Should bboying be considered a sport? - Page 9 - Bboy World Com

storm1580 · 03-13-2010, 06:44 AM

yes, and bboyin should be at the 2012 summer olympics

Kid Master · 03-13-2010, 10:13 AM

In My opinion.. Bboying is a Lifestyle an attitude..
i don´t think for Example Football Players have that kind of attitude...
and i dont think they go to matches to play football there, or to exchange there fealings..
we go to jams for jaming and watching battles and making battles...
but thats a really hard question to answer to..
i mainly think like Ness.

For me it´s no sport...
It´s a self expression and a lifestyle

Peace outta Germany

Kid Master

illone · 03-13-2010, 10:31 AM

for me it is, hard training like sport, dance form the soul and my lifestyle.
peace

bboykaci · 03-13-2010, 11:44 AM

It should be considered as a sport so that i ca pretend that i'm doing a sport ^^

dyzeesnd · 03-13-2010, 11:53 AM

Listen everyone. Everyone here is absoloutely right. None of your points are wrong!!! Here is why:

The beauty of Bboying, is that it is all of those things. Its a DANCE, and ART and a SPORT. If you take any one of those away, then it loses a huge part of it. Cant anyone see that?

We are all part of something HUGE, that only if your level of concious awareness is big enough to see it. We are making history. Bboying died out in the 80's because it wasnt ready to be mainstream. Nobody knew how to define it, everyone was just doing it.

Why are people afraid to call it a Sport? Because they are afraid that the corporations will exploit it, without understanding its true essence.

What do we do then? We make them understand it.

How do we make them understand it? We come together to create a way of judging that we OWN, that they cannot change, no matter how much money they pay, because if we have a perfect system, it has to protect the true essence of bboying.

I know that there is talk about my system, but honestly, it DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MY SYSTEM! what matters most to me is that the true essence of the dance is protected and preserved, all the values of the dance are kept and that everyone is included.

I dream of a time when all bboys around the world live in a Utopia of bboying, where we have our own market, our own industry. Where we have our own battle channels, underground cypher clubs, mainstream music to cater for bboys, giant colliseums where its the final battle between New York VS LA. And the crowds go crazy when the battles go of, and young kids are inspired to battle, Old people who were there when hiphop was good can see all the elements reuinted under the battle domes.I want to see bboys from poor economic backgrounds getting scholorships into universities for bboying. Thousands of Jobs for bboys, maybe as graphic designers, marketters, artists, musicians, all working together for a greater bboy world. We all know that things can be better, and what you have now as a bboy and in your heart, can never be taken away. Why do we have to sacrafice so much just to do when we love, when we can have a greater life for us, our families and loved ones doing what we love most? As martin luther king said, "I have a dream...."

Polskee_Flavour · 03-13-2010, 01:06 PM

damn, how peps can consider bboying with a sport?
my eyes see this culture not even as a similar to the sport culture.

bboying is close to stealing cars at the streets, than a sport culture..

PiKa · 03-13-2010, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ToyzOfZion

so hip-hop choreo, salsa, tango, ballet, step, jazz, popping, locking, etc all have competitions and all of them have judges... they are more organized than bboy events are...

doesnt make them sports.

nuff said!

going to the next level, professional or whatever, doesn't have to be a SPORT!

if it would be only about "longer, faster & harder" when it comes to moves, then would be a sport. but with bboyin', music allways comes first! its something you can't deny. going to the next level, professional, doesn't make this a sport.

Much Love!

Swift Nyce · 03-13-2010, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dyzeesnd

Listen everyone. Everyone here is absoloutely right. None of your points are wrong!!! Here is why:

The beauty of Bboying, is that it is all of those things. Its a DANCE, and ART and a SPORT. If you take any one of those away, then it loses a huge part of it. Cant anyone see that?

We are all part of something HUGE, that only if your level of concious awareness is big enough to see it. We are making history. Bboying died out in the 80's because it wasnt ready to be mainstream. Nobody knew how to define it, everyone was just doing it.

Why are people afraid to call it a Sport? Because they are afraid that the corporations will exploit it, without understanding its true essence.

What do we do then? We make them understand it.

How do we make them understand it? We come together to create a way of judging that we OWN, that they cannot change, no matter how much money they pay, because if we have a perfect system, it has to protect the true essence of bboying.

I know that there is talk about my system, but honestly, it DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MY SYSTEM! what matters most to me is that the true essence of the dance is protected and preserved, all the values of the dance are kept and that everyone is included.

I dream of a time when all bboys around the world live in a Utopia of bboying, where we have our own market, our own industry. Where we have our own battle channels, underground cypher clubs, mainstream music to cater for bboys, giant colliseums where its the final battle between New York VS LA. And the crowds go crazy when the battles go of, and young kids are inspired to battle, Old people who were there when hiphop was good can see all the elements reuinted under the battle domes.I want to see bboys from poor economic backgrounds getting scholorships into universities for bboying. Thousands of Jobs for bboys, maybe as graphic designers, marketters, artists, musicians, all working together for a greater bboy world. We all know that things can be better, and what you have now as a bboy and in your heart, can never be taken away. Why do we have to sacrafice so much just to do when we love, when we can have a greater life for us, our families and loved ones doing what we love most? As martin luther king said, "I have a dream...."

to bad this sites members like 85% of them are to retarded to understand this....

that final battle idea made me imagine it and i got a shiver down my back of how dope that would be

EDSMASTER · 03-13-2010, 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Polskee_Flavour

damn, how peps can consider bboying with a sport?
my eyes see this culture not even as a similar to the sport culture.

bboying is close to stealing cars at the streets, than a sport culture..

If you have ever battled a person on the dancer floor whether in a cypher, in your garage for practice or in a competition, you have intrinsically performed Bboying as a Sport. To compete or to battle automatically qualifies this Dance and Art known as Bboying as a Sport. Don't ever battle anybody for the rest of your life and you then can say that you only doing Bboying as a Dance and Art form. Battling is the Sport to Bboying and its in that respect that the majority of the Bboy community sees this as a Dance Sport! The lifestyle aspect to Bboying is up to interpretation but if you battle then you enjoy the Sports aspect to Bboying...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pika

nuff said!

going to the next level, professional or whatever, doesn't have to be a SPORT!

if it would be only about "longer, faster & harder" when it comes to moves, then would be a sport. but with bboyin', music allways comes first! its something you can't deny. going to the next level, professional, doesn't make this a sport.

Much Love!

www.idsf.net

Every dance style in the entire world is a Dance Sport, except for Bboying, but that's going to change once and for all....

Kaal · 03-13-2010, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dyzeesnd

Listen everyone. Everyone here is absoloutely right. None of your points are wrong!!! Here is why:

The beauty of Bboying, is that it is all of those things. Its a DANCE, and ART and a SPORT. If you take any one of those away, then it loses a huge part of it. Cant anyone see that?

We are all part of something HUGE, that only if your level of concious awareness is big enough to see it. We are making history. Bboying died out in the 80's because it wasnt ready to be mainstream. Nobody knew how to define it, everyone was just doing it.

Why are people afraid to call it a Sport? Because they are afraid that the corporations will exploit it, without understanding its true essence.

What do we do then? We make them understand it.

How do we make them understand it? We come together to create a way of judging that we OWN, that they cannot change, no matter how much money they pay, because if we have a perfect system, it has to protect the true essence of bboying.

I know that there is talk about my system, but honestly, it DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MY SYSTEM! what matters most to me is that the true essence of the dance is protected and preserved, all the values of the dance are kept and that everyone is included.

I dream of a time when all bboys around the world live in a Utopia of bboying, where we have our own market, our own industry. Where we have our own battle channels, underground cypher clubs, mainstream music to cater for bboys, giant colliseums where its the final battle between New York VS LA. And the crowds go crazy when the battles go of, and young kids are inspired to battle, Old people who were there when hiphop was good can see all the elements reuinted under the battle domes.I want to see bboys from poor economic backgrounds getting scholorships into universities for bboying. Thousands of Jobs for bboys, maybe as graphic designers, marketters, artists, musicians, all working together for a greater bboy world. We all know that things can be better, and what you have now as a bboy and in your heart, can never be taken away. Why do we have to sacrafice so much just to do when we love, when we can have a greater life for us, our families and loved ones doing what we love most? As martin luther king said, "I have a dream...."

bboys are not living in the best conditions. IMO we deserve to make our lives better with this dance/sport/art wtv u wana call it cuz we put so much time into practicing training and fucking up out bodies lol
like do knock said, why keep hip hop poor?

stellargiggs · 03-13-2010, 11:38 PM

only reason people call it a "sport" is b/c it is talking about how bboys can make a career out of dancing, while keeping a respectable position in society.

or would you prefer dancers work at jean outlets?
or dancing at barmitzvah's for the rest of their lives?
or that one choreo entertainment dance crew on TV?
or dancing at corporate business parties to make a little cash?
or be known as that dancing iPod shadow?

I think all of the above is worse than calling it a sport.

At least for the "sport" aspect, we have bboys like Dyzee doing something about it, analyzing it from all sides and trying to create a system to bridge the gap between mainstream and underground. Don't need to even call it a sport, just call it a professionalized bboy dance competition with digitalized scoring to give bboys a chance to shine, rather than dance backup to every in life just to make a buck.

kill_city · 03-13-2010, 11:53 PM

In all seriousness lets get real here...regardless of B-Boying or whatever secne you are talking about once it blows up reality is it will go to shits.

We can only from then on that a strong underground scene will survive and the heads who are in it for real will still be doing it.

- DJing....how many cats who get behind the decks still know Herc, or know the generation afterwards. How many cats still know dudes like D-Styles. How many cats still dig for breaks and double up on vinyl. Hold on you don't need vinyl I mean why the fvck would you need it if you got MP3s right? or CDs.

- Skating - How many people still give props to Jay Adams??? Most the OG skate labels are all owned by large corporations and shares are publicly traded. The guys that started them are still doing their own thing.

Same thing will happen in BBoying a few crews will blow up, money will be more so involved, so will the personal agendas of people and also the greed for power and control.. A few will become extremely rich, use their position to expolit the scene further, expolit other BBoys and crews and the essence of the dance/mentality will be lost.

I prefer hip hop being the way it is, people have to go out of their way to be a part of it or learn about it, because then... only then people who are passionate about it, get involved and stick to it.