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LEFT: McNary junior Ricky Perez started the Aztec Rhythm Club at the high school. RIGHT: He is pictured with students Eddie Lopez, back, left, Ryan Randolph, Andres Garcia, bottom, left, and
former McNary student Jesus Mendoza, who is now a volunteer for the club.
Breakdancing added at McNary
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
After a conversation with
his older brother, Ricky Perez
decided he wanted to be more
active as he began his junior
year at McNary High School
and join a club.
But looking through the
list, there wasn’t one that in-
terested him.
So Perez decided to start
his own—Aztec Rhythm, bet-
ter known as breakdancing.
He went to Ryan Somer-
ville, a teacher at McNary
who told Perez to “stop tell-
ing me what you’re going to
do and come back and tell me
what you’ve done.”
Perez soon returned with
three friends, Ryan Randolph,
Eddy Lopez and Andres Mi-
randa, and said, “This is my B-
boy club.”
He then fi lled out the ap-
propriate paper work and Az-
tec Rhythm was added to the
list of available clubs at Mc-
Nary.
“To me being the leader
would surprise a lot of peo-
ple in the halls because they
see me as the kid who is just
there,” Perez said. “I think it’s
going to be really cool when
they fi gure out I’m a leader
here.”
Perez was introduced to
breakdancing in the eighth
grade. He went to sessions
twice a week at the Boys and
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He played soccer in the
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a part of anything in high
school.
“One day I came to my
senses, I don’t do anything
with my life,” Perez said of
starting the club at McNary.
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time so what can I do to vol-
unteer my time?”
Somerville is supervising
the group and said the only
problem is Perez wants to
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“When I told them I can’t
supervise every single day be-
cause I’m busy, he wouldn’t
take no for an answer,”
Somerville said. “He goes and
fi nds other teachers to super-
vise them the other days of the
week. He’s unstoppable. He’s
fantastic. It’s really neat seeing
him at that age grow into this
leadership.”
“It’s been an everyday
thing,” Perez said. “We love
breakdancing so much that we
want to get really good at it
and practice and practice and
we can one day be recognized
for that.”
Breakdancing isn’t com-
pletely new to McNary. In
2013, the high school hosted
a B-boy dance battle as a fun-
draiser with crews from all
around the Pacifi c Northwest.
Former students, Jesus
Mendoza and Ricky Sanchez,
who are now volunteering
with the club, used to break-
dance at school assemblies.
“There wasn’t a club and
that’s why I think it’s impor-
tant to do things like this be-
cause when we would do stuff
like this we’d get in trouble,”
Mendoza said. “The teachers
that supported us were ‘why
don’t you try to do assemblies’
and that’s where we were able
to express ourselves. Keeping
people busy is how you keep
them out of trouble.”
Perez looks up to both
Mendoza and Sanchez, who
he calls “legends in the game.”
“They are great role mod-
els to look up to,” Lopez said.
“They inspire me a lot to keep
pushing and move forward.”
Perez has mostly kept the
club quiet but looks forward
to impressing his fellow stu-
dents at an upcoming school
assembly.
“I don’t want people to
know just yet so at the right
moment it will be a huge sur-
prise to the whole school,” he
said.
“That’s how I’m going to
start bringing in people. I re-
ally want it to be just a hang
out, something people can do
and just have fun with it. It’s
something different here at
McNary.”
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