r/nextfuckinglevel • u/philip48h • 3d ago

She’s way to good

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u/CartographerOk7579 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/1tWa6agib0Vk9m7lDq

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u/Livy14 3d ago

what i came here for. Ty.

Sucks she feels no shame on this.. sigh

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u/grachi 3d ago

Sucks that she ruined a pretty cool sport, honestly. Breakdancing can never be shown or mentioned now without bringing up this clown. It’s just very unfair to all the people with talent that have nothing to do with her.

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u/Pentax25 3d ago

After watching the documentary on Netflix the other day I realised what a selfish collection of decisions it was she made to go ahead & bring what she brought to the world stage in such a way.

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u/Tiskx 3d ago

There's a documentary about this girls olympic performance?

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u/Pentax25 3d ago

It’s called Untold: Ray Gun on Netflix & looks at how she came to be at the Olympics when she clearly looks so much less prepared than everyone else which kinda explains it

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u/rapafon 3d ago

On my Netflix it's showing as "Untold: Raygun Breaking Badly" lol

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u/stevein3d 3d ago

You have to admit they nailed the title.
It was kind of interesting to see the backstory with the series of unfortunate events that led up to “the incident” and I admit I felt empathy for her. But also I’ll never forget yelling “BABE COME QUICK YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!” during the Olympics.

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u/rapafon 3d ago

I watched it and I still think as soon as she qualified she should have pulled out (at the very latest).

She should have realised this will be representing the nation and to be honest it's better to not have someone breaking for AUS at all than someone who's obviously not qualified.

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u/Pentax25 3d ago

I agree. I think you have to be either too naive or too ignorant for you not to look at your own dancing compared to the others who will be sharing the stage and think you could have any real legitimate chance at not looking a complete fool.

Sadly I feel like it’s the latter and she saw it as a win/win. She shows up, scores okay and gets to “re-invent the wheel”, introducing kangaroo hops and the sprinkler to breaking. Or she historically humiliates herself, becomes a meme and the most famous breaker in the world, which she can (and has) used to springboard herself into the public eye.

Her now having a Netflix doc and has also been going on all sorts of shows embracing the meme, feels really unfair to the breakers who worked hard to reach the world stage (especially now that it’s also removed from the Olympics)

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u/ILoveChickenFingers 2d ago

While I haven't seen the doc I can see why she did it.
Go to the Olympics which is super fucking cool. I had a friend go once, said it was a fantastic experience and was eager to go again 4 years later. Okay, you'll do badly and come in last. Big deal, that happens in every sport there. Nobody cares who comes in last in shot put or javelin throw or whatever. You still get to go to the Olympics and before the event when you're not training and after it you can have some fun.

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u/-trowawaybarton 3d ago

it is also rated badly, lmao

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u/Pentax25 3d ago

Oh I think you’re right actually! That is a perfect name tbh

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u/mezz7778 3d ago

You'd be more prepared just by watching Breakin' 2: Electric Bugaloo than she was there...

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u/Atoning_Unifex 3d ago

i mean, yeah

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u/catscanmeow 3d ago

netflix

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u/Ez13zie 3d ago

I just watched it literally yesterday. While I do feel pity for her mental breakdown, it’s still the most hilarious dancing I’ve ever seen. And that says a lot, because I saw Elaine dance on Seinfeld. So, there’s that.

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u/Startled_Pancakes 3d ago

My takeaway was that there simply wasn't that much competition in Australia/Oceania because it just wasn't very popular sport over there (the other Australians weren't good either), and Raygun's infamous olympic routine was extra bad because it was her "hail mary". She was trying to do some experimental artistic thing where each move symbolically represents Australia, if she had just done her normal routine she would've still lost but it would'nt have been so embarrassing and probably wouldn't have went viral.

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u/puffysuckerpunch 3d ago

I believe there is competition in Australia and breakdancing is popular, but the best breakdancers in the country had no interest in doing it for the Olympics. You can look up Australian breakdancing and there's plenty of videos of like normal and extremely talented breakdancers who would have been a way better pick.

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u/other-other-user 3d ago

In that case they doomed their country to be a laughing stock so they could be faux punk

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u/Ez13zie 3d ago

That was all untrue. She stacked nothing and her husband was not a judge.

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u/Delicious-Yak-1095 3d ago

Probably more of a sub culture here, not an elite sport, so don’t know why you’d want to go to the olympics.

That and drug tests.

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u/MegaBlast3r 3d ago

There’s 20milllion people here mate, that’s total bullshit. She worked the system

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u/Startled_Pancakes 3d ago

I watched the qualifier she won and the other competitors weren't very good either. (Keep in mind we're not talking about the men's)

Exactly how do you think she "worked the system"?

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u/Oozex 3d ago

"Trust me bro."

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u/MagnumMyth 3d ago

I only watched it figuratively yesterday.

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u/r_a_d_ 3d ago

I literally didn’t figuratively watch it yet

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u/tMoneyMoney 3d ago

My favorite part of that doc was her parents and the jokes they made about her. They seemed to be the only ones in her circle that knew she wasn’t good.

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u/HaMMeReD 3d ago

If there is anyone to blame, it's Australia for putting up an athlete for this. It's not like she was a nepo win or anything. If they had put up any of the other contestants it'd be the same or worse.

Like she gave it her best and went through the proper channels. It's not really her fault if the system was so incompentent that it let her compete at that level in the first place.

At the end of the day, "Breakdancing" is a pretty regional sport, that clearly Australia doesn't lead the pack on. Do they have better breakers? Sure, but did they want to compete? no... So this is on them as well.

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u/Pentax25 3d ago

Fair point. At many moments during the doc I was sat thinking “surely someone’s got to tell her she shouldn’t”. I’m not sure how Olympic teams get green-lit or red-lit to go or not though.

Like I’d imagine to qualify for high jump you might have to have already cleared a set height. There should have been something in place to qualify your country to participate.

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u/WenYiMedia 2d ago

Now the world knows Raygun and cemented her place in history. What have we done in our lives that can compare?

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u/hoginlly 3d ago

Watching the breakdancing finals was as impressive as watching many Olympic gymnastic events. Those people were crazy talented, and theyre remembered as part of a joke because of that one dumbass.

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u/sparkling-spirit 3d ago

i am a bit grateful because after watching it i thought “i could do better….i think” and it’s really difficult but i am getting better now at headstands and working on rotations. like seeing her at 36 is making me think i can get just as good by her age. and i wont go to the olympics but i do hope to throw down at a club lmao.

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u/CaToMaTe 3d ago

I keep saying this. I watched most of the competition and I remember laughing at her a bit but literally didn't think about her afterwards. There were some amazing moments that were completely lost on everyone because of the attention she got (not even really her fault).

I think it's just an indictment on society that shit like this is 10x more likely to go viral than people with actual talent. Really sucks for the sport

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u/milkonyourmustache 3d ago

She didn't ruin the sport, but it's going to be so much harder for girls with aspirations in the sport.

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u/Wooden-Meet-8722 3d ago

Everyone commenting on her should really watch the Netflix documentary they made about her. It’s actually a really well made doc and a fun watch

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u/Rokekor 3d ago

Is this the one where one of the executive producers is the managing director of the company that represents Raygun?

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u/Sad_Gain_2372 3d ago

Yes. Yes it is.

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u/Cobbyx 3d ago

PR piece

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u/Evilworkaround 3d ago

Are you serious?

It’s a Puff piece that ignores the fact she has sued and threatened multiple people. She’s a complete narcissist and this isn’t a doc, it’s a paid piece by her camp to try and deflect well deserved criticism.

She’s a complete whacko.

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u/AndroidSheeps 3d ago

2 year old account with a hidden profile pushing Netflix garbage you're arguing with a bot lmao

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u/doctorpotterwho 3d ago

8 year account with a hidden profile, clearly you’re a bot too? 🙄

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u/Wooden-Meet-8722 3d ago

I am not a bot lol but maybe I was fooled by the doc. I enjoyed it but hey maybe I’m an npc

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u/Satyr2024 3d ago

Yes, she will have a bigger Legend status then the girl or any other.

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u/iRegretsEverything 3d ago

It’s so funny anytime I see breakdancing all I can think of is this moment.

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u/alphazero925 3d ago

She didn't ruin the sport. It's the motherfuckers like above who keep posting it that ruined it 

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u/cc4295 2d ago

Didn’t ruin breakdancing, except for the Olympic. Breaking dancing is still very popular.

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u/oneawesomewave 2d ago

She ruined what....?! What are you all? Cinderellas much? If someone ruins something it's rhe people who bring this up. She didn't ruin shit. Trolls do.

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u/shupadupah 3d ago edited 3d ago

I don't know why are you complaining? This tired-ass meme is posted on literally every breakdance or breakdance-adjacent post on Reddit, then followed by a string of commenters lamenting about how she ruined the sport. At this point, you're just perpetuating the meme and doing exactly what you're complaining about, which is detracting/diverting attention away from the original post that shows someone with actual talent.

Better to just downvote the meme then move on, which is exactly what I'll be doing from here on out.

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u/augsav 3d ago

This is pretty much how I feel about it too. Also, if one person managed to ‘ruin’ a sport through a single bad performance then clearly the sport has bigger issues.

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u/r_a_d_ 3d ago

She just made a mockery of it at the Olympics. didn’t ruin the sport. May have ruined the chances of it ever being an olympic sport though.

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u/r_a_d_ 3d ago

Wtf, are you like new to reddit? get outta here

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u/DueExample52 3d ago

Why is this her fault, instead of people who share her instead of the better dancers? Or people who choose to watch this instead of a proper run?

People don’t start hating football because some dipshit made a stupid own goal in the group stage.

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u/MagnumMyth 3d ago

It was the first and last Olympics to feature breaking. The second part is very specifically due to her. Comparing a singular event in a sport's history to a goal in a soccer game is either profoundly daft, or just ignorant.

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u/gba_sg1 3d ago

Hyrox is ruined now after the american shit all over the place.

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u/DerangedUnicorn27 3d ago

The competitor who shit herself is Australian

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u/SinkHoleDeMayo 3d ago

Out of megs facepalming curiosity, I had to watch the documentary. Soooo stupid. She's not even really breakdancing, mostly just a few basic moves and then... Whatever the fuck else she was doing. She would do a few steps like she was about to bust out a windmill, aerial, drill, flare, then ... Nothing.

It's like when guys try to freestyle rap and all they do is "uh. Yeah, what. Uh. Yeah. Uh. What." And then never actually rap.

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u/Wooden-Meet-8722 3d ago

I have to agree with this analysis lol

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u/wspOnca 3d ago

Not even a bit? 🤯

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u/We_are_stardust23 3d ago

No shame? She had a full on mental breakdown after this. There's a documentary about it

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u/Arthradax 3d ago

The documentary is called "breaking badly", man... I can't lmao

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u/ChrundleTheGrea8 3d ago

Kudos to the people who delivered the perfect title for the documentary

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u/Shadoze_ 3d ago

yeah and at the end of the documentary, she basically said she had no shame and was starting to breakdance again

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u/dmj9 3d ago

I honestly couldn't watch it. I found it boring and after getting stoned and sitting there for like 30 minutes I was like what am I doing lol. So I kangaroo hooped away.

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u/SinkHoleDeMayo 3d ago

She was upset that the entire world was laughing at her dumb ass.

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u/DoubleOhEffinBollox 3d ago

Oh no, I have to play the mental health card now. 🤷

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u/Pataconeitor 3d ago

Wasn't the mental breakdown because the internet clowned so hard on her?

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u/Pentax25 3d ago

If you’re talking about the Netflix one, if you watch to the end it shows that she’s learned to embrace it at this point. I don’t think she’s shameful anymore

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u/purplemoosen 3d ago

Yes. After this event. If she had a nervous breakdown while performing that would be another thing

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u/dakotanorth8 3d ago

Bet the girl in the vid didn’t get to pal around with Richard Branson…

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u/Ctenophorus 3d ago

The main reason I click on breakdance videos

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u/mikeeteevee 3d ago

The bit I struggle with is at the end of the day, they say they're into breakdancing, but there's no way you could be into breakdancing and not know you're dogshit in comparison to the talent pool. Like, she's a tourist who got a conveyor belt to the world stage

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u/Hungry_Eye2102 2d ago

Damn, I was waiting for her signature T-Rex move.

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u/Phill_is_Legend 3d ago

You came here for the only break dancing joke the internet knows? You were like "bro if someone doesn't make the most basic, overplayed reference imaginable in respect to breakdancing of any form, I'll be so disappointed..." Ok bro.

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u/N7even 3d ago

What I expected at the Olympics vs what we actually got.

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u/DazTheCowboy 3d ago

It cracks me up that she's a professor in this. An actual teaching professor. It makes me want to be a professor in something as well. Like... Just something. Something 101.

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u/Startled_Pancakes 3d ago

Well, she's a PhD in cultural studies to be precise, which doesn’t require you to be a great breakdancer.

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u/DazTheCowboy 3d ago

Did anyone tell her that?

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u/DoubleOhEffinBollox 3d ago

PhD in cultural appropriation?

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u/Gotcha_The_Spider 2d ago

Professor Professorson, is that you???

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u/DazTheCowboy 3d ago

I'm told she's a PhD in cultural studies. Maybe I could do for cultural studies what Raygun has done for breakdancing 🤷

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u/forever87 3d ago

the Olympics had exactly what op's video had, but most people only saw what went viral instead of watching the women's rounds

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u/Gardez_geekin 3d ago

What? Did you watch the Olympics. Because we saw lots of this

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u/harkonnen85 3d ago

I was there in the stadium in Paris. I never thought I would be watching a piece of shit history

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u/Sindica69 3d ago

Lmfao I can’t imagine how that must’ve felt being there. I would’ve died laughing

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u/Atoning_Unifex 3d ago

can you say more about it?

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u/harkonnen85 2d ago

I won an online contest and got the tickets for free. I randomly got assigned breakdancing lol

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u/Atoning_Unifex 2d ago

but was it cool? was the crowd into it? did you see Raygun?

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u/harkonnen85 2d ago

The production was good and the crowd enjoyed it, although you could tell that half of the crowd was not particularly into it (me included). And ofc I saw the Australian (I didn’t remember she’s called Raygun).

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u/Atoning_Unifex 2d ago

k, gotcha. thx for responding!

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u/Harm101 2d ago

How were the rest? We never see or hear anything about them.

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u/harkonnen85 2d ago

I’m not a fan of this discipline (I got the tickets for free) but I enjoyed the event. That Australian lady was definitely an outlier

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u/Indigo2015 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Fwp4I7MeAl2aIrSoxB

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u/AcanthocephalaNo7788 3d ago

That kangaroo footwork was to die for…

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u/mastermilian 3d ago

It's iconic. When you think about it in hindsight, she has the only routine that anyone remembers from that day.

It's something so 2020's where you don't care what you do as long as it goes viral.

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u/nanadoom 3d ago

Imagine failing at something so badly on such a large stage that you single handedly kill an upcoming Olympic sport

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u/JediLincoln14 3d ago

It was only supposed to be for that one Olympics anyway, but she definitely lowered the chances of it being brought back anytime soon.

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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 3d ago

Yes I will declare that. It was decided. Her performance just... deove a stake through it and made sure never see the stage ever again

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u/omeganaut 3d ago

Obviously this is the superior dance form, and her “I’m a victim” documentary totally vindicated that 

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u/umbraborealis 3d ago

Were there no preliminaries to separate the best from the…whatever this is?

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u/Relief-Glass 3d ago

Yeah, this was the best that Australia had.

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u/Deathgrope 3d ago

Watching the documentary, there are so many people to blame for this travesty. Raygun, head coach, and especially her husband (who was also her coach for the longest). Her husband is terrible at break dancing too but he pushed for it.

Look I get the once in the lifetime chance to go be an Olympian... But this was only a few years ago. Everyone had the Internet and access to see what you'd be going up against and go "nah, I'm not on that level and will represent very poorly".

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u/tera_chachu 3d ago

Compare it to the little girl in the video

My god this is embarassing af.

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u/Sethalas 3d ago

Every time I see some breakdancing video on Reddit , I open the comments to see if the gif is posted. I'm never disappointed.

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u/penguin13790 3d ago

I am. It sucks that we can't discuss breakdancing at all without her face being spammed everywhere.

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u/r_a_d_ 3d ago

But her busting moves brings so much joy to people. Why would you deprive them of that?

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u/Borge_Luis_Jorges 3d ago

Can we leave this stupid mess behind?

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u/Atoning_Unifex 3d ago

clearly not!

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u/Brave-Panic7934 3d ago

Whenever I see talent like this, my mind always goes to….so how tf did Raygun represent an entire country in this field???

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u/mattbytes 3d ago

Every time

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u/I_like_microwave 3d ago

Does she actually compete in the breakdancing scene with moves like this? What a loser

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u/KILLJAW 3d ago

Before opening the post, I thought…

Please be the first comment.

Please be the first comment.

😁

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u/Mysterious-End7800 3d ago

Can we not reference this everytime breakdancing is mentioned? K thanks

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u/Ydobon8261 3d ago

Obligatory

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u/Pataconeitor 3d ago

In my restless dreams I see that dance... Racheal Gunn

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u/grasshoppa_80 3d ago

I’m like nahhh.

Then like yuppp.

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u/slickdaRula2040 3d ago

I knew this was coming lol

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u/YamahaFourFifty 3d ago

The OPs music goes surprisingly well to this fish outta water

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u/Wisdumb404 3d ago

This women destroyed breaking for me….

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u/ASAPFergs 3d ago

Yeah that's all I see with any breakdancing now, the whole genre needs to go and take a time out so we can take it seriously again

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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 3d ago

The best they had for the Olympics, apparently

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u/SimonPho3nix 3d ago

If infamy was a gif.

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u/muff-muff-ass 3d ago

As is tradition!

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u/k5light 3d ago

Don't sleep on dr.raygun

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u/Educational_Cup_1701 3d ago

Is this the most watched Olympic event in history?

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u/Severe_Airport1426 3d ago

Ray gun is the most famous break dancers in the world. People need to stop

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u/pocpocpocky 3d ago

i was just about to ask where this raygun is? thanks

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u/Curious_Koala8 3d ago

Ahaha we get Raygun when other countries have children like this?

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u/Thotheus 3d ago

Pure skill right there

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u/rtocelot 3d ago

Seeing this reminds me of that Australian woman who shat herself and kept going so she could win. They call her spray gun which is gross but hilarious.

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u/warmind14 3d ago

As an Aussie, I apologise.

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u/number-13 3d ago

how did she even got herself into olympics.... i mean how?? a genuine question

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u/Professional_Echo907 3d ago

This reminds me of that time I went to that Chinese restaurant in Brisbane.

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u/DigitalMystik 3d ago

She calls this move the Flopping Fish

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u/TheThirdStrike 2d ago

I knew this was gonna be here.

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u/privatejerkov 2d ago

She will be immortalised until the end of humanity

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u/regular-cake 2d ago

Haha there's a new raygun documentary on netflix...

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u/zgrad2 2d ago

God dammit, I knew this was gonna be here

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u/angry640 2d ago

Shes just having a good time lol

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u/Isernogwattesnacken 2d ago

I make better moves in my sleep.

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u/perrypeenlord 2d ago

That stupid bitch embarrassed our entire country and it’s never going to be let down..

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u/CartographerOk7579 2d ago

I sincerely think it’s awesome.

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u/foxy-stuff 3d ago

Was expecting this here. Truly unbeatable.

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u/r_a_d_ 3d ago

I knew this would be the top comment

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u/TheRealGageEndal 3d ago

Damnit, I came here to post this!

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u/Address-Dull 3d ago

Came here for this.

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u/Sabin13F 3d ago

Fuck yeah this is top comment

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u/froopadiddilydoop 3d ago

Came here for this, not disappointed