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Olympic Breakdancing? Yes. Paris 2024 games. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just caught some Olympic qualifying finals for breakdancing?! Kazakhstan versus Netherlands. They both crushed it and Netherlands won. I thought the Kazaki won the whole thing with his opening move in the final bout.

I haven't read these links yet but apparently this is the first games that will feature break dancing.

https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/breaking-olympics-2024-paris-dancing

https://olympics.com/en/news/how-to-qualify-paris-2024-breaking-qualification-system-explained

I can't seem to find a video of the bout. Very cool to see breaking at the world level.

I've enjoying seeing how the games have evolved over my short life. I remember when Johnny Mosely pulled that perfect helicopter (360°) at mens moguls in Nagano in 1998 and it completely changed the sport of skiing. It launched entire categories of competitive skiing: freestyle, big air, and half pipe, eventually became Olympic events. I'm not really a big Olympics fan or anything, just wanted to share the news about breakdancing for Paris 2024. Can you believe it?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

does breakdancing have/need a gender break-down?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Obviously the male is more funky, while the female is more fresh. Er, except when the opposite is the case. Either way, it’s a different set of subrule amendments and categories.

I mean, you wouldn’t judge a men’s pop and lock the same as a women’s pop and lock - that’s just silly talk.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Obviously the male is more funky, while the female is more fresh.

The women also say hey, while the men say hoo. Also, when the women love hip hop, they rub their titties, and when the men love it, they grab their dicks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Oh werd?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think that's fairly common in individual competitive dance. I assume it's based on the range of moves that breakers can do or not do based on anatomical limits, but I don't really know why. I can't think of one breaking move that one gender can always do and the other always cannot, not an expert on any of this.

I was uncomfortable with the way they call the breakdown, b boys. And b girls. Just call it women's and men's, if you're gonna do it, IMO.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Men can generally do more power moves than women because of a difference in upper body strength. This makes it tough to have mixed gender head-to-head competitions. B-girls using power moves at all is a rather recent development to the scene.

B-boy and B-girl is the term breakers like, so I would expect them to fight hard against changing that.