Dumping Them Out: Olympic Breakdancing
Welcome back to yet another episode of Dumping Them Out. I did the math. I'm exactly 10 days away from the second anniversary of the inaugural Dumping Them Out episode. This blog was originally titled "Sunday Sentences". But then I was told doing a weekly blog called "Sunday Sentences" would be a waste of time because nobody would click on it. So then I thought, "Well what if I just make it all about boobs". The rest is history.
Today was the final day of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. I know a lot people aggressively hate the Olympics to the point where it feels like there's constantly a, "Who care's about the Olympics the least" competition going on. But I loved it. I think this year was the most I've ever enjoyed an Olympics. I'm sad to see them go. There was however one event that upset me to the point where watching it made me physically uncomfortable. That event was Breakdancing. They actually call it "breaking" and get offended when people refer to it as breakdancing, but if they want me to start calling it "breaking" they have to perform better than what I saw this weekend.
For example, the woman breakdancing for Australia. She was an insult to the Olympics (I apologize if the video in this tweet gets taken down. The Olympics like to do that. But if it does just search 'Australian breakdancer' and you'll get plenty of results)
But at least that was hilarious. Clearly she was just a MASSIVE oversight by someone, and Raygun should have never been allowed on or near any sort of stage under any circumstances. But I watched a good amount of the competition. Even the best breakdancers there… I just couldn't help but think there's just no way they were even close to the best in the world. Check out B-Boy Victor from the United States. He was last year's World Champion, and took home bronze at this year's Olympics.
Obviously that's impressive. But I know I've seen better breakdancing than that. I feel like I've seen that quality breakdancing on a cardboard box in Times Square. So I went to YouTube and searched "best breakdancing". Watch for yourself and tell me if you think B-Boy Victor is among the best in the word.
Where the hell was that in the Olympics? The quality of breakdancing this weekend was nowhere close to that Red Bull stuff. But I looked into things little more. Apparently like 6 of the people in the Olympics were actually at this Red Bull competition. Some of them were in the Red Bull video itself. But the Olympics has rules against doing some of the crazier moves (I'm assuming for safety purposes). And they make the competitors compete so many times in a short period of time that they're too exhausted to consistently pull of their best moves. So I guess it's not entirely the dancers faults. Maybe they really are the best. But for some stupid reason the Olympics wants to prevent them from doing any of the cool shit. Seems like a pretty big fuck up on the Olympics' part. It's pretty ridiculous that breakdancing is an Olympic sport in the first place, but c'mon guys… if you're going to make it an event, at least set the rules so that we actually get to witness the best in the world. If you do this again in Los Angeles in 2028, please just let the Red Bull people run the competition.
I watched Goodfellas for the first time in my life last night. Of course, I loved the movie. But I gotta say, I think I enjoyed Casino more. Maybe it's just because it's almost impossible for a movie like Goodfellas, which I've been told my entire life is the best movie of all time, to fully live up to the hype. When I watched Casino I didn't really have any expectations. Or maybe I liked Casino more just because I'm a big Vegas guy, and I've always been fascinated by the history of Las Vegas, how it was built, how it's evolved, etc. But from start to finish, I was more hooked by Casino. I'm sorry if this offends. I also didn't care for the Godfather.