The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene]

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• Nath@aussie.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It was mildly interesting to watch (listen) to this perspective. He’s right: I don’t care much about Breaking as a sport. It turns out the scene in Australia is tiny and the people who do it are amateur. For Raygun, she had to do three dance battles in a field of eight women to qualify as Australia’s entry into the Olympics. Which globally is a very low bar.

  To sum up the video:
  Yes, she sucked. But it isn’t like Australia was ever going to do well in this event no matter who we sent.
  Dancers in the Australian breaking scene can’t afford to travel to global events and get good.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For Raygun, she had to do three dance battles in a field of eight women

    I found this strange. He said himself that she had to do 4, and then just…discounted one of them, for some reason? It was a field of 15, that got cut down to 8 in a process he didn’t explain, except to say that it wasn’t the normal group stage.

    I’d add a third important bullet point to your summing up: that the points system breaking uses is not necessarily just rewarding the flashiest physical dancing. And that while she is bad, she’s not necessarily as bad compared to other dancers—within the point system used—as you might expect as a complete amateur watching her and watching some other Aussie.

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    • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He discounted the preliminary dance, I assumed because it was not a battle. But I’m not going to go back and check. It wasn’t that interesting. 😀

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• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Drop the clickbate title and say what the video is of.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not sure about this community, but many Lemmy communities have a rule that if you post a link to a news article or video, you need to keep the post title the same as the source.

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    • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      o.O another aussie instance. Interesting.

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    • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, you’re right ofcourse. I just did a bad job of explaining my frustration with clickbate naming trends.

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  • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is the title of the actual video with the bit in braces added.

    The description reads:
    Welcome to the Raygun retrospective.

    My name is Jafri, I’ve been dancing for 10 years and been going to events in Australia for the past 7. I’ve been observing all that’s been happening over the last year since the Olympics and wanted to provide my perspective on Raygun and Australian breaking.

    Why now you ask?

    I felt this was important for me to share as someone who has experienced breaking in Australia. You all know by now that breakers are a rare breed in this corner of the world and I feel like a lot of detail was missed in other videos, so I wanted to provide something for the scene that was actually substantial.

    Now that the smoke and mirrors around Raygun has dissipated, I’m hoping you can watch my video from a different place.

    Thanks for your time and enjoy.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    0:00 - Chapter 0
    2:44 - Chapter 1: Australia’s Disadvantages
    11:11 - Chapter 2: That Fateful Weekend
    16:32 - Chapter 3: Complacency
    20:15 - Chapter 4: Incidents
    23:51 - Chapter 5: Picking Up The Pieces

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    • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks for clarifying and also posting the full description.

      I dont think the post is bad, just the original video title. It’s also weird that the original description lacks any actual description of what will be talked about. I just dislike the mystery of clickbate titled videos.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you want to provide a title of your own, be my guest. I prefer when Lemmy users keep their editorialising to a minimum when sharing content from elsewhere in the web, so I stick to OG titles or visible headlines, adding necessary context in square brackets when I feel it’s necessary.

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    • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry, didn’t mean this to be a critique of the post. You should totally just use the video title as you did and keep editorializing minimal.

      I just dislike the trend of naming videos like this in general. Again, not your fault unless you are the video creator.

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