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yeah, true!

You will brother 💪💪

thanks bro!

thanks brother!

tnks brother!

Hi bro, thanks for your interesting opinion! Serfing, snowboarding, bmxing, skateboarding have already gone through commersalisation process and do you think athletes suffers? + I don't think Hip-Hop is a sport.

@STEPPIX breaking has become more gymnastics than dance in my opinion ..I seen it go from Rock or uprock to a level that is amazing

@@STEPPIX A 'new era' is just basically saying 'it's ours now and we'll redefine it in a way that suits us', it's that (undeservedly confident and ambitiously tone-deaf) modern mentality that's killed the heart of the dance and separated it from its heritage, look how she (yes 'she') claims there's a feminist movement happening within the dance when - though there were always a handful of Bgirls around - the dance was primarily a male space and understood to be so, a tool to channel aggression creatively, like boxing, providing mentorship, apprenticeship etc. giving young men from poverty who were in many cases academically challenged or from bad domestic situations a sense of belonging, focus and esteem I've been around the dance for over 40 years, heavily active between 1982 - 2002, I saw how in the late 90s how all the old guard were ousted by the young ambitious 'dance teachers' that came and learned from them, I saw how they fiercely networked to gain funding to create their own soul-less events, how they courted corporations and dismissed/looked down on those who built this before them who saw the writing on the wall and tried in vain to maintain certain standards/ethics/unwrittens to preserve the wider culture, I heard the 'I'm not a 'Bboy I'm a this or that' from the lips of the highflyers in the scene preaching their disconnect from the culture, I saw the trailers of the latest hot guys with their EDM/Kpop soundtracks, I saw how the videos of the events were now being dubbed over with repetitive braindead copyright-free 'breakbeats' (which eventually replaced the original music we danced to altogether), eventually I saw it evolve from a scene where everyone once came together under one roof with one feeling to being in a Bboy jam feeling like I had nothing in common with practically everyone there, and now what? a dance that's been so prized away from the cultural herd that it's open to opportunists to nail whatever their political/gender cause flag to, an organic street dance that's now owned by Red Bullsh.. and Wack-donalds So now it's going to the olympics, and that wil be seen as progress, to who? maybe to those who benefit from that, back in 1984 the NYC Breakers challenged the US olympic team, but it wasn't just hubris it was these street guys saying we have everything you've got FOR FREE without needing to pay for your specialised equipment or jazzy arenas, it was a statement of a heart and soul operating outside of corporate control Am I bitter? I was for many years but you can only mourn the demise of something for so long before you just have to accept that what was the original beauty of something is never coming back and move on with your life Those who made it this far reading this will probably not like or get what I'm saying, most won't have even been born at the time when this dance was what it was, I can't/won't blame anyone for that, you do you and god bless but as far as I'm concerned I lived and loved the best times of the dance which - no matter how much money you throw at it will never be replaced

We use different terms like Breaking, Breakdancing, and rarer Bboying or Bgirling.

@@STEPPIX it's never been called bgirling.. I understand breakin thou..

Because this isn't about bboying, but competition

Hey bro, that's a great feedback, thanks and respect!

@@TokelauInTech if you haven't seen the little interviews NBC did with EAST COAST breakers, who did acknowledge it's new York roots, it seems to me that EVERYONE seems not to know about the originators of breakdancing and Hip Hop... #BlackSpades#ChollyRock

Do you mean black people, right?

I honestly thought it was gonna be about New York. I’m from LA and there’s also breakdancing culture in the west coast. But everyone knows that it originated in New York City. It’s such a disservice to not show those roots. I wanted to see that story told. But once again, it’s watered down to a “random dance trend” that spread worldwide. It’s not random. It has its own unique history and beginnings. In NYC.

I remember vaguely hearing about its origins in a doc about NYC and they mentioned the black and Latino community’s blended cultures in creating breakdancing. Something was mentioned about capoeira dance influence brought by Brazilians. It was a short delve. I wanted to see a full doc about breakdancing developing in NYC. Especially from late 70s to early 80s. Idk why people keep overlooking NYC and its making of breakdancing. Those roots are essential. Especially after that Olympics disaster with the Australian dancer where they made breakdancing look like a joke. It’s not a joke when we see breakdancing from NYC 👏👏 and the west coast dance culture

@@RavenDots115 Well go look at the FULL and TRUE history of breaking AND Hip Hop. It's origins go back to the mid to late 60s, not the mid seventies. The mid seventies are the origin if what is now Hip Hop, but breaking was before that by about a decade. MichaelWaynetv and another channel have the interviews with Cholly Rock and other members of the Black Spades. They are the originators of breaking and there was NO LATINOS INVOLVED IN THAT. I repeat THERE WERE NO LATINOS INVOLVED IN THAT. They got involved later.

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Thanks! We are really noobs in this process.

Breaking being at the olympics every 4 years has no impact on the wider global scene when you think of just how many forces counteract whatever misconceptions exist. The ignorant will always exist but for those who possess knowledge and those who seek it, the truth of things is passed on both orally and through the living history of landmarks and events. It's totally fine to be worried about the culture and i'm not necessarily disagreeing with the sentiment but if breakin can survive the 80's and the downturn of the 90's, it can survive anything. It's always been first and foremost an underground scene that you don't just stumble on. I don't think that'll change or be negated by an Olympic event every 4 years that some people don't understand very well and form conceptions of.

@@sanjayr that's not what my problem is. I just can't explain what worries me about this. I can't really see anything bad happening because of this but, again, something just isn't feeling right TO ME, about this becoming an Olympic event. I just can't articulate what it is. A gut feeling. Oh, well. I'll enjoy it anyway.

Cultural apropriation is what it is