Tri-State Challenge 09

[Larinda McRaven]

anyone going??

[Josh]

Would love to if for nothing else but to see Esther and David, but I probably will not make it... you going L?

[ChelD]

I'll be there. and there must be others too since I believe entries are up from last year.

[jjs914]

I'll be there on Friday night.

[Larinda McRaven]

Entires are way up. Morning sessions starts at 700 AM!!!

I will be there with Can'tski and my film crew. They are getting a little bit more footage of me for the movie.

[Katarzyna]

Movie? what movie, you have to share more :)??

[danceronice]

I'll be there Friday and Saturday (well, Saturday AM. Very, very AM.)

[Larinda McRaven]

Yes, there is a movie being made and it is featuring two pros. Myself and John Nymcheck (Current Judge, Coach, Yankee Classic Organizer, Former 10-Dance Champion, and Former NDCA Vice President)

The film crew was up here a few weeks ago following me around and getting interviews from my students, filming Isabelle, and watching me teach (I was suddenly too self conscious to actually yell at the students though!). Just kinda seeing about the life of a teacher/competitior/dancer. It should air sometime this summer. We will have to get a group of people to come out for the screening in NYC this summer!

They need more footage of me so they heading over to TriState and will be there with me on Friday and Saturday. I believe they were also at Heritage and Florida over the past few weeks getting lots of good comp shots.

[Katarzyna]

This sounds really great! Cannot wait to see

[JANATHOME]

Friday night and Sat morning for us...
Glad pro-am is before us on Sat morning... 7:00 AM ouch!!

Has anyone used the hair stylist that will be at this comps before? I usually do my own hair but wont have enough time on Friday to do it myself.

[elisedance]

Yes, there is a movie being made and it is featuring two pros. Myself and John Nymcheck (Current Judge, Coach, Yankee Classic Organizer, Former 10-Dance Champion, and Former NDCA Vice President)

The film crew was up here a few weeks ago following me around and getting interviews from my students, filming Isabelle, and watching me teach (I was suddenly too self conscious to actually yell at the students though!). Just kinda seeing about the life of a teacher/competitior/dancer. It should air sometime this summer. We will have to get a group of people to come out for the screening in NYC this summer!

They need more footage of me so they heading over to TriState and will be there with me on Friday and Saturday. I believe they were also at Heritage and Florida over the past few weeks getting lots of good comp shots.

Thats fantastic L! TV movie or 'stand-alone'?

[elisedance]

Can someone report on the pro standard (Sat evening I think)? I've got an interest.... ;)

Here's a link to the comp with the final schedule
http://tristatechallenge.com/

[Standarddancer]

Yes, there is a movie being made and it is featuring two pros. Myself and John Nymcheck (Current Judge, Coach, Yankee Classic Organizer, Former 10-Dance Champion, and Former NDCA Vice President)

The film crew was up here a few weeks ago following me around and getting interviews from my students, filming Isabelle, and watching me teach (I was suddenly too self conscious to actually yell at the students though!). Just kinda seeing about the life of a teacher/competitior/dancer. It should air sometime this summer. We will have to get a group of people to come out for the screening in NYC this summer!

They need more footage of me so they heading over to TriState and will be there with me on Friday and Saturday. I believe they were also at Heritage and Florida over the past few weeks getting lots of good comp shots.

This sounds really fantastic!!! congratulations!

[Merrylegs]

Good luck everybody!

[jjs914]

Has anyone seen any heat lists posted?

[Merrylegs]

I don't think this competition posts heat lists...

[jjs914]

Ah...thanks!

[chrisjohnston]

All major results as of 11.00 pm now posted.

http://gallery.supershag.com/g/tri-state_challenge_2009


Chris

[chrisjohnston]

All results through 1 pm on Satyrday now posted.

http://gallery.supershag.com/g/tri-state_challenge_2009

Chris

[ChaChaMama]

Loving the look of Ilya and Amanda Reyzin's showdance costumes. Anyone want to fill in details? (Song choice, what they did?)

[elisedance]

congrats nik and natalia... :)

[chrisjohnston]

Ilya did an Austin Powers number to the Austin Powers theme music. Hopefully we will have a video clip by Monday evening.


Chris

[ChaChaMama]

Ilya did an Austin Powers number to the Austin Powers theme music. Hopefully we will have a video clip by Monday evening.


Chris

Thanks Chris!

Sounds fun.

[samina]

they always have fun costumes!

[elisedance]

Anyone have the pro standard final result??
thanks

[danceronice]

I'm still asleep.

I have to stop trying to do these things on four hours of sleep.

On the plus side: my brother did not mind being dragged around. And I have a new Smooth/Standard dress! (I'll post in the Ads section about the old one.)

[chrisjohnston]

Pro-am Latin results now posted.

http://gallery.supershag.com/scripts/expman.pl?rm=check_error_file&job_id=843537


Chris

[samina]

requires password to view, chris...

[etp777]

Try this link. :)

http://gallery.supershag.com/g/latin

And here for all the results. Thanks as always, Chris. :D

http://gallery.supershag.com/g/tri-state_challenge_2009

Well, everything except for open standard, sorry ED. :)

[elisedance]

Ah well, anyone there perhaps??

[GJB]

MQ got third in Open Latin Scholarship ! Congratulations !

[etp777]

Oops, you're absolutely right GJB, I should have actually looked through links I posted.

Congrats MQ!!

[mamboqueen]

thanks; I actually did better in another event, but it's not posted there :(

I had a great time chatting with Nik last night; I'm sure his students are very lucky to have him as a teacher. He's very enthusiastic. We discussed spines at length (pun intended), and of course had to discuss l/r brain stuff.

The floor was slippery; I did a volta slide at one point. Tried to pretend it was intentional. I saw others that were having problems, too.

I was too tired to stay up to see the finals in pro standard, rhthym and amateur latin. Again I noticed a pretty immediate collision in QS in the Am standard. I keep thinking it's a sign for me to stay away from standard altogether.

For a rather inexpensive Marriott, it was a pretty decent hotel. A fair amount of restaurant selections in the area.

It was good to see all the df'ers there...cantski won his event and was very modest about it.

[Standarddancer]

Congrats MQ!!!

[etp777]

Great job cantski!

[elisedance]

congrats MQ - just PM'd ... ee

[Bella]

Yes... Congrats MQ & Nik :)

[Bella]

Yes... Congrats MQ & Nik :)


Oh, and cantski... and any other DFers who've competedddd!!!

[elisedance]

anyone have the schedule book? I was wondering how many couples were in the pro standard...

[JANATHOME]

Reading the program there were 14 couples, a Quarter final. We did not stay on for the week-end so I cant say how the results went.

[hereKittyKitty]

According to Dancebeat the standard was won by Igor Litvinov and Julia Ivleva, 2nd place went to Anton Lebedev & Anna Borsch, 3rd place, Greg Fidurski & Gabriela Jileva. This is all they gave for pro standard results.

[danceronice]

I have to say, the Closed scholarships were rather...light. There were three of us in Closed Bronze Smooth A and TWO of us in Rhythm. I mean, yay guaranteed money, but still.

And I honestly didn't think the floor was that slippery, but my Latin shoes *were* new.

[mamboqueen]

I have to say, the Closed scholarships were rather...light. There were three of us in Closed Bronze Smooth A and TWO of us in Rhythm. I mean, yay guaranteed money, but still.

And I honestly didn't think the floor was that slippery, but my Latin shoes *were* new.

I think it was more around the periphery of the floor (at least for me), so maybe if you tended to stay in the middle or thereabouts it was a little more worn in? Don't know. I only slipped once, but know that there were others that had some issues.

[elisedance]

According to Dancebeat the standard was won by Igor Litvinov and Julia Ivleva, 2nd place went to Anton Lebedev & Anna Borsch, 3rd place, Greg Fidurski & Gabriela Jileva. This is all they gave for pro standard results.

thanks hkk

[Larinda McRaven]

I found the floor inconsistent and that is harder to deal with than simply being fast, because you don't know from step to step how much pressure to apply and how hard to work your legs.

In any case, I found it only mildly annoying and it simply made me pay closer attention to the weight distribution over my feet, something that I am happy to have a reminder of once in awhile lest I get too lazy or overly confident.

[emeralddancer]

Loving the look of Ilya and Amanda Reyzin's showdance costumes. Anyone want to fill in details? (Song choice, what they did?)


CCM there is a video of their Austin Powers routine floating around somewhere from MD Dancesport Comp.

[etp777]

I saw that routine at St Louis, and really liked it. Tons of fun, and they did a great job with it. Definitely dig up the video, or even better, try to catch it at a comp. :)

[ChaChaMama]

Man! I saw them at Eastern (in Feb), but had to miss Maryland...and St. Louis isn't really on my radar. Maybe they will do it at Philly? I'm pretty sure that they are based in PA.

[etp777]

Pennsylvania is my understanding, yeah. So they should definitely be hitting some comp that would be accessible to you.

[Tibor Kerekes]

Hi guys!
All result pictures are up from Tri-State events.
http://gallery.supershag.com/g/tri-state_challenge_2009

All the best,

Tibor

[elisedance]

Ah the pro results! Thanks Tibor.

ee

[Merrylegs]

sorry, but does anyone have the name and link for the official photographer at this event?

TIA,
Michelle

[mamboqueen]

photoreflect.com; don't think they'r up yet.

[Katarzyna]

they are, jsut saw.. on aliance

[mamboqueen]

did I post the wrong site??? *doh*

[Katarzyna]

allliance is hosted on photoreflect.. so you gave the right parent site :)

[mamboqueen]

so where are the pictures?

[Katarzyna]

photoreflect.com/pr3/store.aspx?p=3880

[mamboqueen]

thanks doll!

[Katarzyna]

no problem, its not like I hae every photo site bookemarked.. or maybe lol :)

[star_gazer]

no problem, its not like I hae every photo site bookemarked.. or maybe lol :)Every photo site and every dress site.

[Katarzyna]

:oops::oops::oops::oops:, you forgot to mention comp sites too

[Standarddancer]

your dresses in tri-state kat?

[Katarzyna]

no.. well saw 2 from me in pro st event but that's besides the point :)

just looked to see who was there that's all

[Standarddancer]

you are patient, kat; lol...If not for dresses, I just go straight to supershag results page for results

[Katarzyna]

well I am intersted in ppl not in finals too. and supershag only covers finals

[Katarzyna]

and it takes me less time to dig to st events on photo site than on supershag site.. more layers on supershag site ;)

[Standarddancer]

photo site a lot of clicks for me, I usually wait for dancesport info post results so I can see who else there besides final, I usually get lost viewing photo sites;)

[danceronice]

Well, obviously I'm biased, but the SuperShag site's always faster for me--it takes me forver to find myself on the photo sites. If I find myself at all.

[chrisjohnston]

If anyone has suggestions on how to make our site easier to navigate please let me know.


Chris

[Katarzyna]

Hey no complaints about the site ;)
if you had link to photos and videos from whatever is last event on the hp, it would be great though

[chrisjohnston]

No offence was taken .We used to have that link on the home page but then there was so much on the home page that we decided to change it.Anyhow we are thinking of redesigning the site so will see what we can come up with.Just posted all video including Ilya and Amanda.



Chris

[j_alexandra]

If anyone has suggestions on how to make our site easier to navigate please let me know.


Chris

Your site is plenty easy to navigate; thanks. But I cannot open any of your videos. I'm on a Mac, using Firefox and/or Safari, and I can't even open them in Windows Media Player.

Any advice?

[j_alexandra]

Sorry! I just tried again, for the first time in a while, and they opened fine.

My bad for not checking first. Thanks for having them -- I foresee a long day of catching up on comp videos. But first, back to work updating my own website.

[mamboqueen]

I think the navigation is fine, too, Chris. Although I would say it is easier to find what I'm looking for on dancesizzle the way it is categorized (pro, am, pro/am), but I understand that the photos have to be done differently since you're posting them "real time" and thus they need to be put in day order. It's just that we don't always know what events are on what day, but really....not meant as a complaint...just me being lazy. I very much appreciate the photo/video service you provide.

[chrisjohnston]

Good observation. We could actually try to put them up in the same format as Dancesizzle and see what people think. Maybe we will try it at Detroit this week-end.Thanks for the input.


Cheers Chris

[dlgodud]

Yes, there is a movie being made and it is featuring two pros. Myself and John Nymcheck (Current Judge, Coach, Yankee Classic Organizer, Former 10-Dance Champion, and Former NDCA Vice President)

The film crew was up here a few weeks ago following me around and getting interviews from my students, filming Isabelle, and watching me teach (I was suddenly too self conscious to actually yell at the students though!). Just kinda seeing about the life of a teacher/competitior/dancer. It should air sometime this summer. We will have to get a group of people to come out for the screening in NYC this summer!

They need more footage of me so they heading over to TriState and will be there with me on Friday and Saturday. I believe they were also at Heritage and Florida over the past few weeks getting lots of good comp shots.

Wow! You have to let us know how it goes and when we can watch the movie. :D

[mamboqueen]

Good observation. We could actually try to put them up in the same format as Dancesizzle and see what people think. Maybe we will try it at Detroit this week-end.Thanks for the input.


Cheers Chris

You are welcome; and I see you did it. Easy for me...but maybe others should chime in. Thanks.