waves like how I mentioned this one kat, SAPO (Carlos-forgot-last-name from Midnight Persuasion) used to do it where he went all the way down to his knees and came back up snake-like. Many years later when Janet Jackson popularized that side to side wave, it reminded me much of what was done in our era. Always had this fantasy that someone from the neighborhood taught her that haha.

I NEVER liked what I used to call New York style waves. That weak corny move where you start with one arm go through the shoulders and end up at the other arm only to connect to the other guy's fingertips so they continue it. Also, that loose crazy looking stuff you saw a lot in BEAT STREET. Looked too sloppy for me but that's just my opinion.

Thanks again for sharing Ceech.