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Thanks Wilkie.

Part 2 coming later today.

peace man

Yo Big C aka Big Wood aka Big String of Misery aka Daddy Long Legs aka Bamboo Pegs aka TIMBER - Next year please make a just jam mix tape for the event. Will chat to u about it in a bit bro - Great seeing u homie

Thanks for all the great feed back people.

Battles coming in the next 24 hours and trailer in next few days.

peace

Total Spin!!!

Loved this video Andy - Extremely well filmed and put together, the music was sick all the way through and a dope bboy to top it all off.

Props to Jack.

doke

Sup this is Doke!

As an organiser & creator of Just Jam i wanted to speak about what my experience of the weekend were.....

Usually i'm too busy organising with P & Rokas to see what is going on. All of you who know about running jams will know that you never really get the opportunity to fully appreciate your own event.

You can only go by what the audience & participants are saying. A lot of the time you can't even remember big battles cos you're worrying about how everything is going, if every1 is having a good time etc etc... NOT THIS YEAR!!!

As i've been away for the last two months the rest of the crew have been running the event in my absence. I came back home this weekend at the beginning of the Just Jam madness.

I had the pleasure of experiencing the jam as a spectator/audience member/participant. I recommend this to any1 whos runs jams. It's good if you can step back on the day of your event to get a sense of what it is, how it feels and the message you're sending out to the community/audience with your jam.

The main event was something very special!

We had some of the best underground bboys around. All getting down in the cyphers & the competition. When it came to the battles all the competitors were enjoying the experience of the battle & not hell bent on winning over having a good time... Which is sometimes lost in the modern era of bboy jams. People were smiling when they got beat and then returning to the cyhpers to do what they love - DANCE!

I really seen a lot of PASSION, LOVE, RESPECT, LACK OF EGO & SPORTSMANSHIP yesterday. THIS IS WHAT IT IS ABOUT!!! Before competitions they would jam, exchange, share, inspire and grow together. With this the competition will always be there anyway. The competition was not important yesterday as there were a large number of like minded people getting down, having fun and bugging out.

After speaking with several of the invites about how the jam/weekend went for them i was inspired to put this up - Whatever we present to the audience is what they understand the artform to be.

Sometimes we blame an audience by saying that they only cheer power moves/gymnastics but maybes it's because that's what they're used to being fed. Yesterday proved we can change that perception by what we give them to watch -

Some of us were worrying that the audience were quiet. I wasn't worried as i was in the audience. What i felt was that they were focusing on these very individual styles/characters and attentively appreciating them.

In a way we can compare it to MTV - If you play bullS**t rnb all day everyday then eventually kids/people will buy into it. Like wise if you play Krs, Rakim, tribe, j5 etc all day everyday people will dig this too and then eventually they will begin to understand & appreciate the artform.

Let's keep bringing the audience the real stuff and stop diluting it with what we feel they need to see. That's not an order that's BTC's message to ourselves for the future of
Just Jam.

WOW!!!!!!!! What a rant but as i say it was a realisation for me that the Real Hip Hop artforms can be appreciated by all! We just got to keep on pushing it.

Next year look out for more of the same & hopefully it will be a little bigger and a little better.

Timber's synopsis sums up the events that took place over the weekend very well so i don't need to repeat.

However i would like to say an honest THANKS to all those who have continued to support BTC & Just Jam from day dot til now and for those that have come for the first time also.

Please post up any comments about the weekend you have - Good, bad, indifferent, funny, drunken memoirs or other.

Peace to all

Doke