Standard FRC Dances?
 

This may be the least technical thread I've ever started on CD. This may or may not be the result of a side wager with another mentor...

It has come to my attention that my students are in (desperate) need of FRC dance lessons. They certainly have the enthusiasm, but lack form. I fear that as a mentor I can only offer electrical theory and 8-count swing... Does anyone have any resources for putting together a quick pre-regional workshop? Cupid Shuffle 101? Advanced Cotton-Eye? Introductory Cha-Cha-Slide Physics?

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Nerds don't dance. They invent.

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Ed, I have a lot of respect for you, but I must assert my difference of opinion in this important matter. Nerds do whatever they want to do, and they do it with style.

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My advice, stand near the back and follow the person in front of you. Tip: doesn't work for the dance where everyone rotates.

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Good advice. Also: attend a lot of weddings.

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This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bH0OXsmsbQ

;)

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To learn how to do the cupid shuffle, or cha-cha slide, listen to the song. They tell you what to do.

Cotton-eyed Joe, I would recommend the classic version (where you pick up your leg and kick your hand with your foot), rather than the new one (where you simply jump and cross your legs).

Youtube videos are a great resource to learn how to do these dances. I would highly recommend bring in the blasts from the past and do the Electric Slide and Raining Men!

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Nerds absolutely DANCE! Here are some of the Uber-Nerds we've created practicing their dancing to a couple of mainstays, YMCA and The Macarena as soon as the robot was bagged. http://tahomarobotics.org/2012/02/25...ing-the-robot/

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Don't forget the new one this year, the referee macarena.

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I thought we were pretty good at dancing here

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Ease your way in with Sweet Caroline and go from there.

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Our team was offered $500 from a sponsor if the drive team did a dance before all their matches. Our dance for BAE/GSR was pretty simple, but I want to, at Boston and St. Louis, the Victor Cruz salsa dance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFLycDDEAPg

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For those in the North-east Dancing Dave the Referee can teach quite a few moves.

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Being the "enthusiastic one", I was given the job of creating an "Intro to FIRST-dances class" to bring some swag to the team next year. So far, I've got:

-Cotton Eyed Joe
-Cha Cha Slide
-Cupid Shuffle
-Electric Slide
-Macarena
-YMCA

Any others? Any new ones I should be on the lookout for?

Thanks!

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Recently, the Tunak Tunak Tun has popped up (I swear I heard it like, 5 times and GTR East alone). And considering that that video was my life when I was 8 years old, it broke my heart to see how many people didn't know the dance.

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I have to say I love that song, and it comes with some pretty awesome moves.

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Jump On It!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa_90RMtpqs
Well, maybe not the part at the end...

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What the heck was the name of that dance they were doing at MSC? I've only seen it there. It was almost like an exercise dance.

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The first time I saw everyone at Montreal doing it I was very weirded out.
I didn't even know it had some international popularity til they played it at Boston.
I haven't heard it since.

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I just watched a video of that on youtube, though it may have been the wrong video. What....exactly do you....do? How would you dance to that?

And....mainly.....why? :confused:

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That depends, were you watching this video?

It even contains a transliteration of the lyrics for those of us who don't speak Punjabi but want to sing along.

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Unfortunately, yes. How exactly do you dance to that?

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Umm, the dance mostly consists of the two moves used during the chorus of the song, best shown in the sequence from 2:37 of the video to 2:49.

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It was a popular joke at my high school dances and it predated me, so it had spread to a small corner of northern Maine by 2005. I was surprised though when I put it on a playlist of awful music and none of my college friends had heard it.

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I believe you are referring to the Turbo Hustle . A word of caution, the un-coordinated or rythmless need not apply as this dance will leave you in the dust.

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The Victor Cruz salsa dance is clutch.

In Florida, I was taught the Roller Coaster. It is quite amusing, but I think Barry is better at explaining it.

The Ninjaneers, team 2868 (I think, don't quote me on the number) have one student make up dances, and they're very amusing to watch. And as he dances, all the rest follow him and pick up on his patterns. I must say they were very good and didn't stop all of Friday and Saturday, it was amusing.

Spam also has their own versions of the chicken dance and the macarena that are hilarious.

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My 15 month old son will be giving lessons to anyone that woud like to learn the Turbo Hustle. He was singing it Sunday morning after MSC.

As for dancing I hear that the Killer Bees (33) are pretty good at the Cotton Eyed Joe, Macarena, and YMCA. Maybe they will have lessons at the Championship.

-Clinton-

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Ain't that the truth. At Suffield Shakedown this year, he may or may not have been involved in a dance off...

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