Sprung Project March 2008

We have been taking part in the Sprung Project. As part of the project, a few improvers and a few other people have had the chance to go to Greens Health and Fitness club and do some 10am till 6pm dance and swimming workout days. It has been good and we’ve learnt some new moves.

We did lots of different activities during the days; first we had a warm up and practiced our sets. We did a bit of work with Remady, a bGirl from Scotland. Its mainly boys who break so it was really good to have another girl teach us. We did a lot of complicated toprocking routines and learnt some new top styles. Remady also showed us stuff that she had learnt with Lil John and spoke about how we could create our own toprock sequences around different concepts.

Then we did a choreography work with Lucy aka TrubL Roc. This was really fun, we did a piece which she called “Intimate Work”, but that wasn’t really its name, she was just joking because at the start of it, we had to stand really close together, as close together as possible and stare at each other. We also did a small routine which we later added to our “Intimate Work”. During this we learned a few new things which we could use in our own sets in lessons.

Before lunch we went swimming. It was good as well that we used the swimming pool and saunas, that was all good because some of us hadn’t been swimming in a while, and some of us can’t swim. Those of us who could swim had to start with about 12 lengths of the pool, and by the end of the project we were having to do 30! Then after we went swimming we spent 5 minutes in the sauna, then had a cold shower BRRRrrrr! followed by a session in the steam room and then the Jacuzzi.

After that we had lunch at the café where you can order food (cheesy chips)Evil Genius’s chilli took forever to turn up on the last day so he didn’t get much time to let his food go down and we all suffered the consequences for the rest of the afternoon! We went back up to Studio 2 for a class with Pervez. He taught us a routine and how to burst into a circle; it was knackering – he didn’t stop! We did a lot of direction changes in our toprocking which gave us blisters and Pervez said that we need to have more attack when we dance so he worked us hard. We finished off his lessons with a quick battle.

With Lil Tim, we did cartwheels across the room and then we did different ways of getting in and out of them, and other drills. His continuous cartwheels are very very very fast indeed – like a runaway cartwheel infact! After, he helped us with things we struggled with. Lil Tim helped us develop our own stuff. He helped us with our backspins, our windmills, 90s and pumps to improve the technique of our moves.

We finished each day with a warm down and went home to a thoroughly earned rest; we were all very tired but pleased that we had been given the opportunity to take part. We all really enjoyed doing the Sprung project, over all, the experience we’ve been through has been good, well worth it, and lots of fun. We have been able to learn from the tutors’ own experiences and personal techniques. We hope to be using our new knowledge in future battles and at our improvers classes. Altogether the project was really good, and really fun.

Written by:Jake Peña Prime, Wongy, Gabby De Souza and Harriet