Aside from the three hip-hop teachers, I also interviewed Miko, who is manager of the City University Dance Society and Chris who is a local breaker from City University as well. I first asked them when and how they got into hip-hop dancing. For this first section I will talk about the three hip-hop dancers who became teachers. I feel that having the teachers and the non-teachers in two separated parts, allows me to better compare and contrast their views on various aspects of hip-hop dancing. I did not use a "fixed" question sheet because I feel that sitting down with each person for 15-30 minutes allowed me to get to know each better as a person. As an interviewer, my theory is that it's better to go with the flow and ask the proper questions as the time comes, instead of treating all my subjects with the same fixed questions. I feel that everyone is an individual and respond to questions differently. However, I asked every subject about how and why they started to dance hip-hop, Hong Kong's hip-hop past, present, and future, their inspiration, goals and what hip-hop dancing meant to them as an individual. I used other questions in between to bring out better answers that led to my ultimate purpose, which is to find out what hip-hop dancing meant to them. .
Rock (his name) started dancing in 1998 and has been dancing for three years. He got serious because he thought it would be his career. Rock was first at the university, undecided in what he wanted to do. He was always very active in sports and was looking for a career. He chose hip-hop and put more time into it. His first teacher was High King (his name) who taught in the Chinese University Dance Society. High King was teaching class there for the first time and that is when Rock saw real hip-hop. To explain, Rock has seen many "hip hop" classes before but he felt none of them were real. In this period, he learned many hip-hop dancing styles such as popping, locking, new school and old school hip-hop from High King.