Jonathan bayani biography

Long before he earned the nickname "Bionic" for his fast, powerful dance moves, Jonathan Bayani was just a middle school kid with a bike, a pocket full of quarters, and an obsession with martial arts video games.

"This is the liquor store we used to bike to — to play Street Fighter," he said, standing in front of the store in Fremont's Ardenwood Plaza.

"This is good memories right here for me as a kid."

"I would always hear music coming out from that area, and I was wondering, what the heck's going on?" he said, walking toward a glass door at the end of the row of shops.

"I would see kids a little bit older than me getting down — B-boying."

Entering the echoey hallway that still has the same yellow walls and beige tile floor as it did 30 years ago, he recalled watching teenage boys spin on their heads to the beat of a boom box, eating Round Table Pizza and guzzling soda.

It wasn't long before he became one of them.

"My whole body's been on this floor," he said. "I've laid down