DDR fanatics

[samina]

anyone here into DDR & ITG?

i played it for a couple hours last night after a long hiatus... ye gadz, that is fun. great way to develop endurance for dancing... what a sweatfest...

[LucyDiamond]

Never heard of it.

[tj]

Yeah, have tried DDR a few times. Pretty amazing how some kids have memorized some of those songs/routines/step patterns. And yeah, quite a workout!

[samina]

luce, here's a site about DDR: h t t p:// w w w.ddrfreak.com

DDR stands for Dance Dance Revolution, and ITG stands for In The Groove (similiar thing, came after DDR)... it involves a dance pad at home connected to a game station, and you step on the arrows on the dance pad as they display on the TV screen... it's done in time to music, at a variety of levels per song, from easy to insanely hard, and the really advanced dancers look like broadway tap dancers, so quick & elegant in their movements.

my youngest has competed twice at the jacob javitz center, once at the regular level and another time in the expert division. he's really good at it... watching him is a study in economy of movement...

at those competitions, they use arcade machines... would love to have the arcade version at home. wow.

[LucyDiamond]

Ahhhh, I think I saw it once on TV. Sounds like fun.

[samina]

as a tap dancer, i bet you'd really like it...

[LucyDiamond]

probably

[samina]

i got a few of my former work colleagues addicted to it... one woman in her 60s invested in the whole setup and both the DDR & ITG series of games. i believe at last count she lost 30-40 pounds. i've heard of several people losing 90 lbs. i'm quite sure that if i stay with this over the summer i'll easily melt away that last bit i want to get rid of...

[waltzgirl]

I read recently that all the schools in some state (can't remember which) are using it in their PE program.

[samina]

yah, that's so cool (from the link above):

"In West Virginia alone, the state has committed to installing the game in all 765 of its public schools by next year. Almost all of its 185 middle schools already use it."

[SlowDancer]

Sounds really cool! I'll check it out.

[basicarita]

It looks like fun, but how do you all keep it from ruining your knees?

[samina]

same way as with the rest of dancing... make sure you're lined up properly over them. :)

of course, it's not exactly no-impact, so someone with serious knees problems would probly wanna look elsewhere for their cardio...

[Terpsichorean Clod]

same way as with the rest of dancing... make sure you're lined up properly over them. :)

of course, it's not exactly no-impact, so someone with serious knees problems would probly wanna look elsewhere for their cardio...
Plus, there're those crazy freestylers who do knee-drops to hit the sensors. :shock:

[Terpsichorean Clod]

anyone here into DDR & ITG?

i played it for a couple hours last night after a long hiatus... ye gadz, that is fun. great way to develop endurance for dancing... what a sweatfest...
: pout: You forgot PIU!

Just did DDR about two weeks ago for the first time in five years - DDRMAX 2 on a soft pad set up at the local computer/electronics store. Fantastic for building calves of steel.

[samina]

Plus, there're those crazy freestylers who do knee-drops to hit the sensors. :shock:

yah... won't be doing that anytime soon... lol

[samina]

: pout: You forgot PIU!

Just did DDR about two weeks ago for the first time in five years - DDRMAX 2 on a soft pad set up at the local computer/electronics store. Fantastic for building calves of steel.

i'm not familiar with PIU...

did another 1-2 hours last night, close to 50,000 points worth of a workout. we have two fancy ****l cobalt flux pads... very sturdy, probly could drive over them with a mac truck with little damage. i sure pounded the heck outa that thing...

[Tori]

I'm terrible at DDR.
That's sad, because I can pull off dancing really well, but as soon as I get off the dance floor I'm an uncoordinated spaz.
Plus when we go to the arcade my asian friends always make my 98 bpm song look pathetic when they do something like "Drop The Bomb" on heavy.

[samina]

Plus when we go to the arcade my asian friends always make my 98 bpm song look pathetic when they do something like "Drop The Bomb" on heavy.

:lol:

[pr]

I have tried it at the amusement park here and it is really funny. See this previous thread... See this kid play a dance game. (DDR) (http://dance-forums.com/showthread.php?t=15594) ;)

[basicarita]

Plus, there're those crazy freestylers who do knee-drops to hit the sensors. :shock:

Whoa.

[Terpsichorean Clod]

i'm not familiar with PIU...

did another 1-2 hours last night, close to 50,000 points worth of a workout. we have two fancy ****l cobalt flux pads... very sturdy, probly could drive over them with a mac truck with little damage. i sure pounded the heck outa that thing...
PIU - Pump It Up - is a game like DDR except each player has five sensors: one in the center and four on the diagonals.

Next time, you should turn on the calory counter. I enjoyed watching the counter and saying, "Yay! One more Catastrophic song and then I can eat another doughnut." :D

[Tori]

The flying arrows confuse me and make my brain spaz.

[lola94]

oyeah! i love DDR! if i do say so myself i'd say that i'm pretty good too!





"Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion."

[samina]

PIU - Pump It Up - is a game like DDR except each player has five sensors: one in the center and four on the diagonals.



my son & his friend mentioned PIU yesterday. sounds cool but requires a different pad from what we have. anyway, i have my plate full with DDR & ITG... plenty to work on! got in a lengthy & very sweaty workout every day over the weekend, and got BF hooked on it as well -- he's getting his own setup.

currently working on picking up speed so i can hit the songs that use a lot of 1/8 & 1/16 notes... cultivating quicker reflexes can only help my standard & latin, i'm quite sure...

[samina]

The flying arrows confuse me and make my brain spaz.

yah, they get very intense in the faster, more densely danced songs. there's a way to speed up the arrows so that there's actually more space between them... otherwise it's virtually impossible to read them.

i have such trouble deciphering those dense songs...

[samina]

oyeah! i love DDR! if i do say so myself i'd say that i'm pretty good too!


what level are you at?

i'm just getting back into it now, so am staying pretty much with the 6-step songs, which i can generally ace. got a few Bs on 7-steppers over the weekend. am currently a standard-level dancer with some heavy songs under my belt... better than some on the newb side, but nothing like my son & his friend who are insane... ITG has 11-14 step songs, which just seem completely unhuman to me, and that's what they generally work on. omg...

[samina]

lots of DDR over the weekend. really helping with conditioning, speed, and sensitivity of foot pressure. am starting to get into songs & levels i never hit before... good feeling. highly addictive...