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.

I know nothing about dressage, my knowledge is in breaking. I’d imagine dressage only exists in the Olympics as a hangover from when the Olympics was basically exclusively European aristocracy, aristocracy love their horses.

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.

Most people in the breaking scene didn’t want breaking in the Olympics specifically because it’s not a sport that can be judged, it’s the artistic expression of a subculture.

It’s an art, it’s self expression, it takes a lot of practice, skill and strength. It’s not a sport. Most breakers would agree with the above.

Fencing is a combat sport.