Breakdancing & Free-Running Features, a different serries than what you usually see on here. You'd be amazed how similar they are!
Breakdancing
History Behind Breakdancing (According to the University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, [link] )
Break dancing dates back to the Bronx in the early 1970's and coincided with the era marked by disco. It began within the African-American street gangs that were falling into deterioration by this time. They thought of breaking as a form of dance, but did not regard it as later dancers did, who used it as an expression of their cultural roots. Break dancing during this time had a different form than the present style. B-boys, as break dancers were called, would dance two at a time and try to come up with a group of moves that would prove their skills to be better than their opponents, thus these battle dances became the (occasional) substitute for violence between the gangs. The original moves consisted of mainly "style" such as freezes and footwork and less of what is popular today, "power" moves such as head spins, 90's and flares. Many of the early pioneers of hip-hop culture claim that break dancing was one of the original foundations of hip-hop because the dance was present in the early gang cultures of the Bronx whereas the musical elements were not. As was said during this time, "the bboy was here before the MC. They were dancing and there was graf being done before all hip-hop," (Fricke and Ahearn 2002: 12).More information on breakdancing can be found at
[link] HipHop Galaxy.
Free Running
History Behind Free Running (according to Wikipedia [link] )
Free running is a physical art, in which participants (free runners) use the urban and rural areas to perform movements through its structures focused on freedom and beauty. It incorporates efficient movements from Parkour, adds aesthetic vaults and other acrobatics, such as tricking and street stunts, creating an athletic and aesthetically pleasing way of moving. It is commonly practiced at gymnasiums and in urban areas that are cluttered with obstacles.
Sébastien Foucan used the term "free running" to describe a form of physical exercise that he practiced which was showcased in the Channel 4 documentaries Jump London and Jump Britain. The term has been in use since at least the early 1980s when it was used to describe a more adventurous form of jogging where the runner would incorporate a variety of movements transforming a jogging session into a more demanding, enjoyable and expressive physical experience. Jumping and tac-ing obstacles, rolling, and a variety of stretching movements would be used to break the regulated physical patterns of movement involved in basic running/jogging.
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