Here's a brief summary of my life with popping. I was about 8 years old when i got into the robot. I was looking at books, magazines, and of course Marcel Marso (The worlds greatest Panaming). Also there was a duo with a husband and wife called robert sheilds and his wife. They were the first manican robots that I ever saw. This was going on since the 1970's during the disco era. Around 1969 there was a group called "the lockers" which was the first street dance of this form. A lady by the name of Toni Basail, who is a singer, director, and chorographer is the one who first saw locking in a disco and she approched a gentleman by the name of Don Cambell, who is the one who created the style "locking". Toni asked Don "would like to teach me some locking and ever since then she became one of the lockers. She was the first one to put street dancing of this form on television. She is a pioneer of MTV. So if it wasn't for Toni Basail street dancing would have not gotten this far. Also the Electric Bogaloo's she helped.