The Art of Battle by Alien Ness

Being a friend with Alien Ness himself on facebook, of course I wud get notifications. When one day, he put up his own book for sale and shared it with the facebook world, I saw this book. Being very interested in what he has to say about battling, I decided to buy the book titled The Art of Battle written by Alien Ness himself.

Being decades since he is into the scene, so he must have something useful and interesting to say about the dance right?

Well, I will tell you what my first impression of the book was prior to reading a single word from it. I thought this book will contain the secrets of one of the most well known bboy in history; I anticipated words that will completely change my way of thinking when in a battle; and I was dying to absorb every information this book has to offer.

When I first opened the cover of the book, I find myself looking at a page full of CAPS. YA THAT'S RIGHT! HE WROTE THE ENTIRE BOOKS IN CAPS! WHAT THE HECK....IT FEELS LIKE HE'S SHOUTING AT YOU THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE BOOK. IT'S PROBABLY MEANT SO THAT YOU CAN FEEL THE ENERGY AND THE PASSION THAT HE HAS FOR THE DANCE. SO HOW DOES IT FEEL TO READ THESE PAST COUPLE LINES IN CAPS? :P

Well, putting that aside, this book is really short. I would have finished the entire book in an hour if I am just going to sit down and read it straight up. But that is not how I decided to read the book. I decided to read a little section a day, and see if I can relate myself to his words.

As result, this book took me about a week to finish. To be honest, I did not expect him to focus a good portion of the book to gestures and burners, nor did I expect him to really cover a bboy can think strategically how to respond or start his round. This book really does cover some in depth mentality and some good strategy for battles.

Even though now I have absorbed the content of the book, the hard part is to apply it during battles. After reading the book, I went back and examine the past battles that the Suburbaknightz were in. As I found out, we definitely could do much better in Alien Ness's standard in terms of battling. It is definitely impossible to do that in a couple battles, as experience plays a major role in the application of the knowledge. However, I can see a few areas which we are already doing well.

So I am going to do several posts regarding the content of this book and how it relates to me as well as the rest of the crew from now on. Please look forward to it!

N-dure