Breakdance

Back 10 years, I used to be dazzled by Micheal’s movement on stage. Later, I found more and more teenagers started wearing very loose trousers and preferred to hide their heads inside the hood, which was due to the huge influence by the South Korean Fad to China. Along with the fashion tide, breakdance became popular around young people. I’ve seen some videos on TV or internet, but never a live one. So when I heard there was going to be a live breakdance competition in MASTER CLUB, I slipped on my shoes and got a taxi to the bar.

The bar was on LUCKY STREET beside 21st century hotel. We paid 30RMB each for the door fee and entered. The doorway is quite narrow and the dance floor is on basement2. Personally, I don’t like underground bars or really fancy hip-hop music. As we arrived early (advertised starting at 9pm), we sit down with a drink and started chatting. There were players from several teams formed a circle on the dance floor and did their warm-up. However, until 10:30pm the competition hadn’t started yet. If I didn’t pay the door fee, I could have left and missed great performances J finally, the commentator announced the competition begins and the loud music surged up! At first competitors performed in the middle of the dance floor one by one. The dance ground was immediately heated super hot! I was amazed to see how they used their arms and hands to support their bodies and move the feet and legs in the air, spun around even with the head and flipped in such small space! (one of them did strike the audience drinking table and broke few glasses)

I couldn’t judge which one is better, they were all excellent to me! Anyway, the judge picked out First Eight pairs. The quarter-final/ semi-final were much more exciting as it played “immediate death”. The music was much louder and the whole audiences were also lighted up. We sung and danced with the music, clapped and whistled. There was a rule that one group could defy the rival with all style of popping-breaking movements but they should never really touch the rival, otherwise they lose big points. Now they looked much more like some characters from the computer game STREET FIGHTER…

Though I was not a good judge, the guy with the green cap, blue and pink (wired combination of color really) jacket caught my eye from the beginning. He was my favorite and aha … he did get in the final!!! Bravo!!! Many people use mobile, MP4 or camera recorded the final and here is mine by mobile which I uploaded to youtube (though the image was not very clear, I hope you still get the impact). Guess who is the winner? Haha, trust my insight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECV1N3IqLPk

This was such an excited breakdance competition. I absolutely enjoyed it. Even when I got home, my heart still pumped strongly and fast. The music was a bit too loud for my ears, I could still hear as if someone was rapping next to me. Oh shut up!