#24

Going to muscle beach and Santa Monica

When we woke up we were really gutted that the weather was so crummy! Today was our beach day! Luckily it cleared just as we were pulling up!
We walked all the way down Venice beach or muscle Beach as it is known over here.

The beach has all of this gym equipment about half way down and big body builders like Arnold Schwarzenegger used to train here back in the day!




We also saw a skate bowl which was pretty cool. Some talented guys were doing tricks!

Then we headed to Santa Monica pier... We ended up getting lunch and got distracted by shopping so will have to go back later in the week!!!

Then we went back to Hollywood so I could take Matt Steffania's class at IDA. The run down of the class is...
We did a basic warm up of heads, ribs, hips and stretch. It was pretty cool to be in such a packed class. I got stood on a few times but I also banged into a couple of people. You are literally dancing with just your body space around you, it's pretty nuts!
The whole class Matt was teaching to Gaga zoom noises, not counts. We learnt the first 32 counts before we even heard the music - they teach way differently over here!
Matt's main points were about hearing all of the music undertones and moving to the right one. There are background sounds that need to be picked up and accents to make with your head or a contraction.
After we learnt the whole routine we Broke into 4 groups and went over it again with more space which was nice!
Then he taught an extra 16 counts with 5 mins left in the class haha! I thought the routine was finished but he saved the hardest for last!
After that he picked people out of each group to be videoed and then we all did it did all together again...

Matt is a super nice guy. It was awesome to see him vibing off all of the individual flare added to his routine :) that's what is important here it seems!

Ready for Cedric 👍

Cedric's classes are amazing! He is so energetic and you can not help but have a good time! We learnt a few more dance hall moves but it was different to before. We learnt sets of moves and the music didn't stop - kind of like a gym dance class. This helped us with muscle memory of the sets and of the way to do the moves properly. We did the moves slowly first, then double time and then in combination with the other moves we had learnt. 
After the class Cedric said to me that he loved my energy - which is an awesome compliment! After 2 hours of dancing you are a bit tired! So it's cool that he could see that I was enjoying the class! Unfortunately the video missed me out I was standing to the left of the girl on the right of the screen :(