Let Your Dreams Take Flight!

For one month already, WDSF is in close contact with a number of organisations in competitive breaking – event organisers and others – collaborating with them to ensure that as many constituents as possible in what is a fragmented community are given a voice in the shaping of the events at the 2018 YOG.

Now, even organisations that are not (yet) involved in the process have made calls for support to the approach that is being taken. The one below is from UDEF, Pro Breaking Tour and their associated organisations. It was posted on Facebook.

UDEF Perspective on the 2018 Youth Olympic Games

UDEF, Pro Breaking Tour, Freestyle Session and Silverback have no current role with breaking at the 2018 Youth Olympics, either official or unofficial.We are supportive of the fact that the Olympic movement is going to give competitive breaking a trial run with the 2018 Youth Olympics. We have spoken with several senior-level staff members at the WDSF and we are confident that the WDSF and its national affiliates around the world will be making efforts to involve people from the actual breaking community in all aspects of the preparation for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games.

The concern within parts of the US breaking community about the WDSF and the Youth Olympics is well understood by the WDSF at the highest levels, so the voices of the breaking community are being heard loud and clear. Representatives of the WDSF have reached out proactively to many people from the international breaking community, including some of the top event organizers of Bboy/Bgirl competitions in the world.

Our view is that it will be more productive to give the WDSF a bit of time to get organized and to interview volunteers from the breaking community than to concern ourselves at this very moment with who may ultimately control Olympic-level breaking, or how breaking might be presented to the public in an Olympic format.In the long run, the breakers will control breaking at the Olympic level, and at every level. Period.

For more information see: www.udeftour.org and Pro Breaking Tour

Ivan, a.k.a. Urban Action Figure and one of the B-Boy legends, expressed his support of breakin' in the 2018 YOG in a short video that he put on Instagram!

Published on 12 January 2017