Hey everyone!
A lot of people think that dance team is all about being "pretty" and having "fun". I guess it can be a lot of that, but it also is something you probably wouldn't expect. I will be explaining a little bit of that.
First of all, I consider dance team a very demanding sport. It requires strength of your muscles, a good physical stamina, and kinestetic awareness. Another important and unique part of this sport is the required memorization of routines. As a team, we know probably around 20 different routines and sidelines that we perform at different games. Some of them we learned at camp during the summer, and others we learned during our normal practice hours. We are expected to know each (minute long) routine for the entire season, no questions asked -- this helps us to develop advanced and professional dancer skills, and also preps us to memorize our 2 minute long competition routines.
We practice 3 times a week for 3 hours. Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday: 7-10pm. It is definitely a challenge since I commute and since I have this 8am class after every night of practice, but I try to push through it.
Well I figure you're already pretty bored from this so far... so I will expand next time.
Until then...
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