Juste Debout 2010

2 weeks ago, on March 7th, The Juste Debout 2010  International dance battle took place in Paris.

Like last year, I took a train to Paris early morning and came back to Brussels on the next Day.
This year, I didn't met with many other people from Belgium (except for my house teacher and former hip hop teacher) ADN who was entering the competition (after qualifying in Italy).

On the other hand, I watched the whole show with AnD's official artist StyleRene and her friend.

I was also able to meet some of my Japanese teachers Shuho, Hyrossi, Shingo and a few other Japanese dancers.

The event went very well as far as organization was concerned! the battle ended around at 10:30pm (unlike last year were it ended at 1 pm).
Great work from the DJs with a better choice of music than last year.
This year I would say that the top categories were house dance and locking.
(especially as personally I though that they deserved victory. My teacher ADN and another Belgian Dancer named Karim Flex lost also in quarter final.
The Best 4's team were OG and Adnan (last year's winners) and 3 French teams all members of the same crew, Serial Stepperz (same crew as my teacher)
This year the big surprise was Chinese lockers (China was for the first year on the qualifiers tour) and the Chinese lockers ended up winning the locking category. A well deserved title if you ask me they were awesome. (and defeated Japan's famous Hilti & Bosch in the first round).

Hip hop was ok, and the winners had probably less technique but so much groove that they deserved their victory.
One thing to add is that Undercover, Ibrahim from Belgium and Laura from Paris, made it to the semi finals.

Popping level was OK. Awesome performance again from Salah and Pepito (yes, together).
nice performance of the chinese team too. As well as Japan's KITE & Madoka but the winners were French (Dey Dey & Nelson)

House dance's level was also really good. I'm a bit sad that Shuho and Hyrossi lost in quarter final


Results (copied from Juste Debout's official website):

Popping: Nelson et Dey Dey ( FRance)
HIP HOP: Niki and Marta ( Sweden)
House: Yugson and Malcolm ( FRance)
Locking : Bing Bing and YA ( CHINA)
Expérimental : Skorpion ( France)
Top ROCK : YNOT ( USA NY)

some videos available here: http://canalstreet.canalplus.fr/tendances/juste-debout-2010