Awesome Breakdancing

Freestyle hip hop dancer and So You Think You Can Dance season 10 champ Fik-Shun Stegall shows off his incredible muscle control, balance, and precision in this performance from the 2014 World of Dance in Las Vegas.

Dancers Jackson Chavis, BluPrint and Taylor Pierce take robotic dancing to the next level, working in perfect sync in this routine they choreographed to Kid Cudi’s 2009 track Day ‘N’ Nite. Be sure to check out more mad dance moves on Jackson’s TikTok feed.

If there’s one thing you can definitely do while stuck at home, it’s dance. We all have our own favorite moves, but most of them couldn’t hold a candle to the smooth-flowing choreography of dancer Poppin John, who wowed us with his colorful living room performance.

Choreographer Jacob Jonas teamed up with ILL-Abilities, a breakdancing crew who proves that physical challenges won’t stand in the way of those with a strong will and dedication to their craft. A beautifully shot and inspiring short film from NOWNESS.

The breakdance crew of OK World Wide show off their spinning talents, with the added bonus of colorful trails of smoke being emitted from their feet. The brightly colored festivities were captured in brilliant 4K by filmmaker Ali Kubba.

Dancer maddchadd transforms himself into a robot with a degree of precision rarely seen, introducing just the right amount of stutter and mechanical movement in not only his torso, arms, and hands, but every little facial expression. Do you even blink, bro?

(PG-13: Lyrics) Marquese Scott, BluPrint, iGlide, and AndreAndroiidRucker follow up their incredible dance video from 2012 with another sick set of robotic and slow-motion maneuvers. We want to see these guys in a dance-off with World Order.

Japanese breakdancer Ashitaka recently attempted to break two World Records in his chosen field – the most consecutive one-handed jumps, and the most elbow hops. Our palms and joints hurt just watching him do this. Watch now and see if he achieved his goals.

The contestants of the 2016 Bucheon Bboy International Championships warm up at various parts of Bucheon, South Korea to the tune of Imagin8’s High Seas & Childish Dreams. The real star here is YAKfilms’ videography. They could probably make a stylish video about snails.

Dancer Marquese “Nonstop” Scott never ceases to amaze us with his smooth-as-butter moves. This time out, he uses his skills to seemingly defy gravity and create furniture out of thin air. The track is Stwo’s Her (Majid Jordan Edit).

In 4/26/86, breakdancing enthusiasts from all over the USSR attended a dance festival in Vinni, Estonia. Break Dance 80s tracked down 50 of the event’s participants – now in their late 40s to 50s – and had them show off their moves for old time’s sake.

The always incredible Poppin John teamed up with dancer Solto to turn in this mindbending (and bodybending) street performance set to Revolvr & Genisis and Splitbreed’s track Unstoppable. The gimmick at the end is worth the price of admission.

Dancer Madd Chadd appears to be more robot than human as he pops, locks and breaks it down into controlled mechanical movements all while he maintains his balance on a wheeled Airboard. The track is So by Dabow.

Australian musical act Justice Crew got together with the guys from The Royal Stampede to prank bystanders with the help of one of those ultra-realistic old man masks, turning what they thought was a geriatric into a B-Boy.

From the Mind of Hannibal put together this edit of some of the most insane B-boy windmills, headspins and flares ever witnessed. We were dizzy by the end of the clip, so we can only imagine how the dancers felt.

Here’s your no excuses video for the day. YouTuber Claire Blogga shares this clip of a one-legged bboy. Not only does he pull off the same stunts that able-bodied dancers can do, he also incorporates his crutches into his moves.

Dancers Ricardo Walker and Poppin John show off their incredible control as they perform to a dubstep remix of Michael Jackson’s Beat It. But instead of a dance battle breaking out, it’s a seamless collaboration between the two.

Australian breakdancer Simon Ata demonstrates some of the exercises he does to keep in shape for his dance routines, with precision control over muscles we didn’t even knew existed. Seriously, this is some next level Cirque du Soleil sh*t.

An amazing dance routine by the B-boys of the Morning of Owl crew as they bring down the house at Korea’s R16 breakdance competition with some moves we’ve never seen before. Watch the full battle here.

B-girl Spinderella returns with another painful looking headspin, this time planting her head on the top of a metal soup can and rotating. Perhaps her skull is has a layer of protective rubber built in. Swag!

Dancers Julius “iGlide” Chisolm and Dorian “BluPrint” Hector transition effortlessly from buttery smooth slides to mechanical monsters as they move to the electro-grooves of Legionnaire by NastyNasty.

While the young breakdancer at the start of this clip isn’t half bad, the appropriately monikered 6-year-old Terra upstages his every move, dealing an epic deathblow to her competition. More here and here.

Footage shot by Thomas Edison back in 1898 captures “a preadolescent boy, dressed like a street urchin” who starts out doing acrobatics but sneaks in a headspin and other classic B-Boy moves.