“It needs to be more transparent,” Vizard said. “This guy won. Why did they win, by what margin and on what technical details? “We have to do a lot more work to make it more easily understandable.” That said, these may not have been problems that organizers or breakers had thought about before the Games, but now with a world of amateurs and amateur fans, it is something that has to change.
Wizards hopes that, moving forward, the Breakers and the game's organizers as a whole will do a little more work connecting the game to its hip-hop roots. The relationship between rappers, emcees, graffiti artists and breakers has blurred as generations have passed, he said, noting that while some rappers came out as supportive of breaking at the Olympics, others called it “wacky.” . It is important to recognize the game's roots in the hip-hop community, where Breaker used to dance to the breaks or what he calls “the catchiest part” of the record.
“Context and generations have weakened that message over time, and it's the responsibility of anyone with a platform like me or any other high-level breaker to teach that, because if we don't,” says Vizard. Then we will lose it. ,
Rahul (left) and Phil Vizard breaking the ice in The Big Interview.Photograph: Tristan DeBrouwere