People had come from all over the world to see this event. Among the thousands of spectators were Canada’s original B-Boy crew founders; Mr Quick, and Buddha.
“Our crew – the Canadian Floor Masters – is 41 years old so we’re the OG B-Boy crew in Canada. We used to drive down to the Bronx and hang out with the New York City Breakers and all those OG crews too, so we know a thing or two about B-Boying,” said Buddha.
“This is not just something we like, this is our lives and it’s in the Olympics so how could we not be here.” he said.
“The neat part about this story right now is that it has a start, and that was 41 years ago,” continued Mr Quick.
“People said this was a fad back then and I said ‘no, we consider this a sport’ and what do you know all this time later, we made it to the Olympics.” he added.
Buddha, who teaches Breaking to prisoners, has organised battles in the Canada House. Among the opponents were the Paris City Breakersanother group with 41 years in the industry. Buddha plans to work with the Canadian and French governments in hopes to teach the French crews how to offer Breaking to French prisoners in the future.
