{"id":65809,"date":"2024-07-23T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/23\/japan-senior-dance-trend-breakdancing-ara-style-senior-paris-olympics"},"modified":"2024-07-23T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T23:00:47","slug":"japanese-seniors-pop-and-lock-to-breakdancing-beats-in-latest-sport-tailored-to-ageing-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65809","title":{"rendered":"Japanese seniors pop and lock to breakdancing beats in latest sport tailored to ageing population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Tokyo\u2019s Ara Style Senior say they were inspired by the inclusion of breakdancing at this year\u2019s Paris Olympics<\/p>\n<p>Head spins and monkey flips are noticeable by their absence. But in their place there is a lot of laughter and a thumping beat, along with the occasional grimace and yelp of frustration.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 people \u2013 wearing bright orange and green T-shirts that mark them out as members of Ara Style Senior \u2013 do not belong to the demographic you would normally associate with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2023\/may\/14\/young-stars-uk-breakdancing-olympics-paris-2024-kid-karam-bgirl-roxy-shortbread\">breakdancing<\/a>. Their average age hovers just below 70, and the oldest is 74.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/23\/japan-senior-dance-trend-breakdancing-ara-style-senior-paris-olympics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Tokyo\u2019s Ara Style Senior say they were inspired by the inclusion of breakdancing at this year\u2019s Paris OlympicsHead spins and monkey flips are noticeable by their absence. But in their place there is a lot of laughter and a thumping beat, alo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2474,1078,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ageing","category-dance","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65810,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65809\/revisions\/65810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}