>>20967094Ok, I've really wanted to weigh in on this one at some point as someone who was, and still is, heavily into the scene both here and overseas (i.e. 25 years in the scene). The first thing that frustrates me the most, especially from her as a supposed 'expert', is it is NOT called breakDANCING. It is called Breaking. Anyone in the culture knows this. She acts as a gatekeeper of the culture and doesn't even understand the vocab of the culture itself. The event itself is also called Breaking, not breakdancing. As an academic that has studied it for years, the fact that she keeps referring to herself as a 'breakdancer' really riles me.
Secondly, objectively and subjectively her performance was bad. Breaking is made up of several elements, the 2 most well known of which are top-rocking (footwork standing up) and power-moves (think big moves like flares, etc). Her top-rocking was absolutely dreadful. She has no style. She has no rhythm, and she is so far off her timing it is ridiculous. Her power-moves were literally non-existent. They weren't bad. They didn't exist. Everything else she did was some interpretive dance garbage. Her husband and 'coach' is a joke in the scene, as is their crew.
I've been in cyphers with some of the best in this country, and overseas including BC One winners, and her being in the games was the absolute pinnacle of nepotism. Even in the qualifier itself she was the worst competitor of the lot. I know of at least a dozen B-Girls in this country that would ruin her without breaking a sweat, and the fact that she is a self-indulgent twat just rubs me the wrong way, especially when she turned it into a gender wars argument and male competitors wouldn't be criticised like she was.
Back to my first point though, her knowledge of the culture, and the elements of breaking are basic at best, and she got caught lacking on the world stage. Ray Gun wouldn't be able to hold her own in a cypher with 10 year olds learning their first top rocks.
