I saw a recent Wudang Temple showcasing elements of what may be called Parkour i.e jumping up and over walls, negotiaitiong narrow passage on top of steep cliffs.
Real Kungfu:D (its essential meaning as opposed to the external martial arts naming convention:confused:)
hiphop and gungfu will forever go hand n hand. its only right!
Amituofo
Breaking as an official sport of the 2024 Paris Olympics
BREAKING
Breaking is a style of dance that originated in the United States in the 1970s. It took form in the lively block parties in the Bronx, emerging from hip hop culture, and is characterised by acrobatic movements, stylised footwork and the key role played by the DJ and the MC (master of ceremonies) during battles.
International competitions were first held all over the world in the 1990s, popularising the dance form both among hip hop communities and the general public along the way.
Bref overview of the rules
At the Paris 2024 Games, the breaking competition will comprise two events – one for men and one for women – where 16 B-Boys and 16 B-Girls will go face to face in spectacular solo battles. Athletes will use a combination of power moves – including windmills, the 6-step and freezes – as they adapt their moves and improvise to the beat of the DJ’s tracks in a bid to secure the judges’ votes and take home the first Olympic breaking title.
Olympic history
Breaking made its Olympic debut at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in 2018. Following its outstanding success, breaking has been chosen to feature on the Paris 2024 Olympic sports programme as a new sport, along with surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing.
Events in 2024
The breaking events will take place on the 9th and 10th of August.
B-Girls (women’s)
B-Boys (men’s)
Venue in 2024
La Concorde
International organisation
International federation : World Dance Sport Federation
www.worlddancesport.org/
Greetings,
This is vintage footage of Break dancing and pop locking back in the 1980’s. NO to Gung Fu in the early stages. YES to gymnastics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhmrmUvGKno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWgt6Y-V5Ns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drkyXsTFBz0
These links give you a closer look at breakdancing in its early stage.
mickey
More To Add
Greetings,
Moves that were associated with Capoeira and Chinese Martial arts were pulled into Breakdancing. They were not the foundation of the dance form, nor were they the inspiration.
Capoeira instruction in both the Regional and Angolan styles were available in NYC.
Possible NYC sources for Chinese martial art movements:
1- Chinese Kung Fu Wu Su Association: Very well known for having groundfighting in their curriculum.
2- Ying Jow Pai
3- Fu Jow PAi
mickey
Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn
Viral Olympic breakdancer Raygun defends her performance
The Australian breaking star went viral with her unique dance moves.
ByGMA Team via GMA logo
August 12, 2024, 9:27 AM
When breaking, or breakdancing, made its debut at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the sport quickly had its breakout star, b-girl Raygun, a 36-year-old Australian college professor.
Raygun, whose birth name is Rachael Gunn, went viral after her performance Friday in Paris, where she took on b-girls in their late teens and early 20s with unique dance moves that quickly became the focus of memes and jokes on social media.
Gunn did not earn a medal in Paris, losing her three round-robin battles by a score of 54-0.
The online criticisms of Gunn’s performance led her to defend her skills, telling reporters that what she brought to her performance was “creativity.”
Australia’s Rachael Gunn, known as B-Girl Raygun, competes in the brea…Show more
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“I was never going to beat these girls on what they do best – their power moves,” Gunn said, according to ESPN. “What I bring is creativity.”
“All of my moves are original,” she continued. “Creativity is really important to me. I go out there, and I show my artistry. Sometimes it speaks to the judges, and sometimes it doesn’t. I do my thing, and it represents art. That is what it is about.”
On social media, some users dubbed one move by Gunn “the kangaroo,” while others compared her dance moves to when a child asks you to watch their performance.
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“I’d like to personally thank Raygun for making millions of people worldwide think ‘huh, maybe I can make the Olympics too,’” one user wrote on X, alongside a photo of Raygun’s Olympic performance.
The online critiques of Gunn’s performance led Australia’s Chef de Mission, Anna Meares, to issue public support Saturday for her performance.
“I love Rachael, and I think that what has occurred on social media with trolls and keyboard warriors, and taking those comments and giving them airtime, has been really disappointing,” Meares said at a news conference, according to ESPN. “Raygun is an absolutely loved member of this Olympic team. She has represented the Olympic team, the Olympic spirit with great enthusiasm. And I absolutely love her courage. I love her character, and I feel very disappointed for her, that she has come under the attack that she has.”
On Sunday, the head judge of the breaking competition in Paris defended Gunn, while the head of the World DanceSport Federation said officials are looking out for her “mental safety” after the online criticism.
“Breaking is all about originality and bringing something new to the table and representing your country or region,” head judge Martin Gilian said at a press conference, according to The Associated Press. “This is exactly what Raygun was doing. She got inspired by her surroundings, which in this case, for example, was a kangaroo.”
Sergey Nifontov, general secretary of the World DanceSport Federation, added of Gunn’s mental health, according to the AP, “We offered (the) support of our safe-guarding officer. We are aware about what has happened, especially on social media, and definitely we should put the safety of the athlete, in this case, mental safety in first place. She has us as a federation supporting her.”
According to her Olympics biography, Gunn is a former jazz and ballroom dancer who entered the sport of breaking through her husband, Samuel, who had been breaking for the past decade.
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Gunn started breaking in her mid-20s and went on to become the top-ranked b-girl in Australia in 2020 and 2021.
Last year, she won the QMS Oceania Championships in Sydney to earn Australia’s first-ever spot in the b-girl competition at the Olympics, according to her bio.
When not breaking, Gunn, who holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies, is a researcher and lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, where she studies the “the cultural politics of breaking,” according to her university biography.
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As both a breaker and a researcher, Gunn told the podcast “The [Female] Athlete Project” that her bag, “always has two main things, my knee pads and my laptop.”
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While in Paris, Gunn shared a photo of herself on Instagram in Team Australia’s uniform along with the caption, “Don’t be afraid to be different, go out there and represent yourself, you never know where that’s gonna take you.”
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Many members of the order of Shaolin relocated and ended up in NYC by 1928. It is of the most probability that new York natives observed their seemingly secluded and secret training sessions and thus gave conception to the breakdance embryo.
[QUOTE=BeaterWhacker;1327509]Many members of the order of Shaolin relocated and ended up in NYC by 1928. It is of the most probability that new York natives observed their seemingly secluded and secret training sessions and thus gave conception to the breakdance embryo.[/QUOTE]
Uhh?
What order of Shaolin is this and who are the present representatives?
As far as giving “conception” to this dance form, absolutely not true.
mickey
[QUOTE=mickey;1327511]
What order of Shaolin is this and who are the present representatives?
As far as giving “conception” to this dance form, absolutely not true.
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If they derived breakdance from monkey kung fu, I know there are moves from monkey forms probably over a millenium old that are quite similar to breakdancing, but I don’t absolutely know that Shaolin always has leopard instead of monkey with their 5 animals?