DDR fanatics

samina

samina

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