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I started break dancing when I was 16.
I met the B-Boy when I was walking down the street and met a dancer and their breaking acrobatics, his dynamic dance, impacted me and that's when I got in in the B-Boy world.
At first I started break dancing mostly because it is fashionable. In my neighborhood everybody did then struck me there and then had a friend who was dancing and he said he had a band and started with them learned very quickly there and then I felt very free.
Here in Cuba we never had an international event before.
The Red Bull BC One has many qualifiers, many cyphers and a final.
I live in Guanabacoa, in the hot land, where the most prevalent are the folklore and Afro-Cuban roots. I work as a shoemaker. Is this type of work the one that alouds me to have more time to devote to the B-Boy.
Today I am a professional B-Boy and I have 12 years dancing. Well it was not easy either. I have like eight or seven years giving it all, training hard for be able to do it. I didn't know if I was going to travel or to be on television, I only did it because I liked to share with my mates. He was upset and I was going to dance then it was like my vice, my way to calm down.
My family didn't support me; they said this dance was not doing anything for me, that it was a waste of time. Its something I felt, I liked and I did, it was like that.
But well I set a goal many years ago and I said that If I was going to practice a marginal dance that nobody knows, I would try to be the best. Maybe then people can get to know me.
I knew that some day I would have that chance. I practiced and worked a lot because I knew that this moment would arrive some day.
Winning here the first place is not everything. Winning is also going to Colombia to represent Cuba, represent all B-Boys who for years have wanted to participate in a BC One, who for years have struggled.
For me to win is to show the world that in Cuba that the B-Boy is sacrifice, is like, is pleasure. That the B-Boy is practiced because we were born like that.