R 16 World B Boy Masters Championship 2013

 R 16 World B Boy Masters Championship 2013

It was yet another rainy day July 14. 2013, me with friends were excited to see the finals of world B Boy Master Championship. It was held at the “Olympic Hall” in one of the very beautiful parks in Seoul “Olympic Park”. This world championship was for two days but I managed to attend the 2^nd day only.

R 16 B Boys Championship has been a real craze in Korea for last many years now.  R 16 being the real passion of youth is mainly organized by Korean Tourism Organization (KTO) and thanks to KTO for the VIP tickets for me and my friends.

I have already attended couple of B Boys competitions so my excitement level was very high. And these R 16 finals were more than my expectations.

The show started with astonishingly wonderful B Boys Crew performances by all the teams. Those were so amazing and so perfectly synchronized that making it so theatrical and phenomenal. Team Australia started it and lifted the level of competition for other teams but each team was well prepared and ready to give its best. Chinese performance was very impressive and was competing really good performances by Russian, French, US and Japanese teams. My vote was for Chinese and French team. French team performance was a bit unique with respect to moves along with music. Last performance from Korea team was different from all. Its music, style, rhythm, moves, formations were totally different and having the flavor of Korean culture in it, which made the performance really fascinating. People loved it and were wonderstruck to see real fast moves synchronized with slow and fast unconventional music for such kind of performance.

After these performances, there was a GuestShow, as I attended the 2^nd day of final which was mainly about the B Boys Competitions so I missed the 1^st day of Poppin and Lockin Dancing Competitions, but the thanks for Khan n Moon and Blue Whale Brothers whose guest show performance Poppin and Lockin was best of this event. It was simply speechless.

After that the show moved towards B Boys Battles, Unfortunately for France team, named Melting Force, they had the real tough time against Korean tam “Morning of Owl” in the first match and so being knocked out. France team in my opinion was very tough like Russian and Australian teams who made turned the B Boys Battles into Wars many times, along with all spirits sportsmanship. After the nerve cracking semifinals there was thrilling, electrifying, hair rising, magnificent, wild and wondrous final between Korean team “Morning of Owl” and Japanese team “Body Carnival”. 

Morning of Owl showed some really stunning and impressive hidden moves and group formations which were of much higher level than that of all other teams there. Two girls members in the Body Carnivals if were the strength of their team but also sometimes became weakness, but they must me appreciated well in my opinion. While in the Korean team the little guy who spun their at the fastest speed for a longest time along with changing style and showing tricks while spinning was real gem of the team and was hero of the day. He removed his shirt while spinning so swiftly and perfectly and it was breathtaking like many other moves from Korea. Results were quite obvious the best among the teams Morning of Owl (Korea) were the deserving winners while Japan being the runners up.

Before results there was another speechless performance by day 1^st Judge, “Saleh”, this solo performance was fabulous, magnificent, mind blowing, spine tingling, heart stopping, marvelous and beautiful. He is one of the legends in the field of dancing. After results there was prize distribution leading to the party time. I missed Jay Park and Bgirl Terra as I have to come back to city Ansan so we rushed back to catch Subway.

It was indeed one of the best shows of my life, a beautiful addition in the treasure of life memories especially of Korean life.