Japanese b-boy Hiroto ‘Hiro10’ Ono, an Olympian who competed at the Paris Games and a bronze medalist at the 2025 World Breaking Championships, will be a special guest at the international hip-hop festival BREAKIDZ. One of Ukraine’s longest-running hip-hop events is relocating from Kharkiv, where it had been held regularly from 2000 until the full-scale invasion, to Lviv. The festival will take place on June 6 at Urban Camp Lviv and the Ivan Boberskyi Lviv State University of Physical Culture
Participants will compete in the following categories:
— 1 VS 1 KIDS BBOYS & BGIRLS (up to and including 11 years old);
— 1 VS 1 YOUTH BBOYS (ages 12–15 inclusive);
— 1 VS 1 PRO BBOYS (16+);
— 1 VS 1 BGIRLS (12+).
Winners in the Youth, Pro, and B-Girls categories will earn the opportunity to attend the Youth Future Camp in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, this July. They will also have the chance to represent Ukraine at the international breaking competitions Outbreak Europe in Slovakia and World Battle Porto in Portugal.
Registration for the battles is available via the link.
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BREAKIDZ will also host a special contest, SINE SKILLZ 2 vs 2 Mixed — a battle format featuring mixed pairs competing to sets played by two DJs. The battle’s prize pool is UAH 20,000.
The format is centered around a live DJ setup: one DJ will play the music while the other adds scratches on top, creating a unique sound right in the heat of battle. The key judging criteria for participants are musicality and sense of rhythm. The battle will feature 14 invited dancers, with an additional two selected during BREAKIDZ. The brackets will be drawn right before the battles begin.
Tournament crew:
DJs: Bullet (Kharkiv), Johnny Blaze (Ternopil), ART ONE (Kharkiv).
MCs: Ben (Kharkiv), Mechanic (Lviv), Tim Pache (Lutsk).
Judges: Flying Buddha, a Ukrainian b-boy and serviceman in the Armed Forces of Ukraine; Stefani, a member of Ukraine’s breaking team at the Paris Olympic Games; and Gimnast, coach of Ukraine’s Olympic breaking team.
