Logan Edra

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Logan "Logistx" Ellana Edra[6] (born on May 8, 2003 in Chula Vista, California) is a Filipina-American multi-talented, professional street dancer (breaking), industry dancer, choreographer (breaking, hip-hop, urban), dance teacher, actress, activist, entrepreneur, a former gymnast, an amateur musician, a philanthropist and was a member of the 2024 USA Summer Games Olympics Team (breaking).[7] She is living currently in Miami, Florida.

Logan Ellana Edra

Gender Female
Age 22
Birthdate May 8, 2003
Nationality Filipina-American
Hometown San Diego County, California: Chula Vista (born and raised)
Miami Metropolitan Area, Florida (current): Fort Lauderdale, (former),
Miami City (Since October 2023) [1][2]
Height 5'2"
Eye Color Black
Hair Color Black
School Grade homeschooled since 7th grade, high school diploma before 16
community college, but abouted it in first year
Professional Information
Profession Dancer
Dance Teacher
Choreographer
Actress
Entrepreneur
Activist
Olympic Dancer
Affiliations NBC World of Dance
The Lab
Underground Flow
Breakinmia
Red Bull BC One All Stars[3] (2019-present)
Amazzzonki Crew [4]
Dance Studios The Lab Creative Arts Studio (former)
Culture Shock Dance Studios (former)
BreakinMIA Studio (South Florida, current)
Titles see below
Friends and Family
Parents Herren Edra (father)
Siblings
Friends Yonell “Nelzwon” Da Mata (boyfriend)
Sho Tyme
Valerie “Val Pal” Acost
Sean Lew
Bailey Sok
Dominic "D-Trix" Sandoval
Sammy "Samo" Soto
Longkue "Villn" Lor
Longka "MPACT" Lor
Carmarry "Pep-C" Hall
Jilou Rasul [5]
The Lab & Crew
The Kinjaz
The BreakMIA Crew
Audrey Lane-Partlow
Ruthie Fantaye
Marlee Hightower
Bella Olsen
Abby Diaz
Kaidi Lindo
Nyssa Figueroa
Miyu Pranoto
Dylan Mayoral
Pets 2+ cats
Nicknames Logistx, Lo

Just by winning the $1,000,000 USD at NBC World of Dance 2018 and the Hip-Hop World Championships in Varsity Division 2017 (unconfirmed) with her crew The Lab, the Red Bull BC One World Championship in 2021 as youngest B-Girl ever at her age of 18, and been runner-up in New York 2022 by defending her title alone, Logistix can rightfully claim, at least for a certain amount of time, to be one of the best female hip-hop dancers in the world and the best B-Girl in North America (1 vs 1). But Logan is not the type put it out, who started dancing when she was seven and breaking when she was about eight years old.

Due her success as teenager in breaking, such as winning the prestigious Silverback Open Championships in 2018 at he age of 16, she got accoladed by being in 2019 the youngest member of the Red Bull BC One All Stars Team, before she had attended any BC One world top 2 final, gets permanently sponsored by Red Bull and is travelling with the All Stars to many events around the globe. Further, she was a member of the USA Paris 2024 Olympic Team, when breaking was first time featured as first dance sport ever, but she didn't make it into the quarterfinals. Due her influence in breaking she got huge attention by the international media during qualification and main event of the Olympic games.

Logan got first time public eye by name by two appearances on the The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She had her break through as actress by her main role "Riley" on the Netflix movie Full Out 2: You Got This! in 2020. Her acting debut was by playing "Marlo" in the short film Illipino shortly before. She got most public eye by winning the Red Bull BC One World Championship in 2021. After that, many national, international and foreign broadcast stations, such as CNN, NBC and PTV, magazines, such as Vogue, newspapers, such Manila Standard, and podcasts, such as Apple, reported about her success and she becomes to a kind of poster girl in breaking.[8][9][10][11]

With her crew The Lab they got already world fame by their performances on NBC's World of Dance after America's Got Talent primetime on season 1 in front of up to 8.5 million TV watchers and winning the million dollars on season 2 in front of up to 6.3 million. They had to face a hell of competition. Many of the best professional and competition dancers and groups around the world had fought on 26 episodes of both seasons for the grand prize money, which got the show called as "The Olympics of Dance". Logon was acing the routines of her crew by her break-dance tricks. After winning the show many kids around the globe, not just in the US, looked up to the famous The Lab dancers as role model by watching their performances on YouTube, who had openly to deal with some crap in their young lives, like the young fans themselves did.

Logan is also a member of the breaking crew Underground Flow, who she considered as her first family in breaking and the Amazzzonki Crew. Especially with Underground Flow she competed on many tournaments for years.

Lo works since 2014 as industry dancer. She performed on commercials, TV shows, film and videos, live on stage with celebrities and on conventions. She is also teaching. When not competing, touring to events, gets booked by other studios around the world, doing training, public relations etc, she teaches at the BreakMia Studio in Miami, Florida with her new breaking family. Depending on the type of class, she teaches choreography as well as breaking fundamentals, private and group breaking.

On March 2025, she was announced to compete on South Korean reality drama TV show World of Street Woman Fighter (Street Woman Fighter 3) with her Team USA "Motiv". The videos of the precessor show Street Woman Fighter 2 got after eight weeks since first airing more than over a half of billion views total just on YouTube.[12] The World of Street Woman Fighter show finished on July 22, 2025 and Lo finished third with her Team Motiv. The show aired in 23 countries. As last time for SWF2 there will be a concert tour organized with five of the crews. (Due lag of time main editor cannot report about the show of over 30 hours of videos plus the real stage tour yet.) - More Details on Choom YouTube Channel and Playlist Youtube WSWF CONCERT.

On November 8, 2025 Logistx competed on The Red Bull BC One World Final 2025 in Tokyo and got Top 4. At Top 16 she won against Sayora. At Top 8 she has been beaten Stefani. At semi final she lost against Nicka again. And Nicka lost against the new World Champion 17yo Japanese bgirl Riko ( 津波古梨心, Riko Tsuhako) from Okinawa. The BBoy World Championship won 20yo Japanese Issin against his friend Haruto. Final recap.

Biography

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Logan had experienced a lot of crap in her youth, she doesn't want to talk about in public. With the exception of her dad Herren Edra, she also clearly doesn't want the rest of family and their private lives published in media and appreciates their privacy; so we do as well. All what is revealed here went already public, mostly by herself.

Logan is a second generation Filipina-American. Her grandparents were born in the Philippines and her parents were born in the United States. Logan was born and raised in San Diego County, California.

Her parents enrolled her first in tennis and soccer. “Every sport they put me in I was really bad. I was uncoordinated. I was just this little wet noodle,” she said. So her parents put her in ballet, jazz and technique classes, but one day her family couldn't pay for it any more and her dad was like, let's try something else, and suggested hip-hop.[13] Logan says, that she was too shy to want to start dancing and was instead interested in drawing and singing - she plays keyboard/piano as well - but she grew up listening to hip-hop. She absolutely did not want to try hip-hop dancing. “I was this flimsy Asian girl that couldn’t really do anything physical,” she recalls thinking when her dad suggested it.[14]

One day, when Logan was 7, her dad said he was taking her to her after-school drawing class. But when he opened the classroom door, she saw that he’d brought her to a kids’ hip-hop dance lesson instead at an after-school church program in San Diego. Logan didn’t want to do the class. But her dad said, 'just try it – if you don’t like it you don’t have to come back.' So she stood in a corner and tried not to be seen. The teacher started teaching a simple two-step. “You know when you do something and you feel so embarrassed but you’re having a lot of fun?” Logan recalls. “That was it for me. It was like when you ride a roller coaster and it’s scary, but when it’s done you’re like, oh my god, I have to go again. Ever since then I loved to dance, even though parts of it are scary, or whatever, I really love it." Logan began attending hip-hop classes weekly at a local studio called Culture Shock in San Diego. Today she is trained in ballet, house, urban dance, funk, jazz, popping, contemporary, acro or gymnastics and breaking, of course. She doing locking wasn't found yet. - Gavin Haley - "Show Me", "Pain is Reality" - Arena China Kids 2019, Logistix | Arena LA 2018 . For outsiders: street dance.

On her way to and from the classes, she’d walk by another studio, where she’d see a kids’ breaking class. That class was taught by B-Girl Valerie “Val Pal” Acost (27). Wow, girls can do this? Logan thought. Not long after that, she went to her first breaking class. The roller-coaster feeling was even more intense there. Logan was drawn to the athleticism that breaking involved. She was down on the floor trying things, and some of the moves were risky; they could hurt if you messed up. It was so interesting and fun. From her very first dance class, Logan knew she had found something: “That was it for me.” Valpal became Logistx's breaking teacher at her age of 7 and main mentor as she progressed in the scene. Right away Logan stood out – a calm, collected 8-year-old who picked up material remarkably quickly and asked analytical questions to break down moves. Val started training Logan privately. Logan’s parents converted a bedroom into a little dance studio, hanging mirrors on its purple walls. Val would come over once or twice a week to coach Logan, and often she’d stay for dinner with the family afterward. Under Val’s tutelage, Logan blossomed. At her age of 8, San Diego Red Bull BC One Cypher was the first jam Logistx ever went to and even though there were no B-Girls competing, it became a dream of hers to compete at Red Bull BC One. But it was a long road from that first dance class to her first-place prize.

She went to her first competition within a year. “I was like, ‘I don’t really want to do it’ because I was scared, but people around me were very encouraging,” she says. And the contest was exhilarating. “Everyone is cheering for you — who’s not going to cheer on this little 8-year-old that’s breaking with a bunch of adults? It gave me a lot of confidence, and after that, I wouldn’t get as nervous.” Young B-Girls like her were still rare, so she usually went up against boys and men who were older and bigger than her. It was intimidating, and Logan would always get nervous before battles. “That honestly never went away,” she says. In the days leading up to a jam she would be filled with dread. Often she’d cry. Now she knows this was her anxiety. But at the time the only way she knew how to cope was by hiding it. When it came time to battle, the nerves got better. Logan won. A lot. Then she started to notice that people were more intimidated by her. If she showed up to a jam, guys would ask if she was battling, and when she said yes, they’d say like, “Oh, fuck.” Since Olympics, if she put herself in stealth mode by pull down her hat and goes into the crowd the greeting is more like, 'You are breaking? ... OMG, it's Logan Edra!'

Logistx doesn’t burn her opponents (means she doesn't nick, provoke, kidding or insult her opponents during battle); it’s not really her style. But she does have to switch modes to win. When got asedk what she is thinking during a battle, she giggles in her endearing, Alvin and the Chipmunks way. “There’s a lot of shit-talking,” she admits. “Like, ‘Oh I can smoke her right now,’ or ‘She ain’t got anything on me.’ It’s kind of fun, like you have a superhero character. I definitely see Logistx as this girl that’s unstoppable.” Her therapist has helped her realize, though, she doesn’t have to be Logistx all the time. These days she feels much more comfortable turning that on and off.

Logistx got her B-Girl name from her father when she was about 10 years old. Her father noticed that she always needed an organised plan, she was always methodical and needed logistical explanation for everything that she did and so he gave her the name Logistx. She started making schedules for herself when she was just 6 years old. Five to six days a week she maintains a disciplined workout schedule, as well as a vegan diet and motivational training.

When she was 10, she joined Val’s breaking crew, Underground Flow. She was by far the youngest member, but “I felt like I could talk to her like an adult,” Val says. At this time Logistx met Longkue "Villn" Lor , Longka "MPACT" Lor and the rest of the crew; and Logistx credits them for inspiring her. Apprenticeship and crews are both foundational elements of breaking culture. Ask a breaker about their background and they will tell you who they learned from. *“Underground Flow was really crucial in building my foundation as a b-girl,” Logan says. In addition to Underground Flow, she is now on two other dance crews, or groups of dancers that train, perform, and sometimes compete together: BreakinMIA, which heads up the only youth break-dance school in South Florida, and the Red Bull BC One All Stars. “I’m the youngest member of Underground Flow. I used to battle with them a lot more when I was coming up, but they were my first family in breaking.”

By the time she was 12 or 13, Logan was competing — and winning — in competitions across California and the West Coast, culminating in an invitation to the 2017 Silverback Open in Philadelphia and signing with her first manager when she was 15. “Silverback was like my first big invite, and then Silverback 2018, I ended up winning the whole thing for the b-girl bracket,” she says. It gave her a taste for competition. “After that, I was traveling every single month to a different city or country.”

Logan has considered herself since 2014 as professional.[15] She said, one cannot not make a living with pure competitive breaking yet, but is going in this direction. She worked three years in LA, been auditioning for jobs. Her main income is by financial opportunities, such as, teaching - They Reminisce Over You | Dj Quick Remix at Boogiezone Utopia, Torrance, CA, traveling - Breakin' Convention 2019 at Sadler's Wells in London , performing in different dance styles, battling of events and working as industry dancer, books commercials and TV shows, performing on music video "Fitz and The Tantrums - I Just Wanna Shine", and works with Red Bull, which has sponsored her since 2019 as part of the brand’s BC One All Stars crew. It might not be as consistent as a weekly paycheck, but she earns bonuses for winning battles, and her visibility as an athlete impacts how much financial support she receives. “Honestly, you have to win as a breaker,” she explains. “If you’re not ready, it gets really hard to make money.” She cautions against pursuing a career like hers just for the money, especially given the hard work, resilience, and motivation it requires. For outsiders: Breaking ground: the evolution of competitive breaking

Logan had also five years of experience with competitive gymnastics, which she said has helped her develop her breaking style and gain upper-body strength. In her opinion, the physicality and technicality of breaking moves can be just as difficult as gymnastics.[16]Logistx practiced gymnastics for around three years. Her father got her into it, as he thought it'd help her with her breaking, which it did. Helping her to do the dynamic power moves that she's known for, Logistx was also put in the higher group for the strength section of gymnastics practice because even as a beginner she was one of the strongest in the gym. Gymnastics became something that Logistx really enjoyed but, in the end, she had to pick between gymnastics and dance as both were taking up a lot of time. She picked dance because it was bringing her more opportunities.

Lo joined The Lab Creative Arts Studio in West Covina, CA about between 2015-2016. It was at the beginning a normal hip-hop dance studios with much classes with a waiting room founded by Valerie Ramirez and Carrie Calkins. They started competing later, and were winning a lot, and attempted, e.g. NBC's World of Dance Season 1 in 2017 and Season 2 in 2018 later. The success brought choreographer Sienna Lalau to world fame, now twice MTV Video Music Award winner, who got supported in season 2 by Emmy Award Winning, and tree times Streamys Award Winning choreographer Dominic "D-trix" Sandoval. After winning the million dollars, The Lab had huge commercial success either, from performing with JLo on her tour, to performing with Ciara on Jimmy Kimmel Live, to performing on NBA Halftime at Dallas Mavericks home arena, to in the middle of New York Times Square. Then the Coronavirus quarantine hit them. They didn't split the million dollars amount the crew, but used it as a community pool of the studio for giving back to the community or support some dancers, if they need money or doing events or projects by the studio.

She has advertising contracts with Red Bull, Nike and Gogo Squeez (electrolytes snack pouch).[17]

In 2018, she said in an interview in the Kinjaz DoJo she had to attend summer school for math to advance in 10th grade. She wanted to do senior years in high school. She also said she can do 540 push-ups in a row - strong girl; now woman. Around 2017-2018 Logan’s parents split when she was 11, which is tough for every kid. Her mom moved to Florida, but everyone agreed it was best for Logan to stay with her dad in California, for her career. She attended Wolf Canyon Elementary and Camarena Elementary in Chula Vista until sixth grade. She began homeschooling since seven grade, and when she was 14, her dad got a place in Hollywood L.A., because they were going back and forth to events so often. A typical day would begin with school, then homework, then one or two classes, either gymnastics or breaking or choreo. “She had so many things going on – my personal worry was when can she just be a kid?” Val recalls. “Her schedule was completely packed all the time with classes and lessons and training.” Val and her boyfriend, Villn, would try to remind their youngest crew member that it was OK to take a break sometimes. “She didn’t really understand,” Val says. She didn’t know the darkness that had begun to envelope Logan’s young life.

When it comes to the topic of abuse, Logan is very careful about what she reveals. She will say it began when she was 10 and ended when she was 17, that it was mostly psychological but sometimes physical, and that it occurred at the hands of more than one person, though she does not want to say whom. In a blog post from last December, 2020, she wrote, “I ... have distinct memories as a kid being yelled at while crying during training, being forced to practice every single day and drill moves over and over when I didn’t want to.” Yeap, like our pages revealed so often, one kid more, who felt like she met Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and wanted to quite pro and competition dancing at all, such as Sophia Lucia. Due to the abuse, at the age of 14, Logan became depressed. She lost interest in the things she used to love, including dance. Gradually, she began to lose interest in life.

At 15, Logan attempted suicide. When it didn’t work she was relieved. She told her dad. It was a wake-up call for them both. The next week was Silverback, which she’d been training hard for – too hard, she now realizes. She went, but she and her dad decided the only goal would be to have fun. When she got there, she was relaxed. Logistx switched on. She knew what to do. But if the victory at Silverback brought new opportunities, it also brought more attention and pressure. The mask of Logistx began to slip. “I’d travel and I would win and do good, but behind closed doors life was not something I looked forward to,” Logan says. “It got to the point where Logistx is doing good but Logan’s struggles became so overwhelming, Logan would start to show through Logistx.” Her performance suffered. In November 2019, Logistx went to the BC One Finals in Mumbai and got knocked out in the first round. By early 2020, Logan was ready to quit breaking. "I’m here at Red Bull, and at these events I’m Logistx,” she says. “I’m basically performing, I’m acting.” People asked how she was doing. Logistx was doing good. Then she would go home, where Logan felt empty and lonely. The highs and lows were extreme.

In 2019, Logistx performed on an exhibition battle against the Red Bull BC One All Stars, with her crew Underground Flow. When the battle ended, Ronnie Abaldonado, another Filipino-American who met Lo first time at her first jam at Red Bull BC One Cypher in San Diego[18], picked up the mic and told Logistx, in front of the whole audience, that the Red Bull BC One All Stars wanted her to join them as their newest and youngest crew member.[19] Since then she gets permanently sponsored by Red Bull and travelled with All Stars to many events around the globe, such as Bangkok, Thailand - B-Girl Logistx's BEST moments | 10 YEARS of Red Bull BC One All Stars. She was also nominated for an Arena Award in the category "Rising Star of the year" together with Emma Portner, Sean Lew and the winner Bailey Sok. She attended also the Bboy City World Final 2019 and won 1v1 Bgirlz in Taipei, Taiwan.

The pandemic 2019-2021 arrived almost like a blessing. Logan finally allowed herself to slow down. She had just moved to Florida, to live with her mother for the first time in six years. She left the abuse back in California by was getting kicked out at the age of 16.[20] In the absence of competitions and constant travel, she began healing. She started going to therapy.“It also happened to be a really good place for me to disconnect from certain things and kind of shift into a new chapter of my life,” she shared with Vogue, “to becoming a woman and learning about what I want, and not just what other people want from me.” She admits that there was a lot of toxicity she had to detach from back in California. “I’ve been through certain traumas and traumatic situations and I think one of the biggest ones was psychological trauma. I’ve had to work with people throughout my early life and be around people that were very controlling, and being so young and being Filipino, you’re like, ‘I don’t want to disappoint you.’” She says that part of herself always felt like it needed love. “As a young kid, my way of getting that love wasn’t really self-fulfilled, it was all through external validation.I think external validation is a normal part of life—not one that is the living fuel—but that was the only thing that kept me waking up and getting up to go about the day, and I got stuck in that.”

She meditated more. She built a new community around a local breaking school. She grew particularly close to one of the instructors there, a B-Boy called Nelz. They began dating. He loved and accepted her for who she was, and that helped her accept herself - Lo & Nelz. In this new environment, she felt like she had more control over her own life. She began to share her mental health struggles on social media, and she found strength in seeing that she was not alone. Through comments and DMs, she spoke to other people who had also experienced trauma, depression, anxiety. In being more honest and vulnerable, she felt more like her authentic self. Lo had always been a nickname for Logan, but in the past year and a half she’s leaned into it more. “Back then Logan was the one who went through all the trauma and abuse and wore the mask, and the mask was Logistx,” she says. Lo feels like a new version of herself. Logistx is her performance personality; Logan or Lo is who she is in her day-to-day life. Logan is the one who’s kind and considerate and makes sure others are comfortable and happy. When it’s time to battle, she’s Logistx – the B-Girl who’s here to win. Outside the jam she prefers Logan or Lo - Lo in her new biotope.

She said: "As a Filipina American, I experienced a lot of culture clashes growing up. I struggled a lot with identity and self-confidence and wasn’t able to talk openly about a lot of my emotions (mental health still growing to become a more prevalent conversation in Asian / POC households). I’ve had hard work, focus, and money responsibility instilled in me since a young age. - Such as Jade Chynoweth. - My parents split up when I was a little girl, so living without my mom for a while actually taught me a lot about strength but consequently resisting my own softness and sensitivity. My dad has always poured into my life and career with so much passion and taught me strength and resilience. Now that I’m living with my mom, I’ve been able to learn more about my feminine side and be okay with stillness in my life too. A lot of my family have suffered from multiple health issues and money issues now and in the past so they’ve made it crucial to teach me the lessons now so I don’t struggle later in my adult life (ex. Healthy lifestyle, money responsibility, working hard).

She said at a podcast on Apple when she was 19, after her grandparents immigrated into the US they had to work hard to survive, and when you are constantly on survival mode so long and then you having a family, it's not easy to watch out that your kids and yourself are physical and mental healthy, when you are poor. That was the struggle with her parents by her. She realized that it was out of her hands, like it was out of her parents hands, that her grandparents were poor. She is trying to heal traumas of generations before. It's a struggle. She thinks she had to grown up too fast and her childhood was neglected. So when she was on social-media she unconsciously compared herself with others, who lived another life and this wasn't healthy for her self-confidence and self-esteem.[21] -Asuka Langley Soryu on Tilt,Asuka's Psycho Analysis. -She looked too much how she was rated on social-media. She also thinks her self-esteem got too much influenced how she as artist-athlete doing in the rankings. She thought there is just the number one in competition, she wouldn't be the best anymore if not winning. Being a "Loser" then was not healthy for her mind either. - Cool Runnings - Being Enough - One day she brought up the idea to be seeking a therapist. She doesn't want to feel if she one day will have kids they have to deal with the same crap as well, because she hasn't progressed her experiences yet. She had to bring up the topic within her family a couple times, because it wasn't affordable at the time. She tried out later a couple therapists and the therapy started working after she was being brutally honest. She found a female doctor who was a former athlete and does know hip-hop culture very well. Logan considers her as a kind of sister now. They have cared about the balance of Lo's self-hate with fertile self-critics. She uses meditation now to get inner calm in her mind and observing herself from outsides.

Still, it was a blessing in disguise because it pushed her to accomplish what she did. - "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" (Friedrich Nietzsche) - It’s a very extreme duality and I’ve had to accept both sides of the same coin. The only way I was able to get through it was to accept that it happened, accept that there were good parts. And to forgive everyone in the process. Forgive myself, and forgive life, too.” Moving past it also involved finding her new “why” that was stronger than her fear of not being accepted. “I had to remind myself of how love and God exist in everything—which is a greater “why” than the need to be accepted by others, or external validation.”(see Baruch Spinoza)

In 2020, Logan had first time success as actress by gets featured on two films. First she played "Marlo", in the short film "Illipino" with an other young Philipo-American dancer Gabe De Guzman, where a troubled Filipino teen finds her strength through street dance.[22] Then she got straight the main role "Riley" in the Netflix movie "Full Out 2: You Got This!" (Trailer). In 2022, she appeared as main guest on the TV show The Real on season 8 episode 108.[23] As teenager she appeared also on two episode of Lip Sync Battle Shorties in 2018.[24] And she competed on the online show Dance-off Juniors in 2016.

When Logistx won the Red Bull BC One World Championship 2021 she was the youngest B-Girl ever won that title at the age of 18.[25][26] But that record held just for a year, then b-girl India took the title in 2022 at her age of 16[27], who started breaking at the age of 7 (triple beat. Lo sensed a disturbance in the force as well.), and Logistix was runner-up this time. Successful BC ONE world championship title defending is pretty rare in breaking. The B-girls Ami (2018,2023) and Kastet - Natasha Kiliachikhina (RUS) (2019, 2020) won it twice, and the b-boys Hong 10(2006, 2013, 2023) and Menno(2014, 2017, 2019) won three times until April 2024 since 2004 when Red Bull BC One started. So being runner-up is not actually considered so much worse in the scene. The youngest b-boy who won that title was Japanese Shigekix Nakarai in 2020, who joined the All Stars in the same year as Logan. He was 18 either.[28] And the Padawans grow fast these days; WDSF World Champion 2023 got B-Girl Nicka aka Dominika Banevič from Lithuania at her age of 16 and got qualified for the Paris Olympics as well, while Logistx got seventh this time. In 2023 Logistx is also featured in the Red Bull documentation series Breaking -Pushing Progression S1 E7. She won also Break X Grand Jam 1vs1 USA of the Break Free Worldwide Championship Breakin' Series 2021.

On March 3, 2023 she got live interviewed by the CNN Philippines and was first time in the Philippines. She speaks just a little Kapampangan she learned by her parents, but the problem is that there are some 130 to 195 languages spoken. Originally she planned to represent the Philippines for Olympics, but it changed to Team USA later. On September 2023, Logan got listed by Dance Bibles under the Best Street Dancers in the World - Top 3 Females. One of her career goals is also; one day she’d even love to be in a Broadway play. She was used singing in the car before starts breaking. Not a Tate McRae. However...

On October 2023, her days in Miami start around 9AM, after a full eight hours of sleep, which she says is essential for her recovery. She meditates before calling her mentor or “spirit guide,” to work on her energy. After breakfast, she heads out for her daytime training, mostly with weights, and fuels up with a good meal afterwards. “I used to be fully vegan for seven years, but I eat salmon now, and started doing more supplements.” Afternoons are spent answering emails, attending meetings and getting some breathing time, before heading to what she refers to as her “crew, team and family,” the BreakinMIA studio in Miami’s Hialeah neighborhood founded by professional athlete Sergio “Zeku” Garcia. Apart from training there, Edra is also an instructor. “I’ll just chill for like 30-40 minutes and then I’ll train from 8 to around 11PM and then I just wind down after that.”

On March 13, 2024 FOX 5 NY introduced her for the Olympics. On April 5-6, 2024, Logistix reps the jam with new partner Red Bull BC One World Champion 2022 17 years old "India" Dewi Sardjoe from the Netherlands, who is already qualified for the Olympics[29], in a 2 vs 2 on 2024 Red Bull BC One Lords of the Floor in Seattle, WA, USA and that shows what it actually takes to step up with 5 feet 2 inches as b-girl against world's top b-boys, who are normally a little bit taller and have a different momentum. Now she got some of San Diego Country in her corner and as her fan base. On May 19, Logistx finished OQS Shanghai as fourth with 38 points and she is on a good way to Paris Olympics 2024. Due her success she gained partner Gogo Squeez (electrolytes snack pouch).The partnership aims to celebrate the art of breaking and inspire more people to give the emerging sport a try. Olympic HP - Break to heal: How B-Girl Logistx found inner peace through dance, Reuters - Breakdancer Hopes Her Olympics Sport Will Energize Paris Games. On June 23, Logstx finished fifth in OQS Budapest, Hungary with 36 Points, ended fifth with 74 points in total standings and is qualified for Paris Olympic Summer Games 2024. Inquirer - Fil-Am breakdancer earns a spot in the Paris Olympics, USA Today - Meet the breakers that will make breaking's olympic debut for Team USA, China Daily - Breakers to get just one shot at gold, FOX News - Olympic breakdancer 'Logistx' discusses why USA 'needs to' win gold in Paris: 'We deserve this', NBC- Now Olympic Bound, American B-Girl Logan Edra Is Breaking the Mold for Team USA, Forbes - 6 B-Girls To Watch At The Paris 2024 Olympics, Team USA - Breaker Logan Edra On the Emotions of Making It, Forbes - Breakers to Watch Ahead of Paris 2024 Olympics: Logan Edra, CNN - This sport is making its Olympics debut in Paris. Just don’t call it breakdancing, The Fader - Logistx breaks through, USA Today - Breaker Logan Edra pursues an Olympic dream forged from struggle,NBC Olympics- Everything you need to know about breaking's Olympic debut, Cosmopolitan - 4 Things Know About Olympian Logan Edra, aka Logistx, Team USA’s Youngest Breaker. Even The Wallstreet Journal. That's a new type of crowd for breaking.

On August 9, 2024, at the Olympics in Paris Logistx got third in toughest Round Robin Group B and was eliminated as third behind first NICKA and second SYSSY. Her fellow country woman SUNNY in Group A didn't better. She got third either, behind first INDIA and second 671. But Logan, SUNNY and their fellow Olympic breakers did properly more by their performances for the dance sport, culture, community and art of hip-hop than by wining three gold medals. Watch this: NBC 10Bostan American b-girls compete as Olympic breaking makes its debut, iNews - Breaking may have lost the ‘battle’ but Olympic debut promises a brighter future, Team USA - U.S. B-girls Logistx and Sunny Conclude Olympic Run in Paris. Small comfort, VICTOR won Bronze for the USA one day later. After made history, all 33 breakers were celebrated across the globe and not just by their own country. After Olympics Logan considers go to college and studying sport psychology. After closing ceremony and some of her family attending she is properly going for vacation Le tour d`Europe; having fun.

On September 9, due nest instinct she holds a pop-up intro to breaking class at the Culture Shock Dance Studio in San Diego. And the cycle closed when she taught some babies how to fly now. On September 11, she was annouced that Logistx got a wildcard for BC One Red Bull World Final in Rio de Janeiro at December 7, 2024 - Final Lineup. On Sep 28-29, she matched up with another dance legend Sean Lew to compete at the Snipes - Beyond Doubt 2vs2 Allstyle Battle in Paris, France again. - Logistx & Sean Lew vs Deep & New G (pre selection), Full Stream 3h On December 6, the Last Chance Cypher was in in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for all contestants to qualify for the next day final - Lineup Cipher 2024, 3:01 h Stream. December 7th, the Red Bull BC One World Championship 2024 - 4:06 h stream World Final. Logistx got elimated in the quarter-final against India by 0:5 votes. India got later Red Bull BC One World Championship 2024 with 3:2 votes against Nicka in a epic power battle for her second belt. Absolute breaking sensation was B-Boy Samuka (BRA), who lost a leg due cancer and had to drop his career dreams as pro basketballer. He just got stopped by Menno himself in the semi-final by 2:3 votes. What was Beethoven in composing, Rick Allen of Def Leppard in drumming, is now Samuka in breaking. Menno won later his fourth belt against Icey Ives (USA) by 3:1 votes.[30]

On March 10, 2025 she was guest on Ronnie Abaldonado's podcast Distrct Arts (typo is on purpose) - How a B-Girl breaks through the Industry w Logistx I Distrct TALKS EP. 15. On March 26, 2025 Logan is announced to compete on World of Street Woman Fighter with her Team USA “MOTIV”. Her crew sisters are MARLEE (Hip-Hop) – Battle-tested performer from New York’s competitive scene, KAIDI (Hip-Hop) – Known for fluid transitions and creative concepts, ABBY (Hip-Hop) – Commercial dancer with experience backing major artists, NYSSA (Hip-Hop) – Choreographer with distinctive musicality, BELLA (Hip-Hop) – Technical specialist with classical training background and FANTAYE (Hip-Hop) – Known for afro-fusion and experimental approaches - Crew Intro Video. First episode is airing on May 27, 2025 online on the The CHOOM (더 춤) channel and on Korean Mnet network. On May 8, Lo danced with now 11-year-old freestyle dance prodigy from East Jakarta, Indonesia Miyu Pranoto, who started dancing just four years ago, at the Motiv studio. The Red Bull BC One Cypher & Camp USA 2025 is announced in Denver, Texas from May 16 to 18 at the Ballroom Mission. On May 8, Logistix performed with the Red Bull BC One All Stars on NFL DenverNuggets game as halftime show with her fellows El Niño, Phil Wizard, Victor, Shigekix, Ronnie, Sunni, Issin, Morris - LO's impressions. On May 19, Logistx won the Red Bull BC One Cypher USA 2025.

On November 8, 2025 Logistx competed at Red Bull BC One World Final 2025 in Tokyo. She was eleminated in semi final against Nicka again by 1:3 votes - T8: Logistx VS Stefani. But Nicka lost against Ricko at the final by 1:3 votes and Ricko won finally after not been allowed attending the Olympics Paris 2024 due contigent limits after twice being third in pre-qualification, and leading the WDSF world rank list for some time, her first deserved grand title as BC One World Champion 2025. The men final was a Japanese 20-old only between bboys Issin and Haruto. Issin won close by 3:2 votes.

Competition Rankings & Titles

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Dance Titles

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  • NBC World of Dance World Champions with The Lab 2018[31]
  • Hip-Hop World Champions Varsity Division with Team TLxWC (The Lab) 2017[32][33] (Note 1)
  • Hip-Hop USA Champions Varsity Division with Team TLxWC (The Lab) 2017 (Note 1)
  • Red Bull BC One World Champion Gdansk, Poland 2021 (3:0 Votes vs Vavi (RUS)) [34]
  • Winner Silverback Open Championships Philadelphia BGirls 1 vs. 1 2018
  • Winner Junior Breaking 7ToSmoke Radikal Forze Jam Singapore 2019
  • Winner Bboy City World Final 1v1 Bgirlz 2019 Taipei, Taiwan
  • Winner Break X Grand Jam 1vs1 USA - Break Free Worldwide Championship Breakin' Series 2021
  • Winner Red Bull BC One Cypher USA 2025

Note 1: We hope we don't confuse Logan with someone else, because The Lab deleted their old social-media posts of that time and we had to use videos of bad quality to verify that Logan was a member of the crew. Unfortunately The Lab is worst in documenting the crew lists of their champions. It's hard to say if she was a member of TLxWC HHI WC and NC 2017 crew or joined later. About a Gold Medal more or less we say in dubio pro reo at the moment.

Runner-Up Placements

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  • 2nd place Red Bull BC One World Championships 2022 New York, United States (2:3 Votes vs India (NLD))
  • 2nd place WDSF Breaking for Gold World Series Porto, Portugal 2023[35] (Silver, 0:3 votes vs Nicka)
  • 2nd place WDSF Breaking for Gold USA Nationals (1:3 votes against SUNNY)
  • 2nd place WDSF Breaking for Gold Challenge Series Tokyo, Japan 2022 (Silver)
  • 3rd place WDSF Ranking for Pan American Championship Santiago, Chile 2023[36] (Bronze)
  • 7th place World Championships Leuven, Belgium 2023
  • 3rd place World Urban Games Budapest, Hungary 2019 (Bronze) - Representing USA B-Girl
  • 3rd place Olymics Qualification Series Shanghai 2024 Adults Breaking (Bronze)
  • Top 4 Red Bull BC One World Final Tokyo, Japan 2025 by 1:3 votes against Nicka.

DanceSport World Ranking

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As of October 23, 2024 the World DanceSport Federation ranked Logan as

  • No. 6 in Professional Adults Breaking B-Girls with 2335 points - current ranking

Olympic Summer Games Paris 2024

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Main Event Friday, 26 July – Sunday, 11 August 2024

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Olympic Breaking Medalists Paris 2024
B-GIRLS 671 - Liu Qingyi (CHN) AMI - Ami Yuasa (JPN) NICKA - Dominika Banevič (LIT)
B-BOYS Victor - Victor Montalvo (USA) Phil Wizard - Phil Kim (CAN) Dany Dann - Danis Civil (FRA)
Olympic Breaking B-Girls Paris 2024 (17 Entries)
B-Girl Real Name Country Age Spot signed in
NICKA Dominika Banevič LIT 17 WDSF World Champion 2023  
INDIA India Dewi Sardjoe NLD 18 WDSF European Champion 2022  
SUNNY Grace Sun Choi USA 35 WDSF Pan American Champion 2023  
671 Liu Qingyi (刘清漪) CHN 18 WDSF Asian Champion 2022  
RAYGUN Dr. Rachael Gunn AUS 36 WDSF Oceania Champion 2023  
ELMAMOUNY Fatima Zahra El Mamouny MAR 25 WDSF African Champion 2023  
AMI Ami Yuasa (湯浅亜実) JPN 25 OQS Spot 1 2024  
AYUMI Ayumi Fukushima (福島あゆみ) JPN 41 OQS Spot 2 2024  
SYSSY Sya Dembele FRA 16 OQS Spot 3 2024  
LOGISTX Logan Ellana Edra USA 21 OQS Spot 4 2024  
YING ZI Zeng Yingying (曾莹莹) CHN 31 OQS Spot 5 2024  
KATE Kateryna Pavlenko UKR 29 OQS Spot 6 2024  
ANTI Antilai Sandrini ITA 27 OQS Spot 7 2024  
CARLOTA Carlota Dudek FRA 22 Host France 2024  
VANESSA Vanessa Marina Cartaxo Farinha POR 32 Universal Spot 1 Tripartite Comission 2024  
STEFANI Anna Ponomarenko UKR 30 Universal Spot 2 Tripartite Comission 2024  
TALASH Manizha Talash (منیژه تلاش) EOR 21 IOC Refugee Olympic Team 2024  
Olympic Breaking Qualificants B-Boys Paris 2024 (16 Entries)
B-Boy Real Name Country Age Spot signed in
VICTOR Victor Montalvo USA 30 WDSF World Champion 2023  
DANY DANN Danis Civil FRA 36 WDSF European Champion 2022  
PHIL WIZARD Philip Kim CAN 27 WDSF Pan American Champion 2023  
SHIGEKIX Shigeyuki Nakarai JPN 22 WDSF Asian Champion 2022  
J ATTACK Jeffrey Dan Arpie Dunne AUS 17 WDSF Oceania Champion 2023  
BILLY Bilal Mallakh MAR 20 WDSF African Champion 2023  
LEE Lee-Lou Demierre NLD 23 OQS Spot 1 2024  
HONGTEN Kim Hong-yui KOR 40 OQS Spot 2 2024  
HIRO10 Hiroto Ono JPN 19 OQS Spot 3 2024  
LITHE-ING Xiangyu Qi CHN 19 OQS Spot 4 2024  
JEFFRO Jeffrey Louis USA 29 OQS Spot 5 2024  
AMIR Amir Zakirov KAZ 19 OQS Spot 6 2024  
MENNO Menno van Gorp NLD 35 OQS Spot 7 2024  
LAGAET Gaëtan Rodrigue Alin FRA 36 Host France 2024  
QUAKE Chen Sun TPE 24 Universal Spot 1 Tripartite Comission 2024  
KUZYA Oleg Kuznietsov UKR 34 Universal Spot 2 Tripartite Comission 2024  

The assignation normally is managed by the National Olympic Organizations, exceptions for the Individual Neutral Athletes (AINs). They have to care about by their own.[37] Schedule & Results
Both events B-Girls and B-Boys were sold out in hours.

The B-Girl Competition August 9, 2024

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Pre-Qualification
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
INDIA NLD 9 9 9 3
TALASH EOR 0 0 0 0

The winner of the pre-qualification duel advances to round robin group A. So INDIA or TALASH had do three rounds more before round robin shortly afterwards. NOT a good concept and schedule planing. At the last round Talash carried a light blue cape with the print "FREE AFGAN WOMEN" and got later disqualified for it - seriously. However, the activism of the "Lion Girl" causes countless major newspapers across the globe, such as the FAZ in Germany, printing articles about the situation of Afgan women. So Talash might say you could disqualify me a thousend times and I would do it over and over again. Talash had hardly a chance against the pro dancer India, but concerning to live the ideals of the hip-hop culture she is really a big one. Like B-BOY LEE said: "It is not you have to do like this and that, because that is right." In breaking there is no right or wrong.

Round Robin - Group A
Rank B-Girl Country Won Votes
1 INDIA NLD 6 48
2 671 CHN 4 33
3 SUNNY USA 2 15
4 VANESSA POR 0 12

INDIA rapped the group despite she had three more round on her bones.

Round Robin - Group B
Rank B-Girl Country Won Votes
1 NICKA LIT 5 42
2 SYSSY FRA 4 33
3 LOGISTX USA 3 33
4 RAYGUN AUS 0 0

Logistx won against RAYGUN twice 9:0, lost against NICKA 4:5 and 1:8 and made a draw against SYSSY won 6:3 first round, but lost second with 4:5. One vote less to advance. As shown by votes and rankings, she had clearly the toughest group to advance. But acording Olympic spirit: Attendance is everything! AOL - USA's Sunny Choi, Logan Edra knocked out in round robin stage of Olympic breaking about Logistx analysis.

RAYGUN experienced an unpleasent hated finished with 0 Points Varity . Australian Breakdancer Raygun Says Olympics Hate Has Been ‘Devastating’: ‘I Ask the Press to Stop Harassing My Friends and Family’.Newsweek - Viral Australian Breaker Raygun Accused of Manipulating Olympics Qualifier. Dear morons, the strength for a continental representive depends highly on numbers of breakers on the continent and the chance for opportunities attend international tournaments and financial support! Dr. Gunn might be really the best Oceanina could offer and it isn't a shame no judge voted for her. About a month later Raygun was No. 1 in the WDSF world rang list.

Round Robin - Group C
Rank B-Girl Country Won Votes
1 AMI JPN 6 52
2 YING ZI CHN 4 35
3 ANTI ITA 2 10
4 ELMAMOUNY MAR 0 2

AMI ruled as expected.

Round Robin - Group D
Rank B-Girl Country Won Votes
1 KATE UKR 4 35
2 AYUMI JPN 4 31
3 STEFANI UKR 4 30
4 CARLOTA FRA 0 12

STEFANI missed the qualification just by one vote. It hurts. Nice stand-up by the Ukrains.

Quarterfinals 1
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
SYSSY FRA 1 0 1 0
AMI JPN 8 9 8 3
Quarterfinals 2
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
AYUMI JPN 5 3 2 1
INDIA NLD 4 6 7 2
Quarterfinals 3
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
671 CHN 6 5 9 3
KATE UKR 3 4 0 0
Quarterfinals 4
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
YING ZI CHN 0 1 0 0
NICKA LIT 9 8 9 3

The winners of most rounds advanced to the semifinals.

Semifinal 1
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
AMI JPN 3 6 8 2
INDIA NLD 6 3 1 1
Semifinal 2
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
671 CHN 2 5 2 1
NICKA LIT 7 4 7 2

The winners of most rounds advanced to the finals. The remained breakers battling for third place.

Bronze Medal
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
INDIA NLD 3 0 5 1
671 CHN 6 9 4 2
Gold Medal
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
AMI JPN 6 5 5 3
NICKA LIT 3 4 4 0

Team USA Breakdancers Sunny Choi & Victor Montalvo on the Kelly Clarkson Show
Opening and Closing Ceremony Team Uniforms for USA
Uncle Sam got her
Logan in Blazer(one of kind look)
NBC Olympic Village in Paris

The Unique Seine River Opening Ceremony 7.30 p.m. CET (10.30 a.m. in Los Angeles)

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As anticipation builds for the world's most eagerly awaited sporting event, Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet has announced the start time for the historic Opening Ceremony on the Seine.

PARIS 2024 REVEALS THE START TIME FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES OPENING CEREMONY ON THE SEINE
PARIS 2024 INNOVATION: THE UNIQUE SEINE RIVER OPENING CEREMONY UNVEILED Eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt was on the boat of the French delegation on 25 July 2023, sailing on the Seine for the presentation of the Olympic and Paralympic torch for Paris 2024. He was impressed by the experience and talked about the thousands of spectators who would be there a year after.

“I think it’s gonna be one of the best, if not the best Opening Ceremony. Imagine everybody standing outside, across the bridges cheering people up. It was never done before…”

The parade of athletes, which traditionally takes place within a stadium, will be held on the Seine, with boats for each national delegation equipped with cameras to allow viewers watching on TV and online to get a close-up view of all the action.

Winding their way from east to west, the 10,500 athletes will cross the centre of Paris - the main home of the Games, where they will showcase their sporting prowess over the following 16 days. Throughout the Opening Ceremony, athletes will appear on stage alongside performers in line with Paris 2024's goal of hosting a Games that is created for and by the athletes.

The parade will end its 6 km route in front of the Trocadéro, where the final elements of the ceremony and the celebratory shows will take place.

So we hope Logan will not get seasick and do throw-up in front of one or two billion TV watchers after boarding. Indeed over a billion TV watcher were confirmed. [38] ABC News stated 1,5 Billion TV watchers on the Opening Show.[39] And no show-off dancing during the parade, because if she'll fall into the river the water quality is not healthy. Lo didn't listen and danced on the boat during parade, got a cold by the rain fall and had to get isolated from the rest of her team for a couple days. As we told her, the water isn't healthy :-)!

Hip-hop entrance?! - Pfft! Gojira - Ah! Ça ira - Welcome to Europe! Olympic Schedule & Results

How breaking is judged and scored in Olympics

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An odd-numbered panel of judges score each round and each battle, and judge breakers’ performance based on five criteria:

  • Technique: Certain moves have certain criteria, such as keeping feet flexed versus toes pointed on many moves, Edra says. But technique also includes the judges’ view of how athletic the breakers are, and how well they control their bodies.
  • Vocabulary: Breakers must perform a variety of moves in multiple positions—both in down rock and top rock—to score well here.
  • Execution: While this may sound similar to technique, the World DanceSport Federation rule book says that on execution, breakers are judged on how cleanly their moves are performed—that is, they don’t mess up—and how distinct one more is from the next. The moves should flow together, but not blend together.
  • Musicality: Here, breakers are judged on their ability to not just perform incredible moves, but to dance—staying on beat, and timing their moves to the music.
  • Originality: Louis believes this is the most important criteria. “Having that personal style is what sets people apart,” he says. “I could learn every move out there, but it’s about what can I bring to the table? What can I add to breaking?”

Instead of assigning a number to each of these criteria, judges use a digital slider, sliding towards the breaker who is winning the head to head matchup in that category. So if Breaker A is performing with better technique than Breaker B, judges will slide the slider towards their side—either a little bit, or all the way. Each of the five categories accounts for 20 percent of the final score. Based on the balance of the sliders in these five criteria, one breaker is declared the winner of each round.

The Stadium Closing Ceremony August 11

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NBC All About The Closing Ceremony

The Tonight Show's very own Jimmy Fallon is expected to fly across the Atlantic to join in on all the fun this summer. And while this is the talk show host's very first time taking part in an Olympics broadcast, he'll be joined by seasoned sports reporter Mike Tirico, who has emceed four Olympics already since taking over for departed longtime NBC Sports reporter Bob Costas.

The Olympic Future of Breaking

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Unfortunately, it’s already been announced that there will be no breaking competition at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. But a successful run in Paris could pave the way for the sport’s return at the Brisbane Olympics in 2032. Baseball was left out of the Paris Games, but it will be back in the 2028 Olympics.

Qualification

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B-Boys and B-Girls Take The Spotlight | Breaking Life, Road to Paris 2024

Logistx qualified for the Olympic Qualifier Series directly from the Pan American Continental Championship by being third. The OQS events where 40 qualified B-Boys and 40 qualified B-Girls will battle for the last 10 spots in each category for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games from July 24 to August 11, 2024. 16 b-girls and 16 b-boys will attend the Olympics. For males and females each, directly qualified are the winners of the World Championship in Belgium 2023 and every five continental championships 2023. The OQS places 7 attendees each, the host France gets one spot each and the last two spots each are Universality places which could requested by the NOCs until January 15, 2024 and will be assigned by the Tripartite Comission later after all qualification rounds ended.[40]
May 16-19, 2024 OQS Shanghai, China
June 20-23, 2024 OQS Budapest, Hungary
Tournament Results
Breaking Olympic Qualification System
NBC Interview New York
For both OQS there will up to 50 Points each, the best 10 for the spots each are qualified, if they are sign for the Olympics until deadline.
Female Breakers confirmed to compete in the 2024 Olympic Qualifier Series

The Top 7 are qualified for sure, if they don't break contigent limits. E.g., just two Japanese can go to the Olympics, even when AYUMI, AMI and RICKO repped the Shanghai competition. Or just one qualificant from the USA, CHN and AUS more are allowed, because the B-Girls SUNNY, 671 and RAYGUN take already a spot for their countries.

Logistx was after the OQS Shanghai 2024 fourth in global standings with 38 points
Olympic Qualifier Series 2024 | Shanghai - Standings - Breaking B-Girls
and she got fifth after the OQS Budapest 2024 with 36 points, leading to 74 points total and final fifth place, because although SYSSY had 74 points too, due regulation the Budapest results are preferred on a draw, made SYSSY fourth, she didn't need the host spot and SENORITA CARLOTA as next french in line got qualified. The Universal Spots are deployed according rankings, because every NOC claimed one, of course. Later it got public, B-Girl Manizha Talash got invited to join the 16 female breakers as first Afghan B-Girl who had to flee from the Taiban to Spain. So the qualification round will be different as planed by Round Robins.

OQS Shanghai May 16-19, 2024

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Full schedule and how to watch live
Schedule & Results
Replays
The breaker gets points how far he advances.
Replay Olympic Qualifier Series 2024 | Qualification Session 1 | Shanghai

Pre-Selection
Rank B-Girl Country Votes
1 AMI JPN 611.7
2 AYUMI JPN 594.9
3 RIKO JPN 593.7
4 SYSSY FRA 589.2
5 SENORITA CARLOTA FRA 588.4
6 YINGZI CHN 584.1
7 LOGISTX USA 556.4'
8 SPIDERGIRL ITA 554.3
Didn't qualify:
33 COURTNAE PAUL RSA 446.4
34 CSENGE HUN 439.9
35 HOLY MOLLY AUS 420.2
36 HANNAH AUS 402.1
37 MIDIAN LEAH RSA 388.8
38 G-CLEF AUS 337.5
39 ALMA MAR 326.6
40 JEANNY TOG 311.2

The pre-qualification battles are set up by rank in pre-selection. Logistix battled Camine (BEL, #23) and won first round 8:1 votes and the second round 5:4 very close. Actually it was goofy careless at the end of second round.

Pre-Qualifiers
Rank B-Girl Country Opponent Country Won Votes
1 AMI JPN FURIA ESP 2 18
2 AYUMI JPN KILLA KIM UKR 2 18
3 RIKO JPN STARRY KOR 2 18
4 SENORITA CARLOTA FRA RAW LAW ESP 2 18
5 YINGZI CHN LA VIX USA 2 18
6 STEFANI UKR SARAH BEE FRA 2 17
7 ANTI ITA NADIA ISR 2 16
8 VANESSA POR PAULINE GER 2 15
9 LUMA COL SWAMI MEX 2 15
10 ALESSANDRINA ITA TIFF CAN 2 14
11 SYSSY FRA MADMAX BEL 2 13
12 LOGISTX USA CAMINE BEL 2 13
13 KATE UKR ISIS ECU 2 13
14 EMMA CAN JILOU GER 2 13
15 ZIYAN CHN FRESH BELLA KOR 1 13
16 PAULINA POL SPIDERGIRL ITA 1 10

First 16 were qualifing for Round Robin.
Olympic Qualifier Series 2024 | Women's Round Robin | Shanghai Replay

Round Robin - Group A
Rank B-Girl Country Won Votes
1 AMI JPN 6 50
2 VANESSA POR 4 32
3 LUMA COL 2 19
4 PAULINA POL 0 7
Round Robin - Group B
Rank B-Girl Country Won Votes
1 AYUMI JPN 6 51
2 ANTI ITA 4 33
3 ZIYAN CHN 2 12
4 ALESSANDRINA ITA 0 12
Round Robin - Group C
Rank B-Girl Country Won Votes
1 RIKO JPN 6 47
2 SYSSY FRA 3 33
3 STEFANI UKR 3 27
4 EMMA CAN 0 1
Round Robin - Group D
Rank B-Girl Country Won Votes
1 LOGISTX USA 6 47
2 YINGZI CHN 4 29
3 KATE UKR 2 24
4 SENORITA CARLOTA FRA 0 8

Logistx won against KATE 7:2 and 8:1, against SENORITA CARLOTA twice 8:1 and against YINGZI 9:0 and 7:2.

The top 2 of every group are qualifying for the quarterfinals.
Replays Olympic Qualifier Series 2024 | OuarterFinals to Finals | Shanghai

Quarterfinals 1
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
RIKO JPN 7 6 9 3
ANTI ITA 2 3 0 0
Quarterfinals 2
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
AMI JPN 3 9 8 2
YINGZI CHN 6 0 1 1
Quarterfinals 3
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
LOGISTX USA 5 7 7 3
VANESSA POR 4 2 2 0
Quarterfinals 4
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
AYUMI JPN 2 9 5 2
SYSSY FRA 7 0 4 1

The winners of most rounds advanced to the semifinals.

Semifinal 1
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
AMI JPN 7 8 7 3
RIKO JPN 2 1 2 0
Semifinal 2
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
AYUMI JPN 6 8 4 2
LOGISTX USA 3 1 5 1

Re-match of Poland 2021.
The winners of most rounds advanced to the finals. The remained breakers battling for third place.

Third Place
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
RIKO JPN 9 8 4 2
LOGISTX USA 0 1 5 1
Final
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
AYUMI JPN 6 6 7 3
AMI JPN 3 3 2 0

AYUMI won the 50 points and the OQS Gold medal against AMI with 3 wins, who got 45 points and Silver. Rico got third with 41 points and Bronze, and Logistx was fourth place with 38 points. The breakers point which place they finished; 40th gets 1 point up to 1st gets 40 points plus 1 point to be fourth, 3 points to be third, 6 points to be second and 10 points for winning OQS Shanghai to 50 points total.

OQS Budapest June 20-23, 2024

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Preview, schedule, and how to watch the action live
Schedule & Results
Replays
The breaker gets points how far he advances.
Replay Olympic Qualifier Series 2024 | Qualification Session 1 | Budapest

Pre-Selection
Rank B-Girl Country Votes
1 LOGISTX USA 82.9
2 AMI JPN 82.6
3 AYUMI JPN 81.4
4 RIKO JPN 78.4
5 KATE UKR 78.0
6 SYSSY FRA 77.9
7 YING ZI CHN 77.1
8 ANTI ITA 74.7
Didn't qualify:
33 FAIRYTALE SWE 63.6
34 CSENGE HUN 61.7
35 ALMA MAR 60.8
36 FURIA ESP 59.9
37 HOLY MOLLY AUS 49.7
38 HANNAH AUS 47.2
39 MIDS RSA 46.4
40 G-CLEF AUS 44.6

The pre-qualification battles are set up by rank in pre-selection. Logistix battled COURTNAE PAUL (RSA, #32) and won both rounds 9:0 votes.

Breaking | Olympic Qualifier Series 2024 | Qualification Session 2 | Budapest

Pre-Qualifiers
Rank B-Girl Country Opponent Country Won Votes
1 LOGISTX USA COURTNAE PAUL RSA 2 18
2 RIKO JPN ISIS ECU 2 18
3 KATE UKR TIFF CAN 2 18
4 SYSSY FRA PAULINA POL 2 18
5 AMI JPN MINI JAPA BRA 2 17
6 AYUMI JPN SARAH BEE FRA 2 17
7 YING ZI CHN SENORITA CARLOTA FRA 2 17
8 LA VIX USA NADIA ISR 2 15
9 VANESSA POR ZIYAN CHN 2 12
10 JILOU GER ALESSANDRINA ITA 2 11
11 FRESH BELLA KOR MADMAX BEL 2 11
12 SPIDERGIRL ITA LUMA COL 2 10
13 CAMINE BEL EMMA CAN 2 10
14 STEFANI UKR PAULINE GER 1 13
15 STARRY KOR SWAMI MEX 1 13
16 ANTI ITA KILLA KIM UKR 1 12

First 16 are qualifed for Round Robin.
Just 10 B-Girls - LOGISTX, RIKO, KATE, SYSSY, AMI, AYUMI, YING ZI, VANESSA, STEFANI and ANTI - were qualfied in Shanghai for Round Robin as well and have best chances to qualify for the Olympics seven OQS Spots, if they finish the course not disqualified. Except the Ukrains STEFANI and KATE, who finished 9th and 10th, all advanced to the quarterfinals in Shanghai. And they can only be two Japanese qualifing due contigent limits. SISSY is the only french, and gets definitely more points total than SENORITA CARLOTA and is qualified by the host spot for Paris anyways, if she doesn't gain one of the seven spots. As to remind, there are two more spots assigned by the Tripartite Comission after OQS ended. So except one Japanese they are porperly already all in.
Breaking | Olympic Qualifier Series 2024 | Women's Round Robin | Budapest

Round Robin - Group A
Rank B-Girl Country Won Votes
1 LOGISTX USA 5 43
2 ANTI ITA 4 32
3 VANESSA POR 2 18
4 LA VIX USA 1 15

Logistx won against VA VIX 7:2 and 9:0, lost first round 1:8 against VANESSA won second 9:0 and won against ANTI 9:0 and 8:1.

Round Robin - Group B
Rank B-Girl Country Won Votes
1 RIKO JPN 6 50
2 YING ZI CHN 3 28
3 STARRY KOR 3 25
4 JILOU GER 0 5
Round Robin - Group C
Rank B-Girl Country Won Votes
1 AYUMI JPN 6 46
2 KATE UKR 3 25
3 STEFANI UKR 3 23
4 FRESH BELLA KOR 0 14
Round Robin - Group D
Rank B-Girl Country Won Votes
1 AMI JPN 6 49
2 SYSSY FRA 4 37
3 CAMINE BEL 2 14
4 SPIDERGIRL ITA 0 8

The top 2 of every group are qualifying for the quarterfinals.
Breaking | Olympic Qualifier Series 2024 | Finals | Budapest

Quarterfinals 1
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
AYUMI JPN 6 8 9 3
YING ZI CHN 3 1 0 0
Quarterfinals 2
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
SYSSY FRA 8 4 9 2
LOGISTX USA 1 5 0 1
Quarterfinals 3
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
AMI JPN 8 9 9 3
ANTI ITA 1 0 0 0
Quarterfinals 4
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
RIKO JPN 5 7 7 3
KATE UKR 4 2 2 0

The winners of most rounds advanced to the semifinals.

Semifinal 1
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
AYUMI JPN 3 8 7 2
SYSSY FRA 6 1 2 1
Semifinal 2
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
AMI JPN 9 7 9 3
RIKO JPM 0 2 0 0

The winners of most rounds advanced to the finals. The remained breakers battling for third place.

Third Place
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
RIKO JPN 7 2 6 2
SYSSY JPN 2 7 3 1
Final
B-Girl Country Votes R#1 Votes R#2 Votes R#3 Won
AMI JPN 9 4 6 2
AYUMI JPN 0 5 3 1

AMI won the 50 points and the OQS Gold medal against AYUMI with 2 wins, who got 45 points and Silver. Both finished with 95 points total, but AMI ranked first because Budapest's result is preferred on a draw. Rico got third with 41 points and got Bronze, and LOGISTX was fifth place with 36 points this time. Huge shout out for B-Girl RICO (17), who got twice third, is third in final standings, but didn`t qualify due contigent limits. Of course, it hurts.

Preparation, Lifestyle Change of Olympic Breakers and Culture Change of Breaking

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The Dance Magazine brought a great cover story by Jennifer Heimlich - Breaking New Ground: For the First Time in History, Dancers Are Competing at the Olympics - with some interesting insides. Some Quotes:

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Despite any debates over authenticity, one thing is clear: The Olympics are creating a high-performance support system for top-ranking breakers. The highest scorers from qualifying competitions are now part of Team USA, and have been flown to the Olympic facility in Colorado Springs a handful of times for training camps. They’ve been given strength and conditioning coaches, sports psychologists, dietitians, and health-care coverage. Some have also received grants, like the one from the Women’s Sports Foundation that Chang has used to rent studio space so she doesn’t have to dance outside. “There’s a lot of different resources that we, as breakers, have never seen before,” says Louis.

That said, because breaking is brand-new to the Olympics, the infrastructure and monetary support lags far behind more established sports like rowing or swimming. “They’re being treated like the world’s greatest athletes. We’re being treated more like very talented dancers. That’s the disconnect right now,” says Ivan “Flipz” Velez, who will be the judge repre­senting North America in Paris. There’s reportedly been some scrambling involved as WDSF figures out the details of breaking becoming an Olympic sport. Dancers say they had to stay flexible and adapt quickly to changes as organizers decided exactly what the judging system would look like, how music would be handled, and what type of floor would be used.

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Many of breaking’s Olympic hopefuls have already seen their lives change dramatically. Montalvo shares that he’s had a slew of press requests and has sponsorship deals from major brands like Red Bull, Delta, Comcast, Jack in the Box, and Athletic Brewing. “There’s a lot of media that wants to know what breaking is all about,” he says. “This has been the busiest year of my life.”

Choi says that juggling appearances and events along with corporate partnerships and media interviews has actually made it tricky to prepare the way she wants to. “It’s been really amazing but also challenging, because I know I need to be focusing on training for the Olympics,” she says.

Even dancers who didn’t know whether they would qualify until June upended their lives for the possibility. Chang says she stopped working as a restoration ecologist to pursue breaking as a career. She now dances with her crew two to three hours a day, five days a week; cross-trains for an hour four days a week; does biweekly sessions with a sports therapist; and joins regional competitions for practice on some weekends. In addition to physical prep, Louis shares that he’s been studying his past competitions to analyze his strengths and weaknesses, dissecting videos of competitors, and watching footage from the 1980s to diversify his arsenal of movements.

Culture Change

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Of course, some elements of a traditional battle have been tweaked in its translation for the Olympic stage. Most notable is the more regimented scoring. “In cultural breaking events, it’s based off of opinion—it’s super-subjective,” says Montalvo. But at Olympic competitions and qualifiers, there’s a structured points system. That rewards a slightly different strategy, Montalvo believes: “You have to be more explosive from beginning to end, getting straight to the point, doing big moves on the beat, ending off with a big freeze. And if you’re too complex, really being super-creative, I feel like you don’t get too far.” Because judges are ticking off particular boxes to tally the score, dancers need to be well-rounded, whereas, Louis says, in other competitions a breaker could just do one thing really well and win with that.

Po Chun Chen, aka “Bojin,” head of the breaking division of the World DanceSport Federation (the organization helping to oversee breaking at the Olympics), acknowledges that it’s been a challenge to balance the sport and the culture in a dance form started by oppressed people looking for a way to freely express themselves. “We cannot lose the original soul of breaking, which is the freedom,” he says. One way in which the WDSF is attempting to honor the hip-hop roots of breaking at the Olympics is by starting out the competition with the judges showing off their own skills in a cypher as a way of celebrating the culture. Though the practice would be unthinkable in figure skating or gymnastics, “this is our culture,” says Chen.

TV Competition Shows

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World of Street Woman Fighter (Street Woman Fighter 3) with Team Motiv

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Teams

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Contestants

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Color Key:
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Strikethrough denotes that the contestant had withdrew from her crew.
Italic denotes that the contestant had already participated from the previous seasons.

List of World of Street Woman Fighter contestants
Crew Country/City Members Birthday Notes
Ag Squad Australia Kaea
(Dance Hall)
28 Brings Caribbean-influenced styles with high energy. Former Member of The Royal Family & ReQuest Dance Crew. Backup Dancers for Justin Bieber, Jennifer Lopez & Enrique Iglesias
Kyra
(Gangsta)
28 Brings raw attitude with distinctive style. Co-captain of De Ja Vu Crew. Former Member of The Royal Family & ReQuest Dance Crew. Backup Dancer for Jennifer Lopez
Danica
(Heels)
27 Brings feminine power with technical heel work. Member of Girl Group Pink Matter based in Brisbane
Alysha
(Hip Hop)
25 Street style specialist with battle background. Known for clean execution and choreographic vision. Backup Dancer for Katseye, XG, 50 Cent, T-Pain
Ruthy Baby
(REGGAETON)
25 Latin dance specialist with dynamic movements. Former Member of Bubblegum Crew from The Palace Dance Studio, The Royal Family & ReQuest Dance Crew. Backup Dancers for Justin Bieber, PSY & Ciara
Vanessa
(Commercial Hip Hop)
22 Brings industry experience and polished performance. Backup Dancer for Kiana Ledé
Kaleece
(Hip Hop)
21 Technical foundation with competitive experience. Former Member of The Rascals Crew & The Royal Family
Aaliyah
(Hip Hop)
18 Backup Dancer for Ne-Yo. Appeared in Olivia Marsh's "Strategy" Music Video.
Bumsup South Korea Honey J
(Hip Hop)
38 Respected veteran. Leader of HolyBang from Street Woman Fighter Season1. Former leader of PURPLOW dance crew. choreographer and backup dancer for Jay Park and all artist from AOMG.
Monika
(Hip Hop)
39 Leader of PROWDMON from Street Woman Fighter Season 1 and one of the judges for Street Woman Fighter Season 2. The Dance Professor for most of the contestants during their college years. Co-owner of OFD Studio. Choreographer for Amoeba Culture. Former member of WooFam. One half of the dance duo MOLIP with fellow PROWDMON member Lip J., Performance Director on Mnet's I-Land 2: N/a. She initially appeared in episodes 1 to 6 as a spectator due to her 7-month pregnancy, but will start performing again at the Dance Film Mission.
Lip J
(Waacking)
37 Member of PROWDMON alongside with Monika from Street Woman FighterSeason 1. World-renowned Waacking dancer. Pioneered waacking in Korea with distinctive personal style. Co-owner of OFD Studio. Choreographer for Amoeba Culture, Kim Yubin, and Lee Hi. Member of dance duo MOLIP (with PROWDMON member Monika), ElizaBitch, and Team W.O.W. (World Of Waackers). Mentor on Mnet's Boys Planet
ko:아이 -Aiki
(Choreography)
36 Leader of Hook from Street Woman Fighter Season1 with innovative choreographic approaches. World of Dance Contestant, Choreographer of Refund Sisters, Bibi, Queen Wassabii, and Moonbyul. Mentor of MBC's My Teenage Girl.
Ri.hey
(Hip Hop)
35 Leader of CocaNButter from Street Woman Fighter Season 1 with distinctive choreographic vision. Former member of PURPLOW Dance crew. Choreographer at Bangall Dance Academy
Hyojin Choi
(Hip Hop)
33 Leader of Want from Street Woman Fighter Season 1. Known for precise isolations and powerful presence. Former Choreographer at 1Million Dance Studio
Gabee
(Choreography)
32 Leader of Lachica from Street Woman Fighter Season 1 known for her expressive performances. Choreographer for BoA, Kim Yubin, Chungha, CLC (group), TWICE, Natty (Thai singer). Formerly known as "Single Lady" during her underground dance battle days.
ko:노제-No:ze
(Choreography)
29 Leader of WayB from Street Woman Fighter Season. Backup Dancer for Kai, Taemin, SHINee
Leejung Lee
(Choreography)
27 Somi, BLACKPINK, and iKon. Former member of Just Jerk Crew. Member of YGX's NWX crew. Performance Director on Mnet's I-Land 2: N/a.
Hyeily
(Choreography)
26 Member of PROWDMON from Street Woman Fighter Season 1. Choreographer at OFD Studio. Participated in the Rookie class mission music video as Bumsup member Hyojin Choi is unable to participate in two class videos at the same time.
Motiv USA Marlee
(Hip Hop)
26 Battle-tested performer from New York’s competitive scene. Contestant on America's Got Talent as part of the hip-hop crew Studio One Young Beast Society & World of Dance season 3 Under the Motiv Dance Crew., co-founder of the Motiv Dance Studio in Orlando, Florida. Choreographer for Jazmine Sullivan and Backup Dancer for Pharrell Williams & Janet Jackson
Fantaye
(Hip Hop)
27 Known for afro-fusion and experimental approaches. Member of VMo and LFG dance crews. Contestant on World of Dance season 3
Bella
(Hip Hop)
25 Technical specialist with classical training background.
Kaidi
(Hip Hop)
24 Known for fluid transitions and creative concepts. Dancer signed under XCEL Talent Agency.
Nyssa
(Hip Hop)
22 Choreographer with distinctive musicality.
Logistx
(Breaking)
22 see here.
Abby
(Hip Hop)
19 Commercial dancer with experience backing major artists. DJ. Performed in various music festivals across Mexico.
Osaka Ojo Gang Osaka, Japan Ibuki
(Waacking)
29 Pioneering waacking specialist in Japan’s scene. World-renowned waaacking dancer who won several international competitions abroad. Participated in Street Dance of China season 3 and 4 as a contestant, and in season 6 as a mentor. One half of the waacking duo Bad Queens.
Ruu
(Freestyle)
33 Improvisational specialist with battle background. Member of Fabulous Sisters Crew. Her team won the 2016 and 2017 World of Dance competition. Owner of Vivid Tokyo Dance Studio
Hana
(Girlie)
31 Brings feminine energy with attitude-driven performance. Older sister of Twice's Momo Hirai
Kyoka
(Hip Hop)
29 Brings raw street style with powerful execution. Red Bull Athlete. Hip-hop dancer. One half of the hip-hop duo RUSHBALL.
Renan
(Choreography)
28 Known for complex arrangements and formations. Dancer for aespa, Young Posse, Enhypen, STAYC, Illit, XG, and Kepler. She withdrew from the crew due to a car accident.
Junna
(RNB)
27 Smooth stylist specialized in R&B-influenced movement. Dancer signed under Jam Republic's agency.
Minami
(Hip Hop)
26 Technical powerhouse with clean execution. Member of the Kadokawa Dreams who won the 2022–23 and 2023-24 D.League dance league.
Uwa
(Popping)
21 Animation and popping specialist with mechanical precision. Former Member of Moonchild (group), Former i-CONZ ~ Dream for Children Contestant
RHTokyo Tokyo,Japan Rie Hata
(Hip Hop)
35 Internationally recognized choreographer and leader. Referred to as "Queen of Swag,". Choreographer for Numerous artist including BTS, Twice, NCT (group), Exo, Red Velvet (group), BoA, G-Dragon, Stray Kids, Ateez, Exile (Japanese band), Generations from Exile Tribe, Nissy, KAT-TUN, Sandaime J Soul Brothers, Chris Brown, and Omarion. Founded the dance team RIEHATATOKYO (abbr. RHTokyo), leads the dance crew avex ROYALBRATS, which won the inaugural championship in Japan's professional dance league, D. LEAGUE, owns and operates her fashion brand, Qoffee Shop.
Mona
(Hip Hop)
31 Known for musicality and groove-based movement.
Rena
(Hip Hop)
26 Class:y & Illit. Back-up dancer for CL (rapper)|CL and Zico (rapper).
Asuka
(Hip Hop)
26 Brings power moves and dynamic performance.
Nina Neves
(Hip Hop)
25 International background bringing global influences. Japanese-Brazilian dancer.
Rico Hirai
(Hip Hop)
24 Fusion specialist blending multiple styles.
ReiNa
(Hip Hop)
24 NCT, Stray Kids, Noa (Japanese singer, born 2000)|Noa, Snow Man, Ateez, Be First, and Hana (group). Also a member of Criminalz Crew
Ako
(Hip Hop)
23 Brings experimental approaches to traditional styles.
Royal Family New Zealand Teesha
(Dance Hall)
23 Brings Caribbean influences to the crew’s repertoire. Member of ReQuest Dance Crew.
Harmz
(Hip Hop)
25 Adds raw street style to the team’s performances. Member of ReQuest Dance Crew. Dancer for Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, Izzy Lareina.
Zari
(Polyswagg)
23 Renowned for choreographic innovation. Member of ReQuest Dance Crew
Isla
(Polyswagg)
22 Known for clean execution and performance quality. Member of ReQuest Dance Crew
Maiya
(Polyswagg)
20 Technical specialist with precise isolations. Member of ReQuest Dance Crew
Moana
(Polyswagg)
20 Brings traditional Polynesian influences to modern dance. Member of ReQuest Dance Crew
Tiare
(Polyswagg)
20 Showcases powerful movements with cultural influences. Member of ReQuest Dance Crew
Kylie
(Polyswagg)
19 Competition veteran with extensive performance experience. Member of ReQuest Dance Crew

Miyu Pranoto was part of the Mega Crew Mission in Episode 4 and the public voting period on Choom.

to be continued...

NBC's World of Dance with The Lab

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Season 1

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Qualifiers ("Bad Boy for Life")
Ne-Yo 90
Jennifer Lopez 92
Derek Hough 92
AVERAGE 91.3
Duels Round ("All I Do Is Win")
Boys of Temecula 88
The Lab 96
The Cut ("Disco Inferno")
Ne-Yo 87
Misty Copeland 85
Jennifer Lopez 84
Derek Hough 88
AVERAGE 86
The Cut Results
The Lab 86
ImmaBEAST 84.2
The Mihacevich Sisters 84.2
Eva Igo 92.5
Diana Pombo 92

The Lab got cut, Les Twins won the show.[41]

Season 2

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Qualifiers ("Take It to da House")
Ne-Yo 96
Jennifer Lopez 92
Derek Hough 95
AVERAGE 94
Duels Round ("Lean Back")
Lil Killaz Crew 85.7
The Lab 95
The Cut ("Cold Water")
Ne-Yo 100
Jennifer Lopez 97
Derek Hough 98
AVERAGE 98.3
The Cut Results
Flip 88.3
Expressenz 87
The Pulse 88
Quad Squad 86
The Lab 98.3
The Rock Company 93.7
Fabulous Sisters 96.3
Divisional Final ("Blind Faith")
Ne-Yo 100
Misty Copeland 99
Jennifer Lopez 100
Derek Hough 100
AVERAGE 99.8
The Divisional Final Results
The Rock Company 91.5
Fabulous Sisters 92
The Lab 99.8
World Final Round 1 ("Work It")
Ne-Yo 97
Jennifer Lopez 97
Derek Hough 97
AVERAGE 97
World Final Round 2 ("Waiting on the World to Change")
Ne-Yo 100
Jennifer Lopez 96
Derek Hough 99
AVERAGE 98
World Final Placement and Average Scores
1st The Lab 97.5
2nd Michael Dameski 96.0
3rd Charity & Andres 94.3
4th S-Rank 93.5

The Lab won the $1,000,000 USD grand prize and $50,000 USD for winning the Divisional Final.[42]

Crew Cast: @trederego @logistx_ugf @keapeahuofficial @lild0hd0h_des @_popcorn21_ @lil_g_rok @gisellesilva03 @super_hiro23 @lilsweets2 @ajboogieofficial @ayden_nguyen @isaacxmejiax @king.jaaimme @leilani_zepeda @ciaraallado

Directors: @valerie_ramirez @carrie_calkins_

Choreographers: @dtrix @and.elam @sienna.lalau

Dance-Off Juniors

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Logan appeared in 2016 on the first episode of first season of the online TV show Dance-Off Juniors for $5,000 USD price money (trailer).[43]

Accolades, Awards and Nominations

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Year Title Category Nominated Result Refs
2017 World Hip Hop Dance Championship Varsity Division Team TLxWC (The Lab) Gold [44]
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2019 Arena Awards Rising Star of the Year Logan Edra Nominated [45]
WDSF World Urban Games B-Girl USA 1vs1 Logan Edra Bronze [46]
Red Bull BC One All Stars Logan Edra Joined [47]
2022 Breaking for Gold Challenge Series 1vs1 - Adults Logan Edra Silver [48]
2023 WDSF Pan American Championships in Santiago, Chile 1vs1 - Adults Logan Edra Bronze [49]
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WDSF Breaking for Gold World Series Porto, Portugal 1vs1 - Adults Logan Edra Silver [50]
2024 Olympic Qualifier Series Shanghai, China 1vs1 - Adults Logan Edra Bronze [51]
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Note 2: Because minors don't count as adult 1vs1 breakers. La Vix (17) doesn't count at Pan Americans, and Rico (17) doesn't count at OQS Shanghai.

Listicles

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Publisher Year Listicle Listed Refs
Dance Bibles 2023 Best Street Dancers in the World - Top 3 Females Logan Edra [52]
Forbes 2024 6 B-Girls To Watch At The Paris 2024 Olympics Logan Edra [53]
Time 2024 Olympic 2024 - Who are the breakers to watch? Logan Edra [54]

Contact

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Business, Management & Press Inquiries: mgmt@loganedra.com

Activism, Philanthropy, Entrepreneurship and Influencing

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Logistx credits her mom for inspiring her to be so charitable. "One of my biggest inspirations is my mom. Because she's always been a very generous, giving and sensitive person. And I think there's even a way that she's inspired me without me knowing. She's always been one of the nicest people that I've ever known in my life. And she's my mom." Her mom had aspirations of joining the Peace Corps but unfortunately, an illness put a halt to those plans. “I tend to see what I'm doing as a way for her to live through me as I'm doing this stuff. She'll always tell me, she's so proud of me and she’s so happy I’m doing what I’m doing. And that's what's continued to inspire me to give back and to reassure that it's okay to give back and that it's the right thing to do.“

She founded S.E.L.F, in partnership with BreakinMIA, which stands for Self, Expressing Life Fearlessly, and also for Style, Evolution, Light/ Love, Foundation. “When I first moved [to South Florida], I felt there was something missing from the community,” she explains. “Like the Latin dance industry is very heavy over here, but there were also a lot of solo artists who were on their own around Florida that didn’t have a home.” She conducts the program at the studio where she works with artists on the evolution of their style and dance while focusing on foundation and community.

Her social media is also a platform where she shares and inspires, with honest, and sometimes vulnerable captions on what she may be going through at the time. “I’m seeing how I [can] use every single opportunity with each interaction I have throughout the day to just share my light with someone. My career wouldn’t feel like it has any meaning without the purpose behind it, which for me is has always been to share and spread light.” And as she moves towards the 2024 Paris Olympics, Edra is guided by two words: message and impact. “What helps and motivates me to win is a deeper meaning, a deeper purpose and mission. I just want to share my light through my dance, and I want to represent hip hop and breaking in their authentic forms onstage.”

She works with Originate Breaking TV, a group working to provide crucial resources to aspiring B-Boys and B-Girls in Africa with aspirations to expand across the globe. - TEAM SHARE Scholarship Fund (OBTV Africa x Logistx) "They're actually really good friends of mine. They're an organization in Kibera, which is in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya in Africa. They became active in 2019. Originate Breaking TV does community outreach work to support B-Boys and B-Girls in Nairobi and help provide that community with resources and financial help because it can be really difficult for them. I actually first heard about them through one of my friends named Jilou. She's a very good friend of mine. She's another B-Girl that I've battled many times and I've known for a while now. They did an IG live interview with her and then they wanted to do one with me. So they asked her for my contact info. And that's how I got connected with Originate Breaking TV.They needed help with a fundraiser to provide sanitary towels and other supplies for the B-Girls in Kibera. So I helped them share it on social media and I was able to connect them to other B-Girls to help support the B-Girls over there with the sanitary towels. So that was the first time we had worked together. Then after that fundraiser, we did another fundraiser called Team Share Scholarship Fundraiser, which is currently still happening - PAYPAL: originatebreakingtv@gmail.com. This fundraiser is to help raise money for the B-Boys and B-Girls who go to school in Kibera. It's really difficult for them to pay for their own school fees and have transportation, uniforms, school supplies and anything that they need for school and dance. This is one of my favorite collaborations because I was able to see the impact that we were able to have on at least one of the families that we supported.When OBTV presented me with the idea to help raise money for the B-Girls and B-Boys over there to help them stay in school and break, I said I was down and we raised a good amount. That has been a really dope journey. We got support from Red Bull, my own crew Underground Flow, and a lot of my friends and mentors. The Kinjaz, another family-like crew of mine in the dance scene, helped support the fundraiser as well as BreakinMIA here in Florida."[55]

Quotes

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  • " “I think my discipline definitely comes from my family. Like, school was always a priority. So alongside leveling up in dance and gymnastics and the other stuff I was doing, I had to be good in school first. The work ethic was always was always my edge when I was younger—working harder than everyone else in the room.” (Logan in an interview with Vogue)
  • "It's easy to search for things on YouTube like how to do a six-step and how to do a flare," she says. "But I think that if you invest yourself into the community and the culture, that's where you'll really learn, find people to connect with and people who'll want to take you under their wing. I think one of the reasons a lot of my mentors wanted to mentor me was because they saw how dedicated I was to the craft. Also, I would say, always being a student is very important, plus it's also important to find yourself. This is something that I'm still trying to do. So, as well as being a student, also be yourself because dance is to express yourself." (Interview with Red Bull)
  • "My relationship with breaking is very spiritual and also very tough,” she says. “There were a lot of traumas and hardships I had to get through as a kid, but when I'm breaking, it helps me find release from those and balance. Breaking was born out of struggle, so I feel at home and like I belong when I'm dancing. When I break, I feel like a superhero. I feel empowered." (Interview with Red Bull)
  • "“I use freestyling often to warm up. It’s no secret that breaking isn’t the same as other sports. It’s very much a dance first—and has a level of creativity and musicality that other sports don’t have. Free styling is all about having zero judgement. Switch your brain to ‘no rules’ mode, and embrace the opportunity to do anything you want and be yourself through dance.” [56]
  • My win is always going to be everyone’s win," she said “When I succeed at something, I hope to represent and open up doors for my people in each and every lane that I represent,” whether that’s her crewmates, her family, or communities with which she has a connection as a young Filipina-American break dancer.
  • "When you’re an athlete you have to be focused; when you’re an artist you have to be free. When you’re an artist-athlete, you have to be both."
  • "As this generation of females reaches higher levels, it’s allowed us to speak our truth about the struggles we’ve gone through"
  • “If I’m training, I obviously have to look for flaws and correct them … to get better, to look at what I’m not good at,” she says. “If I’m watching footage just leisurely, I have to have a really, really positive outlook on it so that I increase my confidence because if it’s not training time, then the critic in my mind is not supposed to be there.”
  • Q:If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to? - A:"I would take my friend to Dania Beach in the sunrise and to go paint or play music on the boardwalk. We would go visit Wynwood which is a cool town that has art and style writing on every building and sidewalk. Go eat at Love Life Vegan Café. On the drives we would blast music and hand out water to the homeless during stoplights or highway entrances. We would visit friends and stay up until 4am having a deep convo while sitting outside because that seems to be a Miami thing lol" (Interview with Shoutout)
  • "The most inspiring people do not show you their superpowers... they show you yours."[57]

Fun Facts

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  • As of October 2021, Logistx is dating Yonell “Nelzwon” Da Mata, a head instructor at BreakinMIa.[58] After Logan attended Olympic games Nelz got finally some public eye. Come on! Please, no yellow press.
  • She is vegan. Obviously her fuel works. Before joining Underground Flow, Logan ate like a typical kid – she loved McDonald’s. But many members of the crew ate plant-based diets. “We never told her you should be vegan,” says Val, but sometimes they would take her to vegan restaurants and let her try the food. “One day on her own, she was like, ‘I watched this documentary. I researched veganism, and I want to be vegan,’ ” Val recalls. “I was like, ‘Are you sure? You don’t have to go totally vegan; it’s OK to eat meat here and there.’ She was like, ‘No. After I’ve seen what I’ve seen and know what I know, I can’t not become vegan.’” Logan was only 12. “I think that was the transition into my spirituality, because it introduced me to this idea of oneness over all,” she says today. “Not just connection and oneness with other animals and in terms of what I’m eating or not eating, but also with plants and the earth and other things in this physical realm.” Spirituality is important to Logan, though she doesn’t identify with any established religion.
  • During training season, which Logistx describes as the three-month periods when she’s getting ready for a big event, she’ll also spar and practice battles with a crewmate.
  • Logan turned on the Ellen Show a virtual rose into a real one. In slowmotion it turns out, it was actually a sleeve trick.
  • Lo is good in skateboarding.
  • Her favorite color is pink or violett. It would underline her feminine side in contrast to her muscular body.
  • Logan Edra likes listening to "World's Famous" by Malcolm McLaren when warming up for Olympics.[59]
  • There was a cool animation made for Lo as prep for Paris Olympics.

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References

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  1. Apple Podcast Logan “Logistx” Edra
  2. Logan Edra On The Power of Dance To Transform Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Health
  3. Logan's IG BC1 wildcard
  4. and8.dance HP Amazzzonki Crew
  5. Red Bull B-Girl Jilou's story
  6. World Manila Standard ‘breaking’ Fil-Am champ potential Olympic gold hopeful
  7. Team USA Logan Edra Break-Dancing
  8. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Warum Olympia die Breakdance-Szene aufwühlt
  9. AP News - Paris Olympics: What to know and who to watch during the breakdancing competition
  10. Paris Olympics: Opening athlete parade on a river, not in a stadium, tops list of innovations
  11. KFYR-TV The new sports and events you’ll see at the 2024 Paris Olympics
  12. The Pop List - World of Street Woman Fighter: Release Date, Vote & Cast of SWF Season 3 Revealed
  13. Teen Vogue B-Girl Logistx Takes Us Behind The Scenes at the 2022 Red Bull BC One World Final in New York
  14. Elite.Daily - Break-Dance Champion Logistx Is Taking Success Step By Step
  15. Booglezone TV - GET TO KNOW LOGAN "LOGISTX" EDRA
  16. PopSugar - B-Girl Logan "Logistx" Edra Feels Called to Empower Women in the Breaking Scene
  17. LO's IG NikeON Air ad
  18. The Filipino flows of Logistx and Ronnie
  19. Red Bull - 9 facts you should know about breaking prodigy Logistx
  20. Lo IG Home troubles
  21. Lo's IG Self-reflection
  22. Illipino IMDb
  23. IMDb The Real Logan Edra
  24. IMDb Lip Sync Battle Shorties
  25. CNN - How Logan 'Logistx' Edra is breakdancing the glass ceiling
  26. Red Bull Check out what Logistx had to say after winning Red Bull BC One 2021
  27. India and Victor are the Red Bull BC One 2022 champions
  28. Red Bull - New heights: Shigekix is now the youngest breaker to win Red Bull BC One
  29. Olympics - Breaking world champion B-Girl India: There is so much freedom in this sport
  30. Red Bull BC One 2024 World Champions
  31. The Lab: World of Dance Season 2 Winners on Access Live
  32. The Lab: TLXWC USA & World 1st Place Champs - Hip Hop International 2017
  33. Hip Hop International: Uniting the world through dance
  34. CNN Meet the trailblazing 18-year-old breaking sensation setting her sights on Olympic glory
  35. Logan*s IG BfG series
  36. DSWF- Pan American Championship Adult Breaking 1vs1 B-Girls
  37. Individual Neutral Athletes at the Olympic Games Paris 2024
  38. NBC - 2024 Paris Olympics: Céline Dion, boat parade and more highlights from the opening ceremony
  39. Olympics opening ceremony latest: Celine Dion serenades Paris, and now the Games can begin
  40. Qualification System Paris 2024
  41. NBC WoD S1 Wikipedia
  42. NBC WoD S2 Wikipedia
  43. IMDb Dance-off Juniors S 1.1
  44. Hip Hop International: Oregan Jewish Life -Uniting the world through dance
  45. 2019 Arena Awards • Rising Star
  46. WDSF RESULTS FROM THE WORLD URBAN GAMES 2019
  47. and8.dence Red Bull BC One All Stars members
  48. Red Bull Logistx
  49. Olympics.com Logistx
  50. NBC Olympics Logan Edra
  51. NBC Olympics Logan Edra
  52. The Dance Bibles - Best Street Dancers in the World
  53. Forbes - 6 B-Girls To Watch At The Paris 2024 Olympics
  54. Time Magazine - Olympic 2024 - Who are the breakers to watch?
  55. Logistx's big plans for a better dance community
  56. Red Bull Logistx on the Importance of Training Like an Athlete
  57. Lo's IG life flashback
  58. Red Bull Breaking Free Interview Logan Edra
  59. FOX Olympians - share pump-up songs that get them going before competing for world titles
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