Coach Sambo

Yoo, so proud of my man Anthony for winning BC ONE Belgium 🤯 And then to have half the line-up be Battle Droids Crew … It was the plan but I’m still surprised we actually pulled it off.

Proud of the whole squad 🤝

You know, after many many years, the best part of being the coach is to still be able to be part of their story that you have set in motion all those years ago.

So many obstacles, challenges and losses have passed but after +10 years we clearly have our best years still ahead of us so buckle up 😙

Check out this short video on how Anthony made it all happen because your day is probably also waiting for you 🎯

Link: https://youtu.be/ToWbPdM286s?si=N6erTdH6_qTLfjQ0

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New Video ! (Explosion sound effect)
Check out the most advanced, advanced heapdsin tutorial by your man, Coach Sambo ✌️

Link: https://youtu.be/GPQw4cLvJ9w

Thank you to everyone supporting my Channel 🙏
Let’s keep working so YOU can get to that next level ✌️

ARE YOU READY for some new content ?!
This month we are going to go in to depth when it comes to Flares.

Starting out with this fresh FLARE MISTAKES video covering 5 of the most common issues people have when learning and/or working on Flares.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esIS0N7YMCI

Now how about giving me 5 m**o push-ups.

So full of energy after an amazing Wintercamp with 🇨🇳🏆 I have so much respect for these hard working individuals 🙌 I can’t wait to get back to work with you soon.
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Kids division:
-BBoy Hawk 1
-BBoy Jason
-BBoy Tiger Ye
-BBoy Hammer
-BBoy Mr. Mau
-BBoy Holy
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Women’s division:
-Bgirl Yingzi
-Bgirl 671
-Bgirl Daying
-Bgirl Ziyan
-Bgirl Royal
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Men’s division:
-BBoy Lithe-ing
-BBoy X-Rain
-BBoy JW Fresh
-BBoy Eric
-BBoy Monkey Z
-BBoy Ocean Z
-BBoy BGB
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Staff Members & Team:
-Hawking
-Echo
-Coach Wang
-Mr. Cloud
-Trice
-Mounir
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Skate team:
-Sjoerdje
-Niels
-Dan
-Alan
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Much love to all !
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Little word of advice: You can get far with hard work & some talent. But loyalty and integrity will change your life 🧠

Looking for the best tip for battle ever?
(Read here)⬇️

You might know me as the funny guy in red with great powermove tutorials on YouTube.
However for years now I have the privilege to coach and assist a large number of high level individuals for competitions, solo as well as collective.

Over the years I have managed to pick-up a lot of lessons and translate them in to rules to ensure the speed of evolution of my students. Many based on my own experiences in competition and later refined by applying them to my students.

Physical, technical, cultural & traditional knowledge is a big piece of the pie, but when working with individuals at the highest level, the psychological aspect of the game becomes a major piece of the puzzle.

So what is the winning mindset?

(Read carefully)

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In my book, the winning mindset is ability to work for something as if your life depends on it,
But have the skill to detach emotionally from any expectations.

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Let's break this down,
First of all I would like to say that I believe this mindset is only appliable for breaking and/or any other artistic activities within a competitive setting.

"Ability to work for something as if your life depends on it"

Obviously, to be good at anything in life you have to invest time and effort. The harder you work at something the better you become. This is well known common sense and the first step towards standing out in your field.
Only a handful of individuals (on average 3%) push to this level and become the top tier of their field.

"The skill to detach emotionally from any expectations"

This part of the tip is the gold. How to become the 3% of the 3% ?!
When investing so much time and effort in to your craft, us humans are emotionally involved by the idea that we want to achieve a certain goal. For example: Winning a specific Battle or seeking approval from certain people.

In a competitive surrounding, specially in breaking, there are aspects of the dance that persist in a relaxed environment, mindset and surrounding. For example the emotional and instinctive connection to music, the light touch and excellence of ex*****on & things like your overall expression and character in cooperation with your crowd, judges and adversary. 

When letting go of any expectation in your breaking journey, specifically in competition, your receptors towards these aspects and your ability to apply them amplify massively.

So to put in to BBoy language: 

The less you give a sh*t about winning,
The more you will smoke the adversary. 
(Specially if you really work your ass off)
The more you care, you more you will screw up.

If you suffer from pressure at battle, learn to trust your training, investments and skills to a point where you know things will work out for you. The work must be done behind the scenes in the gym, not during the competition itself. 

The work will speak for itself once the time comes so rushing the process will lead to additional time loss (and loss of good footage of you at competition). 






A final word,
The tip above has been proven effective time and time again in my own career as I suffered from many loses during my upcoming years. Losses led to me lowering expectations and pushing away the idea of "fitting in" with the "better dancers" from that era. This shift of mindset led to my biggest streak of wins as a young breaker. However, during that time I was not at all aware of this mindset, I was just sick of loosing.

At a much later stage in my life, I got injured and did not have the time to really prepare for battles, this led to me competing, again with no expectations. Guess what, best rounds of my life lol.
I also often see this happening with students, as well as top BBoys over the world who dance with a "I don't really care" mentality.

Caring and desperately wanting to be the best in breaking, like you are in some kind or Life or Death "Step up Movie" simply does not fit the "fresh" attitude and image of BBoys these days. So work your ass off, but then just enjoy the moment as it comes.

If you enjoy this type of content, knowledge and content I strongly recommend you to scroll through my YouTube Channel as I currently have more than 200 videos available for free.

More content and tutorials will follow soon.

Now give me 5 M**O push-ups.

Coach Sambo