My first solo Jammin Session!

I had a great week of dancing last week. Finished off by a jam session by myself in a studio at city dance.

Instead of doing ballet I decided to pay $7 more and get a studio to myself. It was sooooo cool. I put on my favourite tracks and just freestyled and jammed and practiced all my moves. It was such a great experience, and I want more. I am going to hire out the studio for 4 hours a week starting in a week. 2 sessions of 2hrs. I just lost myself in the moves and just danced. It was like yeeeeeeeeahhhh!

I also worked on some of my first own choreography at the end of my one hour session which was really cool.

Stay tuned for my own dance piece coming soon!!!

Locking Class! Tough one tonight

Did my Monday night Locking Class tonight. I struggled a bit as the teacher went quite fast due to the other people there being regulars. I noticed myself getting a little bit irritated with him as its meant to be a beginners class and I wanted to give up cos it was hard. I noticed my internal chatter criticising me, and beginning to justify why I could not do the moves because it was only my second class and the others had been more than me etc, and then I let all that story go and focussed and surprise surprise I picked it up and was able to get the moves.

Its amazing when you don't tune in to the internal chatter how much freer I am to really learn the choreography and pick stuff up way faster.

I find when I really let myself go and get into my dancing that its like being transported to another world where all worries and concerns disappear and there is just me, my body and the beat of the music flowing through me, guiding me. Its a great feeling.

I'm BACK! Great Holiday in Perth and now back into IT!

Sorry any readers that have been keeping up with me for not keeping the post updated. I am back on now!

Advanced Hip Hop Friday night was soooooooo awesome. I had 2 weeks in Perth on holiday visiting my partner, where I did a bit of freestyle dancing in my apartment in Perth which was cool just to practice a let it all out. But I had a week and a bit off so am rearing to go and really ramp it up.

I bought a good video camera also on the way home so plan do do some really good clips now of me dancing and progressing.

Bring it on!!

First Month In Review and Ballet Clip!

Well thats the end of my first month of dancing seriously. I am loving it and have come a long way in a month.

Ballet has been great for beginning to get my technique and form better for having my hip hop moves sharp and precise. I will need to keep it going to at least the next couple of months twice a week, and then I will see how I am going and maybe cut back to once a week.

I realise I need to do more Jazz classes. I have had a couple of full on sessions dancing in my hotel room here to some good hip hop tunes and just free styling. This was great as it highlighted to me that I need to do some work on having my movements flow together and my lines be much sharper. Jazz will help with this.

I have loved my hip hop classes with Joseph Ling, and I am going to keep working with him and possibly hire out the studio at City Dance and get Joseph to do some longer classes and invite other dancers along also.

My fitness has improved a lot, and I think I am ready to up my dance training to 2 classes a day now plus my usual technique, core and functional training in the mornings.

So to wrap up this month I have thrown myself into dancing, and I am not looking back. I am so passionate about it and love it so much. I want to get to the best level I can of hip hop and create cool choreography!

I look forward to the next month and will add some more video content at the end of next month to show my improvements.

To all you reading my blog and supporting me - THANKS. My intention is to keep a record of my dancing and share it with others, and hopefully some people get inspired to do those things they have been saying they are going to do for a long time - ITS NOT TO LATE!

Happy reading!

No dancing last week!! Back into it now! Month #1 Review Posted Tomorrow with Ballet Video!

Last Monday - Thurs I did not dance. I had my partner here back from overseas and then I travelled to Perth for 2 weeks on Thurs. I was also nursing a niggle in my achilles for the first part of last week which is all good now!!

I got back into it yesterday in the hotel room here in Perth. I just chucked on all my favourite hip hop tunes and freestyled it for a couple of hours. Was just awesome. Its really good to just practice doing lots of different moves and creating stuff and practicing stuff I have learnt already.

I did the same today which was excellent and I am feeling really good and fit!

TODAY IS THE END OF THE FIRST MONTH OF MY DANCING CAREER. STAY TUNED FOR THE MONTHS REVIEW TOMORROW AND SOME VIDEO FOOTAGE OF ME DOING SOME BALLET! (Boring! but worth putting up as my monthly review)