Roars cascaded throughout the Salle Bellegrave's bleachers in the French city of Bordeaux earlier this month, filling the event space and reverberating into the virtual realm of shared (and reshared) stories on Instagram.
The Instagram videos are of a pony-tailed dancer clad in black, white and red torquing himself into increasingly tighter spins on his elbows and hands as his legs point skyward. It's a performance that's as breathless as it is captivating.
At the 22nd Pessac Battle Arena break-dancing tournament, 22-year-old Yoshiki Tomiyama, 18-year-old Sho Sato and 13-year-old Tsukki Iinuma — the dancer in the videos — secured second place for Japan behind Russia.