Late Update + Nov10th Jam

We continue to be lax on timely updates, ah well. Lets see, on Tues Oct 9th we ended up being one of the showcases for an event put together by the extreme sports society. Yes what we do is a dance but there is also an athletic component. So it kinda fit the theme of the event. We ended up splitting up and battling each other. Was pretty fun.

Another recent showcase we did was on the 19th Oct. Was at a local primary school, they had been learning ‘breakdance’ moves for the few weeks and for a treat they got to see real live ‘breakdancers’ at the end of their unit. We went and did a little showcase battle (that was apparently one of the focus topics) for them. They enjoyed it and even showed us what they could do. Was fun. We did it for free too.

Coming up on Nov 10th there is a charity parity to save southsea skate park. We are working to get more bboys down so we can have a fun little jam as part of the party. More updates later.

How it went

Welsh Champs Views

Things have been slightly hectic for some of us so we’ve been a bit late in posting an update. Well in the Welsh Champs we got eliminated at the quarter final by the local heroes H2O. The competition was well run but arguably tried to fit too much in. We had a substantial wait (counted in hours) between our first and second battle. By when we were quite tired from waiting and cyphering (dancing outside the competition in open circles).

Another complaint is that the amount of time allowed for the crew battles, considering the average crew size, was not enough. There was not enough time for everyone to represent adequately. With 7 people, to allow everyone to go out at least twice the battle should have gone for about 10 minutes instead of 7 (Counted by:

With crewSize = 7 , AverageSetLength = 20 secs and TimesOutEach = 2). Ten minutes would allow 2 or 3 members to go out an extra third time as well, depending on how things played out. For a 7 min battle we get a value of 1.5 times out, which is about right, all but 1 or 2 get to go out only once. Not cool.

The Day After Welsh: @ Albert Road Festival

We also ended up dancing for a short session during the Albert Road Festival dealie on Sun 29th September. By the end we were all quite tired after three days of constant exertion.

Classes

Well it seems the freshers fair went down rather poorly with only 4 members total signing on both days. We had class on friday, the 5th but there were only about 4 or 5 people, excluding us, there. We went over basics emphasizing the nature of the dance and trying to provide background to the moves. We’ll have to work on expanding our class size.

Third Year Anniversary

Tonight we’ll be doing a little dancing at the University of Portsmouth International Event. Should be okay. Tomorrow we shall be participating in the Welsh Champs. We’ll report soon on how that went. Finally, in a few days it will be the third year anniversary of our crew.

Thats right most of us have only been doing this for about 3 years, when we started we could not and were afraid to dance. This should serve as a testament to the fact that anyone can do this dance so long as they believe in themselves and that it requires no special natural born athletic or dance ability.

Fresher’s Fayre

Its a new year and we’re looking to do some interesting things this year with the club. 5,000 flyers which give information on training times and locations have been ordered in time for the Fresher’s Fayre on the 3′rd and 4′th of October. More Info as it comes about.

Days till Welsh Champs: 5