"Capt. Henry and Capt. Han Geng stuck to their chosen style" - Maybe because they only prefer popping style despite…
Careful just cause you don't like an opinion doesn't mean yours is better. First, I do watch on Youtube because I am not really fond of pirating site chopped full of viruses. Second I watched the whole show with the subs Youku provided so unless you wanna say Youku can't sub their own show that's on you. Lastly, this show is suppose to be a chance for Chinese dancers to learn from foreign dancers as well that is not the case when the foreign dancers are sent home at a higher rate and penalized for following the rules of the battlse. Street dancing is not a "native" Chinese style, so yes I can criticize if it looks to me stronger dancers are being sent home or losing because they just aren't Chinese but doing actual Street Dancing correctly. As for George he wasn't strong on that foot he was hurt and yes he should have went home. If he has been on the show before than he can come back next season once he is healed but he was not better on that foot.
"Capt. Henry and Capt. Han Geng stuck to their chosen style" - Maybe because they only prefer popping style despite…
"Maybe because they only prefer popping style despite the song is hip hop, or for krump, they still dance in popping style."
-Everyone was asked to choose a style, Han and Henry choose and stuck to their styles. Lay and Yibo di not. Just because Street dance is not ballroom doesn't mean the "battles" don't have rules. Making the crowd yell is not a style and that is mainly what Yibo and Lay received points on. Neither as far as actual street dancing goes were strong presentations of the styles chosen.
"I'm sorry I watched Rize, and one of the krumpers there said, "The style is changing every day," and Lay should not watch it as you suggested because their balance and body isolation there is awful, maybe because it's an old film. Tight Eyez is doing well more now, and Tight Eyez X Trix is Capt. Lay's Krump teacher."
-The style of Krumping "is changing everyday" but that doesn't mean do ONE move over and over that looks like the style you choose and nothing else. Also what you just said about the Rize film is a bit high handed since MOST of the dancers in Rize pioneered the Krump style. I checked out this Tight Eyez X. Sorry he might be Lay's teacher but what Tight Eyez X did in his Krump battles is like starry nights upside a gloomy cloud covered day. Tight Eyez X is doing more in his Krumping than his student, there is skill and variety in his moves and he stayed on beat with only minimum playing to the crowd (his moves spoke for themselves) . If Lay had even done even half of what I saw in Tight Eyez Youtube videos then I would not have commented as I had--but he did not so I still feel the same as I did, his "Krumping" was subpar at best, and a freestyle show mainly.
"Playing to the crowd is one of the techniques in the show to rocked the stage. I don't know if you see it but he dances with the music well he even incorporated techniques he learns from foreign dancers. For me he deserved to win."
-We will continue to disagree. His dancing should be strong enough that crowd playing is unnecessary. His actual hip-hop dancing was very weak and like Lay he has a serious problem with utilizing variety within the style. It's easy to stay on beat if you aren't doing more than a move or two and no real steps. Again that is a freestyle not Hip-Hop. If just moving the crowd was the goal then styles should not have been picked in the beginning.
"I don't know if you understand Chinese or it's just you have awful subtitles but it is a CYPHER FREESTYLE BATTLE they were only asked what music style they prefer that's why Henry and Han answered popping, Lay krump and Yi Bo prefer hip-hop."
-Please do not be passively aggressively rude. I can read subtitles just fine thank you. Frankly they're translation of Hip-Hop culture could use work cause ACTUALLY a " CYPHER FREESTYLE BATTLE" is a rap/b-boy/beatbox battle thing, not really a street dance thing. However I digress. they still picked styles and if I "misheard" the Chinese than Henry and Han miss heard it too cause they stuck to the styles they chose and put as much variety in there without resorting to the cheaper trick of crowd play and randomized freestyling.
"That's why it is called SD "CHINA" because it is how the Street Dance of CHINA's street dance is done. Maybe in your country, it is a different one."
-Again you are going low with your comments on a show I am free to have an opinion about. It's Street Dance CHINA but: a) They are using foreign judges. b) The competitors who are foreign are being judged in a way that prioritizes Chinese dancers without really understanding the genre of dance they are building the show around. It would be like foreign dancers holding a Lion or Dragon Dance competition and then just throwing out the creature costume cause it's too heavy to carry or they don't know about it, then eliminating a majority of Chinese dancers who did use the costumes in a better way. And as for the last part I'm from the country who originated street dancing/hip-hop and all the rest and the city that gave it to the world--so yes if my eye is critical towards how that style is being presented on this show, it is because this is how culture erasure happens bit by bit. By carelessly ignoring the cultural roots of something and calling that erasure of any respect "creativity".
Even though you say you meant no offense, some of your comments seemed less than neutral to me but you are entitled to your opinion, but I do not agree and that is fine.
but wasn't it a freestyle battle and the mc only asked them to choose the music style?besides, personally I think…
No it wasn't a freestyle battle is exactly why I took issue. Street dance does actually have steps and signature moves. It may not be ballroom, but there are rules one must innovate around. Where I am from Yibo and Lay broke the rules of the battle by not staying within the style they choose or do any more complex moves signature to the genre. Now that might be because they are not pros or don't want to get hurt but Han and Henry choose their styles and stuck to the signature moves within the style.
I'm a bit disappointed, this is my first SDC, but I feel like the judging is very skewed towards who they think the Chinese fans will like better to win battles, no matter how poorly the dancing may have been executed. Like I get that this is a Chinese dance show--however I feel like the foreign dancers are all at disadvantages (despite some of their routines be better than the Chinese dancers). I had been noticing this through the whole show, but most especially with the captains battle from episode 4. In my opinion only Henry and Han actually stuck to their chosen style (and of the two only Henry will put some sauce on his execution). Lay's "Krumping" lacked all the signature moves (Just arm swinging is NOT Krumping, the whole time he was dancing I felt like he needed to go back and watch the 2005 movie Rize), and Yibo's "Hip-Hop" was mostly him just playing to the crowd not actual steps. For who won, did he win cause he was better? I do not think so. I realize they are improvising but both men should have just choose "freestyle" cause that was basically all they were doing. Then there were the people they "revived" (Notably sword dance, but broken feet George--just NO!). I mean I will keep watching cause I want to see how this plays out but, they really need to stop teaching Chinese fans of the show that this is the way these street culture dances are done. At the very least have more judges who pioneered the culture honestly vote, not just put through dancers cause they are Chinese and popular (Or don't call the show "Street Dance" when it is not following the culture of those forms and styles.).
-Everyone was asked to choose a style, Han and Henry choose and stuck to their styles. Lay and Yibo di not. Just because Street dance is not ballroom doesn't mean the "battles" don't have rules. Making the crowd yell is not a style and that is mainly what Yibo and Lay received points on. Neither as far as actual street dancing goes were strong presentations of the styles chosen.
"I'm sorry I watched Rize, and one of the krumpers there said, "The style is changing every day," and Lay should not watch it as you suggested because their balance and body isolation there is awful, maybe because it's an old film. Tight Eyez is doing well more now, and Tight Eyez X Trix is Capt. Lay's Krump teacher."
-The style of Krumping "is changing everyday" but that doesn't mean do ONE move over and over that looks like the style you choose and nothing else. Also what you just said about the Rize film is a bit high handed since MOST of the dancers in Rize pioneered the Krump style. I checked out this Tight Eyez X. Sorry he might be Lay's teacher but what Tight Eyez X did in his Krump battles is like starry nights upside a gloomy cloud covered day. Tight Eyez X is doing more in his Krumping than his student, there is skill and variety in his moves and he stayed on beat with only minimum playing to the crowd (his moves spoke for themselves) . If Lay had even done even half of what I saw in Tight Eyez Youtube videos then I would not have commented as I had--but he did not so I still feel the same as I did, his "Krumping" was subpar at best, and a freestyle show mainly.
"Playing to the crowd is one of the techniques in the show to rocked the stage. I don't know if you see it but he dances with the music well he even incorporated techniques he learns from foreign dancers. For me he deserved to win."
-We will continue to disagree. His dancing should be strong enough that crowd playing is unnecessary. His actual hip-hop dancing was very weak and like Lay he has a serious problem with utilizing variety within the style. It's easy to stay on beat if you aren't doing more than a move or two and no real steps. Again that is a freestyle not Hip-Hop. If just moving the crowd was the goal then styles should not have been picked in the beginning.
"I don't know if you understand Chinese or it's just you have awful subtitles but it is a CYPHER FREESTYLE BATTLE they were only asked what music style they prefer that's why Henry and Han answered popping, Lay krump and Yi Bo prefer hip-hop."
-Please do not be passively aggressively rude. I can read subtitles just fine thank you. Frankly they're translation of Hip-Hop culture could use work cause ACTUALLY a " CYPHER FREESTYLE BATTLE" is a rap/b-boy/beatbox battle thing, not really a street dance thing. However I digress. they still picked styles and if I "misheard" the Chinese than Henry and Han miss heard it too cause they stuck to the styles they chose and put as much variety in there without resorting to the cheaper trick of crowd play and randomized freestyling.
"That's why it is called SD "CHINA" because it is how the Street Dance of CHINA's street dance is done. Maybe in your country, it is a different one."
-Again you are going low with your comments on a show I am free to have an opinion about. It's Street Dance CHINA but: a) They are using foreign judges. b) The competitors who are foreign are being judged in a way that prioritizes Chinese dancers without really understanding the genre of dance they are building the show around. It would be like foreign dancers holding a Lion or Dragon Dance competition and then just throwing out the creature costume cause it's too heavy to carry or they don't know about it, then eliminating a majority of Chinese dancers who did use the costumes in a better way. And as for the last part I'm from the country who originated street dancing/hip-hop and all the rest and the city that gave it to the world--so yes if my eye is critical towards how that style is being presented on this show, it is because this is how culture erasure happens bit by bit. By carelessly ignoring the cultural roots of something and calling that erasure of any respect "creativity".
Even though you say you meant no offense, some of your comments seemed less than neutral to me but you are entitled to your opinion, but I do not agree and that is fine.