4 Things Know About Olympian Logan Edra, aka Logistx, Team USA’s Youngest Breaker
ICYMI, breakdancing just made its Olympic debut in Paris!
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Somehow, B-girl Logan Edra makes everything look effortless: her dewy skin, her sharp wit, her breezy style…and even her superhuman freestyle moves. Logan, better known in the breakdancing world as “Logistx,” is part of the first-ever Olympic breakdancing team, and—at just 21 years old—this second-generation Filipino American is making every single Olympic athlete stop in their tracks.
Screams of “Ooh, are you the breaker?!” and “OMG, that’s Logan!” echoed around me as I set out to interview Logan at the High Performance Center (i.e., Athletica), where all the U.S. Olympians have been hanging and training while in Paris. I couldn’t even see the 5-foot-1 breaker among the crowd of 6-foot-tall athletes…that is, until she emerged with a grin on her face and a bag of chips in her hands, cool AF in her beanie, gold hoops, and inside-out T-shirt with sweatpants.
I immediately felt the awe those other athletes were undoubtedly feeling—I mean, did you know breakers don’t have a routine and don’t even know the music they’ll be competing to when they show up on the Olympic stage?! But still, I tried to silence my own “OMG, it’s Logan!” inner fangirl before sitting down with her to hear what it’s like representing not only Gen Z but an entirely new sport at the Paris Olympics. Here’s what Logan wants you to know.
Logan calls it “surreal” to be at the Olympics.
“At first, we were all worried we weren’t going to be accepted as athletes, but they’re to-our-face excited,” Logan told Cosmopolitan. “I mean, to be here and to have access to these resources and to stand next to a lot of legends in sports and being in the same space as Snoop—for me, it just hits me in waves, and then I remember that, Oh shit, this is the Olympics. This is, like, all the most high-level athletes in the world that are the highest level of what they do, and then it’s like, damn, we’re here.”
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Logan started breakdancing in church.
“My dad tricked me to get into it; at first, I was like, ‘No.’ I was doing different activities as a kid. I was enjoying ballet, tap, jazz—but it got expensive, so I started going to a church in Chula Vista because my family went to that church. There was this hip-hop class there, and I was like, ‘I told you I didn’t want to do hip-hop,’ and [my dad] was like, ‘No, just try it.’ And so I tried it, and I just fell in love with hip-hop dance. After that, I just progressed really fast. I did a lot of stuff, won big world competitions, and now I’m here.”
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Logan doesn’t have a coach.
“I was working with a coach, like, 10 months ago, and then I stopped because I was like, I don’t really want to work with a coach. Everyone is different and I just feel different. I like to learn from different artists and dancers, but just right now, I just feel better zoning in.”
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Logan and her Team USA teammates, Victor Montalvo, Grace “Sunny” Choi, and Jeffrey Louis
And finally, Logan brought a sound bowl to Paris.
“I meditate all the time. I gotta breathe. I like doing breathwork and journaling, and I brought my sound bowl. But for me, that’s [a must] no matter what I’m doing. It’s just a daily practice.”