Did you know breakdancing is the Olympics newest sport? These b-boys flipped and spun for audiences 40 years ago

It’s *** beautiful day in the park. Just right for an afternoon of break dancing. The performers are here. The dance floor is here. The music. Where’s the music called the River City Phantom Rockers, *** group of popper and wavers and breakers. One of the best in Sacramento. It’s *** street dancing family of sorts because four of them are brothers, meet Aaron, Jimmy, Tommy and little five year old Joey Johnson who’s been breaking and breaking hearts ever since his brothers taught him his first steps in case you’re *** bit behind on your break dancing moves. Let Joey show you the et the centipede. Yeah. Or how about one called the old man would have, he likes to be around us *** lot. You know, he always wants to go where we go and he gets upset when we don’t take him. Aaron is the leader of the Phantom rockers. He’s also the most experienced having performed with another local group before he began dancing with his brothers. He says he’s proud of all of them. It’s important to me because our dad don’t live with us. So it’s more important to me. I feel *** greater need to do it, you know, to be *** leadership towards them. The group practices almost every day. They get new ideas from television and watching other groups perform many weekends. They’ll dance down at Fisherman’s Wharf sometimes making as much as $300 and giving tourists their money’s worth of fast moves. Alan Franks is the gymnast of the bun George Patterson waves like liquid motion. Steve Womack can break with the very best. All say there’s nothing else they’d rather do than dance. It’s changed my image *** lot in the way I live now because I’ve never stayed home. But now I’ve got respect back for my mom, you know, and she knows where I’m at all the time and I’m just dancing all the time. Everybody’s proud, you know, everybody’s proud that I’m doing something and, you know, trying to stay out of trouble and just, you know, learn something, maybe go somewhere with it. But until their big break comes along, the phantom rockers will just keep practicing their moves and maybe teach an old dancer. Some new ones in Sacramento for weeknight. I’m Sidney Kohara.

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