"I can't believe I'm really here." "Wow, Africa has really suffered." "I wish they could see it in Senegal." "I had never imagined this." "It's great." "Got the papers?" "For Senegal" "They look good." "Give them to me." "I'll tell you what's inside." "Is it a check?" "I hope it's a check." "I am very happy." "I'm thankful to Crazy Elements." "We have prayed for this." "Let's see." "I can't see." "Listen up." "I'm listening." "I can tell you that you're invited to represent your country in the Red Bull BC One in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Steptember 22, 2007." "You have to train every day." "You have to work hard." "It's gonna be tough." "I swear I'm gonna go to the finals or the semi-finals." "I swear." "Don't eat chili peppers or anything." "No tuna." "No parties and no cigarettes." "You know I don't smoke." "Stay away from smokers." "We support you." "Be sure that Senegal is proud of you." "Give it to your father." "I wish you luck on your journey." "Like everyone else." "I wish you much success." "I don't know what to say." "I'm speechlees." "That is all." "I'm Lilou." "I come from a ghetto." "Only immigrants live here." "I live in France, but I'm not French." "I was raised as an Algerian, I eat Algerian food, and I speak the language." "We have a good life." "We have a good life;" "they live like chickens in a battery cage." "If you don't work and you don't go to school then you fall into a certain routine." "Then you want to earn quick money." "I have avoided that by dancing." "This one I won in 2005." "This is mine." "Every b-boy dreams of winning this contest at least once in his life." "Red Bull wanted the championship belt back for the 2006 competition." "They've called, They've e-mailed me  and they said I had to give it back." "I told them that I didn't have it at home." "That it was not here, but in Algeria." "That may be true, or not." "They said that they would pick it up themselves in Algeria." "So, I said I had no address, and it was somewhere in the mountains." "That may be true, or not." "They were desperate, but what am I without this thing?" "All the places that I have been, are thanks to dancing." "I've vistied five continents." "Sao Paulo?" "That is here." "I didn't even make it through the first round." "It was about who was best in all three areas." "It's definitely controversial, but it does not matter." "It is somewhat strange." "Maybe it's because of the belt because I haven't been back." "I don't want revenge this year." "I want to show that I can still get past the first round." "With my skill, I don't deserve get killed in the first round." "We'll see what happens this year." "The next stop is Johannesburg." "God willing, I'll do well." "You okay?" "Yeah, fine." "Are you French?" "No, I'm from Senegal." "Ah you're from Senegal." "But he speaks French." "We also speak French there." "He sounds like a Parisian." "Indeed." "You sound like a Parisian." "No, I'm from Dakar." "When did you get here?" "I've been here for two hours." "For two hours?" "Yeah" "Is it far from Dakar?" "No, it's an eight-hour flight." "Only eight hours?" "It took Spee-D about 23 hours." "Then we can't complain." "No, not really." "Are you here alone?" "Yeah, completely alone." "How are you doing in France?" "I'm fine." "We will battle each other, Lilou." "Dakar is ready for you." "Come one." "You should follow our battles there." "Do you follow our battles?" "No, I don't really follow battles anymore." "We don't do it in France." "I'm worried most about the first round." "The other rounds and the finals are no problem." "The importance of this competition weighs heavily on me." "Every b-boy in Senegal is counting on me." "It's like I've got the keys to the kingdom and now I'm responsible for the castle." "And who are you?" "Mbegne Kasse." "Where are you from?" "From Medina" "I've heard about you, the dancer." "That's right, sir." "Is it really you?" "Indeed." "Come inside." "Won't you sit down?" "Why are you here?" "A courtesy call." "It must be something else." "I wanted to ask you what you think about dancing." "Your dance?" "What do you do?" "Hip hop and breakdancing." "We turn on our heads or we stand on our hands." "Why do you do it?" "We love dancing." "You dance like that just because you like it?" "No, that's just the beginning." "It's the only way I can express myself." "Through dancing I can express myself, and every movement has a meaning." "It's like a boxing match." "But you don't really hit each other." "No, it's not fighting." "Let's see:" "forwards and backwards." "My fight is visible in my motion." "Each step may depict an attack." "I was hoping you would visit our training camp." "Let's go." "This is our nightly ritual:" "The music is hard, and we train." "Have a look around." "So it continues throughout the day." "It's hard, we get no help." "Do you need help?" "Yes, but there was no interest." "Take this." "Tigh it tight." "I did, but it came loose." "Would you help me?" "No, that is up to you." "Make sure the knot is good, even if you re-do it." "Tighten it until you have a ball." "If you do it right and have confidence it shows what you're made of and nobody can take it away from you." "Then you get what you deserve, and no one will oppose." "Do it yourself." "Yes, good." "That's it." "Oh, I fogot to tell you about the invitation that I got." "I would like to show it to you." "I may represent Senegal, South Africa." "You should do your best." "Come back, and then go again." "This is the first of many trips." "Until today, I had no idea what dance meant." "God knows I really had no idea." "You must open our eyes." "If you are not rich, you can still achive something  by commitment, hard work and trust." "No one can take your art from you." "That is yours, and yours alone." "Without you it has no meaning." "Giving up is not an option if you want to succeed." "If you don't have patience, everything will come to nothing." "You've chosen this path, there's no turning back." "My name is Taisuke." "I'll be 17 years old." "Being a b-boy is like life itself for me." "Even when I'm old I won't forget the breakbeat." "I won't separate from it." "Until I'm dead." "I was born in Nagasaki." "I enjoyed learing new techniques for a long time." "I was fourteen or fifteen when I started to face serious problems." "Then I found it to be no fun anymore." "I told my parents that I wanted to leave." "It was that bad." "At the moment everything is all right." "I am surrounded by a new family." "I would not go back to Nagasaki." "I would forever remain in Tokyo." "Recenly I have been quite interest in schoolgirls." "We didn't have school uniforms in my school." "That sucks." "Not in high school." "Only in the lager schools." "That's too bad." "So you missed all those schoolgirls in their uniforms." "What a shame." "You look stupid in a uniform." "It is a form of oppression." "Wiouth school uniforms you are free." "But I get a kick out of seeing girls in school uniforms." "Such beautiful legs like that." "I could just eat them up." "It has now been three or four months in Tokyo." "My appearance is already changing." "The way I move, has also changed." "It's only tough in the summer." "I want to swim back in the sea." "I always went swimming twice a day." "Then I looked at the ground, and the ocean seemed so deep." "I once dived so deep that I almost ran out of breath." "I panicked." "I looked up, and I had gone so deep." "I thought:" "Oh, damn." "In a battle you experience the same excitement." "I also feel the music and my performance is perfect and the audience... ..then I really feel alive." "Then I think:" "Oh, damn." "That is exactly the same feeling." "Ronnie is in shape, I saw him practice yesterday." "He has progressed considerably." "Really?" "Yeah" "He seems very strong." "They're all so good, and I don't feel strong." "Have you no confidence?" "No, I don't." "Why not?" "Because the others are so good." "I wonder why I think about it." "Last year I won, why am I not reaxed?" "But the feeling is lost." "I won last time, I'm afraid that if I lose  people will think I'm lazy." "Are you not proud that you are Hong 10?" "No." "Are you not proud?" "No, I'm not." "Why?" "No, I must convince myself more." "Convince yourself?" "I need to continue to doubt myself." "If you do it right and you're happy with yourself then you tend to leave it." "I think you should always try to improve yourself." "When I think back then I won because I was lucky, not because I was good." "I was lucky." "Are you not convinced that you'll win?" "If I'm lucky enough I'll win." "If I'm lucky this year, then I'll win again." "I often battle against the Americans, the so-called superpower." "I wear the keffiyeh to show that I feel solidarity with all Arabs." "This is my stuggle, but in the circle." "The next generation of break dancers." "I often go to Algeria." "I like to go back to my roots." "I am looking for my family." "I want to see how they live." "It's very different here." "People will think: what a mess." "This is not Las Vegas." "There is no bling-bling to be found." "If we go back, we are immigrants." "Here one sees us as immigrants." "It is difficult in both countries." "We are at the Opera House." "All dancers come here together, this is where break dancing started." "In 2003 there was a bar, and because it was our place we got a new room, at the top of the building." "That year we becaume national champion and world champion." "They wanted to help us out." "We have put the space to good use and it continues to adapt to our needs." "Not everyone has such a space available." "They can't say that, it's not true." "I lost three to two." "You did great."