UK B-Boy Championships 2011 World Final

Every year Breakin’ Convention anticipates the second weekend of October when the UK B-Boy Championships comes to town. Brixton has become the second home to b-boying bar the Bronx when it comes to holding the biggest breaking competition on your own doorstep.

It took a year of planning and despite no naming rights sponsor, Hooch and company still managed to pack out the house with a slick marketing campaign and a pro-active approach to getting footage up as soon as possible.

How the B-Boy Championships poster was made

All of the breaking and popping world was in town competing for the title that has made champions out of such luminaries as Salah, Deydey, and Mouse. The line up for this year was as impressive as ever, with stars of IBE, Red Bull BC One, and past title holders all lined up to battle.

Saturdays filtration process at the knockout jam meant that only half the dancers that travelled to London ended up making the world finals stage on Sunday with one of the most impressive being Sunni (Breakin’ Nest) who was on fire, defeating the people’s champ, Hong 10 in the quarter finals with some massive power moves and meeting 2009 solo champion Morris in the finals where he eventually placed as runner up.

Sticking with our UK counterparts, Soul Mavericks looked hungry as ever for the title defeating the US’ Dynamic Rockers to face Jinjo in the semi finals before succumbing to the Korean flavour.

Jinjo went on to face last year’s champions, Vagabonds in the finals. While Korea is a melting pot of b-boy culture, France is evidently where it’s at (both Nelson, last year’s champion, and Bruce made the latter stages in popping). The crews equally pulled off impressive routines but it was Vagabond’s execution and use of commandos that would have tipped the scales for the judges, awarding them the title of champions for the second year in a row.

Somebody came to win, somebody gotta go home... here are the results for the finals of the UK B-Boy Championships 2011

UK B-Boy Championships 2011

The crews: Dynamic Rockers, Found Nation, Illusion of Exist, Jinjo Crew, La Smala Crew, Rugged Solutions, Soul Mavericks, Vagabonds Crew
The winners: Vagabonds (France)
The runners-up: Jinjo (Korea)

The solo b-boys
The winner: B-Boy Morris (US)
The runner up: B-Boy Sunni (UK)

Popping
The winner: Kite (Japan)
The runner up: Nelson (France)