tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085481930672914882024-03-13T11:10:52.866+08:00Studio 23 Dance & Fitness CentreNEWS AND UPDATESAlberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-64927835949148925982013-01-01T11:15:00.003+08:002013-01-01T11:19:21.408+08:00YEAR IN REVIEW: 2012 (Yes we still use this blog!)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Our 2012 was
a year of strengthening our foundations, and also broadening our horizons! We
did a lot of traveling to improve our technique and gain increased exposure,
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<b>January: </b>The
year got off to a great start, with Serina and Albert returning from London
after a short training session there. Serina brought back some awesome Flamenco
and Modern Jazz, and was raring to go! Meanwhile, Albert trained Jiu-Jitsu at
Roger Gracie Academy with Oliver Geddes, one of Roger’s Black Belts and someone
who has inspired him for years (and jumped at the first chance to pick his
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<b>February:
</b>From one end of the world to the other! We were next in Australia, where Serina
boosted her Lyrical Jazz and Belly Dance skills, and Albert competed in the
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Pro Trial in Sydney. It was the second time Serina
took an extended break to train in Australia, and when she got home her brain
was literally about to burst from all the cool stuff she learned!</div>
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<b>March: </b>It
was now time for the BJJ team to take centre stage, as Ivan led the troops into
battle at Kuala Lumpur’s first-ever competition. Ivan, Ho, Marcel and Jeremiah
all competed, with Ivan bringing home a silver medal in his weight division! It
was the first time Ho and Marcel competed, and we’re proud of every member of
the team – whether they competed or contributed by helping the competitors
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<b>April:
</b>Serina had just over a month to process all the information she got in
Australia, because we were not done traveling yet…April saw us on our greatest
adventure yet, to the greatest city on the planet: New York! Serina was there
for 5 weeks to train (and perform!) Belly Dance with world-famous Belly Dance
Superstar, Kaeshi, and also take part in the New York edition of Project Dance. She branched out and tried new genres of dance for the first time, such
as Contemporary Jazz. Albert was only there for 2 weeks but he used that time
to fulfill one of his dreams, and trained Jiu-Jitsu with his BJJ hero at
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<b>May:</b> Albert competed
again this month, this time at the Pan Asian BJJ International in Manila. He
won a bronze medal in the gi competition and a silver medal in the nogi
competition, but he didn’t go alone – Jeffri also competed, bringing home two
silver medals! It’s a tremendous accomplishment for Jeffri, and goes to show
the power of discipline and hard work. We were also joined by two of our
friends from Q23 Academy (ATT Thailand), and the combined medal haul from four
American Top Team competitors: 1 gold, 3 silver, 6 bronze.<br />
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<b>June:</b> In
June, we had a big spike in new members, as Studio 23 partnered with Groupon to
offer deals with huge savings for both our dance and fitness programs. The
response was so great that we had to open new classes especially for this
promotion! Studio 23 also went to the ONE FC MMA event in Kuala Lumpur to
support Albert's Jiu-Jitsu instructor, Professor Adam “Shogun” Shahir Kayoom, as he
fought the highly rated Gregor Gracie, a member of the legendary fighting
family, the Gracies! Professor Adam shocked everyone (except us, of course!) by
defeating Gracie after an epic fight! We finished the month off with a
celebration at the studio, as we had a combined graduation party for Belly
Dance levels 1 and 2!<br />
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<b>July: </b>After
all that excitement, we had a quiet July…well, quiet except for the totally
rocking Zumba workshops put on by our friend from KL and officially certified
Zumba Instructor, Jue! She just happened to be in town but of course we roped
her into doing some special classes for our students – every foot was sore and
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<b>August: </b>We
welcomed acclaimed international performers, Tatyana and Adolfo, back to
Sarawak as they visited Studio 23 for some out-of-this-world workshops in both
Belly Dance and Flamenco! We capped off the special classes with Noche de
Flamenco (Flamenco Night): a party and performance at the Sarawak Club, which
left everyone wanting more! We also had our second combined graduation party,
as our Modern Jazz Level 1 classes got together for a special night of fun and dancing! August
was also very special to us for another important reason, which is that Tony
from the BJJ team was getting married, and asked us if he could have a special
pre-wedding photoshoot at the academy…OF COURSE we said YES!<br />
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<b>September: </b>The
month of September was dominated by our studio Hafla (dance party), which is
the annual get-together for all our dance students, to let their hair down, get
glammed up, and perform! This year’s theme was “The Next Generation”, and it
was inspired by all the up-and-coming dancers in the studio. We are very proud of our new generation of dancers - most who danced onstage that night have never performed onstage before! They worked hard, overcame personal fears and challenges, and did a terrific job owning that stage. They have all blossomed and gained self-confidence in such a short time, and we can't wait to see what they have in store for us in 2013!<br />
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Our hafla took
on a special meaning as this year we had a baby boom, with 3 Belly Dancers, 1
Modern Jazz dancer and 1 Flamenco dancer who were all pregnant and dancing onstage – so it was
literally about the next generation! The highlights of the evening were a pregnant
mummies’ Belly Dance! <br />
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<b>October:</b> We
began our October with a unique experience: we helped our clients choreograph a music video! It
was a really super awesome experience, as we not only got to meet really
terrific people and go all around Kuching during filming, we also flew to Miri
for part of it! Albert entered a BJJ competition for the final time in 2012; on
this occasion it was the Bangkok Open. As always it was a tremendous learning
opportunity, as well as a chance to see good friends and make new ones! Albert
made the decision this year to compete in a higher weight division, and after a
really tough series of matches, he was left holding a silver medal. He lost his
final match to an opponent who was world-class, superior in every way. It was a
profoundly humbling and inspiring experience, and an awesome way to get hungry
for the next opportunity to compete!<br />
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<b>November:</b> We
had not one, but two guest dance instructors in November! First, we were again
visited by Jue, so if you’re asking whether we got her to do more Zumba
workshops, the answer is a resounding yes! Second, we were joined by Hiroko,
who opened a special 10-week ballet course for our Modern Jazz Level 2 students, to strengthen their technique
in preparation for a 2013 which we have big, big plans for! Finally, we were
involved with a dance performance for the Sarawak Breast Cancer Support Group.
It was a show which was especially meaningful to us, and we appreciate the
opportunity to support such a worthy cause.</div>
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<b>December:</b> December
has been a packed month! We were booked almost completely solid with
performances for various events and functions. The highlight of these was the
MyFM Birthday Bash at BCCK, in which we choreographed not just a dance, but a
fight scene! We were given a really interesting concept to play with, as well
as music in genres which we had previously never worked with, so it was a
chance to step out of our comfort zones and push our boundaries!</div>
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very busy year with a lot of groundwork and preparation work done, and we’re
taking a moment to have a breather before we start classes for 2013 – when we’re going to hit
the ground running with some good, old-fashioned hard training in preparation
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Dance Me A
Story 2!</b></i></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-67331775353519714622012-01-29T03:56:00.000+08:002012-01-29T03:56:23.852+08:00NEW BELLY DANCE CLASSLadies, it's time to shimmy off those CNY cookies - we're starting our newest Belly Dance class this February!<br />
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Classes will be every <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thursday from 7:15 - 8:15 p.m.</span></b> and no experience is necessary. This is a class for absolute beginners so if you've been thinking about trying out Belly Dance, it's a perfect time!<br />
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The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>first class is this coming Thursday, February 2nd</i></b></span>. To register and book your spot, call Eileen at <b><i>012 805 3005</i></b>, or email us at <b><i>studio23kuching@gmail.com</i></b><br />
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Thanks and see you there!Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-90194346744849420702011-12-31T10:29:00.003+08:002011-12-31T11:31:05.790+08:002011: YEAR IN REVIEWAnother year is just about done, and we’re amazed at how full it was! <a href="http://studio23blog.blogspot.com/2009/12/2009-at-studio-23.html">After our inaugural year,</a> we had <a href="http://studio23blog.blogspot.com/2010/12/year-in-review-2010.html">some great leaps in 2010</a> - but 2011 was by far the biggest year yet for Studio 23, and to finish it up we’re having a look back at the past 12 months.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">We had a nice and easy start to year 3. Our Crazy Monkey Defense and Flamenco programs were featured in newspaper articles, but mostly we spent January laying the groundwork for the following months.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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FEBRUARY</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">By the time February rolled around, Albert and Serina were already in Sydney, Australia, taking some training courses.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Albert’s February was a slice of BJJ heaven: at the start of the month he trained with Nicolas Gregoriades (Roger Gracie’s first Black Belt) in Sydney, and at the end of the month he got to train with the man himself, Roger Gracie when he put on a seminar at Evolve MMA in Singapore!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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MARCH</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">March was a taste of things to come, as things were slowly but surely piling on. We began Season 2 of our Core Strength Bootcamp with 15 participants, and we were really excited to see how this was going to go! Studio 23 was featured twice more, in the Borneo Post and (thanks to Tabitha) in Just Dance magazine, in an article about Kuching dance culture. Finally, we played host to a special guest as BJJ Brown Belt Christian Graugart stopped by as part of his world tour!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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APRIL</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">We introduced Belly Dance Tribal Fusion for the first time, and opened our first new BJJ class on Friday evenings. The end of April featured our Martial Arts Open Week, where anyone could walk in and join any of our Jiu-Jitsu or Crazy Monkey classes for free.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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MAY</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">April’s Martial Arts Open Week led straight into our May martial arts promo, in which we offered big discounts to anyone joining the BJJ or CMD programs in May. The promotion received a lot of great feedback and results, and we’ll probably be bringing it back soon! May was also a month of milestones for Studio 23:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">1. Albert was promoted to Purple Belt in BJJ during training with Professor Adam Kayoom in Thailand.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">2. Ivan was promoted to Blue Belt, officially ending the saga of South East Asia’s most notorious sandbagger.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">3. The fourth World Belly Dance Day was held in Kuala Lumpur, and Serina performed a new choreography. That’s not new, but this was the first time that a group of students travelled with her for a performance and workshops!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">4. More CMD classes were added to the schedule. These classes were focused on fundamental techniques that were just as useful to absolute beginners and seasoned veterans.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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JUNE</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">In June, the Studio 23 Jiu-Jitsu team flew over to Manila for the 2011 Pan Asian BJJ International and came back with 7 medals! Not only was it a fantastic result for us, it was also the biggest team we have brought to a competition, at a modest 5! </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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JULY</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">July saw the first audition for Dance Me A Story. For round 1, we had an incredible turnout of more than 100 dancers in Belly Dance, Jazz, Flamenco and Tango! It was also our first round of casting, and for this our production team flew in from KL. From July onwards, they would be flying over at least once a month! </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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AUGUST</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Round 2 of auditions for Dance Me A Story kicked off our August, and intensive rehearsals started on the 3<sup>rd</sup>! </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rehearsals were not all just about dance! The Flamenco dancers also had to record their footwork to be used as background music. And just as they thought that it's a wrap, Albert flushes the toilet...</td></tr>
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SEPTEMBER</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">For Dance Me A Story, our focus now shifted from dance to drama, and our acting lessons began in earnest! Our production team worked with us, and special thanks go out to our drama coaches: Alison Nicholas and Sarah Lasung. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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finding it a challenge to take themselves seriously in the beginning.</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Our first full-cast rehearsals began in September, and the first round of photoshoots for the event took place as well!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Behind the scenes at the main cast photoshoot for "Stronger". </td></tr>
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OCTOBER</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">In October, the Dance Me A Story performers had their first full-dress rehearsals. It was a great chance for our performers – some of whom having never even been part of a play in school – to get a picture of how everything would look when everyone was all made up. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full-dress rehearsals are always an exciting time as everyone gets to see what everyone else is going to wear!</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">This month also saw the fourth Thailand BJJ Open, and even though most of the BJJ team was unable to attend, Albert made the trip out to compete and came home with a couple of medals and a lot of experience! </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Albert won a silver medal in his No-Gi division at the 2011 Thailand Open. <br />
It's the best result he's earned so far in No-Gi, and next year he'll be planning on doing better!</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Finally, San Fransisco-based Sandra came back to KL for some more Belly Dance workshops and Serina took the chance to sneak away from rehearsals to go and learn from one of her favorite Belly Dance instructors! </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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NOVEMBER<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">It goes without saying that in November our focus was completely on Dance Me A Story. With over 100 performers in both dancing and non-dancing roles, and an audience of about 1400 people, it was a massive effort and by far our most ambitious project. Pre-production work took 2 years, and if you were wondering why we haven’t made a blog post about it, it’s because we’re still doing the post-production work! From post-mortems to editing footage, we’ve still got our hands full with the show two months after it finished. We’ll have some more about it up soon, not to worry! </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The event hall for Dance Me A Story. It looks even bigger when it's filled up.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dance Me A Story, Full Cast. Fortunately the stage held our weight and the show could proceed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Warming up before the show. Pirates and princesses, zombies and street gangs united.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last-minute full-dress rehearsal. Even zombies get nervous too!</td></tr>
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The end of November saw Serina travel to KL for another Belly Dance workshop put on by Hungarian performer Mercedes Nieto, where she learnt even more ways to shimmy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shimmy, shimmy, shimmy!</td></tr>
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DECEMBER</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The last month of 2011 began with our annual Belly Dance Hafla. Like our 2010 Hafla, this year’s party featured not only Belly Dance, but also Jazz and Flamenco performances as dancers from all our programs got together for a ladies’ only dance-off! It was the most informal event we've organized, and it was really fun being able to just relax, let our hair down and dance.<br />
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The Belly Dance and Modern Jazz Level 1 students blew everyone away with their confidence and poise! And a trio of Belly Dance Level 2 dancers caught Serina completely off-guard when they had a surprise dance for her. Instead of taking a break after Dance Me A Story, they met up and trained in secret! Thank you so much :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A full routine learnt in less than 3 weeks; not easy to pull off at all!</td></tr>
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The Studio 23 dance troupe was also in action a couple of times, first at the Unimas Christmas show, “Christmas Is Coming To You”, and again during the Christmas Eve show at the Spring. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the 2011 Unimas Christmas charity production, "Christmas Is Coming To You".</td></tr>
</tbody></table>It is now the last day of 2011. As we post this, we are in London, England, where we arrived for a “holiday” of sorts 2 weeks ago. No later than 18 hours after we landed in the country, we were both training – Serina at Pineapple Dance Studios, and Albert at Roger Gracie Academy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">A jet-lagged but nonetheless gung ho Serina attended her first Commercial Jazz class at Pineapple Dance Studios– only to realize halfway through that she was in a Zumba class :p ...fortunately the Pineapple store was on hand to help out with some retail therapy after!</div></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Just reading that over, we can’t believe that 2011 was such a packed year for us. As we reflect back on this year and get ready for the next one, we are profoundly grateful for everything that has happened to and for us over these 12 months. We had so many great experiences and learned an incredible amount that will surely help us in 2012 – year 4 for Studio 23!</div></div></div>Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-34747053265326358822011-11-19T12:18:00.000+08:002011-11-19T12:18:55.160+08:00BELLY DANCE HIGH TEA HAFLA<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Ladies! Come and join us at our STUDIO 23 BELLY DANCE HIGH TEA HAFLA!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Date: 4th December 2011 (Sunday)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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Bring your sisters, girlfriends, mothers and most importantly, your inner diva along for a time of </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">girl power! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">Belly Dancers from levels 1-3 will be performing, our Jazz dancers will be showcasing a couple of broadway jazz numbers, and our Flamenco dancers will be there to join in the fun too. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tickets are on sale NOW, and places for this hafla are limited! RM35 each, available at the studio.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Don't forget your killer heels and feather boas, and s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ee you there!</span></span></span>Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-26675690579681571482011-11-03T18:02:00.000+08:002011-11-03T18:02:22.217+08:00JUST AROUND THE CORNER! - PART 2It's been another two tiring days, and we are almost there! Here is a bunch of photos from Wednesday's run to BCCK.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The floor view from the back of the room.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The gallery will be located behind the floor seats, but the top-down view more than makes up for the distance.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view of the lights that are being set up as you read this.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We know what SOME of you are thinking, and no, you don't get to swing around on the chains.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The BCCK crew is hard at work doing up barriers to hide all the magic being done backstage.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There will also be big screens set up for those of you who prefer a close-up shot of the action on stage!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-76601286086882914232011-11-02T14:38:00.000+08:002011-11-02T14:38:35.992+08:00JUST AROUND THE CORNER!We didn't think we could get any busier with our upcoming show, 'Dance Me A Story'. Well, we were obviously wrong. Yesterday alone was a tremendously packed affair. We were at red.fm for an interview with Rosalind Tan, for a really fun chat in a freezing studio!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosalind, Serina and Albert at red.fm studios</td></tr>
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Following that, we had to head back to Studio 23 for our official press conference! We put on a mini-showcase and answered some questions for the reporters. Thank you very much to all the papers who were there, we really appreciate it!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Article from Borneo Post</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Article from Sin Chiew Jit Poh</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Article from United Daily News</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Article from New Sarawak Tribune</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Article from See Hua Daily</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our performers, maintaining the long Studio 23 tradition of dancing well and posing well!</td></tr>
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And if that wasn't enough, we also had to rush to BCCK for a meeting with our events coordinator, AND a rehearsal! We are working really hard to put forth the best experience that we can, and we are really excited to share it with everyone on Sunday!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The BCCK crew is working hard to set up, and Serina is also working hard to check the height of the stage!</td></tr>
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Remember, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">tickets are still available!</span></b> You can get them <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">from the studio, or at our booth in MPH The Spring!</span></b> Our booth is open from 12 noon - 2 pm and again from 6 pm - 8 pm.<br />
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For more information, you can email us at studio23kuching@gmail.com or call Eileen at 012 805 3005.<br />
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Thanks everyone, and see you Sunday!Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-85447353774190893332011-10-21T13:09:00.000+08:002011-10-21T13:09:21.217+08:00DANCE ME A STORY - SPECIAL PROMOTION!No updates in a while, as we have been super busy with preparations for 'Dance Me A Story' - look for a whole bunch of cool stuff coming soon! In the meantime, here is a special promotion for the event!<br />
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If you haven't picked up YOUR tickets for 'Dance Me A Story' yet, now's the perfect time! From Saturday 22nd October to Sunday 30th October, when you buy 10 tickets you will get 1 ticket FREE!<br />
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What's more, the tickets don't all have to be the same price (e.g. if you buy 2 RM100 tickets, 2 RM80 tickets, 3 RM50 tickets and 3 RM30 tickets, you will still qualify - we will just take the average price and give you a ticket from that range)!<br />
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So, if you're waiting for your friends to get back to you, tell them to hurry before this promotion ends!Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-21013460923057759872011-09-12T14:15:00.000+08:002011-09-12T14:15:02.737+08:00DANCE ME A STORY FEATURED IN THE STAROur studio production has been featured in the Star newspaper! Have a read here, and when you're done you can book your tickets to Dance Me A Story (NOW AVAILABLE!) through any of the following ways:<br />
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3. Email us at studio23kuching@gmail.com<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">We've been SUPER busy lately, preparing for our upcoming dance production: Dance Me A Story!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;">Featuring two stories:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;">"An Arabian Fairy Tale", in which you'll travel around the world with our Belly Dance divas!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;">"Stronger", where our Modern Jazz and Flamenco dancers will battle it out on the dancefloor!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;">One of our goals with this show is to support the Sarawak Women for Women Society, and raise awareness of domestic violence.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;">We're aiming for at least 1500 people for this show, so share, share share this with your friends and family! And then share some more :)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;">Join us on November 6th for what's set to be a night of incredible performances!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;">Call Eileen at 012 805 3005,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;">Email us at studio23kuching@gmail.com, or</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;">Drop by the studio! We are located at 152 Lorong 8, Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce. It's right on top of Little Hainan, and very close to 3rd Mile.</span>Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-25720320896960873022011-08-02T16:43:00.002+08:002011-08-02T17:06:59.694+08:00Rehearsals: August - October<span style="font-weight:bold;">WEDNESDAY (starting 3rd August)</span><br /><br />6:00 - 6:30 p.m. : The Storm Princesses<br />6:30 - 7:15 p.m. : The Water Princesses<br />8:15 - 9:00 p.m. : Flamenco<br />9:15 - 10:15 p.m.: Argentine Tango (rehearsals start Sept)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">THURSDAY (starting 4th August)</span><br /><br />6:30 - 7:10 p.m.: Flamenco (own practice)<br />8:15 - 9:00 p.m.: The Tribal Princesses<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">FRIDAY (starting 5th August)</span><br /><br />5:00 - 6:00 p.m. : Happy<br />7:30 - 8:00 p.m. : The Air Princesses<br />8:00 - 8:30 p.m. : The Savannah Princesses<br />8:00 - 8:30 p.m. : Smooth Criminal (3rd Fl)<br />8:30 - 9:00 p.m. : I Believe<br />9:00 - 9:30 p.m. : Make You Feel My Love<br />9:30 - 10:00 p.m.: Tore My Heart<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">SATURDAY (starting 6th August)</span><br /><br />5:00 - 5:30 p.m.: Bust Your Windows*<br />5:30 - 6:00 p.m.: Apologize<br />6:00 - 6:30 p.m.: Sweet Disposition*<br />6:30 - 7:00 p.m.: Hush Hush*<br />7:00 - 8:00 p.m.: Fame & Thriller*<br /><br />*The audition for these songs are at 8 p.m. on Sunday 21st August. Please come for practice this Saturday onwards if you have already learnt the dances, and would like to audition for them.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">TUESDAY (starting 9th August)</span><br /><br />8:30 - 9:30 p.m.: Breakin' Dishes/ Beggin'/ Imma Shineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18180111991466048173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-13819422070826394042011-05-19T22:48:00.000+08:002011-05-19T22:48:54.378+08:00STUDIO 23 AT THE WORLD BELLY DANCE DAY 2011Over the past weekend a group of the Studio 23 dancers were in the house for the annual World Belly Dance Day, held this year in Bandar Sunway. Check out <a href="http://komunitikini.com/kl-selangor/subang-jaya/world-belly-dance-day-magnet-for-the-newly-charitable">this write up</a> about the event!<br />
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<h1 style="color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, Arial; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">WORLD BELLY DANCE DAY MAGNET FOR THE NEWLY CHARITABLE</h1><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Calibri, Arial; font-size: 11px;"> by <a href="http://komunitikini.com/author/thomas-tan" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;" title="Posts by Thomas Tan">THOMAS TAN</a> on 16 May, 2011</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Calibri, Arial; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Calibri, Arial; font-size: 11px;"><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The guests that packed Euphoria by Ministry of Sound in Bandar Sunway last Saturday enjoyed an eye-opening experience as professional belly dancers from all over the world, including renowned French dancer, Yael Zarca, showcased their talent at the fourth Malaysia World Belly Dance Day.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It was a really great event for a worthwhile cause, as the proceeds from the sale of tickets at RM85 each will go to the Handicapped and Mentally Retarded Children’s Centre Selangor.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The evening saw <em>top</em><strong>-</strong>class entertainment<strong> </strong>that amply displayed the grace and sophistication of authentic belly dancing.<em></em></div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em></em>Local and international belly dancers from Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Ukraine, France, and more, showed a previously unimaginable range of expression that the just pelvis and hips can convey to applause<strong> </strong>and cheers from the audience excited to see the dancers performing in different styles, techniques and combinations.</div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“The charity belly dance is part of our commuity service and continuous corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme; we’re doing our part to reach out to the needy and contribute to the community,” said Celebrity Fitness managing director, Choi Kwangho, who co-organised the event with Belly Fusion.</div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Co-organiser Brancy Nekvapil, who is the director of Belly Fusion, added that, “We want to do our bit for charity and donating to the welfare home is a wonderful thing to do for the community and I think everyone should come forward and help the less fortunate.”</div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Brancy took up belly dancing in 2005 and is active in performing and choreographing belly dance routines for annual dinners and private functions.</div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Spotted among the celebrities were actor Kelvin Liew, 8TV host Baki Zainal, DJ Max of One FM, 8TV Quickie host Megan Tan, model Wilson Tan and many more only too eager to join in the cause.</div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><em></em></span></div><em><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">“It was for a good cause,” said</span><span style="font-style: normal;"><em></em></span></em></div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em><em></em></em></div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em><em></em></em></div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em><em></em></em></div><div style="font-size: 15px; 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Giving to charity is a wonderful thing.”</span></div></em></em></em></span><br />
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</div>Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-54302060449484043262011-05-10T13:33:00.000+08:002011-05-10T13:33:23.885+08:00BOOTCAMP POOL PARTY<div>As part of the Core Strength Bootcamp, we had planned an outing for everyone to get a workout and dinner in a new location. We settled on a pool party and pot luck dinner, followed by games! Here are some highlights from the evening! We were unfortunately unable to get everything (such as some hedge jumping) but maybe next time we'll just get some hidden cameras :)</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It sounds funny calling this a warm-up, but anyway...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using the pool is a great way to work out your arms -<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeremy kindly demonstrates how you don't need your hands to wave when you're in a pool.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It wasn't all hard work - we just had to get some action shots in as well!</td></tr>
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Salads, roast chicken, bruschetta, hummus and butterless apple crumble -<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>ARGENTINE TANGO: </b>It's time to ocho and gancho! Our <b>3-month beginner course</b> starts <b>Wednesday 18th May, 9:15 - 10:15 p.m.</b></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">More info is coming soon, so stay tuned!</span></span></div>Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-8490705340879904022011-05-04T13:27:00.001+08:002011-05-04T13:46:39.396+08:00GO BALD 3 AT THE SPRING: MAY 15<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 21pt;">We would like to highlight two important individuals this month who will be </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 24pt;">going bald</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 21pt;"> this May 15th:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 24pt;">Silas Michael</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 21pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 15pt;">from Truevents</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 21pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">It was Silas who first introduced SCCS to us, and even before Studio 23 was launched in 2009, Serina and her dance troupe performed for the SCCS Golden Child Camp at Santubong in 2008. For the first two Go Bald events, Studio 23 performed at the Spring to help promote awareness and to support the cause of SCCS.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We told them, "look, you can dance or you can get shaved"... the rest was easy!</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">We are also very proud of two ladies who got shaved; our very own Georgette Tan and Joanna Yap. Albert also went onboard as copywriter for the Go Bald team last year.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">This year, we won’t be around during the Shave off on May 13 – May 15 at the spring, as a group of us will be attending the World Belly Dance Day Charity Event in KL the same weekend. We want to show our continuous support by helping Silas to raise money for his pledge card. Let’s help him reach his target of RM20k for the children!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even the guys got into the Belly Dancing action!</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">We would also like to help <b>10-year-old Jeremy</b> raise money on his pledge card. One of the most traumatic experiences for children who are already suffering from the burden of cancer is the loss of their hair. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 15pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We want to applaud Jeremy for stepping up and helping to spread the word. This is the 2</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">nd</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> year in a row that he is getting shaved. Because of him, children with cancer will know that it’s okay to be bald. Way to go, Jeremy! </span> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 15pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">We'd also like to highlight a recent post written by Silas. It's a great reminder on why the SCCS is such a worthy cause that deserves our support:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 15pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 15pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 18pt;">Go Bald 3: Let’s Help Kids Fight Cancer!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">By: Silas Michael<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silas and his son, Matthew, both got shaved during the inaugural Go Bald event in 2009! <br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Three years ago, a friend of mine, Rodney Wong, an exco and Publicity Chairman of the Sarawak Children's Cancer Society (SCCS), approached me and several young entrepreneurs to come up with a happening approach for youths and the current generation to be involved in charity, specifically in aid of the SCCS, which supports children and families suffering from the trauma of childhood cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Inspired by a similar event in Singapore, we decided to create </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">GoBald.</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> It is a campaign that aims to:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1) Raise awareness on childhood cancer in Sarawak<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2) Garner support from the public for the SCCS and her projects<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">3) Raise funds for the SCCS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Apparently, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">a new childhood cancer case is diagnosed every 5 days in Sarawak</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (based on the last few year's report by the SGH) and </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the most well-equipped hospital in Sabah & Sarawak that provides the necessary treatment for childhood cancer is the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH)</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> that is located in Kuching, Sarawak. Even children from Sabah are sent there for bone cancer treatment. Even the famous major private hospital, Normah Medical Centre, only has facilities for leukemia treatment. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The SCCS provides many forms of support</span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> for the children diagnosed with cancer and their families. You can find out more at </span></span><a href="http://www.sccs.org.my/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.sccs.org.my</span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> but some of these include:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1) Providing counselling<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2) Providing accommodation and transportation for those from out of town especially the less well-to-do families<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">3) Running programs and activities such as the Golden Child Camp (at resorts, incl family members) and children's ward visitations<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">4) Provide financial support for treatment<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">5) Helps purchase cancer treatment medicine when the hospital stock runs out (hospital has a pretty lengthy process in the procurement of new medicine stock, at times)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On an annual basis, the State Government allocates </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">RM5k </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">for every recognized state welfare organization, including the SCCS. However, the SCCS has a annual operations overhead of some </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">RM500k.</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Recently (last year), they were asked to relocate to a new location as the current place they're at now (just 4 min walk from the SGH) has been gazetted for urban development. The State Govt has provided a nice 1.7 acre land for the new SCCS centre but:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1) It's much further from the SGH (so the SCCS need a bigger van)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2) The new centre is well-equipped and more hospitable and bigger with more rooms but will cost some RM2.5million<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">While there are already some corporate sponsors supporting the SCCS, the sum that they provide is far too little and hence we need to raise a call-to-action by the general public via GoBald (The SCCS has other events including an annual food fair that raises some RM250-300k) especially among the youth and current generation (17-40yrs).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In the first year, GoBald was participated by some 100 shavees and 2 were ladies, raising about RM215k. Last year, over 400 people shaved, including more than 20 ladies, raising some RM400k++<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This year, we are running GoBald in two cities. Miri and Kuching:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1st May - Bintang Megamall, Miri<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">15th May - The Spring Shopping Mall, Kuching<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This year, we hope to garner more shavees and raise even more funds. The target is RM1.5million but we'll leave that as the annual target and not just on GoBald's campaign alone. Nonetheless, nothing wrong with trying to achieve that amount. If not this year, maybe next year. But that's a whole new story init?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So, just how do we raise funds as a shavee?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In the first year, Kenny Sia, a renown blogger and celebrity in his own right came to the fore to help champion the cause among his blog readers and friends. He pledged to raise RM50k before he would go onstage to GoBald. Kenny raised of RM60k for the SCCS. In total, over 100 heads were shaved in front of a watching audience at the Spring, Kuching and RM215k was raised.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Last year, several prominent individuals came to the fore and one of them, a gospel artiste and church pastor, GT Lim, raised over RM90k from his sponsors. In total, over 400 heads were shaved and about RM400k++ was raised.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This year, there are no celebs. No prominent VIPs. But </span></span></b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">there's still you and I. We can make a difference too. </span></span></i></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I'm pledging to raise RM20k from my friends and business associates. You could raise RM100 or RM100k. The amount does not matter. It's the action and desire to show your support for children with cancer. So, join me in this quest, and let's Shave to Save. Let's help kids fight cancer!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Find out more at </span></span><a href="http://www.gobald.my/"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.gobald.my</span></span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and see how you too, can participate and support the campaign and the SCCS.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-19088839982694467332011-04-30T14:46:00.000+08:002011-04-30T14:46:59.349+08:00REPLACEMENT CLASSES<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">DANCE REPLACEMENT CLASSES: </span></span><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Sun 3 p.m. BD 1d: May 15th class is replaced TOMORROW, May 1st.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This Monday, May 2nd, there is a special schedule:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Note: Studio 23 is normally closed on public holidays. All classes normally held on Monday are not on, except those listed.</span>Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-35100146206205771422011-04-26T15:54:00.001+08:002011-04-26T15:55:28.383+08:00NEXT MONTH: B-BOY CLASSES FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS!<span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">The title says it all: we’re opening up B-Boy classes </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">starting in May</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"> – and it’s the first group dance class at Studio 23 open to guys and girls! This is a </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">3-Month Course</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"> and is meant for </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">beginners </span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">(no dance experience necessary).</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Gill Sans Ultra Bold';">B-Boy Kids (Saturday 4.30 - 5.30 p.m.):<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">Pick up some basic B-Boy dance moves and keep fit through play! Learn to </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">feel and interpret music</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"> and develop </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 19pt;">balance</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">confidence</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"> </span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">and </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">coordination</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">. It’s a great way to learn </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">independence</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">, and also how to </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">express yourself through music</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"> </span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">movement</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">!</span><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"> There will be a regular mini-showcase to show off your skills to your parents!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">Kids aged 5-8 will be able to join our kids’ class. Kids below 5 and above 10 will be considered on a case-by-case basis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">Learn classic B-Boy moves like </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">top-rocking</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"> and </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">freezes</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">, along with dance fundamentals. You won’t learn choreographies, but you’ll learn how to chain different techniques together to </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">make your own style!</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">It’s a great </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">cardio workout</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">, but you won’t have to worry about doing anything crazy – we won’t be teaching power-moves just yet!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">The B-Boy classes at Studio 23 will be led by none other than Kuching’s own </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 20pt;">Daus!</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"> At just 20 years old, he is one of the leading influences in the local B-Boy scene, as well as one of its best dancers and most prolific competitors! He has won first place in several competitions, such as Swinburne’s Got Talent, the Floor Mania 1 on 1 and the Saberkas Dance Championship; and performed for Pullman, Celcom, Maybank, Petronas and Swinburne, among others.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">A natural performer, Daus is known for his great stage presence and his imaginative and innovative style!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">For more info, email us at studio23kuching@gmail.com or call Eileen at 012 805 3005.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-31106152094830445492011-04-25T11:28:00.003+08:002011-04-25T18:32:16.257+08:00JIU-JITSU AND CRAZY MONKEY: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">These are a few questions we are often asked, so we thought we'd put them up, along with our answers.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">Crazy Monkey Defense Fundamentals: </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><b>Monday 8.00 - 9.00 p.m. & Wednesday 7.00 - 8.00 p.m.</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">For BJJ, you will need a gi (a martial arts kimono). If you have your own gi from other martial arts training you are welcome to use it. Just be warned that in Jiu-Jitsu there is a lot of gripping and pulling, so if the material is thin, it may rip. If you don't have one, we have a limited number of gis in stock for sale, and you can also rent one for RM10 per class.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">Note: depending on the number of people in class, there may not be enough gis to go around if everyone rents. Please bring along a spare t-shirt and shorts in case.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">You don't have to wear shoes, as all our training is barefoot.</span></div></div></span></i><br />
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</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. “You offer Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu? Is that where you are doing handstand and flips, and there is a lot of cool music?”</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">No, that’s actually a totally different thing: it’s called Capoeira. We don’t offer it, but who knows – maybe one day we will; we think it looks really cool! Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is more like a mix of Judo and Wrestling. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">You can find more information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Jiu-Jitsu<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. “Wrestling? Do you mean like WWE-style?”</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">Nope! WWE is entertainment, we mean Wrestling as in the martial art. What you see in the Olympics is closer to BJJ.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. “I’d like to try out your Crazy Monkey Dance / Boxing Dance / etc. What kind of dance is it?”</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">It’s the kind that’s not a dance at all! Crazy Monkey Defense is a martial arts program, so we’re mainly concerned with self-defense.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6. “Why did you call it Crazy Monkey Defense?”</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">We didn’t name the style, and we didn’t invent it. It’s an international program and the head of the program, Rodney King, is based in South Africa. There are trainers in South Africa, North America, Europe, Australia and all over South East Asia!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">For more info you can check out: http://www.crazymonkeyuniverse.com/<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. “So you have Crazy Monkey Defense, but do you have Kickboxing?”</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">Yes we do, as a part of the CMD program, but we mainly use punches. We teach kicks and knee strikes, but for the most part you will be using your legs for moving around and keeping balance, rather than striking.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8. “Can women join these classes? Or are they just for men?”</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">Women are always welcome in either BJJ or CMD. We would just recommend that for BJJ, that women bring a partner or friend.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">9. “Can I just watch a class? I don’t know if I want to try it out.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">We strongly recommend you try the classes out rather than watch. The reason is: you will probably not really understand what is happening unless you experience it for yourself. Much more is happening than you may be able to see, and it is hard to catch unless you are actually doing it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">10. “Which is better for me, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or Crazy Monkey Defense?”</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">Well, that’s really up to you. They are both martial arts, and the only difference is the emphasis. In the BJJ program, we train mainly for sport competition (which means there is no striking), and in the CMD program the focus is on self-defense (which means everything is based on striking). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">We recommend you come and try out both classes and see if you like the training. If you want to do both, that’s great too! <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro'; font-size: 14pt;">The first class is always free</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro';">, so you can come and see if you like the training environment and atmosphere.</span></div>Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-13340521148974044462011-04-12T10:48:00.004+08:002011-04-12T10:59:28.341+08:00BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU / CRAZY MONKEY UPDATES & PROMOTION<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i>1. Crazy Monkey Fundamentals class<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (no experience necessary!)</span></i></b></span><br />
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There will be a new Crazy Monkey Fundamentals class starting next month! The Fundamentals class is meant to give you the most essential core of the CMD program, and is open to men and women of all skill levels.<br />
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The first class is on Wednesday, May 4th. However, you'll be able to preview the class starting April 25th during our Open Week!<br />
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If you've ever wanted to try Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or Crazy Monkey Defense, it's a great time to do just that!<br />
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<b><i>From Monday, April 25th to Saturday, April 30th, we'll be having a martial arts Open Week!</i></b> Come and check out the gym, see if you like the training atmosphere, and attend ALL our martial arts classes<br />
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<b><i>From May 1st - 31st</i></b>, when you join either program, you'll be able to attend all the classes for just <b><i>RM100 a month each!</i></b> What's more, you will be able to attend the next two months for the same price if you sign up by May 31st.<br />
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That's 3 months of unlimited training for only RM300 per program!<br />
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Come and check us out, and see you on the mats!<br />
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<b>Note:</b> During the promotion, beginners to the Crazy Monkey Defense program will be able to join both Fundamentals classes. After getting a good grasp on the material there, they will be invited to take part in the Wednesday 8 - 9 p.m. CMD Advanced class. During the Open Week, all CMD classes will be open to the public. Finally, to join the CMD program you must be 18 or older.<br />
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<b>Belly Dance 2A</b>: Monday, 6.10 p.m.<br />
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<b>Belly Dance 2B</b>: Saturday 9.00 a.m. / Wednesday 7.15 p.m.<br />
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<b>Belly Dance 1C</b>: Friday 6.30 p.m.<br />
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And for those of you who have no dance experience, don't feel left out - we've got classes for you too!<br />
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<b>Belly Dance 1D (Beginners)</b>: Monday, 8.15 p.m. - Starts April 4th<br />
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<b>Modern Jazz (Beginners)</b>: Monday, 7.15 p.m. - Starts April 4th<br />
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<b>Flamenco (Beginners)</b>: Wednesday, 7.15 p.m. - Starts April 6thAlberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-41574015511693060522011-03-28T15:03:00.001+08:002011-03-29T01:30:38.778+08:00NEW JIU-JITSU CLASS IN APRILWe're opening up a <i><b>new Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class in April!</b></i> Every <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Friday from 7-8 p.m.</span></b> we will be drilling techniques, as well as movements for better body mechanics. Drilling is a key, though underappreciated and often neglected part of Jiu-Jitsu, so this will be a great way to improve your ability to move and grapple!<br />
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This is an add-on to the program, so there's <b>no increase in price.</b> <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The first class is this Friday, April 1st (not the 4th!)</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">.</span><br />
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This is the first of many changes we have planned for the Jiu-Jitsu program, and we're really excited about them - watch this space for more updates and info soon!<br />
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If you have any questions about the Jiu-Jitsu program, email us at studio23kuching@gmail.com or contact Albert at 017 613 9311.Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-80109257536932980062011-03-18T19:15:00.000+08:002011-03-18T19:15:39.999+08:00CORE STRENGTH BOOTCAMP UPDATESThe response to Season 2 of our Core Strength Bootcamp has been awesome, and we are officially closing it off for this round! Any new applicants will be placed on a waiting list for Season 3.<br />
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Week 1 is just ending now. We're really happy with the effort put in by the Bootcampers, and we're also really impressed by their commitment!<br />
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One of our Bootcampers is Sharon, a journalist with the Star. Check out her take on the Bootcamp, published in today's issue of the Star (Sarawak Edition)!<br />
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<h3 id="story_date" style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Friday March 18, 2011</h3><h1 id="story_title" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 29px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 36px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 35px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/3/18/sarawak/8291692&sec=sarawak">Keeping fit is no walk in the park</a></h1><br />
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<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">THIS week I’m starting a fitness boot camp programme which will last three months. I’m doing this not because I want to lose weight — in fact, if I shed several kilogrammes there wouldn’t be much left of me! Rather, I signed up because I really want to improve my fitness, strength and stamina.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I was impressed by some spectacular results I saw among the first group of participants who joined a pilot boot camp at the end of last year. One of my friends achieved her goal of having a flat tummy without having to suck it in. I immediately thought, “That’s what I want, too!”</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Another friend lost about 5kg and looks considerably leaner and fitter.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Throughout the boot camp, I’ll have to attend at least two core-strength fitness classes a week. I’ve already been going to this class once a week, which got me into some shape, but I’m still quite unfit.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">For instance, I can’t do a cardio (aerobic) warm-up of running, skipping and hopping several times around the gym without huffing and puffing and wanting to collapse in a heap.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">So that’s one of my goals for the boot camp - to build up my stamina until the cardio warm-up becomes comfortable. This should come in useful for running around after politicians in the state election!</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cardio exercises aren’t the only things we do in core-strength classes. We do all kinds of things with funky names like Atomic Crunch, Tigerman and Mountain Runner, but believe me, they can be pretty tough on the legs, arms, shoulders and abdominal muscles.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The good thing is that you do a complete workout, exercising every part of your body, so you don’t just bulk up in the shoulders or upper arms.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">What’s great about this boot camp, though, is that it isn’t just about putting yourself through a gruelling exercise regime. There’s also an emphasis on a good diet - eating healthy food in the right amounts and changing unhealthy eating habits. Getting fit is about having a healthy lifestyle, so it makes sense to watch our food intake while exercising regularly.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">So we’re encouraged to keep track of what we’re eating as well as how we feel before and after each meal. This is because, according to the programme facilitators, some people eat more when they’re stressed, unhappy or plain bored.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Others might find themselves consuming more food than usual when they’re with friends or when they’re alone. By taking note of this, we’ll be able to see whether our eating habits are associated with certain moods or emotions, and make the necessary adjustments.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">We’re also encouraged to make conscious decisions to eat healthy meals with plenty of vegetables and fruit. At the same time, we’ll be cutting down or eliminating junk food, which includes chocolate, alas. Perhaps I can treat myself to a bit of chocolate after a particularly tough workout or an exceptionally healthy meal.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In addition, the boot camp participants act as a support group for one another. It’s a lot harder to keep up an exercise routine or maintain a healthy diet if you had to do it on your own. I know I wouldn’t last very long, especially when it comes to exercise. Jogging or doing push-ups by myself? I’d give up after 10 minutes.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Exercising together with other people will definitely motivate me to keep going till the end. The <i>kiasu</i> factor also comes in useful in exercise classes - if this kid or that person’s mother can do it, I can do it too!</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Having a support group is important when you want to achieve personal goals towards self-improvement. It becomes easier when you have friends and family members who will cheer you on, encourage you, believe in you and give you moral support.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Imagine if your friends tease you every time you reach for vegetables or a piece of fruit, or snicker when you say you want a slim waist. How discouraging would that be!</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">So to the nay-sayers, don’t laugh if someone you know wants to break bad habits and change to a healthier way of living. Support them instead, or better yet, join them!</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Finally, the plan is to have fun in this boot camp. This isn’t like The Biggest Loser reality show, where the contestants often end up suffering and crying. We may ache after a core-strength class, but it’s fun all the same because there’s variety in the exercises and plenty of encouragement from one another.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">So I’m looking forward to the rest of the boot camp and having positive results to show at the end of it.</div>Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-45710598421661117272011-03-16T12:46:00.001+08:002011-03-16T13:40:01.073+08:00DANCE UPDATESOur first Tribal Fusion Belly Dance class starts tonight at 6:15 p.m. and features a choreography by Hilary Cinis, from Sydney!<br />
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Also, we have a few <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">NEW DANCE CLASSES, STARTING in APRIL</span></b>:<br />
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Modern Jazz: Monday 7:15 p.m.<br />
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Belly Dance: Monday 8:15 p.m.<br />
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Flamenco: Wednesday 7:15 p.m.<br />
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Call Eileen at 012 805 3005, or email us at studio23kuching@gmail.com to book your spot!Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-12177224285817304282011-03-13T14:51:00.000+08:002011-03-13T14:51:45.067+08:00BOOTCAMP SEASON 2, FIRST MEETING TONIGHT!We've had a great response to our Bootcamp, and thanks to everyone who has expressed interest in joining! Tonight's meeting will be at 7 p.m., at the Studio and it is an introduction to the Bootcamp.<br />
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We'll be discussing goals and expectations for the program (both yours and ours). Also, you only have to decide about signing up after the meeting. So if you are still thinking about it, you are welcome to join us tonight.<br />
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Remember to bring a notebook, and see you tonight!Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-30675208945365700082011-03-10T22:11:00.000+08:002011-03-10T22:11:47.686+08:003-MONTH CORE STRENGTH BOOTCAMPOne of the projects we have been working on for the past half-year or so is a 3-month Bootcamp program aimed at helping people enjoy a healthier overall lifestyle. It combines our Core Strength program with a healthy eating plan, as well as a support group that meets regularly to discuss and monitor your goals.<div><br />
</div><div>We have already finished our first round of the Bootcamp, and we're really happy with the results - and we have a new season starting this weekend! We have a few spots available, so there is still a chance for you to join us.</div><div><br />
</div><div>This season of the Bootcamp will run from March 13th, 2011 to June 18th, 2011.</div><div><br />
</div><div>To find out more, call Albert at +60176139311 or email us at studio23kuching@gmail.com</div><div><br />
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</div><div>We'll leave you with some of the feedback our first Bootcampers gave us!</div><div><br />
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</div><div><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Century Gothic";">It’s much easier to watch my diet and exercise </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">with a group to support me</span></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">-Diana M.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Century Gothic";">It really helped me open up to</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size: 23.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">new lifestyle ideas that actually work</span></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">-Darren A.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size: 23.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Just being slimmer is not the answer </span></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">… </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Century Gothic";">it’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>important <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size: 23.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">healthy from the inside out</span></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Century Gothic";">. I’m an emotional eater, so with the help of the food journal, I got that sorted out.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">-Diana H.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Century Gothic";">Being in better shape allowed me to</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">do many things I didn’t have the confidence or the physical condition to do before</span></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Century Gothic";">… and many friends and acquaintances want to know </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">how I suddenly look good</span></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Century Gothic";">.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">-Georgette T.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Century Gothic";">It works!</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I now have flat abs without sucking in my tummy!</span></i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Century Gothic";"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Century Gothic";"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Century Gothic";">Oh, and better stamina too!</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">-Serina L.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Century Gothic";">The Bootcamp really helped me to be more aware of things like</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> how my body responds to stress, and how to make conscious decisions to not let stress get the upper hand</span></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">-Joanna Y.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Century Gothic";">There is nothing to lose.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Why not just make a difference in your life?</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">-Isla L.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Century Gothic";">Join and you will</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro"; font-size: 23.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">discover you are stronger than you thought</span></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro";">-Sze Leng T.<o:p></o:p></span></div><!--EndFragment--> </div>Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208548193067291488.post-39486566252983356032011-03-01T11:39:00.001+08:002011-03-02T11:57:01.973+08:00CRAZY MONKEY DEFENSE IN THE NEWS! - Part 1A little while ago, our good friend Sharon Ling (reporter extraordinaire with the Star) interviewed the Studio 23 CMD team about the program. This short writeup appeared in yesterday's issue of the Star (Sarawak Edition, sports section page SA15, for those of you who still have a copy!).<br />
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It highlights the positive changes that the CMD program is able to bring about in peoples' lives, and offers a little more insight into the workings and mindset of our training.<br />
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There is also a longer feature article that will be out soon, so stay tuned!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Edit: The CMD article is out TODAY (March 2, 2011), in the Sarawak Edition of the Star! Sports section, page SA14. Check it out!</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">From virtual to real-life sparring</span></b><br />
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<b>Kuching:</b> Reuben Yap, 28, used to be a computer game addict, playing for hours without stopping.<br />
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That was until he discovered the Crazy Monkey Defense (CMD) programme at Studio 23.<br />
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"I've been doing CMD for more than two years. Before that I used to play computer games all the time.<br />
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But when I started CMD, I didn't feel the urge to play games any more. Now I get the same rush from CMD. It's like playing a real-life fighting game but in a safe environment," Reuben said.<br />
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For Owen Tan, 25, CMD was a good way of staying fit.<br />
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"I had quit rugby and was looking for something to keep up my fitness levels. CMD is not too extreme but it does require some fitness which you can build up over time," he said.<br />
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"In classes we do drills, go through the basics and do some sparring. We also meet new friends and learn new techniques. It's a great way to keep fit."<br />
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It isn't just the men who enjoy CMD. Joanna Yap and Georgette Tan have been taking the classes since last year and both say they have benefited from it.<br />
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"I was quite intrigued by CMD because it's something different. It's practical and emphasizes economy of movement, so that attracted me to it.<br />
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"It's also emphasized during class that CMD is not based on aggression. Instead there's mutual respect. It gives opportunities to people to learn from each other when sparring," Joanna said.<br />
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For instance, she said she was less experienced compared to the men, so they would bring their sparring to a level she could learn from.<br />
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"Everyone learns at their own pace so there's no pressure to be able to do certain things by a certain time. This gives me the opportunity for self-improvement. Also, what I learn in CMD class, such as reacting calmly, can be applied to other situations," she said.<br />
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Georgette agreed that CMD classes were conducted in a friendly atmosphere.<br />
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"In fact, you hear us apologizing to each other a lot. No one is out to get you, although you have to expect physical contact such as getting your face and body punched."Alberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12000274428056935259noreply@blogger.com0