Baranek and Basketballman did their thing on this one.  Check out their quick and intricate combos, all backed up by a dope beat. 

Grip stopped by Germany and put on a show with Surprise and some more cats from the Germany’s Finest crew.  Check it out.

            So Clown Prince gave me an advanced download link of the mixtape.  I’m going to give a breakdown of what I thought about it, with my 100% real opinions along with a little bit of nitpicking.  I have it broke down by intro, what I consider the three elements of underground streetball (streetball/straight game, trickball, and freestyle),as well as editing and music.  Here it is -

The mixtape starts off different than a typical mixtape, there are some slick effects used for a Marvel comics type text intro, Read the rest of this entry »

The next Freestyle Central Contest is going to be literally the craziest yet!  We want to see you incorporate props into your freestyle.  For more information click here.

Manic will be droppin the “1988″ DVD shortly, featuring freestyles from Clown Prince, Mad Skillz and Last Chance.  CEO, player and director of “1988″, Clown Prince, took a minute to answer a few questions about the DVD for me, check it -

Snake:

First of all thanks CP for taking the time to do this interview and congrats on finishing up “1988″, the trailer looks dope.

cp :

thank u thank u thank u ur far too kind

Snake:

haha, so tell us a bit about the DVD, what can we expect to see, particularly the freestyle fans, what are they gonna like most about this DVD?

cp:

well the freestyle fans is deff goin to like mad skills the most, Read the rest of this entry »

Grip hit up France, here’s some footage with him Lil Ouf, Brisco and more . . .

Once again we had 11 submissions to the contest and a lot of amazing and creative moves on display.  Check out all the crazy moves and vote here.

Poland’s Bocian won our first contest with an amazing new roll move.  I took a minute to find out more about the creator of this amazing move:

Snake says:

First of all I’d like to thank you for taking the time to do the interview and for participating in the freestyle central move contest, and of course congratulate you on winning

Bocian says:

Thanks, it was fun…it’s all about fun, right?

Snake says:

First of all could you tell is a bit about yourself and how you got started freestyling?

Bocian says:

Oh, in the beginning there was a fascination of AND1… Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s a double-shot of some new performances for you all.  First is another freestyle from R-es featuring none other than Shiro, who was one of the major pioneer’s for Japan’s signature style.  The second video is the Agogna Steet Fest which features a mixture of different freestyles including soccer and streetball freestyles - featured performers included Da Move and Grip.   

It’s time for the next Freestyle Central contest.  This time we want to see your best spin trick.  Show us something special and you’ll get a feature right here on the homepage of Freestyle Central.  Official rules are here