Spring Steps 2024.

On March 23rd at Kurashiki Ivy Square, steady morning rain pushed the Okayama Breaking Culture Association's SPRING STEPS 2024 out of the planned courtyard and into the Aimi Red-brick Hall. Three divisions ran in parallel: Breaking 2v2 with 21 crews, Freestyle 2v2 with 14, and Shuffle Allstyle Team — a randomly-drawn bracket — with four teams. Entries came in from across Chu-Shikoku and, for the first time here, from Vietnam.

Breaking 2v2 went to local duo B.C. Okayama (Roman and Eba, Kurashiki), who beat Tuesdays (CAN-D and HOPE, Kagawa) in the final. Freestyle 2v2 went to Eba & Drill — Eba (Kurashiki) paired with Drill (Kagawa, HighRoof) as a one-off cross-genre duo — over おかや〜まんず (sayaka and Chekera, Okayama). Eba had entered both divisions, reached both finals, and landed both titles. Shuffle Allstyle Team kicked off the afternoon of champions when TEAM D took out TEAM B for the day's first trophy.

Judges were dawnie / takashi / AYATO on Breaking and TAKKAN / RIO / AYATO on Freestyle; DJ SENSE (Akashi Breakers) manned the booth, and TOKKEY handled MC. Four food stalls — ChRoNo coffee, Café&Bar Armonía, Cafe&Bar KAG and the yakitori stand Harukaze — kept the hall quietly humming through the day. Full tournament info sits on the Judgames page; every frame of the day is in the shared photo album.