Typical Day at Practice (winter)

I am a rookie to the winter team but when winter season began only 2 weeks ago I knew what I was in for from what other Blazettes had told me from being on the team last year. I was a little scared and nervous because they had all told me that winter was very intense and hard, and they told me all the really difficult things they did on the team last season to get ready for competitions. I guess all their hard work paid off because they got first a lot last year.

I made junior varsity kick and jazz. The first day of practice was pretty easy, all we did was listened to the rules and expectations of Blazettes and we started learning our dance because we had to perform it in 3 weeks! 3 weeks seems like a lot of time to learn a dance but it really isn't at all. We have to learn almost a 4 minute dance, we have to learn about 5 kick sets, we have to set formations, and we have to drill every part of the dance which means do it over and over again until it's perfect and there are absolutely no mistakes. As I have heard, this year has taken a lot more time to put the dance together than last year, I think this is because when we tried out the coaches didn't cut anybody who tried out and they accepted everyone onto the team. Maybe they think everybody has potential, but personally I think it was a mistake. I just hope everybody tries their hardest at every practice.

In the past 2 weeks we have learned our whole kick dance and part of our jazz dance. We have our first competition in one week, the 19th. I can't even explain how nervous I am because this is my first competition as a Blazette. I am also very excited because I love to perform and I can't wait to see how we do. I wish that people who do not believe dance is a sport could come to our practices and experience how much time and effort we put into something we all love to do.