!!! It hurts so good...

Last night I danced/trained for close to if not more than 12 hours.. Yeah. Literally... My pelvis has been sore for the past few days because i've been doing the P90X workouts at home, and for those who don't know what P90X is I recommend you find out. It's probably the craziest workouts you'll ever do with the best results. Long story short, after a brutal ab workout my pelvis was extremely sore and I was limping... And now I had to suck that up and go dance.

Here's the low down:

Yesterday, The Company had it's monthly dance workshop which features new and different choreographers every month. It started at 1pm and went until 5pm. This workshop featured my homies Chris Aldeguer, Algin "UFO Man" Ford, and Pat Cruz teaching. The first class was taught by Chris. It was a tight routine. Actually, every routine was a heater in my book.. Definitely every choreographer brought something different to the table and made me feel and move in different ways I wasn't necessarily used to but not unfamiliar with. It was great. It's been really dope seeing all of them develop and mature in their dancing over the years. Learning their styles keeps me fresh, focused, and just helps broaden my views and perspectives on movement itself. Very inspiring. I'm actually slotted to teach the next workshop with Jason Rillera and Pat so I'm excited to get on my grizzy and bring my movement to my peers.

By the time the workshop had finished I had already sweat through about 3 t-shirts, kinda gross but hey thats work being put in. But now we were about to start Company rehearsal and that was gonna go on until whenever. We had an hour break after the workshop. We started rehearsing at 7pm. Body Rock is coming up. Literally like a week away. Yikes! I'm trying to take it home this time. It's just crunch time. Our set is bananas! B-A-N-A, you know the rest... Tonight was actually the first time in awhile we got to rehearse in a studio. For the past few weeks we've been having to rehearse outside. Being back in the studio gave me a new sense of seriousness for the goal and just being grateful to be harm with a good floor to dance on. The more and more we practiced and cleaned each piece of our set I found new and different emotion behind the choreography which I feel is going to help to my advantage when performing.. When it comes to competing, I'm very competitive. I guess thats just the jock side of me. Before I danced, I was a total jock. But from playing sports I have the same mentally toward dance which is striving for perfect performance. I don't know, it's hard to explain. But in a nut shell, i've felt blessed to feel this way again.. I'm sore, but I love it. I'm alive!

The fam


p.s.
Happy Birthday, Pat.

deuces,

-G