Everybody knows Michael Chambers as Turbo, the cute kid who did the Fred Astaire–inspired broom dance in Breakin’ and the ceiling scene in Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. But Chambers, known in dance circles as Boogaloo Shrimp, demoed his talents in many other touchstones of popular culture throughout the ’80s and ’90s. The kid who started out breaking for money on the Redondo Beach Pier in California went on to appear in Chaka Khan’s “I Feel for You” video as well as tour as a backup dancer with Lionel Richie, play Urkelbot on Family Matters, choreograph Bart Simpson in the “Do the Bartman” video, appear in Sugar Ray’s “Fly” video, dance in a Nancy Reagan PSA, and teach breaking around the world.

Oh, and he may have inspired Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, but he’s too humble to take that crown. Here, the legend deconstructs the language of breaking for us, with a bit of Hip-Hop history on the side.

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