Sam & Elmo

Sam is way cute but doing this video with elmo made him cuter.

12 Days

Camillo

Ninja

This is the latest combo I learned from Cedric. I'm sad that he's leaving for a couple months. I look forward to when he gets back in February.

Bass

Nations

Lamesha

Here are some of the combos that I've learned from one of the instructors I regularly take. I'm not in them but gives you an idea.

Cedric

It's been a year since I've started taking dance classes here in LA and I've started to branch out. Taking classes at the several dance studios Edge, Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio and IDA (International Dance Academy) in Hollywood. In addition I have a second gym membership because I loved their dance classes. Recently I've started taking Cedric at IDA and his class is becoming one of my favorite. Below are some of the combos I've learned so far. I'm not in the video but they are fun to watch.

Thanksgiving Treat

Thanksgiving

I wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Grandma

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Halloween

Presenting Justin Bieber and Usher

Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio Choreographer's Showcase

I'm in this for a hot minute but it's a totally fun piece. Thanks Lamesha Vine for letting me be a part of this. LOVE!

VOTE

T-Mobile

The advertising/marketing for T-Mobile are frikkin geniuses. From the flash mob and now the sing mob.....GENIUS!!!!

Carnival

I went to Carival this month and this was one of my favorite pieces. These kids killed it.

Vacation

How I miss In Living Color

Pretzel

Okay this is my new addiction. I think I will be needing to go to rehab soon for these.

Kiss My Balls

32

Goodbye 31 - You were welcomed with ehhh but ended with a WERKKKK! and a DAYAM!!!!
Hello 32 - Let's what you have to offer. You better be good to me.

Gym Crew Challenge

These past couple weeks have been a very busy time for me with dance. I had 4 performance in practically three weeks. The first one was with my group the Orieyentas (the group I performed for the show on CMT - Your Chance to Dance). We performed for LA Trade Tech College's Midnight Madness event. Then the next week I had two performances for the Debbie Reynold's Faculty Showcase at the Portal Theatre. That was an amazing experience to be around such amazing dancers even though I was in it for a hot minute. My last performance was this past Friday for the Gym Crew Challenge. I was asked to be a part of Lamesha Vine's group - Hollywood & Vine. Last year they had received 2nd place and I am pround to say that this year we were able to take 1st place. Below is a video from our first performance.

Whip My Hair

Urban Jungle

CGI

Guys Turn

Filipino Foods

Costume

Kazaky

Surprise

Sang

Working it Out at GROOV3

Take It Off

I hate to say this but I've watch this choreography over and over again. I probably will continue to watch it over and over again. It's just too hot. WERK!

It Gets Better

Airline

BeWeave

Rap

What Are You Wearing?

Dougie

Drag

After dance class some of us went to go eat at Pho Citi in West Hollywood. As we are eating we talked about dancing and Derek mentions Wacking. Valerie asked what is wacking. Derek decides to demonstrate what wacking is. As he was going at it and he was totall werking. One of the servers comes up and says to Derek - "Oh my God! Are you a drag queen?"

We practically died of laughter.

For those of you who don't know what wacking is - here is a video:

Cristiano

Down

See more funny videos and Funny Videos at Today's Big Thing.

Danny and Annie

Hip Hop for Heart

I hope you guys can make it!

Performance for PCNLA

Dougie

Dancing Merengue Dog

Balls

WERK!

OMG! I practically died when I saw this choreo. These boys WERK it out.

G - I - T

YCTD

Here are some screen shots from the episode of Your Chance to Dance. Enjoy!

Show

The episode of Your Chance to Dance that I was on is now online. Check it out!!!

http://www.cmt.com/videos/your-chance-to-dance-104/1646883/full-episode.jhtml

Audition

If you don't know already I was on an episode of Your Chance to Dance. I'll post the show once it is available online but for your viewing pleasure here is our audition video.

Paradiso

Heard this song in Hawai'i. Kind of love it.

Bigz

Dad

OMG! I'm sure this is how my parents would react with the iPhone.

iphone 4 commercial - Dad - watch more funny videos

Chat Roulette

I think this was genius on how they are promoting the movie - The Last Exorcism.

Cancelled

Those of you who were planning to come to our viewing party tomorrow the event has been cancelled. The networked moved our episode to a later date. I'll keep you posted.

Real or Fake?

This video has over 2 million hits. There's a huge discussion whether it's real or fake. Watch the video and you decide.

Target

Although I don't approve of Target's donation to a political candidate their recent show in New York was genius. The choreography of lights and also the dancer in each window. This was brilliant!!!

Coretta Scott King

Although this speech was at the 1996 Atlanta Pride a lot of it still applies today. Your spirit lives on Coretta Scott King. WE SHALL OVERCOME!

Destiny's Child

Grocery

Grocery shopping should be this fun.

Steps

One step forward, one step back, one step forward, and another step back. Seems to be what's happening with Gay Marriage. Forget the steps let's take one giant leap.

YCTD

Americano

My current song obsession.

Too Legit

I've started taking many dance classes and Lamesha Vine is one of the instructors I am taking on a regular basis. I LOVE her style. This is one of the combos I learned. I'm not in the video but I love the routine so much. It's so high energy and although it's only like 45 seconds long everyone in the class after we are done were out of breath. Enjoy!

Rent

I was able to see Rent at the Hollywood Bowl this past weekend. Luckily my friend had an extra ticket. What a pleasant surprise was Nicole Scherzinger. Well more than pleasantly surprised. She KILLED it!!! It was nice to see her do something other than her PCD stuff. Enjoy the video.

Ice Cream

Prop 8

Today is a big day. Prop 8 is overturned and ruled as unconstitutional.

Paul

Paul Rudd: Bat Mitzvah DJ from Jewish Forward on Vimeo.

Nobody

FIERCE!

Step Up

I LOVE their energy. WERK!!!

How Many?

Recently a friend of mine asked me how many dance classes I take in a week. I actually could not answer that. My response was - A LOT!. Well I thought I would figure it out. I'll lay out all the classes I've taken or can take weekly. Granted I don't take every single class in a week.

Mondays

Gold's Gym - 10:30 a.m. & 7 p.m., 24 Hour - 5 p.m. - 3 Classes

Tuesdays

Gold's Gym - 12 p.m. , Edge - 5:30 p.m., 24 Hour Fitness - 8 p.m. - 3 Classes

Wednesdays

Gold's Gym - 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m., Balliamos - 8:30 p.m. - 4 Classes

Thursdays

Gold's Gym - 12 p.m., Edge - 5:30 p.m. Sweat Spot - 8:30 p.m. - 3 Classes

Fridays

None

Saturdays

NOHO Pac - 12 p.m. - 1 Class

Sundays

Balliamos - 12 p.m., Edge - 3 p.m. - 2 Classes

Total in a week I can take 16 classes. Just to let you know I don't take 16 classes in a week. On average I take 6-8 classes a week. Too much? What do you think?

Oh Adam Levine!

Country Goes Booty

Country has gone booty. Don't you think the beginning sounds like Usher's OMG.

This is Hip Hop

THIS IS HIP-HOP! from Airwave Ranger on Vimeo.

A Moment

Werk!!!!

Jollibee

I want a Jollibee at my birthday now.

Alex & Twitch

I love this routine from Nappy & Tabs that Twitch & Alex did. So HOT!!!!

BuZay

So things have been extremely busy as of late which explains the lack of posts. Now I'm working full time back at my previous company. It's nice to be back and getting a regular paycheck. In addition I have been dancing a lot as well. It's just great to do something that I really enjoy doing. So my life has been consumed as of late due to work and dancing. I do apologize to my friends whom got accustom to seeing me on a regular basis especially to the Thursday Marix crew. I will skip a class just for you one week. :P

OrieYentas

Presenting the OrieYentas.

Stefano

Bye Stefano! We Miss You. Hope you're having in Europe. We'll see you soon - hopefully this summer.

Audition

Recently I was asked to dance with a group friends from the various dance classes I go to. Turns out we were going to audition for a new dance competition show. We learned the combo the morning of the audition and went straight into it.

We didn't do our best but it seemed that they liked us a lot. We'll see what happens. We named ourselves the Oriyentas because the group is made up of Asians and Jews. haha.

To get an idea of what we did - go to 2:35 of the J Lo Music Video Get Right. We did the break down section. Enjoy!

Just for Funsy

Working

So I haven't blogged in a while and it's for good reason. I am now back to working. Well part-time but at least I am working and getting a paycheck. Will update soon. I promise.

K-Pop

For some odd reason recently I have been on a Korean Pop or K-Pop binge specifically their girl and guy groups. Although I don't know what they're saying the songs are pretty catchy. If you have heard of Wondergirls and their song Nobody you know what I am talking about. Here are several other groups that I've been listening too. If you happen to listen to K-Pop let me know what others I should be listening to.

Dave

Good luck in San Francisco Dave. You'll be missed. I'll come visit soon.

MJ

Jams

Songs on repeat for me.

Dylan

Welcome Dylan Rey!

Congratulations to Rey, Stacey, and now big sister Malia.

Runyon

Some photos from my hike with Dean and little Roscoe at Runyon Canyon.

Alpha

I'm going to try this on my parents.

Dad

Happy Birthday to My Dad!

Sing

There has been a barrage of people on youtube singing. A lot of them good but a lot of them BAD!!! I know they are doing this for fun but if people are watching it just as I am - I'm ridiculing them, laughing, and sharing it with others. I'm not sure if these people think that they are talented and can sing but they are continually posting videos. Because of this I subscribe to see what they come up with next. They actually become internet celebrities and sometimes get thousands of hits per video. If you can bare them - below are some examples. One is a link as they did not allow embedding videos. Good luck and enjoy!

Does not allow embedding - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIppzbWGsvY

Telephone

I've started to take dance classes at the Edge Performing Arts Center in Hollywood and I'm loving it. I'm hoping to start taking other classes. Below are a couple videos from the hip hop class I take.

Choreography: Ben Allen

Music: Telphone by Lada Gaga featuring Beyonce

Mo'Nique

I LOVE me some Mo'Nique. She is hilarious. Watch her stand up video below from the Queens of Comedy and then watch her work it out on the BET Awards. WERK!

Positives

In my previous post I talk about having my car which was not the highlight of the day. I did however have positives happen.

In the morning at the gym as I was leaving an older man comes up to me and said that I inspired to do push ups as he saw me doing them.

I do push ups after I've done some stomach exercises. It's a great end to my workout.

Later in the evening I went to my first hip hop class at the Edge Performing Arts Center. After class a woman who was taking the class came up to me and said that she was watching me and said how good I was. How sweet!

For those who know me I LOVE to dance and having someone watch me enjoy what I love to do was probably the best compliment I could hear.

Positives. Always think of the positive things of the day and it makes your day worthwhile. With these two highlights of what happened in my day it was a nice day. My car dying was just a minor blip.

Headlights

I know I have a bad habit of leaving my headlights on. I have done this way too many times. Again, it happened tonight after my last hip hop class in West Hollywood.

I did massive texts to those that I knew that lived in the area. Thank goodness for James and Chord who jumped my car.

Lesson - double check my car to make sure lights are off so I'm not in that situation again.

Roscoe

Here are some pictures of Roscoe. I some times walk him or keep him company. He's a Pit Bull. Totally changed my mind about this breed. Roscoe is the sweetest dog however he LOVES to play and I sometimes...well always come home with some new scratch on my body.

Jams

Here is what is on repeat on my ipod:

Flight Attendant

Fitness

We begin a new year and many make the resolution of getting fit or losing weight. As this isn't a resolution of mine as I do go to the gym regularly I'm going to make it a goal to keep up my fitness or improve upon it.

In addition to my weight training I have realized I need to do more of a cardio regimen. I have been slacking but I have picked up. I've started to dance more not just at the 24 hour classes but also at the edge performing arts center in Hollywood. (Thanks to Dean for the gift certificate on my birthday. I'm hooked now!) On an average week I dance 5 times week sometimes doing back to back classes where I'm dancing three to four hours.

I'm also going back to my cardio routine. Depending if I do weights that day I will do anywhere from thirty to forty-five minutes of it. The latter consists of:

• 10 minutes on a stationary bike
• 15 minutes on the ellipticial
• 5 minutes on the rowing maching
• 5 minutes on the stair machine
• 10 minutes running on the treadmill

The times will vary if I am doing a shorter workout.

I hope to also incorporate some other activities like tennis, hiking, and back into running. I didn't run any marathons this year. I did a couple short races but who knows what this year holds.

Sounds like a lot but it's the sacrifice I have to make to keep fit.

2010

Good Riddance 2009. Welcome 2010!

Happy New Year.