After soaking my feet in a nice lavendar bath, I filed them and cut my toe nails. Yep, I feel so good now, knowing did something good for my feet.
I just came across some videos on youtube, which I thought might be helpful to other people like me, who have weak ankles.. They give small examples of what you could do to warm up your joints before zumba class.
Now, my zumba instructor is a professional dancer, who also teaches ballet, so I'm sure he knows how we should warm up. Our warm up routines changes from time to time.. But I think I will think about these exercises in the future, because of my weak ankles. I also own a balance board, which I was recommended by my doctor about a decade ago, when my ankle problem was at it worst. Back then, I could even trip over my own big toe. Well, my shape ups shoes has helped me gain strength in my ankles and now zumba is helping along. It's funny, with my weak ankles, you would think it was impossible for me to do zumba. But nope, because of my good shoes, I can do it for hours and hours.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Dancer's feet and samba
I have waited long enough.. It was definitely time, so I finaly did it! I made a nice foot bath with lavender oil, in which I'm currently resting my dancing feet. You know how ballet dancer's feet look? No, that's not how bad mine are, but I will say, you can see that my feet is definitely showing signs of being stressed and squeezed. So I'm currently enjoying my first footbath in years and I've actualy decided, that I will turn this into a habit. So from now on, I plan on making myself a nice footbath every Sunday night. I know I could do so much more on pampering myself, but for now, my feet is what I will be focusing on.
This was my first week back at work since my long Easterbreak. I was expecting to be tired, but for some reason, it wasn't hard to adjust again at all.
Monday night, I had a latin mix and dance fit class. It was great as always. However, I have weak ankles and hypermobile joints, which resulted in a Tuesday where I could hardly walk. The thing is. For some reasons, the dance fit instructor always wants us to do dance routines with heel and toe positions that I struggle putting my feet into, because of my weak ankles. The problem is. I try my hardest to do them and it doesn't hurt eventhough I struggle. But the next day, I feel the pain that a normal person would feel when positioning the foot in a bad way, leading to an injury... One day too late to stop in time to avoid the injury. The injury I often So Tuesday morning, I found myself crawling on the floor to save time. The injury I get with my ankles, is basicaly what you would call a sprained ankle. I'm used to this, so I know how to take care of my ankles. I put on my ankle pain relief supports, which I always make sure to use when dancing and doing zumba. That didn't make me walk properly, but it was better than not wearing them. I went to work, and although I walked a lot slower than normal, I was able to do work. When I got home, I had a pain relief tablet, that took some of the pain away, but when I went to bed that night, I still didn't have my proper walk back. I was hoping that a night in bed would work magic, so I would not feel any pain the next morning.
Wednesday the pain was gone and my foot seemed back to normal and I was hoping that I could attend the samba class later that afternoon. I did it and it was so much fun! I signed up for 4 samba classes at the gym, 1 class each Wednesday in May. May 28th. my city has a huge carnival where everyone can attend , so my gym made the samba classes for people to get inspired on how to dance in the parade. I'm not joining the parade, but always go to see it. I love to see how people dress out and especialy love to see how much effort the big troops have put into it. And of course, I love the music. I don't really remember if any of the troops ever danced real samba here in my city... Well, this year, I'll try to keep an eye out for real samba. Well, the samba class was so much fun. I heard that the instructor had actualy been pulled in as a substitut for my Brazilian zumba instructor at the other gym, some weeks ago, so I was looking forward to see who the instructor was and how good she would be. I noticed, that I had seen the instructor before. She has been at some of my latin mix classes, taking notes as if she was in the process of becoming a latin mix instructor. I think she recognised me. I noticed she was wearing shoes from the dance sneakers shop in town, where I also bought mine. To me, the samba class seemed like a normal latin mix class, but with a lot of energy put into it. I didn't spot any of the Brazilian samba steps that we have be practicing at zumba, but who knows.. maybe those will come next time. I think it was a great exercise and told the instructor that she would be a good substitute for our zumba instructor any time.
Friday I had my 2 usual zumba classes. My cousin joined the first class like last Friday. I'm so happy that she also sees zumba as a fun way to work out!
Saturday the instructor was running a bit late, but we're used to that. However, normaly we would just stay there for the extra minutes, but this time, the room was rented out for a book reception, so as the time was 12:05 PM, some old men was standing in the door looking very annoyed with the situation. I always stand in the corner by the door, so I tried talking with the men, but they were not giving in. So I had to think of a creative way to inform our instructor, so I did a little improvised dance to the front of the room where he was, to let him know, that the men had paid money to be in the room now, so we had to end the zumba class in the middle of the last routine and without stretch out. Well, I'm used to leaving a dance class without stretch out and doing my own stretch out in the changing room, so I was ok with it. I did some stretch out afterwards and haven't felt any pain anywhere in my body, so I guess I did ok.
This upcoming week, my schedule looks the same.
Monday: Latin Mix & Dance Fit
Wednesday: Samba
Friday: 2xZumba
Saturday: Zumba
I hope I will always be able to fill out my work out schedule with atlest 6 hours of work out every week. Lately I've had to change my schedule every now and then, and I hope that, one way and the other.
I think it's time for me to take up my feet and rest on the sofa for the rest of the evening. Tomorrow is the beginning of a new week!
This was my first week back at work since my long Easterbreak. I was expecting to be tired, but for some reason, it wasn't hard to adjust again at all.
Monday night, I had a latin mix and dance fit class. It was great as always. However, I have weak ankles and hypermobile joints, which resulted in a Tuesday where I could hardly walk. The thing is. For some reasons, the dance fit instructor always wants us to do dance routines with heel and toe positions that I struggle putting my feet into, because of my weak ankles. The problem is. I try my hardest to do them and it doesn't hurt eventhough I struggle. But the next day, I feel the pain that a normal person would feel when positioning the foot in a bad way, leading to an injury... One day too late to stop in time to avoid the injury. The injury I often So Tuesday morning, I found myself crawling on the floor to save time. The injury I get with my ankles, is basicaly what you would call a sprained ankle. I'm used to this, so I know how to take care of my ankles. I put on my ankle pain relief supports, which I always make sure to use when dancing and doing zumba. That didn't make me walk properly, but it was better than not wearing them. I went to work, and although I walked a lot slower than normal, I was able to do work. When I got home, I had a pain relief tablet, that took some of the pain away, but when I went to bed that night, I still didn't have my proper walk back. I was hoping that a night in bed would work magic, so I would not feel any pain the next morning.
Wednesday the pain was gone and my foot seemed back to normal and I was hoping that I could attend the samba class later that afternoon. I did it and it was so much fun! I signed up for 4 samba classes at the gym, 1 class each Wednesday in May. May 28th. my city has a huge carnival where everyone can attend , so my gym made the samba classes for people to get inspired on how to dance in the parade. I'm not joining the parade, but always go to see it. I love to see how people dress out and especialy love to see how much effort the big troops have put into it. And of course, I love the music. I don't really remember if any of the troops ever danced real samba here in my city... Well, this year, I'll try to keep an eye out for real samba. Well, the samba class was so much fun. I heard that the instructor had actualy been pulled in as a substitut for my Brazilian zumba instructor at the other gym, some weeks ago, so I was looking forward to see who the instructor was and how good she would be. I noticed, that I had seen the instructor before. She has been at some of my latin mix classes, taking notes as if she was in the process of becoming a latin mix instructor. I think she recognised me. I noticed she was wearing shoes from the dance sneakers shop in town, where I also bought mine. To me, the samba class seemed like a normal latin mix class, but with a lot of energy put into it. I didn't spot any of the Brazilian samba steps that we have be practicing at zumba, but who knows.. maybe those will come next time. I think it was a great exercise and told the instructor that she would be a good substitute for our zumba instructor any time.
Friday I had my 2 usual zumba classes. My cousin joined the first class like last Friday. I'm so happy that she also sees zumba as a fun way to work out!
Saturday the instructor was running a bit late, but we're used to that. However, normaly we would just stay there for the extra minutes, but this time, the room was rented out for a book reception, so as the time was 12:05 PM, some old men was standing in the door looking very annoyed with the situation. I always stand in the corner by the door, so I tried talking with the men, but they were not giving in. So I had to think of a creative way to inform our instructor, so I did a little improvised dance to the front of the room where he was, to let him know, that the men had paid money to be in the room now, so we had to end the zumba class in the middle of the last routine and without stretch out. Well, I'm used to leaving a dance class without stretch out and doing my own stretch out in the changing room, so I was ok with it. I did some stretch out afterwards and haven't felt any pain anywhere in my body, so I guess I did ok.
This upcoming week, my schedule looks the same.
Monday: Latin Mix & Dance Fit
Wednesday: Samba
Friday: 2xZumba
Saturday: Zumba
I hope I will always be able to fill out my work out schedule with atlest 6 hours of work out every week. Lately I've had to change my schedule every now and then, and I hope that, one way and the other.
I think it's time for me to take up my feet and rest on the sofa for the rest of the evening. Tomorrow is the beginning of a new week!
Friday, April 29, 2011
International Day of the Dance
Our instructor informed us, that today was "Day of the Dance." A day to honor Jean-Georges Noverre. This knowledge is from Wikipidia, so I'm sorry for any mistakes.
Copied from Wikipidia:
Jean-Georges Noverre (29 April 1727 – 19 October 1810) was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century. His birthday is now observed as International Dance Day.
His first professional appearances occurred as a youth in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, at Fontainebleau, in Berlin before Frederick II and his brother Prince Henry of Prussia, in Dresden and Strasburg. He moved to Strasbourg where he remained until 1750 before moving to Lyon. In 1751, he composed his first great work, Les Fêtes Chinoises for Marseilles. The work was revived in Paris in 1754 to great acclaim. In 1755, he was invited by Garrick to London, where he remained for two years.
Between 1758 and 1760 he produced several ballets at Lyon, and published his Lettres sur la danse et les ballets. It is from this period that the revolution in the art of the ballet for which Noverre was responsible can be dated. He was next engaged by Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg, and later Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, until 1774. In 1775, he was appointed maître des ballets of the Paris Opera at the request of Queen Marie Antoinette. He returned to Vienna in Spring of 1776 to stage ballets there but in June 1776 he returned again to Paris. He regained this post until the French Revolution reduced him to poverty. He died on October 19, 1810, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Here is a video showing a break group doing robot dance for day of the dance last year. They song is in Danish and about using your body as a machine. Song and dance goes well together:
Here's just a random zumba video that I found.. I love when kids spontaniously starts to dance along
That reminds me about last Wednesday when me and my friend went to listen to some music in the park. She had her 1-year-old daught with. Her daughter loves to dance, but she also has a passion for music. Every time I go to visit them, she wants me to play music on my phone. I keep my phone in a wallet case, which she was very amused by. Thinking, howcome music comes out of this thing? I therefore call it my "music machine" when I'm with her. In the park, we were sitting on a blanket and she came over to sit with me so we could just sit there and enjoy the music together, dancing while sitting. If I star to sing, she will start singing, too. She hasn't started talking yet, but she loves to sing by humming. She's so cute. When she stands up to dance, I try to teach her things like, single, single, double. Of course she can't take commands yet, but if I shake her gently to the side, I think she will get it one day. A funny thing that I taught her in the park was, shaking her arm like they do at hip hop shows. You know, if you're at a show, the music is great, you will take your arms up and start to shake them as if your hands are pushing something down to the ground. If I do that, the little 1-year-old will take her arm up and do the same. She's so clever.
Because I have such a passion for music and dancing, I just love to see how people of all ages enjoy music and dance, too, the way I always have! I remember when my brother FINALY started to listen to much when he was a kid. It made me proud, as if he had reached a new level in his life.
So people, do a little dance today in honor of Jean-Georges Noverre!
Copied from Wikipidia:
Jean-Georges Noverre (29 April 1727 – 19 October 1810) was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century. His birthday is now observed as International Dance Day.
His first professional appearances occurred as a youth in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, at Fontainebleau, in Berlin before Frederick II and his brother Prince Henry of Prussia, in Dresden and Strasburg. He moved to Strasbourg where he remained until 1750 before moving to Lyon. In 1751, he composed his first great work, Les Fêtes Chinoises for Marseilles. The work was revived in Paris in 1754 to great acclaim. In 1755, he was invited by Garrick to London, where he remained for two years.
Between 1758 and 1760 he produced several ballets at Lyon, and published his Lettres sur la danse et les ballets. It is from this period that the revolution in the art of the ballet for which Noverre was responsible can be dated. He was next engaged by Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg, and later Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, until 1774. In 1775, he was appointed maître des ballets of the Paris Opera at the request of Queen Marie Antoinette. He returned to Vienna in Spring of 1776 to stage ballets there but in June 1776 he returned again to Paris. He regained this post until the French Revolution reduced him to poverty. He died on October 19, 1810, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Here is a video showing a break group doing robot dance for day of the dance last year. They song is in Danish and about using your body as a machine. Song and dance goes well together:
Here's just a random zumba video that I found.. I love when kids spontaniously starts to dance along
That reminds me about last Wednesday when me and my friend went to listen to some music in the park. She had her 1-year-old daught with. Her daughter loves to dance, but she also has a passion for music. Every time I go to visit them, she wants me to play music on my phone. I keep my phone in a wallet case, which she was very amused by. Thinking, howcome music comes out of this thing? I therefore call it my "music machine" when I'm with her. In the park, we were sitting on a blanket and she came over to sit with me so we could just sit there and enjoy the music together, dancing while sitting. If I star to sing, she will start singing, too. She hasn't started talking yet, but she loves to sing by humming. She's so cute. When she stands up to dance, I try to teach her things like, single, single, double. Of course she can't take commands yet, but if I shake her gently to the side, I think she will get it one day. A funny thing that I taught her in the park was, shaking her arm like they do at hip hop shows. You know, if you're at a show, the music is great, you will take your arms up and start to shake them as if your hands are pushing something down to the ground. If I do that, the little 1-year-old will take her arm up and do the same. She's so clever.
Because I have such a passion for music and dancing, I just love to see how people of all ages enjoy music and dance, too, the way I always have! I remember when my brother FINALY started to listen to much when he was a kid. It made me proud, as if he had reached a new level in his life.
So people, do a little dance today in honor of Jean-Georges Noverre!
Skipping zumba, the Royal wedding and a Family affair
Last Friday, zumba was off due to the holidays. Saturday they put two substitue instructors on the job, as our instructor would be away on holiday. I was planning on going to zumba Saturday morning. I woke up and got ready, but wanted to check the meet-up at the gym's website before leaving. To my surprise, I saw that 17 people would not be coming, which would leave me alone with just 10 other women. So I decided to stay home. After all, I was on my holidays, too. So I didn't go.
Monday I was at my usual latin mix and dance fit class. The instructor has come up with some hard steps for dance fit. They're not realy hard, it's just that I have this problem with my ancles, making it impossible for me to do those steps properly, as it was suppose to be small, but super fast, stepping back and forward on the heels.. And well, I couldn't do it, so I just did something to make it look like I was doing the right thing. Well, my calfs were aching so much afterwards, and the next day. I guess I didn't stretch out enough.
Tuesday I went to the other gym for a class of latin mix and dance fit. Luckily the dance fit routines seem better for my foot work, at the Tuesday classes. Sadly this was the last time that this gym would be offering latin mix and dance fit classes on a Tuesday. The instructor wanted to finish her classes here, with waacking. Waacking is basicaly dance routines with your arms. I've actualy become so good at whacking, that I was able to put some attitude into what I was doing. But then again, the whacking that we've been working with in these classes has been realy simple. I wish I knew how to waack this way:
It was sad to end the dance fit class that day, knowing that I lost one of my work out days. It seems that lately I have to make a new schedule all the time. In order to replace my Tuesday work out, I saw, that the same gym is offering samba classes all May. Every year, by the end of May, my city has a big carnval, where everyone can join. Our carnival is open for everyone who wants to join. Everyone can join the parade. I have no intention of joining the parade, but thought it would be fun to join in on the samba classes.
My work out schedule for the month of May will look like this:
Monday: Latin Mix, Dance fit
Wednesday: Samba
Friday: 2 x Zumba
Saturday: Zumba
If I feel that I need to work out more, I can always decide to go to the two other gyms in town. But for now, I'm satisfied. However, knowing that the gym where I go to for my zumba classes, will be closed for 3 weeks in June and July, makes me a bit worried. But I will find a way.
I'm not going to Zumba tomorrow. The instructor is going to another zumba marathon down in the country. They did put a substitut instructor on the job, but since there is a big flea market that I would like to go to with my family, I decided to cancel.
Today was the big day of the royal wedding in Great Britain. Being a true Dane, I'm also a big royalist. Althoufh I must say, the royal family in GB hasn't been on my mind since Diana died. Hopefuly, the newly weds, will be able to change the boring way the royals seem to be ruling in Great Britain. I think they're in need of some young spirits.
Anyway, to honor the newly weds, T-mobile made this comercial using royal lookalikes. I think it's awesome! Actualy the zumba group on facebook, was the one who introduced me to this video, as they mentioned it could be zumba... Hmmmmmm it has a variety of funny dance moves in it. Check for yourself
I saw the wedding cermony before I went to zumba, but I had to take a shower and get ready, just as they were leaving the church.
Wednesday I went to the German border with my parents, brother and his girlfriend. I was determined on buying some cute tops for the summer and ended up buying... 18!! I had the money and feel like showing myself in cute, printed tops this summer. Just as we were leaving a mini mall, my mom said she saw some shoes that I should go see. She wasn't sure if they were Skechers' Shape Ups, which are currently my no. 1 shoe. I went to the shop and couldn't believe my owns eyes. It was indeed the Shape Ups. Now I already promised myself to buy the new Spring collection Shape Ups, as I allow myself to buy a new pair every day. Well, in the German shop, they were 80 $ off the price they have here in Denmark. It would be silly not to buy them, so I did.
I love them, but as I looked at them when I got home, I realised that they were not the regular shape up shoes, that I was going to buy in a shop here... But Shape Up "toners" - which means, they have a different sole. However, They're still so comfortable to wear. Very soft. And they have such a sparkle. When the sun hits them, they light up and sparkle as if they were made of diamonds:
The instuctor brought some new music today along with some old. He also said that his doctor had warned him to take it easy, as he had a minor damage. Well, if you love zumba, there's just no doctor that can keep you away.. Here I'm thinking back on the time that my doctor told me the same thing, and I went against his wishes. Well, it didn't harm me. Anyway, he said he might be taking it slow, but of course that was not what happened. He came up with new funny, but hard to figure out, steps. But as always, we just goof around and have fun trying to do what he wants us to do.
In the break between the two classes, my cousin showed up. She had asked me before where my regular zumba classes were and how she signed up etc. I think it was easy for her to tell the difference between the other zumba that we both used to go to, and this. I think the zumba I do Friday and Saturday is much more efficient than what I do to work out the other days. Why do I think that? Well, I sweat more and I have a hard time catching my breath cause there is so much cardio involved in the dance routines our instructor comes up with. He might be doing a special zumba program, to test if zumba is working.. Some people say they're not losing weight. But I think I'm living proof, that zumba does work. I lost weight. But not only did I lose weight, I lost sizes in clothes! I can now fit some of the clothes I bought way too small. My main problem has always been my arms. I always had to cover my arms, which meant I had to wear the same "see through" mesh shirt over my top, every time I went out.. But I found new things to wear, to cover my arms, and it actualy tucks them in so that they don't look fat at all. In fact, I lost so much fat on my arms, that the little "bingo arms" I have left now, is lose skin with a minor fat cover on them. The same goes for my stomach. Lose skin with a small fat cover.. My legs are giant because I've been building up a lot of muscle carrying around the weight that I used to.. But a big part of my thigs and butt was fat. I don't think I'll ever get so skinny legs, that the skin will be lose, so instead, I try to keep them firm, by working out. I feel much better about my body now.. Not because I lost a lot of weight, but because I gained a much better figure.. This has made me think, that this summer, I want to start wearing dresses!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
My dance movie collection
These are the dance movies that I currently own. I always loved music and dancing.
I remember going to the movies as a 12-year-old watching "Dirty Dancing" 4 times. It was not so much because of the dancing, but more likely because my friend had a crush on Patrick Swayze (R.I.P.). Of course it rubbed off on me, so much, that I memmorized his licence plate in the movie "SP2201" - ha ha.. I don't think I'll ever forget. Useless knowledge, but oh well.
Later on, "Save the Last Dance" became my favorite movie, and it still is. Funny thing is. They made a "Dirty Dancing 2" and a "Save the Last Dance 2." I prefer the first "Save the Last Dance," but when it comes to "Dirty Dancing," I actualy think the second movie is the best... But that's because of the music. I think I mentioned it before. I'm not that big a fan of old music, and since I've now become aware of salsa and latin music in general, I actualy love "Dirty Dancing 2."
I bought the movie "King of Salsa" thinking it would be a dance movie, but instead it turned out to be about a salsa singer and his wife. Marc Anthony and Jeniffer Lopez are the couple in the movie, as in real life. I like them both as singers.. Especialy this cute song, which is one of my favorite Spanish songs:
I'm missing a couple of movies in my collection, I know.. But eventualy I'm sure I will get them. The Bollywood movie is one that I got from my brother. I love Bollywood music. I love how they use loads of bright colors in the movies, and a lot of singing and dancing. I do have a favorite Bollywood movie, too. "Devdas" - a long and romantic movie.
I remember one summer when my brother would drive around playing Bollywood music in his car, which is sooooo unusual here in denmark. But we had fun with it.
Later on, "Save the Last Dance" became my favorite movie, and it still is. Funny thing is. They made a "Dirty Dancing 2" and a "Save the Last Dance 2." I prefer the first "Save the Last Dance," but when it comes to "Dirty Dancing," I actualy think the second movie is the best... But that's because of the music. I think I mentioned it before. I'm not that big a fan of old music, and since I've now become aware of salsa and latin music in general, I actualy love "Dirty Dancing 2."
I bought the movie "King of Salsa" thinking it would be a dance movie, but instead it turned out to be about a salsa singer and his wife. Marc Anthony and Jeniffer Lopez are the couple in the movie, as in real life. I like them both as singers.. Especialy this cute song, which is one of my favorite Spanish songs:
I'm missing a couple of movies in my collection, I know.. But eventualy I'm sure I will get them. The Bollywood movie is one that I got from my brother. I love Bollywood music. I love how they use loads of bright colors in the movies, and a lot of singing and dancing. I do have a favorite Bollywood movie, too. "Devdas" - a long and romantic movie.
I remember one summer when my brother would drive around playing Bollywood music in his car, which is sooooo unusual here in denmark. But we had fun with it.
Spring break!
Spring break has realy hit me and every gym in town.. Normaly when I took some days off work, I've been able to attend some morning dance classes at the gyms, but this time, it's hard to find any, because of the Easter holidays. But I must admit, with the weather being super warm, I could see myself living on the balcony and forgetting all about the gym for a while. But, but, but.. That can be very dangerous, so I will try to work out a schedule that is not gonna do too much damage on my weight. I think I might bring back an old work out, that I used to do years ago. It's called WALKING!!! There is a great pond near by, that I love coming to.. So a walk to the pond every day, should fix the lack of work out.
However, today I have a latin mix and a dance fit class to attend. Last night I was at a 2 hour Easter Event in the gym I normaly go to for my zumba classes. It was a mix of feminess, salsa and zumba. The instructors were my zumba instructor and a female instructor.
We started off with feminess. Feminess being strp fitness. The instructor showed us some simple routines. They really were simple, but because I have so much energy in me, it has always been hard for me to dance to slow music. I didn't see it turning out to be a dance at all.. It was more like a catwalk with a few sexified expressions. After feminess, my instructor took over and started teaching us a few simple salsa steps, but of course he turned it into a show by making us say things like "ay ay ay" - "arrrrrrrrrrrrrriba" and "caramba!" while dancing. I brought my friend, so we were joking a lot with it. After salsa, zumba took over.. Finaly something familiar. After zumba, the strip fitness was back. This time with some weird expressions on the floor. Now putting my legs up in the air is just not something I'm used to doing with that big of a company, so I couldn't help but giggling. It was realy odd being giving a routine to do while being on the floor, which involved "stripper legs" and body rolls. Funny, though. The funny thing is, I had been watching "Flashdance" the night before, and I'm sure the female instructor has found some of her inspiration in that movie. She finished off the event by showing us her own routine, that she will be using for a Danish national strip dance contest. It was ok, but I do think she could have come up with something better... But that is just the dancer in me trying to say, it was not showbizz enough, or something.. Hmmmm She used this song, which is one of my favorites these days, though.
All in all, the event was a success.. We all had soooooo much fun.. We usualy do in zumba class, and most of the people at this event, was the same people, so we were able to laugh some more. And I was introduced to the Feminess class, which I don't see myself attending again, as it was too slow for me.
However, today I have a latin mix and a dance fit class to attend. Last night I was at a 2 hour Easter Event in the gym I normaly go to for my zumba classes. It was a mix of feminess, salsa and zumba. The instructors were my zumba instructor and a female instructor.
We started off with feminess. Feminess being strp fitness. The instructor showed us some simple routines. They really were simple, but because I have so much energy in me, it has always been hard for me to dance to slow music. I didn't see it turning out to be a dance at all.. It was more like a catwalk with a few sexified expressions. After feminess, my instructor took over and started teaching us a few simple salsa steps, but of course he turned it into a show by making us say things like "ay ay ay" - "arrrrrrrrrrrrrriba" and "caramba!" while dancing. I brought my friend, so we were joking a lot with it. After salsa, zumba took over.. Finaly something familiar. After zumba, the strip fitness was back. This time with some weird expressions on the floor. Now putting my legs up in the air is just not something I'm used to doing with that big of a company, so I couldn't help but giggling. It was realy odd being giving a routine to do while being on the floor, which involved "stripper legs" and body rolls. Funny, though. The funny thing is, I had been watching "Flashdance" the night before, and I'm sure the female instructor has found some of her inspiration in that movie. She finished off the event by showing us her own routine, that she will be using for a Danish national strip dance contest. It was ok, but I do think she could have come up with something better... But that is just the dancer in me trying to say, it was not showbizz enough, or something.. Hmmmm She used this song, which is one of my favorites these days, though.
All in all, the event was a success.. We all had soooooo much fun.. We usualy do in zumba class, and most of the people at this event, was the same people, so we were able to laugh some more. And I was introduced to the Feminess class, which I don't see myself attending again, as it was too slow for me.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
2 busy weeks, but slowing down.
It has been 2 busy weeks for me once again. However, Easter i fast approaching and the gyms are closed on holidays, which means a crazy messed up zumba/ dance schedule, that I will try to make work anyway. I'm officialy on my long Spring break as of today, so I'm able to change my schedule for my benefit.
Last Saturday, zumba was cancelled due to a swim contest at the gym, but in the afternoon, I attended an Easter Zumba marathon.. They combined the event with a fashion show of zumba clothes and other dance wear being sold during the event. The professional dancer from the previous zumba event, kicked off the marathon and it was crazy like the last week-end. After her came the fashion show, which basicaly was a bunch of different Instructors, doing each their routine to one song, wearing the various clothes being sold.. Personaly I think it sucked big time.. It was not because of the clothes being displayed this wau, but simply because the instructors were not good enough. It was a mess to see the many different instructors in so short time.. I personaly like to keep an eye out for the good instructors in town, and one song gave me nothing to work with for my research. The stage was just 3 feet tall, which made it impossible to see the instructors feet.. After the fashion show, a couple of the local instructors finished off with an hour of their routines.. By the end of the event, me and one if the girls I was tgere with, were so annoyed and disapointed if the event, that we decided to do our own routines to the songs that we had also been usin in zumba class. The thing is, our Brazilian instructor is so popular, that the other instructors find the music he uses for his routines, but as they can't come up with their own routines like he is, they copy the routines they see on youtube and well.. Go figure, there's how you spot a professional dancer from a regular zumba instructor. All in all, it was an ok event, but at the same time, it was a boring disapointment.. To me, it seemed like a ZIN conference cause I saw sooooo many instructors havung fun.
Wednesday was the last zumba class at the sports arena near my home. I find it strange that a local sports club would close down a huge success till September.. Oh well, atleast I know what to do the rest of the week. We ended the class with another USA tribute battle with me and my cousin in the lead.
Yesterday was two great zumba classes and I'm on my way to two more now. However, it might turn out just to be one, as the instructor mentioned something about the gym only offering one Satyrday class in the future.. But I looked at the online schedule this morning and the second class was still on.. But a lot of people cancelled, so it might just be 10 of us, unless we cancel after the first class.
The instructor asked if we were going out last night, as he would be at the new salsa bar in town.. Well, I'm going out tonight instead, as there is a reggae/ dancehall night in one of the clubs.. It'll be fun and I can't wait to get my groove on! :)
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Last Saturday, zumba was cancelled due to a swim contest at the gym, but in the afternoon, I attended an Easter Zumba marathon.. They combined the event with a fashion show of zumba clothes and other dance wear being sold during the event. The professional dancer from the previous zumba event, kicked off the marathon and it was crazy like the last week-end. After her came the fashion show, which basicaly was a bunch of different Instructors, doing each their routine to one song, wearing the various clothes being sold.. Personaly I think it sucked big time.. It was not because of the clothes being displayed this wau, but simply because the instructors were not good enough. It was a mess to see the many different instructors in so short time.. I personaly like to keep an eye out for the good instructors in town, and one song gave me nothing to work with for my research. The stage was just 3 feet tall, which made it impossible to see the instructors feet.. After the fashion show, a couple of the local instructors finished off with an hour of their routines.. By the end of the event, me and one if the girls I was tgere with, were so annoyed and disapointed if the event, that we decided to do our own routines to the songs that we had also been usin in zumba class. The thing is, our Brazilian instructor is so popular, that the other instructors find the music he uses for his routines, but as they can't come up with their own routines like he is, they copy the routines they see on youtube and well.. Go figure, there's how you spot a professional dancer from a regular zumba instructor. All in all, it was an ok event, but at the same time, it was a boring disapointment.. To me, it seemed like a ZIN conference cause I saw sooooo many instructors havung fun.
Wednesday was the last zumba class at the sports arena near my home. I find it strange that a local sports club would close down a huge success till September.. Oh well, atleast I know what to do the rest of the week. We ended the class with another USA tribute battle with me and my cousin in the lead.
Yesterday was two great zumba classes and I'm on my way to two more now. However, it might turn out just to be one, as the instructor mentioned something about the gym only offering one Satyrday class in the future.. But I looked at the online schedule this morning and the second class was still on.. But a lot of people cancelled, so it might just be 10 of us, unless we cancel after the first class.
The instructor asked if we were going out last night, as he would be at the new salsa bar in town.. Well, I'm going out tonight instead, as there is a reggae/ dancehall night in one of the clubs.. It'll be fun and I can't wait to get my groove on! :)
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