Courtnae Paul is one of seven African breakdancers hoping to represent the sport as it makes its Olympic debut in the 2024 Paris Games. The South African describes the discipline as "a mixture of martial arts, gymnastics, all the cool stuff" at one of the last few events before Paris, where dancers -- known as B-boys and B-girls -- will be judged on technique, musicality and originality.
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00:00I got into breaking completely by chance, for people who don't know, breaking aka breakdown
00:29is a dance, now an official Olympic sport, a mixture of martial arts, gymnastics, all
00:36the cool stuff, that's what breaking is.
00:39I have been breaking for what feels like far too long, probably first dabbled maybe 12,
00:4513, 14 years ago, stopped for a couple, back full time about 3, 4 years now, so the journey
01:26One minute you've got to go for, 30 seconds.
01:29Courtney is strong, she's powerful, for a lady she's explosive, she's amazing, but that
01:35stability and then when we do these controlled movements, it's all about controlling the
01:39movement to be aware, mind muscle connection the whole time in the movement.
01:45Breaking is not one of those dance styles where you wake up today and compete tomorrow,
01:48it is something that takes a long time to understand certain movements, for example
01:53if I was going to teach you maybe choreography in another dance style, you could learn one
01:57or two steps today, breaking it's like if I'm teaching you a backflip, we're looking
02:00at months.