Robert Muraine [mr fantastic]

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Autobiography
As a child i always enjoyed music and dancing. I always wanted to learn how to break dance and was interested in the culture. I didn't grow up with much musical background and basically had no rhythm at all as a child. Through elementary and Jr. High I was your typical wannabe breaker/popper/skater, trying everything, not getting good at anything. Electronic music becomes part of my life from listing and recording music from KROQ afterhours on to cassette tapes.
High school arrives just as the game Dance Dance Revolution surfaces. I immediately turn into a DDR freak and I learn a thing called rhythm. As this is happening electronic music is taking over, and I start to think I am a raver (without even experiencing a rave). With my newly learned skill (rhythm) and love for electronic music I start to swing glowsticks around and get pretty good, some called me "the best on the west coast" At this time raving wasn't considered "cool" anymore but i decided it was time for my first rave, September 2003 I go to Nocturnal Wonderland. My life changed. After this i started to try and do "liquid popping" a watered down raver version of "waving". This was the start of my journey to becoming what I am today.
Some friends and I formed a dance crew called "Tangklang" we went around to other high schools battling whoever we could in every dance form. My styles being liquid and glowsticking. Along the way we won a couple talent shows and battles this lasted about 2 years (which was up until my junior year). During the tangklang period we met an OG Poplocker named Jeckle. Jeckle taught us the basics, fundamentals, and history of poplocking. This was our journey to becoming true poppers.
Out of the "TK" Crew Alex (sigma), Justin (Jetli), Krys (Popping Cherries), And I (Mr Fantastic) Moved on to become poppers. TK broke up later that year separating all of us. As for me I started to take interest in B-boying. And joined a crew called LA Zoo. I started to base my foundation of Breaking around flexibility, and started to stretch constantly for about 2 years. LA Zoo Broke up not to long after it started. But at this time I started to finally get pretty decent at what i was doing. This is when Bboy Psycho found me and wanted to recruit me into the world famous Airforce Crew. This Was The start of my Professional Journey.
Soon After i was recruited i started performing with Airforce at 3rd Street Promenade and Occasionally for Redbull. After that Summer in 2006 financial problems arose and I learned what it meant to live on your own at age 18. I had to stop dancing and get a real job. No time for breaking no room for breaking. Popping came back into my life. Everyday after work practice, practice. I started to incorporate my new flexible breaking moves into my popping, making my own new unique style. Me and my friend Krys from my old crew TK start to talk and wanna try to perform in public, so every Friday we went to Renaissance in Alhambra CA and tryed to perform. This caught on to other dancers and started to become a "practice spot". We weren't there to practice, we were there to perform. We then moved to a spot in Burbank CA. There we succeeded and started to make some good cash, that is until we got kicked out a couple months later. We then decided our show was good enough for Promenade.
Our First weekend at 3rd Street in Santa Monica was Awesome. We Made a lot of money and in the Summer of 2007 we averaged 300$ a night, we started getting booked for shows and then invited to dance at different places (Main St. Huntington Beach Tuesdays, ETC.). That only lated until recently, now Krys has retired because of school, and now I am working with The Magnificent Gyroe under the sponsorship of Live Clothing, and also doing my solo career as well. The story will go on forever but for now it stops.
One last thing to sum up my story is that: no matter what, if you follow your dreams and do what you love to do, that nothing but good will come out of it, it took 5 years to get where I am, and I never knew where it would take me now I do what I love and get paid for it. Don't give up! And Let the haters hate!
Street Credit
-1st Place Got Skillz Talent Show Monteray Park w/ Tangklang (June 2004)
-1st Place Got Skillz Talent Show Monteray Park w/ Tangklang (June 2005)
-Battle Field Exhibition Battle Tangklang vs Whiz Kids (Sept 24 2005)
-Rock'n'Rights Japanese-American Museum Performance w/ Tangklang (Aug 18 2005)
-China Town Plaza Perforamance w/ Tangklang (Summer 2005)
-2nd Place 'Maxt Out Jr' (18 and under event) (August 27 2005)
-China Town Plaza Perforamance w/ LA Zoo (October 9 2005)
-Asian Hiphop Summit Performance Downtown LA w/ LA Zoo (Nov 20 2005)
-Street Performances w/ Airforce Crew @ 3rd Street Promenade (Summer 2006)
-Street Performances @ Burbank AMC Block (November 2006 - March 2007)
-2nd Place Street Skillz 2 on 2 Popping Competition (Summer 2006)
-Solo Street Performances @ 3rd Street Promenade (March 2007 - Present)
-Arcadia Quistar Performance @ The Masons Of Arcadia (March 1st 2007)
-Performance With 'Funkdoobiest' At Hiphop For Education (March 3 2007)
The Melting Pot Hiphop Show Performance Glendale (March 13 2007)
-Street Performances @ Main St. Huntington Beach (June 2007 - Present)
-1st Place Focus Dance Competition Popping Finals (July 18 2007)
-RedBull Performance Club Verge @ The Avalon (July 23 2007)
-2nd Place Taiwan Reeb Popping Competition Finals (July 28 2007)
-'Freestyle Experience' Performance for Newcleus & Egyptian Lover (Aug 26 2007)
-Young AA Convention 'Opening Act' @ 'Bonaventure Hotel' (Sep 1 2007)
-ESPN Raquet Ball Exhibition Half Time Performance Venice Beach (Sep 3 2007)
-Cover Page Of "The Wave" Newspaper Huntington Beach (Nov 1 2007)
-1st Place Pasadena City College Freestyle Dance Battle (Nov 6 2007)
-4th Place International Watchdance.com Dance Video Competition (Nov 30 2007)
-Insomniac Events Together As One Bassrush Performance (Dec 31 2007)
-1st Place International Watchdance.com Dance Video Competition (Jan 31 2008)
-Flown To Stockholm Sweden Streetstar Street Dance Festival To Compete (Jan 28 - Feb 3 2008)
-Performance & Interview on Television "Good Morning Sweden" Morning News (Feb 1 2008)
-Semi-Finals Just Debout Scandinavia (Street Star) 2 on 2 Popping Competition (Feb 2 2008)
-Promotional Performance @ Eagle Rock High School (Feb 8 2008)
-Opening Of Yosemite Wreck Center Dance Studio Los Angeles (Feb 8 2008)
-Weekly Popping/Dance Instructor @ Yosemite Wreck Center (Feb 8 2008 - Present)
-Top 10 International Watchdance.com Dance Video Competition (Feb 28 2008)
-Appearance/Interview on 'Day Break OC' KDOC-TV Morning News (Mar 4 2008)
-Exhibition Battle vs Darrel Stokes Son @ Session-A Pomona CA (March 2008)
-'So You Think You Can Dance' Day One 1st Audition Cut (Mar 6 2008)
-'So You Think You Can Dance' Day Two 1st Audition Cut (Mar 8 2008)
-'So You Think You Can Dance' Day Two 2nd Audition SOLO Cut "Straight to Vegas"(Mar 8 2008)
-'So You Think You Can Dance' Bio/Film Crew At My 3rd street Promenade Show(Mar 14 2008)
-Yosemite Recreation Center 'Easter Celebration Show' (March 22 2008)
-'So You Think You Can Dance' Flown To Vegas (April 23 2008)
-'So You Think You Can Dance' ****** Heat (April 24 2008)
-'I Used To Love Her' Hiphop Play Performance (May 02 2008)
-Bedlam Solo Popping Performance (May 03 2008)
-So You Think You Can Dance (Season 4) Airs (May 22 2008)
-8th Most Viewed Video In The World On Youtube.com (May 23 2008)
-1st Most Viewed Video In The World On Youtube.com (May 24 2008)
-Appearance On Ellen DeGeneres Show (May 26 2008)
-Article On People.com (People Magazine)(May 27 2008)
-One Million Views on Youtube.com In One Week(May 29 2008)
-Electric Daisy Carnival Performance (June 28 2008)
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