Taiwan B-Boy Quake Breaks Into Second Place at Hip Hop Festival
After putting on an impressive performance at the Olympics, Taiwan's top B-boy, Quake, competed at an international hip hop festival in the Netherlands. His finish is Taiwan's best ever at the competition.
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00:00Did you feel the earth shake?
00:06This is Taiwan's Olympic breakdancer, Quake.
00:09Shortly after the Paris Games, the b-boy headed to the Netherlands to compete in the notorious
00:15IBE, a major international hip-hop dance festival.
00:20And while there, he made history, becoming the first-ever Taiwanese breakdancer to advance
00:26to the breakdancing finals.
00:29Though he didn't win it all, losing to Venezuelan breaker Alvin, he still managed to outperform
00:34over 300 competitors to take second place.
00:39But Quake says the pressures of putting on a historic performance may have affected him
00:44in the finals.
00:45I think it's the psychological training and build-up, I think I need to be more relaxed
00:51and more pure, like the first few rounds.
00:54And that was something he was able to do with his team, which made it to the top eight
00:59of the competition.
01:00We didn't battle in a brutal way, it was more like having fun, it was more about conveying
01:07the feeling of dancing.
01:10Quake says this latest performance is still a validation of his skills.
01:15He's claimed one of the top spots at one of the world's biggest breakdancing stages, proving
01:20that both he and Taiwan have what it takes to compete with the best.
01:25Ryan Wu and Leslie Liao for Taiwan Plus.