Raygunn, the fake break dancer - what’s your take?

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Anonymous wrote:She perfectly mocked an event that desperately needed mocking to expose its ridiculousness. If only someone had the guts to do the same to synchronized diving, synchronized swimming, and all those bicycle events that don’t involve getting from point A to point B in the shortest amount of time.

That would include figure skating and gymnastics.

Gymnastics includes some pretty easy-to-measure feats of strength and agility that I think earn it a place separate from these other judges sports. There's some dumb stuff but like vault and high bar are extremely straight forward and it's easy to understand how they are scored and why one person outperformed another. There are some weird idiosynchrasies but the tumbling and a lot of the skills are virtuosic and easy to evaluate. Plus after track and field it's one of the sports with the clearest ties to the original Greek Olympics.

Agree figure skating is super weird.

Not to mention rhythmic gymnastics, with the ball and the hoop. It's not awful, but feels more like a backup sport for those who don't tumble.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She perfectly mocked an event that desperately needed mocking to expose its ridiculousness. If only someone had the guts to do the same to synchronized diving, synchronized swimming, and all those bicycle events that don’t involve getting from point A to point B in the shortest amount of time.

That would include figure skating and gymnastics.

Gymnastics includes some pretty easy-to-measure feats of strength and agility that I think earn it a place separate from these other judges sports. There's some dumb stuff but like vault and high bar are extremely straight forward and it's easy to understand how they are scored and why one person outperformed another. There are some weird idiosynchrasies but the tumbling and a lot of the skills are virtuosic and easy to evaluate. Plus after track and field it's one of the sports with the clearest ties to the original Greek Olympics.

Agree figure skating is super weird.

Not to mention rhythmic gymnastics, with the ball and the hoop. It's not awful, but feels more like a backup sport for those who don't tumble.

+ Trampoline

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No talent woman who gamed the system to prevent more talented dancers from taking the spot at the Olympics.

+100

The old farts criticizing break dancing are clueless dinosaurs who need to step off. You're the same people who complained rock and roll was Satan's music. It's exactly the same.

The woman is a self aggrandizing attention whore who took a spot away from someone who actually deserved it. What an azzz she is.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, breakdancing is not and has never been a sport. Competitions are loosely scored and widely subjective. It is also a very outdated dance style that peaked in the 1980s. People who would have been competition-worthy in breakdancing are all in their 40s and 50s by now and not spinning on their heads anymore. It was a very poor choice of event at the Olympics.

Most Olympic sports have an international governing body to define the competition rules for the sport as well as requirements for participation in the Olympic games. In most cases, athletes must have participated in both national and international competitions to be allowed to compete at the Olympics. Breakdancing has none of that which brought forth RayGunn and her extreme lack of talent and physical skill. She looked like a drunk auntie at a wedding.

Idiot. Break dancing is huge outside of the US. You know nothing but are here pontificating as if you know something. Blowhard. You're as much of an embarrassment as she is.

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This woman is completely lacking in self awareness. Watch some YouTube interviews. She continues to double down on her “doing her best.” She is a dunning Kruger narcissist who conned her way into academia by choosing a niche area of focus. Then she conned her way into the Olympics because of odd Australian rules for this “sport”. She did a bunny hop. Then after she claimed sexism or whatever.

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She’s taking a victim stance when she should honestly be more light hearted: https://youtu.be/maNQnnnMZj0?feature=shared

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This woman is completely lacking in self awareness. Watch some YouTube interviews. She continues to double down on her “doing her best.” She is a dunning Kruger narcissist who conned her way into academia by choosing a niche area of focus. Then she conned her way into the Olympics because of odd Australian rules for this “sport”. She did a bunny hop. Then after she claimed sexism or whatever.

The kangaroo hop was ridiculous. That isn't trying your hardest to come up with creative moves. I'm glad the judges gave her zeros.

What struck me as odd is that she *could* do some difficult moves, so why didn't she plan to do more of those? For instance, twirling around on your head is not easy and neither are some of the other moves. Since she can physically do at least some difficult moves, why not build on that? I am starting to think she did do this to disrespect the dancing or maybe, as a PP said, because there's something really wrong with her.

And she's a lecturer as opposed to a full professor.

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I have no idea if she thought she was being funny or making a statement, but it comes across as mocking the sport and the Olympics. I can see why her country is angry. She is an embarrassment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, breakdancing is not and has never been a sport. Competitions are loosely scored and widely subjective. It is also a very outdated dance style that peaked in the 1980s. People who would have been competition-worthy in breakdancing are all in their 40s and 50s by now and not spinning on their heads anymore. It was a very poor choice of event at the Olympics.

Most Olympic sports have an international governing body to define the competition rules for the sport as well as requirements for participation in the Olympic games. In most cases, athletes must have participated in both national and international competitions to be allowed to compete at the Olympics. Breakdancing has none of that which brought forth RayGunn and her extreme lack of talent and physical skill. She looked like a drunk auntie at a wedding.

Idiot. Break dancing is huge outside of the US. You know nothing but are here pontificating as if you know something. Blowhard. You're as much of an embarrassment as she is.

Rude. And childish.
Show me a video of people breakdancing on a street corner in 2024. Breakdancing is a small microcosm of people who think the 80s are "cool". When you see people busking on the street and dancing to hip hop, none of them are breaking, even outside the US. When you go to clubs, the crowd does not break apart on the dance floor to watch some guy spinning on his head. There's a dozen or more hip hop dance styles that have taken over since breakdancing and none of them are sports. I was in Europe this summer and I saw zero breakdancing.

[Anonymous]

I think it's important to note that the way it's scored each judge has one vote to give. So, giving zeros isn't quite the same as in other sports, because each match you either win, and get a point, or lose and get a zero. It's different from a sport like gymnastics or trampoline where a zero is very rare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's important to note that the way it's scored each judge has one vote to give. So, giving zeros isn't quite the same as in other sports, because each match you either win, and get a point, or lose and get a zero. It's different from a sport like gymnastics or trampoline where a zero is very rare.

I didn't realize that and yes, I would agree it is important to note.

I think she was a terrible dancer but I also think there is a lot of misinformation surrounding the events. For example, the rumor that she established her own governing body and her DH was the judge for the competition that got her into the olympics would appear to be blatant misinformation: https://www.businessinsider.com/raygun-husband-olympics-committee-rumors-false-qualification-2024-8

Australia's regional qualifying event was the 2023 WDSF Breaking Oceania Championship, which was held in Sydney in October 2023. The regional organization AUSBreaking organized the event. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, current AUSBreaking president Lowe Napalan — himself a breaker — established the organization in 2019. Breaking was confirmed as a 2024 Olympic sport in December 2020, and the organization (then called the Australian Breaking Association) began to take registrations for breakers interested in competing at the games. AUSBreaking has maintained a national ranking system dating back to 2020. Gunn ranked first in the inaugural 2020 ranking, then again in 2021. She placed second in both 2022 and 2023, according to publicly available records.

So, no, it would seem that there was not just one competition established by Raygun that her DH judged.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve enjoyed the memes and she earned them. Maybe she can team up with hawk tuah girl.

The Hawk Tuah girl is a different kind of pathetic and an example of someone who confused notoriety over doing something vulgar with celebrity.

Rachel Gunn is more devious. This was an elaborate satire. It was brilliant. She punked the world.

The Hawk Tuah girl used her brief celebrity to sell a ton of merch and raise money for her local animals shelters. She's a down to earth young lady who understands social media and used her power for good.

It wasn't celebrity. It was notoriety. Know the difference.

Women celebrities have always needed to use sex to earn money. It’s not an accident that the Kardashian empire was built off a “leaked” sex tape and over-filled butts. Marilyn Monroe wouldn’t have been half as famous if not for her sexual exploits. Even good actresses need to do sexually charged photoshoots and roles in order to build their game.

The would shouldn’t be that way, yet it is, and I’m not gonna fault women for working within the system men built, where it’s more difficult for women to acquire wealth and fame on their own merit rather than their bodies.

[Anonymous]

When I saw Raygunn breakdance, I thought she looked like what I-a middle aged white lady who grew up in the 80's watching videos-would look like if I competed LOL!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, breakdancing is not and has never been a sport. Competitions are loosely scored and widely subjective. It is also a very outdated dance style that peaked in the 1980s. People who would have been competition-worthy in breakdancing are all in their 40s and 50s by now and not spinning on their heads anymore. It was a very poor choice of event at the Olympics.

Most Olympic sports have an international governing body to define the competition rules for the sport as well as requirements for participation in the Olympic games. In most cases, athletes must have participated in both national and international competitions to be allowed to compete at the Olympics. Breakdancing has none of that which brought forth RayGunn and her extreme lack of talent and physical skill. She looked like a drunk auntie at a wedding.

Idiot. Break dancing is huge outside of the US. You know nothing but are here pontificating as if you know something. Blowhard. You're as much of an embarrassment as she is.

Rude. And childish.
Show me a video of people breakdancing on a street corner in 2024. Breakdancing is a small microcosm of people who think the 80s are "cool". When you see people busking on the street and dancing to hip hop, none of them are breaking, even outside the US. When you go to clubs, the crowd does not break apart on the dance floor to watch some guy spinning on his head. There's a dozen or more hip hop dance styles that have taken over since breakdancing and none of them are sports. I was in Europe this summer and I saw zero breakdancing.

Right, because now it's more of a sport than art.

[Anonymous]

She is an imposter who gamed the system.
I don’t know how she hot nominated.

She claims she did her “best.” With her best she maybe needs to stay out of competitions. Dance in your living room.