So sad... :( It's also sad that the Chinese government and Olympic organizers feel they must hide bad news and lie to the public. Image is so crucial to them, and individuals don't matter.

Watch Liu Yan dance.

Beijing Olympics: Chinese dancer injured in opening ceremony rehearsal 'paralysed' (Daily Telegraph).


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Here's my dance teacher, Bud. Thank you, YouTube!:

- His YouTube channel
- His dance videos. Each season, he spends 12 weeks coaching various teams to dance "formations."

Here's Bud's salsa formation team, from Sept. 2007:

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Here's Bud and his wife dancing the rhumba, this Valentine's. She used to help him teach, but she had foot surgery and hasn' ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I also started taking salsa dance lessons with this guy in Sunnyvale! It's an 8-week series, and he is my favorite dance teacher---comparing teachers I've seen in Redwood City, Sunnyvale, Fremont, and Campbell. I've taken his 8-week salsa class before, but it's very easy to forget dance moves without a regular, reliable partner. Last ( Read more... )

Zumba, this fitness craze that combines Latin dance moves like salsa, merengue, samba, mambo, and cha cha into a sexy, fat-burning workout routine, looks FANTASTIC! My favorite types of dances and dance music are Latin (salsa, merengue, cha cha, etc.) and hip hop. Zumba folks incorporate both into their routines, and they look GOOD, like they are ( Read more... )

> Raymond:
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> Thanks for sending this along. My New Year's resolution is to have my
> average weight be 40 pounds less than it is currently. Thus the Discovery Health's National Body Challenge could be a useful thing for me. I saw this on TV as ( Read more... )

I posted about both Turbo Jam and Hip Hop Abs here. Please read this first.

Turbo Jam infomercial:

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Last night, I finally opened my Turbo Jam Maximum Results DVDs and tried Chalene Johnson's kickboxing/hip-hop dance/body sculpting program for the first time. Absolutely amazing! I STRONGLY, strongly recommend Turbo Jam to everyone! It's very fast, ( Read more... )

School starts tomorrow. I plan to also take a cardio kickboxing class for the first time! The sport---which combines aerobics, boxing, and martial arts---is supposed to burn up to 800 calories/hour, and it exercises both anaerobic and aerobic parts of your body. Plus you dance to fun, fast music.

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