
Celebrating the diversity of European culture Manchester’s largest 2-on-2 bboy jam took place two weeks ago as part of the city’s International Street Festival Euro Cultured. The main stage was located beneath the Oxford Road train station bridge and the two roads leading to it were pedestrianised for the occasion. The breaking competition was spread [...]
Jun 10, 2011 | Categories: B-boying, Reports | Tags: B-boying, B-Boys, b-girl, B-Girls, Bad Taste Cru, Battle, Battles, Bboy, Bboying, bboys, Breaking, Competitions, Eastpak, Ghet Low Pirates, La Familia | 1 Comment »

Presenting the 2011 International Bboy Championships TEAR IT UP, The Soul Powered team returned once again to Liverpool’s annual HUB Festival on the weekend of the 21st of May. Taking place over 2-days the championships is one of Britain’s largest breaking competitions. Having started planning 6 months earlier organiser and MC of Tear It Up, [...]
Jun 03, 2011 | Categories: B-boying, Reports | Tags: B-Boys, B-Girls, Bad Taste Cru, Battles, Bboying, bboys, Breaking, Competitions, Dance, Eastpak ATD, Flowrex Soul Powered, Tear It Up | 3 Comments »

To celebrate the launch of DEPHECT’s new Spring/Summer collection for 2011, Breaking News has three great prizes up for grabs: The winners are: Belt – Matthew Tang T Shirt – Tom Pasquill Pullover Windbreaker – Thomas Moore A big thank you to everyone who entered. If you didn’t win this time, have no fear, there [...]
Mar 01, 2011 | Categories: Competitions | Tags: Clothes, Competitions, Dephect | 3 Comments »

It’s early afternoon on a quiet Sunday. Outside rain falls steadily from the grey sky. Inside break beats pump out of speakers as DJ Skeme Richards spins from a stage at the back of a large hall. Dozens of cyphers bustle with b-boys and b-girls from all over the world hoping to be noticed as [...]
Dec 22, 2010 | Categories: B-boying, Reports | Tags: Battles, Competitions, La Familia | 4 Comments »

For the very first time, b-boys, trickers and XMAs (extreme martial artists) united to compete alongside one another at the UK’s newest dance and martial arts spectacle ‘Enter the Battle’. Held at the IndigO2 on Sunday the 2nd of December ‘Enter the Battle’ was a mixture of showcases and competitions. B-boys battled one-on-one, street dancers [...]
Dec 10, 2010 | Categories: B-boying, Reports | Tags: Battles, Competitions, London, Trickers, XMA | 1 Comment »

Breaking News has two tickets to give away for Enter the Battle at the indigO2 in London on the 28th of November 2010. To be in with a chance to win all you have to do is: 1) Follow Breaking News on twitter – (click here OR on the twitter symbol in top left hand [...]
Nov 16, 2010 | Categories: Competitions | Tags: Competitions | 12 Comments »

“Many of the original b-boys from the 80s got mixed up in things they shouldn’t have…because of that they are no longer with us” MC 10 Tonn told the crowd at October’s Young Guns. Organisers of the monthly under-18’s battle, 10 Tonn and T-Breaks, believe educating young minds is an essential part of Hip-Hop. Gathering [...]
Nov 01, 2010 | Categories: B-boying, Community Projects | Tags: Community, Competitions, Leeds, Speak to the Streets | 3 Comments »

Café 1001 in the heart of Brick Lane is an urban Mecca for trendy Londoners. Dressed in their skinny jeans, flannel shirts, leather boots and oversized brightly coloured fake glasses, the fashionistas flock to the café. In the back room of their favoured haunt…not last night but the night before…the London b-boys did battle. Identifiable [...]
Oct 08, 2010 | Categories: B-boying, Reports | Tags: Battles, Competitions, London | 3 Comments »