@@freedomcambrelen7888 Nah tracks were okay but the build-up for the drops was too long which took away alot of good energy for both the crowd and the dancers
I have been the house DJ in plenty of contests over the years and dealt with a few different formats..... This format is the most commen one and real easy to do. .... You can either play 1 track and have all 4 dancers get a chance to work with that track for the 1st round and then mix another track in for the 2nd round for all to dance to. (2 tracks)...... Or ..... You can play a track for the 1st 2 dancers and mix a 2nd track in for the next 2 dancers for round one..... And then do the same for the 2nd round.... (4 tracks). (I usually do 4 tracks for the semi finals and finals)... And you absolutely MUST play the meat of each track to keep the energy up... No time for build up... Get into mid track. Let it play for roughly 1 minute and then do a simple 4 - 8 count mix and drop the next track....Not hard to do if you prepare for it.... This DJ played lazy and didn’t seem prepared to do the job he was hired to do... Congrats to Tony Ray and Caleaf.... Yo Bruce! You gotta hit me up bro.... You know I’m always down to play..... Yeah man!
As a DJ, plus competitor in the House category spectator @ JD, I can say that I would've loved to have DJ T-sia spin the category instead. The DJ here had poor song selection. Two times here the DJ let the build-up or drop outs play way too long. It took the feeling from the dancers and the crowd. He also did it to my team and our competitors during the first matchup, so I can only assume he did it throughout the night. For the finals of such a huge event, you need to maintain the energy for everyone. In Bangkok, during the finals and other battles, there were times when DJ T-sia played house songs that almost made me stop dancing and look at her out of excitement and appreciation. Please have her DJ next time instead. This DJ had some good song selections, but he played them all wrong and did not do his job in terms of bringing out the maximum potential (and more) of the dancers.
Agreed. Not feeling the selection here. Not saying the music is necessarily bad but there is a time and place for everything. This afro lounge vibe is not the ticket. Its a battle lets get it! Lets hear some funky basslines and some grooves. Drop some heat DJ. If your not familiar with the genre atleast play some classics.
I agree. It was really boring music for a dancer and did nothing to influence excitement and passion in dance. He is what I would call a “smoke break” DJ that easily clears a dance floor.
A few years back I met him in person and asked how he conditioned his body to stay fit enough to dance for so long. He said he actually doesn't do anything, no exercises or nothing, he just dances. Dude is nuts
Tony Ray and Caleaf got this one. Im disappointed in the DJ though, c'mon this is the final, those song choices and the transitions were abysmal. Hard to say this was a fair battle. Whomever goes second, has the upper hand, because its takes the DJ a WHOLE MINUTE before he's decided to fade to the next song. Even the animator already shouted "SWITCH" smh.
@@relentlessthedragon Well as I said before, he says "switch" for the dancers to switch, not for the DJ to switch songs. I've been to multiple house dance battles and th DJ doesn't change the song every minute when a new dancer starts to dance. Usually it takes several passages before he or she switches to another song. But hey, we can agree to disagree ;) It's no big deal.
But I'm wondering now : maybe it is a thing in France not to change the track for every dancer. I've only been to house dance battles in France so... Maybe it is different somewhere else. It could explain why I'm used to it and you find it odd and disturbing. But I agree on the point that the second dancer has each time the advantage since he had the time to assimilate the track ;)
The issue is that Kazane "the girl" goes first and @5:47 Tony Ray finishes his round. Now Hiro begins his round and he has to wait a long time for the music to change. After each round the song is supposed to change. But the DJ takes too long to change the songs.@@clarajacquin2425
Don't be surprised but it can be taught, although the roots truly stick in NYC. But please don't disrespect all the house teachers like Jardy Santiago, Caleaf himself or other people. Just want to clear some things up in a good way, I am a house teacher myself and it's not impossible BUT hard to teach people how to groove and let your body move freely to the music like caleaf is doing.
@@sn4pi .. How The Fuck Do You Teach HOUSE DANCING? What Lame Goes and Pays to be taught FREE EXPRESSION. JUST GO TO A REAL HOUSE CLUB. Which is hard Being Every "New Age House Dancer Was Taught" Laughable. Caleaf aka loss Leaf as I Know Him Personally and we Battles too many times at NYC CLUBS None of US Were Taught and None of us believe what we do can be Taught. may Be What You Do NOT US.
As a person who battled Caleaf aka Loss leaf and his crew Henry, Stretch, Ejill too many time Your 1,000% CORRECT What We Developed at Clubs like Red Zone, Sound Factory, The Sound Factory Bar, Choice, The World, The Shelter, Palladium, Fun House, You Get It. Back Then NO LIE You Could Party 7 days a Week and we would see each other 7 days. To be honest all these New Hose Dancers are real easy work. My Beginnings were in the Electric Boogie Not Pop Locking that was before me Rerun shit from Whats Happenin. So i Grew up battling in circles its Muscle Memory. I know it is the same for Caleaf why we smoked a Blunt and talked about different levels different times. One Love
@@Brooklyn_Hit that’s dope, I use to Mimic his style… then I got good, or some people may say and went with my own style of course I had a lot of his groove.. but then I remember rocking a circle with ejoe, that changed my life.. and my style.. they were like water.. as Bruce Lee said .. “be water my friend.” So now my friend said I dance “soft”..Basically like water. That’s when I started adding the Capoeira and after that.. there’s no going back..
@@Ishbikes ...Beautiful... I'm a STRONG Believer It's Circles that make you a great dancer along with a Good Full body Mirror... FYI This is How real it is to Me In 2022 I learned The Names Of Dance Steps We just Did.. Honestly I was like Oh Shit That is What They Call That Step...
I don't care who you teach it to...who learns it. House from start to juke was created in Chicago & will forever be the originators!!! I'm not even a house head but facts are facts.
@Proton1 Oh boi you know shit about memes, man. Especially millenials have the knowledge and can identify one as a boomer. Ofc a boomer won't know that he's a boomer - poor boomers smh my head.. Next time do your research, boomer
Maybe DJ equipment or something was not working. Can't be possible they would take that long to transition between two sets... and the music was was definitely not well timed ... could be equipment too... I hope it's not the DJ being lazy or inexperienced
DJ SUCKS! Ridículo! 😪 DJ Guiu from Brazil is a BEST DJ of Juste Debout! Mestre Guiu!🇧🇷 Kazane Kasai.. Perfect!💕 Tony Ray saved Caleaf with the second inning.🤘🏿
Dj was pretty bad indeed, would have been great to have Guiu here, but I heard from someone who went to the Encontro Do House that Guiu is not planning to go to Jouste Debout/SDF or bring them to LA...
Who are the judges for this and what are their qualifications? For a final neither of these hits the beat as much as they should be hitting it although for a house final this music was whack
I guess according to the video desciption french dancers won once again. Has it come to the point where you start labeling good dancers from Japan as french? It's not just one time typo, you wrote that under every video with them in it.
At the start of the video, They wasted over 3 mins doing but BS-ing. They should've edited all that empty time doing absolutely nothing. Total let down. I expected [A LOT] more from these guys because Juste Debout [always] makes such great dance 💃[house & hip hop] videos, all except for this one. I mean, who wants to watch over 3 mins of dead, open nothingness? Why not just get down to the actual dancers, actually dancing?
@@micksolo2912 i decided to listen to your Omunye.....God dam but its really rubbish...took out some vinyls and guess what i pulled out. TAKE IT AS IT COMES EP ANTON ZAP - IM FINE ... lets play some music 😏😏😏😍😍😍 lets bring in another one from ANTON ZAP - PM PLEASE
the boys won thanks to that fire guy... Tony ray! he was the only one interesting and on fire during all the battles. what a flow and presence... compared to his crew mate.
@@hortenciam4431 ok son 2ème etait lourd (moins bien que Kazane) mais stp regarde son 1er passage ... moi je juge de facon neutre et objective, je connaissais aucun des 2 avant d'avoir vu ce battle ...
@@jasonsoftwolf8711 moi non plus je ne les connaissais pas mais perso j'essaie de juger niveau musicalité , déplacement , changement de rythmique et les step au sol ,pour moi elle a été très bonne kazane mais tony ray il eté un peu plus au dessus je l'ai trouvé plus complet (surtout sans son 2ème passage ) je pense que la battle c'est joué la