Moon on Nostr: All valid points here too. Though I, personally, generally reject the idea of ...

All valid points here too. Though I, personally, generally reject the idea of “scored” breakdancing philosophically. I more come from the decentralized anarchist camp of diasporic resistance / expression practices. So yes, I was projecting some of my own philosophical stances onto the wider topic where any number of other practitioners are fully free to established their own consensus rules for judging the sport. And I am similarly free to reject the idea through non-participation.

Additionally I would argue that Capoeira’s reach, on the ground, is similarly broad globally as breakdancing - thought American popular cultural has been far more successful promoting the former in the public mind than Brazil has been with the latter - and I guess that’s what matters 😄.

The beauty of sports though, is that irrespective of the ideological intentions of the organizers - ie them being wokelords or racists or chauvinists - performance on the ground doesn’t lie. And also you know I’m not wrong in saying that bad breakdancing is easy to spot but trying to call objective “judgeable” differences in different styles of very good / great breaking is much harder to do (though yes, you are correct, social consensus can easily allow this to still happen)