Blending martial arts with hip hop dancing, 10-year-old Song Haoming and 12-year-old Fu Junxi made it into Juste Debout’s 2025 semi-finals, setting a record for Chinese participants in the hip hop category.
The underdog duo hails from the China Hip-Hop Union Committee (CHUC), whose team leader, Pan Limin, said, “Song Haoming and Fu Junxi are like fire and water, a perfect duo.” The boys won the Juste Debout Wuhan hip hop preliminary and arrived in Paris as the youngest participants. Song and Fu stunned the audience with a unique fusion of Chinese culture and street dance, triumphing over seasoned veteran dancers.
Watch Song Haoming & Fu Junxi’s incorporation of Tai Chi elements, drunken boxing, and Shaolin-style martial arts in freestyle hip hop.
Juste Debout is a prestigious international street dance competition held annually in France, attracting top-tier dancers and global audiences. The founder, Bruce Ykanji, said in an interview that, “It [Juste Debout] has gotten people to evolve, gotten people seen, stimulated crossovers between people from different countries.” A similar sentiment is found in Street Dance of China, the country’s most popular street dance reality program that attracted mainstream attention. The show invited international dancers to forge a cross-cultural collaboration, where body language spoke louder than words.
Juste Debout 2025 hosted five disciplines: locking, popping, hip hop, house dance, and junior freestyle. In addition to Song and Fu’s success, fellow dancer Xu Zhen Xxuan took home the junior freestyle championship. While the 2010 locking champions, AYA and BingBing, also returned as finalists for this year’s locking category.
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