Для багатьох український брейкінг асоціюється з іменем Олександра Гатина-Лозинського. Over the past ten years, he has transformed into one of the brightest figures on the stage.
About the thorny and then successful journey of LussySky’s battle at the Olympic Games – in the materials of RBC-Ukraine.
First Kroki
Olexandr Ha tin- Lozinsky, or as his friends and acquaintances call him, Lesik was born in the Lviv region. It seems that, since childhood, we have been creative and intoxicated, when we first learned about breaking, we immediately “got on fire.” It ended up being repaired in Crimea.
“It was at this time that I noticed the boy who was standing on the street. I thought, “Why did they start crying like that, what about the spider man?” I live near the village, having never seen such a thing, it just hypnotized me. Today, my mother didn’t take the docks from me by force,” remembers Lesik.
The burying of breaking became stronger after the trip to Poland. There, having gone to a disco, where the older boys performed all sorts of tricks – from that hour, LussySky knows, he 100% believed that he would get busy with life.
When he turned home, the lad started training. Initially, the format was as follows: a senior comrade had previously arrived at the village, engaged in breaking, and showed a number of hands. Lesik and his friends trained them, and then demonstrated their achievements at the local disco. So he trained for every hour, and then began to go to work to Lvov – 40 kilometers there and back. “The head was about to get caught in the last minibus,” the boy says.
Photo: Oleksandr LussySky Gatin-Lozinsky (Street Culture)
< p>After 14 years, LussySky moved to Lviv and continued training. It seems that the other time I managed to find the place where the best battles and begols were engaged. “Having spent time with the company, there were a lot of people who were senior to me, replacing rocks by five. All the smells were cool Vikonavians – and, melodiously, during this very period, having appeared in me, from one side, the axis of this fuse was re-rolled, and from the other “The other thing is discipline and willpower,” Lesik reinforces.
After LussySky school, I tried to enter the university in Kiev, but it didn’t work out. All that river, which emerged freely from learning, was dedicated to training – and made serious progress. So, if the unfortunate fate was taken to the Lviv Vish, it became clear that it was necessary to collect – either a new beginning or a career. I treated a friend.
“Mom, of course, was not happy that they sent me away from the university, but now I had enough freedom to find what I wanted to work with. So my soul lay on its own before breaking, everything in my mind said: this is yours, I need it.” “I listened to myself,” Lesik guesses.
Photo: Oleksandr LussySky Gatin-Lozinsky (Street Culture)
I didn’t have mercy: even in that period, LussySky’s schedule, in addition to training, began to have regular trips to stores all over Ukraine – and Let's win. About the first triumph, it seems simple: it was cool.
“This is the 2009 river, Khmelnytskyi. The river is in the middle, but for me, as for a beginner, this is a specific challenge. This victory really gave me even more satisfaction.”
Zagalom in Oleksandr especially set up victories and defeats. As is important to most athletes, their successes inspire them, and their failures motivate them. But LussySky does not concentrate much on the rest.
“Having warmed up, having worked on the basics, start training – often on the same day. I want to lose my “flow”. I believe that if you think too much about the negative, then “It will attract you even more.”
The main breakthrough for the battle was the explosion near Yalta in 2011. They were attended, as Lesik guessed, by the most powerful Viconavians from the post-graduate expanse, as well as by invited guests from all over the world. LussySky took over from the Seven to Smoke discipline – and loudly declared himself to all the communities.
Photo: Oleksandr LussySky Gatin-Lozinsky (Street Culture)
International success
If LussySky talks about its style, then it is important to talk not about technology, but about energy. For everyone, breaking is a kind of meditation. That’s why the brand is at the front for the new one – to feel the “flow”, to be guided by the music and sounds.
“I may not have any folding “frises”, rukhs, but I will submit clearly simple speeches so as to impress everyone “My philosophy is the same: focus not on combinations, but on emotions. Get into the rhythm and follow the “flow”. Then everything comes out naturally, but it’s so dynamic.”
And the right attitude is also important for Lesik. This plan is categorical. It seems that if you don’t feel your pride, you won’t be able to go on stage. “The public wants to believe you, and for whom you want to believe in yourself – twice, twice more. Act with the attitude that I am the best. And it’s not about self-esteem, but about how to get an audience,” he shares.
With this attitude – if you can’t overcome it, you will impress everyone – he arrived at his first international events in Poland in 2012. I won with the team in the 3×3 category, as well as in the solo part of the tournament. And then Outbreak from Slovakia, where LussySky reached the finals of the footwork discipline, and at the same time, along with the teammates, “took” Rep Your Country – and gained the respect of the top organizers. “This is the river of the international storm. I rejected the request for Unbreakable, Hip Opsession – and from that moment everything began to develop even faster.”
Photo: Oleksandr LussySky Gatin-Lozinsky (Street Culture)
Utim, for an active summer season, as Lesik predicts, in 2016, Vyshov will be born. Together with his partner Drud, he won the World Bboy Classic. “We began to win truly top championships – especially with the team, but also solo victories. With a special “flow”, we took tournament after tournament.”
LussySky’s successes during this period are difficult to describe briefly: victories in Battle Pro, IBE, Floor Wars, and Hip Opsession. China also had numerous successes at international tournaments – at one of these, in the finals, Lesik beat the legendary American Victor. It got to the point that I had to create challenges for myself – for example, in winning games from Poland, not just in one category, but in all of them.
Some journalists call LussySky a ten-time champion of the world, even though he himself won nine “most important” victories. Oleksandr will definitely be found as a top-ranked fighter from Ukraine. But we can speak quite modestly about our achievements: we clearly know that we love success, but it’s a headache for anyone to show a clear, important, added break. So, so as not to deprive the audience of bullshit.
LussySky is a true fanatic of breaking in the fullest sense of his word. Vin himself fits in with this characteristic. Alexander remembers all his battles; in this house, near the bedroom, there are still dozens of certificates hanging for zi zmagan on the cob of your career; zagalom, Lesik “at the gri” has already been for over 20 years – and all this time there has been, as it seems, an uninterrupted collapse: events, sleepless nights, victories and defeats. Perhaps, this very thing brought a simple boy from the Lviv region to the Ukrainian Olympus – that, melodiously, light – breaking.
Photo: Oleksandr LussySky Gatin-Lozinsky (Street Culture)
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“We’ll get there and beat everyone,” is how LussySky describes her mood ahead of the final selection stages of the Olympics. And again, there is no selfishness or boastfulness in him. It’s incredible to have faith in yourself and know that there are hundreds of tournaments of different levels and scales.
And also – singing, as Lesik does not tire of repeating, is the main thing in sports, so in mysticism. Apparently, I have breaking. “At the Olympics, your self-esteem will be at its highest. There is a great stage here, it is difficult to draw energy from the center – so it will be necessary for the brothers in the middle to direct it competently. This will never happen again.”
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For a boy, breaking at the 2024 Games in Paris is a chance to write history. Perhaps there will be no more breaking at the Olympics. Well, taking the fate of such tricks – or moreover, overcoming – will be an unforgettable result.
And then Lesik wants to get seriously involved in what he calls “the daily grind of life.” This is music. I started writing during the pandemic and during this hour, as I myself admit, having created close to 100 tracks. I have released songs from them – either solo or together with Ukrainian artists: “I feel that through music I can reach thousands of people and help them find motivation, their path, their place in life. Ihai”.
For now, LussySky knows, in his career and life everything has turned out as if it were not enough. It’s melodious, because 20 years ago, he listened to his heart and for a second did not go out of his way. There is also a chance that with music everything will be the same – and, perhaps, even better. Golovne, Lesik instructs – to fall forward again.
Before the word, in advance they guessed the way of fighting Intact Kurnosov in the trial of the 2024 Olympics.
When writing the material, information from the UA Breaking resource was used.
