How the community creatively uses open spaces
Anyone starting with breaking quickly realizes that the living room soon becomes too small for demanding moves like the windmill or the 3 step in breakdance. Commercial dance schools are often expensive and rarely offer the temporal flexibility that an intensive session requires. This is where urban community culture comes into play. Since the beginnings of the hip-hop movement, the scene has been using public, alternative, and communal spaces. An excellent example of a successful way to find a breakdance training space for b-boys and b-girls is in municipal youth centers or socio-cultural centers. These institutions often provide free training rooms for breaking because they want to promote youth culture. Often, a friendly request to the local youth worker is enough to arrange fixed hall times.
From the station forecourt to the hall
Another real success story is student initiatives at universities. Many university sports centers offer free training times where you can rent a complete breaking hall or, by arrangement, even use it for free. Vacant industrial halls that are used temporarily by cultural associations also offer the ideal raw charm and the necessary space for extensive sessions. Mutual respect is always important here: anyone using such a space should leave it clean and stick to the agreements made with the operators. If you are still looking for like-minded people for your next session, also read our guide Breakdance crew or solo: which training type are you? to find your perfect training setup.
