Freestyle Scene = Dead?

[Tom]

what freestyle need is much more competitions & battles...if u take a look at the b-boy scene, there are battles every month...this is what motivates them.

True that.

competitons yes, battles no! we are no fucking dancers. battles would only motivate a very small amout of freestylers but not the majority. freestylers who really care about skill and hard trainings, which true competitions are about, would just ignore battle competitions.

Then why's everyone competing at RBSS, Prague, Pyrzyce, WFS, etc.?

Mind you, most freestylers (especially guys that focus on lowers) have better chances in battles, or actually "battles" (because there's no real battle aspect at our competitions) than in LP like competitions (which we could clearly see at MOTG, along with Eurobac before).

So I'm curious what kind of competition format would you prefer?

And how will doing battles make us dancers? That comment was stupid and prejudice at the same time...

yes there are many freestylers competiting at rbss but it doesnt really give em motivation because they know that the judges are stupid and dont know anything about freestyle at least thats the case in germany.

and yeah battles are the best way of a competition but not battles like bboys have. imo a competition should be about who is the best so the thing to judge about is skill. the comparison to breakdance is just stupid.

And i'm not someone who fucuses on lower, i just want that hand tricks and dance stuff is forbidden, or at least not overrated in competitions.

So you think the breakdance battles is not about the one that is the best? So whats it about? The one that is worst? Come on

[Miran Pirner]

Great point Tom, thanks for pointing that out. 

[Olly NZ Frestyle]

No motivation = no freestyle
= Olly does not freestyle 

[Philippe]

battles are exactly what we need... come on guys! I have the feeling that the last two RBSS events in germany were more a 3min performance than an actual battle... which is, to be honest, kinda lame! Everyone did handstand catches etc. and didn't give responses e.g. like in breakdance battles to a lower combo or a sitting combo trying to "destroy" the other guy with his skills in each part of freestyle (sitting, uppers etc.). Just watch RB BC One! They don't try to entertain the crowd but to be better than their "opponent" and this "sort of" battle is in my opinion much more entertaining to the crowd than a 3min performance of two freestylers. Red Bull also calls it a battle between two freestylers... if we want to make a performance, then we can go busking lol

[Erlendfs]

Totally agree with you!

battles are exactly what we need... come on guys! I have the feeling that the last two RBSS events in germany were more a 3min performance than an actual battle... which is, to be honest, kinda lame! Everyone did handstand catches etc. and didn't give responses e.g. like in breakdance battles to a lower combo or a sitting combo trying to "destroy" the other guy with his skills in each part of freestyle (sitting, uppers etc.). Just watch RB BC One! They don't try to entertain the crowd but to be better than their "opponent" and this "sort of" battle is in my opinion much more entertaining to the crowd than a 3min performance of two freestylers. Red Bull also calls it a battle between two freestylers... if we want to make a performance, then we can go busking lol

[Adi]

Looking back, I wish I'd of started freestyling when I was a lot younger, kids/teenagers have so much freetime, but to put it simply, there was nowhere to go and nobody knew about the sport. Soccergrip/Beyond Football, has provided a home for freestyle for a very long time, Adi has spent so much of his time dedicated to this site and for me....this will always be where Freestyle Football for me as we know it was BORN!

Cheers mate! 

I remember when I created the NAS forum back in the day, I lost interest in that because the vast majority of the guys on there were so young, you'd get a lot of shit topics and a lot of shit posts being posted every day. I don't know what it's like on this forum now, but that is what happened on the NAS forum.

It seems we don't have as many young posters around here.  I agree with you on needing to bring on more young freestylers to keep growing the community, but like you said, it's a fine line of keeping the post quality high and growing the community at the same time.  Our posts aren't as great as the used to be but we have a lot less crap on here.  It's more about quality it seems now.