My Life as a Breakdancer (video)

Never in my wildest dreams did I see myself dancing at a break dance competition where break dancers from all over Thailand would gather to compete.  Well, I’m adding it to the bucket list just so I can cross it off.

How did I get sucked into this crazy competition?  Well, part of our ministry this month was witnessing to break dancers.  Every night, these youth come together to dance in Phitsanulok.  Every night that our team went we would see new faces.  Some of the break dancers were experienced and others were just learning.  It was really fun to see the more experienced dancers help the ones that were just learning.  Among the newbies, was our team, including myself.  When the locals break dance, it looks so easy.  It isn’t easy, that is for sure. 

Before you can get to the flips and spins, you learn a lot of foot work.  Sounds easy, looks easy, but for the coordinately challenged, it isn’t so simple.  So we would practice and practice.  There was one dance that our team saw and fell in love with it.  We asked Heart, the leader of the crew, to teach us how to do the dance.  To my surprise, he agreed.  The first move was easy, moving the arms.  Then we moved to arms and feet and it got harder.  But every night we came back, we would practice and practice.  Then we were asked to be apart of their dance for the competition on Sunday… WHAT?!  They trusted us white people from America to dance?  So of course we said yes.  When we came back, Heart made us practice over and over, even when we wanted to sit and watch the b-boys dance.  I’m happy to say that we aren’t that bad anymore.  We dance together and on beat.  Not bad for having no coordination.

Spending time with these boys has been a huge blessing.  Seeing their love and dedication for what they do has really inspired my walk with the Lord.  If we take the things that we love the most and put that time and dedication into our walk with the Lord, how different would our walk be?  A theme for my race has been pursuing the Lord with my whole heart and with everything I am.  It isn’t what my flesh naturally gravitates toward, but when I do pursue after Him, I feel more and more in love with Him.