Breaking has been officially announced as a brand new discipline added to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games. It makes sense, right? Jaw dropping power, speed, agility. What about control, form, discipline. It checks all boxes to be categorized as competitive sport. We knew it was coming, and in a time when the pandemic has put the breaking community on pause, a little (big) good news has sparked conversation once again.

In all honesty, I just literally googled Olympic Gold Medal and just picked the name of a random sport that I’ve never ever watched before. Congratulations to Virginia Thrasher, the 2016 Women’s 10m Air Rifle Gold Medalist, from the USA! Virginia may be the nicest women in the world, I’ve never met her, don’t know her, and I’ve never heard of her before the name just popped up in Wiki. But this major assumption that I’m about to make may help in explaining why the Olympics will not have any negative impact on Breaking, the culture it continues to preserve, and the community on the verge of thriving.

In 2013 we had our initial discussions with Steve Graham about being involved with the Pro Breaking Tour. It was Glen that initially reached out to Steve, they had their conversations, talked freestyle soccer, niche sport, and growth. Steve heard I was an engineer, so I guess he wanted to chat with someone with credentials. We had our lengthy convo and it was a good talk. At the time, I brought up that we had just started UBL with one goal in mind, to crown a champ and extend bboy careers.