Yo, this is dope! Did we just get a real time fix without a GitHub pull request!? 😂
If you have Japanese set as one of your keyboards, Damus will stop translating. This happened to me with Thai.
That’s actually not the outcome I would have wanted. All of this is a massive self own on the part of the Olympics. Also, the IOC is a bunch of lame authoritarian fiat credentialists. I can reject “judged” / standardized breakdancing and still celebrate it being in the Olympics for those who do love to break but have a different opinion than mine. I feel like the Olympics will only get sillier and more corrupt and more nonsensical as time goes on and fiat breaks down.
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Yes, but at the same time cultures like Skateboarding, Breaking, Capeoria all have deep roots in being antithetical to and high antagonistic towards hierarchal capture and standardization. I can tell you if the best capoeira was in the Olympics it would be DAZZLING. But just BEING in the Olympics would dissuade many of the best Capoeiristas from pursuing the Olympic competition either on philosophical / ideological grounds or on the grounds of not wanting to submit to the wider scrutiny of any committee that we assess whether they were the kind of person who could be “eligible” to compete which touches on all kinds of stuff FAR beyond the pure athletic skill. I’d would not be surprised if a similar mindset existed amongst real street breakers as well.
The beauty of skateboarding, breaking, Capoeira - too me - is that they DO NOT CARE about one’s wider relationship with “the law” and they have all had outlaw periods (which they embrace) were the practice and/or the community you’d associate with during the practice was likely to bring one trouble with the law just because.
So here I’m probably making a similar point as you but directing to the judging and organization, as I can only assume that the judge panel for Olympic breaking is a bunch of European sports academics rather than real breakers or folks who might have actual rap sheets and such. I could be wrong, but a quick personal vibe check on the Olympics tells me that I’m probably not 😂.
All valid points here too. Though I, personally, generally reject the idea of “scored” breakdancing philosophically. I more come from the decentralized anarchist camp of diasporic resistance / expression practices. So yes, I was projecting some of my own philosophical stances onto the wider topic where any number of other practitioners are fully free to established their own consensus rules for judging the sport. And I am similarly free to reject the idea through non-participation.
Additionally I would argue that Capoeira’s reach, on the ground, is similarly broad globally as breakdancing - thought American popular cultural has been far more successful promoting the former in the public mind than Brazil has been with the latter - and I guess that’s what matters 😄.
The beauty of sports though, is that irrespective of the ideological intentions of the organizers - ie them being wokelords or racists or chauvinists - performance on the ground doesn’t lie. And also you know I’m not wrong in saying that bad breakdancing is easy to spot but trying to call objective “judgeable” differences in different styles of very good / great breaking is much harder to do (though yes, you are correct, social consensus can easily allow this to still happen)
And there are certainly better breakers in AUS 😂
Also I think the bigger issue with breaking as an Olympic sport that is an art form out of the African diasporic tradition - where being the “best” favors improvisation and a purposeful disregard of hierarchical standardization. Everything is unwritten and while being the “best” in breaking is highly subjective, being bad at it is objective in the visceral sense.
This is why we don’t have Olympic Orisha drumming or Olympic Capeoria.
My point though is learning how to ride the wave. Confidence and a willingness to fail is exactly the kind of fuck you energy that is required to even attempt something like this. That the system is broken is not her fault. People everywhere would get further - and via increased competition, also find themselves humbled - if they led more with that kind of energy.
For everybody pissing and memeing about Australian Rachel Raygun’s laughably terrible Olympic breakdancing “routine” there is a much larger positive lesson here for those willing to get beyond laughing and hating. 
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