My name is Connie Kingston.
I was born in Guatemala
and now I live in North California, USA
I'm 16 years old, and I practice breakdance,
and my dream is to be a future Olympian.
(CONNIE IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S TOP YOUNG B-GIRLS)
(HEROES OF THE FUTURE)
(BURLINGTON, NC - UNITED STATES CONNIE'S HOMETOWN)
Connie is a great daughter, she saw breakdancing on...
..the computer, I guess it was.
Connie's skills? Pure talent. One hundred percent natural.
It's like she was born to do this, you know?
Originally, it was started to take out violence.
So a lot of people now use it as a way to express themselves.
To keep themselves motivated in life,
to keep themselves out of trouble.
Dance has saved so many people from bad things,
or took them out of bad situations.
So I think it's important because we created it,
and it's important because it has helped so many people
and it's made such a big difference
in so many people's lives - including my own.
I look up to a lot of B-girls who are on YouTube.
They really inspire me to...
..keep going - and not just in breakdancing.
You see a lot of guys do it,
so you want to see a lot of girls do it -
but to me, when you do see it, the girls doing it,
it inspires me. It makes you go,
"Wow, girls can do this. It's not just a guy sport".
Hey, you guys, I hope you liked my music video
and head spins. Tell me what you thought of it.
I wanna see your comments in the comment section below.
I got started... from watching videos online,
on sites like YouTube or Instagram.
And she's been dancing ever since.
And she started choreographing her own things pretty soon.
I started, like, actually getting really hard moves down,
like spinning on the head or on my back,
and then, I would show my parents,
and they were like...
"Stop, you're gonna hurt yourself!"
I was playing soccer at the time,
so I was doing dancing and soccer,
and it would get in the way.
Like, if I had a competition, I always had a soccer game,
so I had to choose - and I chose dancing,
and I started going to practice every day,
and I would be getting better and better.
I met Connie at a small jam in Charlotte,
and she was just this little, tiny girl spinning on her head,
and everyone was like... "Who is that?"
And, you know, everyone had introduced me to her,
and it was just crazy to see someone... 10 years old...
..spinning on her head...
..almost beating everybody.
I think Connie's progress from the beginning,
all the way to now is incredible.
It's been amazing, and it's just been inspiring to us,
and to the scene as a whole, the whole North Carolina scene,
and I hope she inspires the United States.
You know, if you put your mind into anything, you can do it.
So, she has that mindset.
She does competitions,
and they can be on the local level,
state level or national level.
I always get a little weird feeling.
Since I've been competing here for so long,
it's like I'm used to all the people and stuff.
But if I'm in a new area, like a new state,
I get kinda nervous, because, it's like...
"Oh my gosh, what moves am I gonna do?"
And then, when I finally go out,
it depends on how confident I feel.
Connie vs Sam! Ready...go!
(KAWASAKI, JAPAN, WDSF WORLD YOUTH BREAKING CHAMPIONSHIP)
When I win, I feel happy, cos it's like...
..but at the same time, I'm exhausted.
It's a crazy feeling, winning,
because I've been dancing for so long,
it's, like, finally my hard work has come to use.
Losing, to me, makes me feel like
I know what to do and what not to do now.
So it makes me feel like get back to training,
and work harder.
My goals are to travel a lot and make it
to bigger competitions around the world.
I wanna get more well-known.
Winning competitions a lot and performing.
You can't really deny it,
if you look her up on her footage,
she's number 8 in the world, I guess.
She speaks for herself.
One of my dreams, if they do keep doing this
and they let US compete, to be a future Olympian,
and then, if they even have breakdancing
in the real Olympics, it would be a dream
to just compete in the actual Olympic Games.
That'd be amazing.
(HER TIME IS NOW)