Ana Ortegabetter known as Ragehe started in the world of breaking without looking for it, a chance encounter with a B-boy made him immerse himself fully in urban culture and today he aspires to be Olympic athlete in Paris 2024. Let’s go back to the year 2010, in a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona, a dance school was opened based on the fandom that the program “Fama, let’s dance!” was generating. Ana attended as a hip hop student until B-Boy Artis went to teach a break class with which she stayed, according to his own words, “very crazy”. As a result of that, she became curious to investigate a little more in the breaking culture without leaving hip hop aside. “It was from a health problem that I had at the age of 17, I was hospitalized for anorexia and there I realized that I really wanted to dance breakingit was a need that there in the hospital could not develop”.
That was the turning point, once the disease was overcome, he decided to take the leap and become independent: stop living in his town to move to Barcelona and live closer to the schools where he could do breaking classes and train at a professional level On it. Now, since breaking has been included as a sport in the Olympic Games, Furia’s goals have been fully focused on Paris 2024.
Currently, what is the level of your training?
Rage: Right now I am in the hardest moment in terms of preparation. I’m training all day from the time I get up until noon, when I take a break to eat and then I go back to the room to dance until half past six in the evening. Sometimes it is prolonged or shortened based on the level of fatigue. In addition to dancing, we also complement the training with physical preparation, functional training in the gym focused on strengthening arms, legs, gaining resistance…
On an emotional level, how do you manage this moment of so much demand?
Rage: In the team we work with a psychologist who is seeing me super well. Sometimes you don’t get the results and that causes you a frustration that is difficult to manage, but thanks to the sessions we have with the psychologists, getting through those moments of downturn becomes much easier. I’ve really been dancing for 13 years but in my sports career I’ve only had 1 so learning to live with the pressure is sometimes complicated.
I know that I’m going to get downs that it’s going to be hard for me to overcome but we keep going, we always keep going.
When asking Fury about paris 2024 He quickly launches a “let’s go all out”. She is getting closer to her and although at the moment she is not classified to attend, for her it continues to be a challenge and a daily struggle. “I don’t want to visualize myself there but I do want to give my best to get results.” We also talked about the controversy that she has generated among some dancers from urban culture who think that the artistic part of her dance is lost by being restricted to sporting parameters. “Can the sporting part be separated from the artistic part in breaking? Yes, but we must think that they can also be united and a judge, in addition to the purely sporting aspect, will also value the creative part of our art. I think that With this recognition of breaking as a sport we have the opportunity to show our discipline and that is not why the part of urban culture is going to be lost. Outside the federation, events continue to be held to share experiences and that will never be lost.”
Where does the inspiration to dance come from?
Rage: Of music, my maxim is music. I can always get inspired by seeing other colleagues or there are places that give me more ideas, but what really moves me is without a doubt the music and it works as a motivating element.
Finally, what is the best thing that breaking has given you?
Rage: everything he has given me is good, but if I have to stay with something, it is the fact of sharing with other people, internalizing the culture and feeling the warmth of a community that shares with me what I like to do the most: dance.
Eva Machón is a digital editor, an expert in fashion, beauty and a healthy lifestyle. No cool sneaker has escaped her radar, no celebrity look has gone unnoticed.
He is a specialist in covering red carpets to look for the most defined abs but he does not get ruffled if he has to try the toughest CrossFit exercises that have to be done to achieve them. Now, what she likes most about her job is having the opportunity to snoop around in the beauty bag of celebrities and ask everyone (she never forgets) for her favorite beauty trick.
No one better than her knows what it’s like to spend hours diving on social networks in search of trends and new products that she can test to write her reviews and give her opinion on the topic that is most current with her friends (why not say so). In her spare time, she takes advantage of the time to exploit her creativity stitch by stitch in her embroidery workshop, unleash energy giving everything in her dance classes and disconnect with a good crime novel accompanied by her two cats.
Eva Machón graduated in Advertising and Public Relations from the Complutense University of Madrid and since then she has worked as an editor in different lifestyle-themed digital magazines. She has been associated with Women’s Health for more than 4 years.
