No I def get not wanting breaking in the Olympics but saying it can’t be judged or that it isn’t a sport or that it doesn’t require physical and mental dedication to master is bullshit.
Yeah that’s my thing, breakdancing can be quantified in the same way as gymnastics or whatever the event is where they dance around with the ribbons and hula hoops. I enjoyed watching it tbh.
Breaking isn’t a sport. Literally no one in the breaking scene would consider it to be one and the vast majority of breakers didn’t want it in the Olympics because again, it’s the person self expression of a subculture.
It literally cannot be judged, it’s a movement. The way that it was judged in the Olympics pissed basically every breaker off because it discouraged multiple power moves.
You cannot judge counter culture self expression, that’s the entire point. It cannot be categorised or put into a box. The entire point.
I never said that it doesn’t take skill and physicality, in fact I specifically said that it does.
It’s always people who’ve no connection to the culture who insist stupid fecking things like this. It’s not a sport, it’s a subculture.
… gymnastics is an art too…
No I def get not wanting breaking in the Olympics but saying it can’t be judged or that it isn’t a sport or that it doesn’t require physical and mental dedication to master is bullshit.
Yeah that’s my thing, breakdancing can be quantified in the same way as gymnastics or whatever the event is where they dance around with the ribbons and hula hoops. I enjoyed watching it tbh.
Yes, but gymnastics is also a sport.
Breaking isn’t a sport. Literally no one in the breaking scene would consider it to be one and the vast majority of breakers didn’t want it in the Olympics because again, it’s the person self expression of a subculture.
It literally cannot be judged, it’s a movement. The way that it was judged in the Olympics pissed basically every breaker off because it discouraged multiple power moves.
You cannot judge counter culture self expression, that’s the entire point. It cannot be categorised or put into a box. The entire point.
I never said that it doesn’t take skill and physicality, in fact I specifically said that it does.
It’s always people who’ve no connection to the culture who insist stupid fecking things like this. It’s not a sport, it’s a subculture.
If dancing with ribbons and hoops can be an Olympic event (gymnastics), I don’t really get the why breaking is some completely different category.
It isn’t just gymnastics. Figure skating is an even better example of an art form which is also an Olympic sport.
You’re missing the point.
The entire point of breaking is that it’s a subculture, a counterculture at that.
Again, it’s like having vogueing at the Olympics, it completely nullifies the self expression and subculture element of it, which is the entire point.
The fact that it’s physically demanding and athletic is secondary.
It’s self expression. A subcultures self expression should not be judged and especially shouldn’t be graded.