A new sport is coming to the Olympics. A Sacramento dancer aims to be at Paris games
People call it breakdancing, breaking or b-boying/b-girling.
It's a sport that we are going to be hearing more about because it's making its debut in the Olympics for the 2024 games in Paris.
A Sacramento athlete with Olympic dreams is making headlines around the world. He goes by Bboy Morris, and he's been breaking for more than 20 years.
If you come to Old Sacramento, he often rehearses at the Greathouse of Dance studio on Front Street. At 37 years old, he is breaking barriers and rising to the top.
Bboy Morris, whose name is Morris Isby, was recently crowned the winner of a national competition in Florida, and next month he is heading to Poland to compete in the Red Bull BC One World Championship.
He's been breaking since he was 15 when he was a student at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento. Now gets to travel the world competing. He is proud of his roots in the 916 and says he has no intention of moving.
"There's so much talent here," he said of Sacramento. "To be able to represent everyone in the 916 is an amazing feeling."
For him, street dancing is a movement. He is on a mission to show the world that breaking is not a thing of the past but a real sport allowing athletes to thrive and make money.
"The culture of breaking is a lifestyle. Trying to make sure we enjoy the music, but also right now we are trying to show that it has a high level of discipline," he said. "It is not just something that we do on the side of the street anymore. Like literally it's an art form/sport now. It takes years and appreciation, but anybody can get into it."
Isby is working hard to make it to the 2024 games in Paris. He said he is not doing it for fame and glory but to give him a platform to encourage young people to get into the sport.