When you start watching this video it seems to show yet another everyday high school dance-off. The first guy throws down some awesome breakdance moves as his opponent, a geeky-looking scrawny kid, stands by watching. This first kid has his audience of high schoolers eating out of his hand. Surely there can only be one winner?

But then, unexpectedly, the scrawny kid flips into his own, mesmerizing routine. He b-boys around the first guy with incredible skill, as the gathered throng go absolutely wild! Seriously, he busts out moves that wouldn’t have looked out of place on the Bronx streets of the late 1970s.

Watch the whole thing below: