Let me explain this clearly. B-boys take heavy hard work preparing how to hit the beats and make it a great dance. They do on-the-spot choreography, well the term B-boy expands as Beat Boy who obviously feels the beats than just come there, do flips and falls and stuff. A B-boy is a dancer in the Hip Hop culture who dances like a dream. He has soul, he has style. He has every thing that a dancer must have. Just that he got more speed and hell lotta style and he can do stuff that many can't do. He doesn't deserve to be called a gymnast, a stuntman, or any shit else you call him as. Call him a B-boy cuz he got STYLE which the names you call him as, don't!
You call him a gymnast. Well, a gymnast just comes and does a series of backflips or fronts or holds a double-bar and does flares or hangs on a single bar and does those handstands and flips and twists(that are hard, and need heavy practice, I'm not here to shit mouth about the art gymnastics, gymnasts are great, yes they are). You can't see any B-boy doing that kinda shit. They dance, they have this style that no gymnast ever does.
You call him a stuntman. A stuntman is a person who does dangerous stunts using his vehicle or just himself who does all that for the movie purpose and he in no way is related to dancing. He is freakin dangerous and can be a great entertainer, but in no fuckin way he can be compared to a B-boy. A B-boy is a original Hip-Hop dancer. I stress on the word 'DANCER'
I refer Wiki for this.
Definition for 'stuntman':
A stunt performer or a stuntman or a daredevil is someone who performs dangerous stunts, often as a career.
These stunts are sometimes rigged so they look dangerous while still having safety mechanisms, but often they are as dangerous as they appear to be. There is an inherent risk in the performance of all stunt work in film, television and stage work. They perform for the sake of entertainment before audience or they are used in the movies or television shows. Examples of stuntmen:
Helen Gibson
Jackie Chan
Yuen Biao
Harry Houdini
Evel Knievel
Tony Jaa
Definition for Gymnastics:
Gymnastics is an activity and a sport involving performances of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, co-ordination, balance, and grace.
B-boying:
Breaking or b-boying, commonly known as breakdancing, is a style of dance that evolved as a part of the hip-hop culture among the Black and Latino American youths in the South Bronx during the 1970s. It is danced to both hip-hop and other genres of music that are often remixed to prolong the musical breaks.
There are four basic elements which form the foundation of breaking. The first is Toprock, a term referring to the upright dancing and shuffles. The second element is the Downrock which refers to the footwork dancing that are performed on the floor. The third element is the Freeze , the poses that breakers throw into their dance sets to add punctuation to certain beats and end their routines. The fourth element of b-boying is Powermoves. These are the most impressive acrobatic moves normally made up of circular motions where the dancer will spin on the floor or in the air.
Though widespread, the term breakdancing is looked down upon those immersed in the hip-hop culture. This is because the word breakdance is a term created by the media to describe what was called as breaking or b-boying in the street. The majority of the art form's pioneers and most notable practitioners refer to the dance as b-boying.
Stunting is ENTERTAINMENT with a vehicle or one's own self which include crazy jumps or flips that look dangerous.
Gymnastics is a SPORT.
B-boying is DANCE.
Well that's it. If you still can't understand what the difference is, have a little chat with me than just go shit your mouth by calling this art by names which we B-boys consider as a shame to the art. Know something properly before you can talk about that thing. It is a pity to India that not many B-boys and B-girls(if there are any) are appreciated for their dance.
To conclude, B-BOYS ARE DANCERS AND NOT FUCKIN GYMNASTS OR STUNTMEN!!!!
