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Help the victims of typhoon Ondoy!

MK — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:22:20 +0000

The Morning Before Christmas

MK — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:15:44 +0000

Booty music

MK — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:45:58 +0000

The competition we we’re doing late night training for was postponed because our club president says we need more time. I actually agree, even though I am getting my basics down smoothly now and I’m doing well on my routines, I’m still no where near competing level.

Funny how I never really thought I was improving until recently when I found I was actually getting into posture automatically and my open-outs we’re right on. I am having a big problem right now with my spot turns because the dance hall’s dance floor for some reason, is extremely slippery with all this dusty powdery stuff that probably came from the aerobic’s classes that are held there in the morning. It’s irritating having to brush your shoes soles every single training day.

We started learning tango last friday from Ma’m Fey and I’m seriously enjoying it. I still say that I don’t really like standard compared to latin (I don’t like the extremely stiff stances) but Tango was really fun cause we we’re getting the steps right away hahaha.

By the way I thought I’d share some of my ballroom music every now and then for some people who wanna try out some new stuff or wanna practice but dont think they have music to dance to.

Cha cha cha
Gimme More by britney spears
Rumba
Turn Back Time by Aqua

Backbone Bootcamp

MK — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:08:20 +0000

I didn’t have any classes yesterday but Daniella made me her partner already so I spent the afternoon in Ballroom bootcamp since our basic competition is already on Dec 13. I never knew it could get this technical, when Mam’ Belinda taught us during class last sem it seemed to be so much simpler haha.

I do enjoy training anyways though I have to say all the years of bad posture has caught up with me. My scoliosis ridden back has to be corrected to fix my posture to make my dancing look better. LOL I’ve been sleeping for the past two nights with my back facing the ceiling for to help me get used to the proper posture. My back does sort of hurt at the base but I guess thats because Im not used to sitting up straight lol.

It’s friday right now and what I hate about fridays is that there are no ballroom pe classes on fridays and since my Com12 teacher won’t be coming class till next monday, I don’t have anything to do (I used to hang out in my coach’s ballroom class and help her out with demonstrations). I’m stuck right now in the org room waiting till training time to start having fun -_-”.

Setting the standard

MK — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:06:34 +0000

Who ever said that standards we’re easier to achieve wasn’t talking about ballroom dancing. We started learning standard ballroom dances yesterday and we’re amazed at how technical it was. I actually found it harder to do than a cha cha cha, specially since we we’re doing it with latin shoes which forces you to do a toe lead instead of a heel lead. I ended up taking my shoes off and dancing on my plastic ball studded socks which did a good job on preventing me from slipping.

Funny how its been almost 6 months since I got Anita’s gelaskin and I’m still getting praises for it. People just seem to “oooh” as they pass by though I hate it when they mistake it for a gmask. Poor Anita though, I havent cleaned her for a month and her keyboard is getting really dusty haha.