I did not care for breaking and here’s why: I feel that that the core of the Olympics is respect between the athletes, and breaking, as it was held, is the antithesis of that. Even if it’s supposed to be all in good fun, I don’t like a sport that normalizes the competitors mocking each other during their routines. And it sounds like that mockery is core to the sport, they won’t do a sanitized version, just as they’re not allowed to do preplanned routines, which is honestly what I thought it was going to be.
Mockery/Intimidation is a friendly way the make the show more interactive. It’s way easier to do a duel if the other is challenging you. Fact to the matter, the winner, Phil Wizard, use the different strategy encouraging his opponent and even copying their moves to destabilize the opponent.
I did not care for breaking and here’s why: I feel that that the core of the Olympics is respect between the athletes, and breaking, as it was held, is the antithesis of that. Even if it’s supposed to be all in good fun, I don’t like a sport that normalizes the competitors mocking each other during their routines. And it sounds like that mockery is core to the sport, they won’t do a sanitized version, just as they’re not allowed to do preplanned routines, which is honestly what I thought it was going to be.
Mockery/Intimidation is a friendly way the make the show more interactive. It’s way easier to do a duel if the other is challenging you. Fact to the matter, the winner, Phil Wizard, use the different strategy encouraging his opponent and even copying their moves to destabilize the opponent.