God bless the internet for this gem of Israeli history

It was a cold day back in 1984, but that didn’t stop Michael ‘Boogaloo Shrimp’ Chambers and Adolfo ‘Shabba-Doo’ Quinones from popping, locking, whacking, breaking in Israel to promote the movie Breakin’ (saw it in the theater thank you you very much!) Back in the fifth grade we used to tear out the good old reliable cardboard, place the “Jam on It” cassette in the boombox and do our thing. I thought I was quite good. Everyone cheered for me to come out to the cardboard and bust my moves. After a few times, I realized they weren’t cheering me on, they were making fun of me. Perhaps I wasn’t as good as I thought (actually, my worm rocked, its still rocks and it will always rock). I looked up and in slow motion I saw Todd Bloom laughing at me in a mockingly slow voice. So I did what any normal kid my age would have done. I launched myself head on at top speed straight toward him and attacked. And I kicked his ass. It was all about the element of surprise. Surprise indeed, Eddie Simonetti, a red headed Italian kid with an unfortunate rhyming name and and who happened to be twice my size jumped me from behind, grabbed me in a headlock and repeatably pounded his fist into my head. As he pummeled he asked over and over “Are you finished?, Are you finished?” Obviously I was finished, I was incapacitated, drooling, barely conscious, unable to talk and “Joy and Pain,” a less cooler rap song than “Jam on It” was now playing. To say that I was finished was an understatement. I think this was the first time I gave up on people. No, that was back in sixth grade, a story of unfortunate youth I’ll share for another time. Anyway, I was to never do my trademarked moves again. That is, until Breakin 2: The Electic Boogaloo came out.

I love it when the audience goes wild over the moonwalk.

All names mentioned on this site are real and haven’t been changed.

You hearing me Simonetti? Hope you are a better person these days.