Meet the first American breakdancer to qualify for Olympic Games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Victor Montalvo is the first American breaker to qualify for the Paris Olympics and he's now gearing up for his biggest performance yet. TODAY’s Craig Melvin sits down with Montalvo to discuss his breakdancing journey and what to expect from him at the Olympic Games. “My goal is to win gold but my main goal is to showcase this beautiful art form” he said. (Sponsored by Delta Air Lines)
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His dad breaking in the 80’s was definitely the real deal. Glad to see this young man doing his thing. Now if the USA doesn’t win gold that’s a travesty.
So happy and excited for this talented guy! Hope he wins the gold medal 🎉
Congrats Mr. Victor Montalvo - That's Awesome
I don't know how the judging is going to be viewed during the Olympics since it's normally quite subjective, but there's no denying that the b-boys and b-girls are some of the most extreme athletes in existence
Same as synchronized swimming, equestrian 🐎
Just depends who is on the 9 panel judges; because some of these judges are very picky on what they like lols
Been watching Victor for 8 years. Thrilled to see him at this level of exposure 🔥
Victor is a legend.
The Olympics is a very special event.
When I met Victor back in 2021, I knew he was just going to get better and better! Now he’s an Olympian!! Big congrats.
Can’t wait! It’s going to be so cool.
So happy Dance is now part of the Olympics.
I can’t wait. Fantastic!
He’s also an excellent spokesperson. Go for the Gold, Victor!
Lets go Romeo! You crushed it with Bachata, nows its time for Breakin!
Bboys represent! Will definitely watching hard and close! Bboying has come a long way and its super exciting it's made it from the streets of NYC to the Olympics.
Break dancing was always my favorite style of dancing when I was a little kid growing up in the 80s
Good job V!👏🏽🔥
Ubirajara (Bira) Guimarães Almeida (born 1943), known as Mestre Acordeon, is a native of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and a mestre of the Brazilian martial art Capoeira.
His international reputation as a teacher, performer, musician, organizer, and author is built upon fifty years of active practice, as well as research into the origins, traditions, political connotations, and contemporary trends of Capoeira. Mestre Acordeon has traveled extensively to promote Capoeira outside Brazil.
Biography
Acordeon was a student of Mestre Bimba in the late 1950s, and began teaching Capoeira himself in the early 1960s. In 1966, he founded the Grupo Folclorico da Bahia that performed the show Vem Camará: Histórias de Capoeira in the Teatro Jovem in Rio de Janeiro. The show presented an approach to Capoeira that influenced a new generation of young capoeiristas and affirmed the concept of grupo de Capoeira and today’s capoeira regional. He won three Brazilian Capoeira National Championships in the 1970s.
At the end of 1978 Mestre Acordeon came to the United States and soon introduced Capoeira to the West Coast. 1979 became a turning point in the global growth trajectory of Capoeira. Since then, and for the past four decades Mestre Acordeon has been the guiding light to a generation of Capoeira practitioners who followed him north to make a good living abroad through their art.
Mestre Acordeon maintains the United Capoeira Association (UCA) with several associated schools. He also has created the Capoeira Arts Foundation in Berkeley, California which sponsors UCA and Projeto Kirimurê, a social program for children in the neighborhood of Itapoã in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Mestre Acordeon's most recent endeavor was reminiscent in its audacity of his original journey to bring Capoeira to the West Coast of the United States nearly forty years ago. At the age of 70, on Labor Day 2013, he, his wife Suellen Einarsen also known as Mestra Suelly and nine of his disciples embarked on a 14,000 miles bicycle journey from Berkeley to his home town of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil. Their purpose was to raise funds and awareness for Projeto Kirimurê via making a documentary and a music CD about Capoeira's development in the Americas and about the year long journey.
Mestre Acordeon still spends much of his time traveling the world to teach Capoeira. Each year thousands of Capoeira students in all the world travel long distances to get a chance to learn from him. Source Wikipedia
I’ll be looking forward to watching!
Victor Montalvo (born May 1, 1994), also known mononymously as Victor, is an American bboy. He participated at the 2022 World Games in the dancesport competition where he won the gold medal in the B-Boys event. He is also a 2 time champion of Red Bull BC One, winning in 2015 and 2022. Montalvo became the first American to qualify for the Olympics in the sport of breaking. Source Wikipedia
Love this idea.. ❤
I'm looking forward to see the competition, and I'm also interested to see who will be the judges.
Good luck victor montalvo for this year Olympics
This was wholesome lol. I wish someone qualified from my country.
I remember everyone break dancing in the 80's when I was in Junior High. I should have stuck with it 😀
If Only Lil Cesar went to the olympics back in the 90's he would of won Gold!
Er'rebody got rhythm these days! Love salsa, ball room, hip-hop and break dancing. Dance is universal. Look at "Let it Happen", three incredible young sisters from The Netherlands tearing it up out there. I hope all of the competitors bring it!! Should be fun to watch...if NBC shows it!
Yall betta 🕺🏾 🕺🏾
Much love for the bboy and bgirls remember all the power moves we use to do back in the day much love and I will always have so much love for breaking so much memories and so much practice much love from Fresno cali
His heart doesn’t pump unless he’s nervous I like that
So cool.
Yesss Bboy Victor!
Let go for th gold He has great moves
50 years in the making and America finally accepts True Hip Hop. Too bad the rest of the world is ahead of the game.
What a beautiful and talented athlete. I hope he ends up in movies.
I'm a black American man and I gotta say this! Break dancing is invented by Foundational Black Americans.
Break Dancing🤸🕺🕴️is an American🇺🇸 Cultural Art Form and was created and developed by Puerto Rican🇵🇷 American🇺🇸 Youth's and African American🇺🇸 Youth's in the inner Cities🌆 of America, Originally 🇺🇸in the Bronx New York!🏙️ Now it's all over the World!✊✌️🕊️👍
@@easily12😂😂😂stop it, black americans were break dancing in the1950's
@@Daveyoung-qi1tfThey want to be us but not like us.
You need to see the Rocksteady Roster. Black n Brown. Latinos been kept in the shadows of hip hop culture for so long. At least acknowledge us.
@@easily12black n brown. Especially in graffiti 🫡🫡🫡 Us Latinos have been pushed to the side due to mainstream knowledge of this vibrant culture.
Break dance on top
good luck vic when you come back to Florida we going to battle, lol Florida flavor
GO VICTOR !.......bring the Gold back 2 where it all began USA
Can't find anything! Results and vids should be somewhere! Finals happened already!
Bboy victor is my champion
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art and game that includes elements of dance, acrobatics, music and spirituality.
It is known for its acrobatic and complex maneuvers, often involving hands on the ground and inverted kicks. It emphasizes flowing movements rather than fixed stances; the ginga, a rocking step, is usually the focal point of the technique. Though often said to be a martial art disguised as a dance, capoeira served not only as a form of self defense, but also as a way to maintain spirituality and culture.
Capoeira has been practiced among Afro-Brazilians for centuries. The date of its creation is unknown, but it was first mentioned in a judicial document under the name Capoeiragem in 1789, as "the gravest of crimes". In the 19th century, a street fighting style called capoeira carioca was developed. It was repeatedly outlawed and its performers persecuted, and it was declared totally illegal and banned in 1890. In the early 1930s, Mestre Bimba reformed traditional capoeira and incorporated elements of jiujitsu, gymnastics and sports. As a result, the government viewed capoeira as a socially acceptable sport. In 1941, Mestre Pastinha later founded his school where he cultivated the traditional capoeira Angola, distinguishing it from reformed capoeira as the Brazilians' national sport.
In the late 1970s, trailblazers such as Mestre Acordeon started bringing capoeira to the US and Europe, helping the art become internationally recognized and practiced. On 26 November 2014, capoeira was granted a special protected status as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO.
Martial arts from the African diaspora similar to capoeira include knocking and kicking from the Sea Islands, and ladya from Martinique, both of which likely originate from Engolo. Source Wikipedia
Congrats but who was on the judging panel
I was hoping breakdancing would stay unalive
I grew up in the 80s. Isn't this about 40 years late or behind?
USA. UUUURRAAA ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Boss!
Lol Al!
A MEXICAN AMERICAN?!?! NO WAY HE DOESNT COME HOME WITH GOLD.
if Fik-Shun was to slum it and compete, he would be gold for sure.
Fik shun would not even make it into the USA team
Fik shun isn’t a bboy
I know him as vicious victor. It’ll be a great way to end your career with gold.
Can anyone explain how the background was set up for this video?
There are in a warehouse. The lenses used could be anywhere from a 70m-100mm or longer to get that blurry depth of field.
We have this.
And then that Aussie chick that embarrassed the country…
Don’t try to teach Craig 😅😮he’ll end up in traction (lol) maybe the robot or pantomime 😊 go Team USA 🇺🇸
How do you take something that was created by black people, not black and Latinos, but by black people, just like rap music, jazz music, country, r & b and pop, and you keep black people out of the narrative? Everyone owes so much to the black community. If rap was never created, breaking wouldn't have been created either.
You want a DEI black person to be in there? Why don’t you just let the skills/qualifications speak for itself?
This was created by black and Latinos. Look up The Rocksteady Crew. Pioneers in breaking. It’s always been a black and brown thing. Don’t shove your comrades to the side just to steal the spotlight.
Thanks 😊
@@Maidong07 they actually have Jeffro a black American in many interviews promos etc… he competed also and lost unfortunately but he’s pretty dope not kmel dope but hes good 👍 Victor is a sponsored global bboy whos probably won the most competitions in the past 10 years than anyone else has. He represents our dance in its purest foundational form and his wife is epitome of true bgirl style. It should be and blacks not and latinos you would’ve sold it for pennies to the white man like rap and everything else. The rappers owe Master P , thats who t f THEY owe, before than mcs were being pimped out. If anyones owed its hispanics, asians and europeans for preserving the dance, putting together global events like boty freestyle sessions etc… who said rap came first anyway? we break to drums not vocals. Stick to the homosexual “gangter” rappers that poison our youth and mumble over samples topic that’s probably about all of hiphop culture you can factually speak on.
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"FBA" Foundational Black American Citizens.
This Is What Happens When You Let Other Groups Including Puerto Ricans Take Over What Your Group Created From The Beginning 😮.
I’m from the US but I’m sorry Shigekix/Japan is going to eat the competition alive.
Not if the judges know he’s a biter and where some of his moves come from. They care about that 😂
@@BoxingBrain305 lol. I don’t believe the judges will penalize you for pulling a headspin, windmills, airflare because you didn’t originally created those moves.
@@FactsoverFeelings94027 of course not, those are universal power moves but unless he’s created a bunch of his own original moves now. When he first came on the global scene he was biting all types of moves.
@@BoxingBrain305 Well they’re not being judged on that so no need to worry. Just enjoy the tourney.
@@FactsoverFeelings94027 yeah probably not. You really think he’s that good ? I haven’t seen him recently but all it takes is one slip up. Im going with experience - vic or hong 10
Mexican roots, that’s it
Sports
40 years too late. disgraceful
No comment
Nerd alert
Mexicans can do any sport
He isn't mexican!
@jasondavis9639 he is of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 background not mexican!
@lancestone4409 did he not say his dad is Mexican?
@@lancestone4409buddy his Instagram bio shows 🇲🇽 he’s not Puerto Rican lol
Black invited break dance still stealing black culture.
Really!! a Latin person wow !!
What’s surprising?
Tell me who and how he qualified I'll wait...
DEI working at its best.
@@timl8497 ya'll know breakdancing was created by Black AND Latino people right? That's the story of the Bronx.
I dont understand the shock here. He isn't the only breaker for team USA you know. We have a team of 4, Victor who is a Mexican-American from Orlando, Jeffro who is an African American from Houston, Sunny who is a Chinese American from Brooklyn, and LogistX who is a Filipino American from San Diego.
t minus
Bronze medal!!!
Did he say breaking was formed just over 50 years ago. OMG what a bum. You mean over 40 years ago.
vicious victor is good, but is he the best out of USA? USA plays more for the money than the pride.
There's no black break dancers...cmon...Lol
Yes there are
yes there are....We have four breakers for team USA in the Olympics. Two b-boys and two b-girls . The other b-boy is Jeffro, a black dude from Houston...
Now if the Koreans or any country’s break dancers win, the number of negative comments like “ Black cultural appropriation and “they want our rhythm but not our blues “ will explode in the comments. Dance is an art form that has been copied from others who received no recognition because no one can specifically identify where a movement came from. Leave the politics at home and enjoy the show.
@@joepops727 Wonderful
@@jazzysam9590Always stealing from black people culture.
What donyou mean breakdance at Olympic games??? Its dance, dance its art, not sport. Theya are athletes too, but then you can put vall romm dance, ballet...no a lot of athletes better than ballet dancers ..so where will this go???
Do you feel the same about figure skating, synchronized swimming, and rhythmic gymnastics?
Agreed. They might as well add Femme Vogue to the Olympics.
Sad the reporter is moving like a foreigner in his own body
Bboy not Breakdancer
Guess its just the title, glad the hosts understand
Breakdancing at the Olympics is ridiculous. 😂 What next, roller derby?
Interpretive dance.
That's not a sport! I don't care what anyone says!
foreal its a dance/art form.
This is not a sport.
This is not a real sport. It's a shame this will be in the Olympics.
If gymnastics or figure skating is a sport than this should be a considered a sport
@@joepops727Facts💯💯💯
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Please define sport, afterwords reference it to all events in the Olympics. Then explain (to yourself) or in these comments why breaking should be excluded.
can you even touch your toes?
Boycott
No sence the dance is part of the sport competition
Break DANCING is NOT A SPORT!!!! Absolute BS.
Next new gam3s 8n yhe olimpics: hotdog 🌭 contest, eating pie,who kisses the longer, rollerblades naked and nagging as an olímpic games 😂😂😂
Culture vultures it’s an fba hobby not sport
Culture vultures
It's an art. Not a sport...This is dumb
Art was actually part of the Olympics. Do your reasearch
@@GFNGRZ Right...HE called it a "sport". I disagree. Is Yoga a sport then? Why not ballroom dancing? Square dancing? Team Line Dancing? How about musical chairs?
Why is breakdancing an Olympics sport???
they trying to tun it into a sport so money can be made off of it
because it's the hardest thing you can do without your body without the use of anything else like a ball :D
Because you need speed technique strength flexibility athleticism etc. training over years and years like all other sports?
Why is Curling an Olympic sport
American? 😂