I am 51 years old and the only reason I will be watching the Olympics is because of breakdancing. People who criticize about breakdancing being a sport and that it should not be in the Olympics has zero clues about how difficult breakdancing is and the incredible strength, agility, and power it takes to excel in it.
Those who are criticizing about breakdancing being a sport in the Olympics, have you try to do some of those moves? It is extremely difficult and it takes great strength, agility, and power to excel in it. Even though I might not be very good at it I can play soccer, basketball, tennis, box, swim, etc., but I could not do those difficult breakdancing moves even if my life depends on it. Most of us would break our arms and necks if we try those moves.
Mostly it requires being very light. My dog can spin around on his head, but I wouldn't call him an Olympic athlete. Aren't Olympic sports supposed to be useful in combat?
@@-DM lol I guess you've never tried to break before.. try doing a '6 step twice' Olympics are supposed to represent the modern day. Not be stuck in tradition that is not relevant
"It is extremely difficult and it takes great strength, agility, and power to excel in it." No one disputes this, but the same could be said about bull riding and other rodeo events. Breaking and rodeo are impressive, athletic, and have point scoring systems, but they're way too culturally specific especially compared to sports like cricket or tug of war which aren't in the Olympics. I wouldn't exclude breaking but there are other events that definitely should have been added before breaking was ever considered.
@@DavidYoo-m7z Even by your own logic and admission you are essentially saying what is considered a sport or not a sport in the Olympics is subjective. At least we both are in agreement with that. Soccer, the most popular sport in the world and it’s big stars are treated like gods and is also an Olympic event is not even considered a sport by millions of Americans. They see it as a silly little game played by little girls. On the other hand, American football 🏈, our most popular sport here in the United States is considered by most of the world as dumb and super boring. I believe it was the famous English soccer player, Wayne Rooney who said that watching paint dry is more exciting than watching American football.
you're absolutely correct💯% about that. As a former ❤80's B-Boy myself, you really need to be super flexible and have a very strong upper body strength and a great amount of athleticism and very strong abdominal muscles. It takes many hours and many weeks and many months and years of practice.
@@lapulapupintado2892 I grew up near Redondo Beach CA and used to see Michael Chambers get down at the boardwalk long before the movies came out... Can we see you in videos on TH-cam??
Shout out to Boogaloo Shrimp (Micheal Chambers), Adolfo Quiñones (Ozone aka Shabba-Doo), Robert Taylor (Lee from Beat Street), and Poppin Taco (Bruno Falcon) sorry CBS didn’t acknowledge your contributions to the art. The real ones always go unnoticed smh 🤦🏽♂️.
Not really a sport. It’s a dance competition which is judged by subjective standards. That said, it’s no more embarrassing than ice dancing as an olympic event.
Breaking is a battle dance with by the definition of a sport activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules. Long before Olympics breaking has had huge international events every weekend, sponsorship, high-level athletes training full-time, ridgid judging systems etc. Check out Redbull BC1 world qualifiers, Silverback, JusteDebute. One thing I think is interesting in Breaking - is judging system is less subjective than other Sports that people don't debate their place in the Olympics. It is round for round a direct comparison of two people against a set criteria. Not an overall subjective point that ranks you against everyone else that entered. Making it much easier to see why someone won. In this round who showed more diversity of moves In this round who represented a wider range of the elements (top rock, power, freezes, footwork) In this round who played with the music more (this is usually very obvious) In this round who could do 'harder' more complex moves Then it is best out of 3 rounds to move on to the next bracket.
It is no more embarrassing than every other subjective event in the Olympics. Breaking competition is nothing new and already has compulsory elements. Breaking as a cultural practice is not necessarily a sport. The Olympic Breaking competition has rules, scoring and is a sport.
This is the first time that what is considered a firm of dance has been included as an official event at an Olympics, but dancesport has a fairly long history of involvement of IOC adjacency. There was an attempt to get ballroom included in prior Olympics, I think it may have been an exhibition sport before, and some dance organizations have restructured their competitions around Olympic forms in order to try to gain Olympic sport status. That said, of the little I have seen about breaking in this year's comp, it will be somewhat analogous to the gymnastics floor exercise, but with an element of dynamic reaction (they will be performing to music/changes made by a dj).
Baseball and softball weren't permanent editions. There are always sports that appear due to their significance in the place where the Olympics are being hosted. Baseball and softball aren't particularly significant in France. They will reappear in the LA Olympics upcoming. Karate has been removed due to low viewership/interest. Tae Kwon Do and Boxing are still Olympic events
This is awesome to see. It was so fun to watch back in the day. I don't remember Beat Street. I watched Breakin and Breakin 2 Electric Bugaloo at the theater. Will definitely be watching this.
Where yall at? Wheres your dues? Many people come & go. Not saying you're one, but theres older people trying to claim credit for something they didn't do. I appreciate all the generations of breakers. Couldn't be here without the pioneers. I'm pretty sure the judges are more than qualified. They may be younger but that doesn't take away their ability to judge, let alone their contributions to the culture.
Was this a demo sport last Olympics? Is this enough of universal thing for the Olympic Committee to be able to find people from different countries who would be considered qualified to act as judges for the event? Like some other events this will hard to judge in the areas of technical difficulty and presentation. I'm just waiting for Bowling to be an Olympic event. I'd watch that over breaking. I would not have voted for this to have become an Olympic event.
100% agreed. Breaking, while popular, is definitely not a universal activity. It just doesn't fit in with a lot of societies culturally, it's more of a cultural affect than a true sport, though it obviously requires a ton of athleticism. Cricket, bowling, arm wrestling, tug of war, all more worthy additions than breaking imo. I also think teqball, though not widely adopted, is very cool and extends the most important game game in the world: soccer/football (I personally find soccer uninteresting but it's hard to deny that it's the sport of the world). Teqball is also objectively competitive (as opposed to sports that frustratingly count style points). While we're at it, Olympic skateboarding should be removed as well- as a subjective sport it's just too boring without the giant half pipes or ramps like the X-games or winter Olympics have. Giant missed opportunities all around.
It depends on the place of magic in the culture of a given subsequent Olympic host. International competitive breaking competition has existed for decades and France has been the host for many (most?) of those.
Most ridiculous thing I have ever Heard of ! Break Dancing an Olympic Sport ? What’s next Hot dog eating contest ? Or rope Skipping ? Where is the Olympic Games Headed ?
I just don’t get how they’re gonna judge it? I get that it takes incredible amounts of skill to pull these moves off but I just don’t see how it’ll be judged, seems more like personal preference. Idk can someone help unretard me.
(sigh) running and jumping are not, of themselves, sports. Nor are any of the basic activities of any of the Olympic competions. Rules, structure and scoring make them sports. This is a sport.
Maybe they'll have lawn mowing at the next Olympics. Better yet - hop scotch or rope jumping. Dodge ball!! Yeah! Why not? Break dancing?? WTF. Anything for ratings/money. Advertising. MONEY. MONEY.
well, that's not how it works, so that's wrong it's from New York but nice to know the etymology of the name. -w- that'd be like saying the netherlands should take credit for the Empire State Building because New York City used to be New Amsterdam.... doesn't make a lot of sense.... @.@
A desperate attempt to jazz up a centuries-old event.. Kids will still skip it..😂.. And regulars will change the channel..😅.. I wanna see the judges and how they measure who has the better moves.. I'll check it out.
jazzing up an age old event is not “desperate”. its just keeping up with the times. everything else old and ongoing, has done the same thing in different ways.
@@claireconover Keeping up with the times?.. Break Dancing popularity peaked 40-50 years ago, and even then it was a very niche event.. Yes, it's still a thing, but enough for an Olympic event?..Utterly ridiculous..and comparing it to traditional events like track and field and swimming?.. You are reaching honey..👌.. Now Double Dutch.. That would be interesting… I grew up with that, and it's so underappreciated, taps into a demographic you'd never see in an Olympic game…
@@edreid7872 I can't tell if you support it being in the olympics or not, but check out the judging criteria - much less subjective than people think. Much more robust than other disciplines that people have no problem with... they just don't understand breaking so imagine all these issues
Love that they're calling it the true name of "breaking"! 💯💯
I am 51 years old and the only reason I will be watching the Olympics is because of breakdancing.
People who criticize about breakdancing being a sport and that it should not be in the Olympics has zero clues about how difficult breakdancing is and the incredible strength, agility, and power it takes to excel in it.
Those who are criticizing about breakdancing being a sport in the Olympics, have you try to do some of those moves? It is extremely difficult and it takes great strength, agility, and power to excel in it.
Even though I might not be very good at it I can play soccer, basketball, tennis, box, swim, etc., but I could not do those difficult breakdancing moves even if my life depends on it. Most of us would break our arms and necks if we try those moves.
Mostly it requires being very light. My dog can spin around on his head, but I wouldn't call him an Olympic athlete. Aren't Olympic sports supposed to be useful in combat?
@@-DM lol I guess you've never tried to break before.. try doing a '6 step twice'
Olympics are supposed to represent the modern day. Not be stuck in tradition that is not relevant
Tariq Nasheed 😅
"It is extremely difficult and it takes great strength, agility, and power to excel in it."
No one disputes this, but the same could be said about bull riding and other rodeo events. Breaking and rodeo are impressive, athletic, and have point scoring systems, but they're way too culturally specific especially compared to sports like cricket or tug of war which aren't in the Olympics. I wouldn't exclude breaking but there are other events that definitely should have been added before breaking was ever considered.
@@DavidYoo-m7z
Even by your own logic and admission you are essentially saying what is considered a sport or not a sport in the Olympics is subjective. At least we both are in agreement with that.
Soccer, the most popular sport in the world and it’s big stars are treated like gods and is also an Olympic event is not even considered a sport by millions of Americans. They see it as a silly little game played by little girls. On the other hand, American football 🏈, our most popular sport here in the United States is considered by most of the world as dumb and super boring. I believe it was the famous English soccer player, Wayne Rooney who said that watching paint dry is more exciting than watching American football.
So much agility, creativity required, happy to hear this and excited to watch it! ❤
you're absolutely correct💯% about that. As a former ❤80's B-Boy myself, you really need to be super flexible and have a very strong upper body strength and a great amount of athleticism and very strong abdominal muscles. It takes many hours and many weeks and many months and years of practice.
BEAT STREET the movie🔥❤
Breakin another Boss movie..
1984 Beat Street. ❤80's former B-Boy here🙌
@@lapulapupintado2892 I grew up near Redondo Beach CA and used to see Michael Chambers get down at the boardwalk long before the movies came out... Can we see you in videos on TH-cam??
Movement is fun. Choreography and self expression off the chart. Love watching them. They're like body builders and athletes.
Shout out to Boogaloo Shrimp (Micheal Chambers), Adolfo Quiñones (Ozone aka Shabba-Doo), Robert Taylor (Lee from Beat Street), and Poppin Taco (Bruno Falcon) sorry CBS didn’t acknowledge your contributions to the art. The real ones always go unnoticed smh 🤦🏽♂️.
As someone who was there from the beginning, this is absolutely incredible!
so amazing to see Breaking in the Olympics and the history being told by people who were there like Crazy Legs !!!
Cool that breaking has become an Olympic sport!
That was *ICE T* at the end
Coolest thing about having Breaking in the Olympics is how the triggered section of America heads will explode 😂😂🙄😂😂
We have synchronized swimming, gymnastics floor routine, dressage (does the horse win a medal too). At least breakdancing will have exciting music.
Not really a sport. It’s a dance competition which is judged by subjective standards. That said, it’s no more embarrassing than ice dancing as an olympic event.
Breaking is a battle dance with by the definition of a sport activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules.
Long before Olympics breaking has had huge international events every weekend, sponsorship, high-level athletes training full-time, ridgid judging systems etc. Check out Redbull BC1 world qualifiers, Silverback, JusteDebute.
One thing I think is interesting in Breaking - is judging system is less subjective than other Sports that people don't debate their place in the Olympics.
It is round for round a direct comparison of two people against a set criteria. Not an overall subjective point that ranks you against everyone else that entered.
Making it much easier to see why someone won.
In this round who showed more diversity of moves
In this round who represented a wider range of the elements (top rock, power, freezes, footwork)
In this round who played with the music more (this is usually very obvious)
In this round who could do 'harder' more complex moves
Then it is best out of 3 rounds to move on to the next bracket.
It is no more embarrassing than every other subjective event in the Olympics.
Breaking competition is nothing new and already has compulsory elements. Breaking as a cultural practice is not necessarily a sport. The Olympic Breaking competition has rules, scoring and is a sport.
That is very cool I'm so excited go team USA
are any other dance styles included as olympic sport? or is this unusual?
It's very close to gymnastics.
Ice skater dancing.
Breakdancing originated in hell as the demons invented it trying to put the flames out 🔥
This is the first time that what is considered a firm of dance has been included as an official event at an Olympics, but dancesport has a fairly long history of involvement of IOC adjacency. There was an attempt to get ballroom included in prior Olympics, I think it may have been an exhibition sport before, and some dance organizations have restructured their competitions around Olympic forms in order to try to gain Olympic sport status.
That said, of the little I have seen about breaking in this year's comp, it will be somewhat analogous to the gymnastics floor exercise, but with an element of dynamic reaction (they will be performing to music/changes made by a dj).
The injuries. Omg. Wow.
Can someone explain how this qualifies as a sport?
Removing boxing and baseball, and putting in dancing
Everyone wants the key demographic.. 13-34.. 🤣
Baseball and softball weren't permanent editions. There are always sports that appear due to their significance in the place where the Olympics are being hosted. Baseball and softball aren't particularly significant in France. They will reappear in the LA Olympics upcoming.
Karate has been removed due to low viewership/interest. Tae Kwon Do and Boxing are still Olympic events
I don't see anything wrong with that.
This is awesome to see. It was so fun to watch back in the day. I don't remember Beat Street. I watched Breakin and Breakin 2 Electric Bugaloo at the theater. Will definitely be watching this.
This reminds me of the movie "Breakin"
And Beat Street
Breakdancing Black America’s gift to the world
It’s interesting that the individuals judging were not born when we were breaking. Lol
Facts!
Where yall at? Wheres your dues? Many people come & go. Not saying you're one, but theres older people trying to claim credit for something they didn't do. I appreciate all the generations of breakers. Couldn't be here without the pioneers. I'm pretty sure the judges are more than qualified. They may be younger but that doesn't take away their ability to judge, let alone their contributions to the culture.
No black Americans is crazy work
Huh? Write English please
Jeffro (Jeffrey Louis) from Texas is representing USA :)
Was this a demo sport last Olympics? Is this enough of universal thing for the Olympic Committee to be able to find people from different countries who would be considered qualified to act as judges for the event? Like some other events this will hard to judge in the areas of technical difficulty and presentation. I'm just waiting for Bowling to be an Olympic event. I'd watch that over breaking. I would not have voted for this to have become an Olympic event.
100% agreed. Breaking, while popular, is definitely not a universal activity. It just doesn't fit in with a lot of societies culturally, it's more of a cultural affect than a true sport, though it obviously requires a ton of athleticism. Cricket, bowling, arm wrestling, tug of war, all more worthy additions than breaking imo. I also think teqball, though not widely adopted, is very cool and extends the most important game game in the world: soccer/football (I personally find soccer uninteresting but it's hard to deny that it's the sport of the world). Teqball is also objectively competitive (as opposed to sports that frustratingly count style points). While we're at it, Olympic skateboarding should be removed as well- as a subjective sport it's just too boring without the giant half pipes or ramps like the X-games or winter Olympics have. Giant missed opportunities all around.
What's next to be a sport? Magic?
It depends on the place of magic in the culture of a given subsequent Olympic host.
International competitive breaking competition has existed for decades and France has been the host for many (most?) of those.
Yea at this point Olympic competition is a circus now what a disgrace to our ancestors! That’s all I have to say!
Breakdancing requires no Equipment to practice or compete...thats invaluable.
Most ridiculous thing I have ever Heard of ! Break Dancing an Olympic Sport ? What’s next Hot dog eating contest ? Or rope Skipping ? Where is the Olympic Games Headed ?
Culture vultures… fba hobby not sport
The NEXT "sport" will be chinese checkers!
I just don’t get how they’re gonna judge it? I get that it takes incredible amounts of skill to pull these moves off but I just don’t see how it’ll be judged, seems more like personal preference. Idk can someone help unretard me.
Check out the book by Storm on the subject. He helped develop the system they’re using in the Olympics. It’s called “Think Breaking”
@@taylorlombaalright I’ll read up on it online, thanks for info.
Breaking Belongs on Soul Train Not in the Olympics !
There’s something I know about it. It’s not a sport
super talented and super creative, but not a sport
(sigh)
running and jumping are not, of themselves, sports. Nor are any of the basic activities of any of the Olympic competions.
Rules, structure and scoring make them sports.
This is a sport.
🤦♂️
Boycott Olympics
wtf is breaking?
Ummm, watch the video.
@@justmejenny7986
It's A Dance That The
"FBA" Foundational Black American Citizens Culture Created Way Before The 1970's.
I know what it is. I was alive when it started.
@@justmejenny7986 Good For You!!!!
The Olympics has become a joke.
Pretty soon we are going to see
Horse shoes, miniature golf and checkers
As Olympic "sports " SO stupid.
Not a sport, but an art form. It's not gymnastic, and it's sad to see it turned into a sport for monetary reason.
True school B-Boy style
The Olympics is parodied by the movie trilogy hunger games… same elite aristocracy .. same enslaved ‘ districts’
Maybe they'll have lawn mowing at the next Olympics. Better yet - hop scotch or rope jumping. Dodge ball!! Yeah! Why not? Break dancing?? WTF. Anything for ratings/money. Advertising. MONEY. MONEY.
I always thought jump rope would be good to be introduced.
😂😂😂😂 such a joke ! If this is a sport I'm Roger Rabbit ...🤣🤣🤣🤣
There's rules and scoring. See the gymnastics floor exercise.
Bye, Roger.
And, as a Swede I take some credit for breakdance - as its from Bronx, named after its first settler- With the name Bronks, from Sweden 🇸🇪😉
Really? Hm.
@@originalswedies3003 Well, true. I recently read a very interesting book where they've reached that fact. Didn't know it before
well, that's not how it works, so that's wrong it's from New York but nice to know the etymology of the name. -w- that'd be like saying the netherlands should take credit for the Empire State Building because New York City used to be New Amsterdam.... doesn't make a lot of sense.... @.@
@@martinhumbleBreak Dance was invented by the demons in hell as they busted moves to try and out the fire out 🔥
@@ness550 So even my smiley didn't help you understand my humour? What
Stupid sport!
Waste of time!
it’s not stupid.
I put in for underwater basket weaving,, but I never heard back from the Olympic Committee...
@@guineapigzed sport ?! Just call it stupid, that's enough, don't use the word "sport" for this ridiculous stuff...
Hiphop
Breakdancing as an Olympic sport? Na. Lame!
How soon will they have an event for E-BON-NICKS
Butthurt saltines
Racist on deck!!!
They'll just make anything an Olympic sport anymore
That has been said about every sport that has been added, since ancient Greece!
A desperate attempt to jazz up a centuries-old event.. Kids will still skip it..😂.. And regulars will change the channel..😅.. I wanna see the judges and how they measure who has the better moves.. I'll check it out.
jazzing up an age old event is not “desperate”. its just keeping up with the times.
everything else old and ongoing, has done the same thing in different ways.
@@claireconover Keeping up with the times?.. Break Dancing popularity peaked 40-50 years ago, and even then it was a very niche event.. Yes, it's still a thing, but enough for an Olympic event?..Utterly ridiculous..and comparing it to traditional events like track and field and swimming?.. You are reaching honey..👌.. Now Double Dutch.. That would be interesting… I grew up with that, and it's so underappreciated, taps into a demographic you'd never see in an Olympic game…
It was the most watched event in the youth olympics....
@@edreid7872 I can't tell if you support it being in the olympics or not, but check out the judging criteria - much less subjective than people think. Much more robust than other disciplines that people have no problem with... they just don't understand breaking so imagine all these issues
@@katem6159 Youth Olympics.. Never heard of it, as most of us..🙄
came from Africa they say Nigeria some say Cameroon idk what country but came from Africa
supposedly Kenya
WHAT CAME FROM AFRICA?
Break dancing a sport?
As opposed to ice skating?
Break dancing ? What’s next Ebonics spelling bee. It’s athletic for sure and entertaining, but a sport nah
Butthurt saltines
It's a joke just like snowboarding!!
Have you ever watched competitive snowboarding?
No way there are people who are against snowboarding
@@AB-mi3ne snowboarding is lame
Capitalism and mass extinction, or socialism and sustainability. Pick one
One 😂