B-Boy World Finals

As the official photographer I've been covering many aspects of the build up to the B-Boy world championships in the UK for the past few months, from the regional and national finals right up to the world finals itself, which took place last weekend at a packed-out Brixton Academy.
Watching B-Boy battles (essentially break dancing to hip hop beats) is spectacular and the highlight of the various competitions, with include everything from popping to one-on-one contests, is the crew battles. Featuring the best 8 teams from around the world, it's been described as a James Brown concert meets a boxing clash and the intensity when two crews line up to battle and out do each other is incredible.
The eventual winners were the USA (posed in second photo from top), who narrowly beat Korea in the semi final and defending champions Russia in the final.
Seeing the best break dancers in the world in this environment was one of the best spectator events I've ever come across.
There was even a world record which I was on hand to help photograph for the Guinness Book of Records. Roxy (bottom photo), from UK crew Soul Mavericks, set a new record for the amount of head spins in a minute: 71! It made me dizzy just trying to photograph it.

















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