LIFE

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A Dancers Growth

As a dancer you have to look at your growth and time spent. Am I progressing, decreasing or at a stand still? It's very important for parents to monitor this as well. Do you feel you are being pushed to go above and beyond? Is your hand being held, making everything comfortable and easy for you, providing a false sense of accomplishment? Growth only comes with challenge! Every class needs to be a steeping stone towards your success, one step closer to your goals. Stop just wanting to feel comfortable, don't stifle your skills, don't stifle your talents, you owe it to your teachers, to your parents and most off all yourself. I once heard, "If you do what is easy, your life would be hard, but if you do what is hard, your life would be easy." It means, train yourself to take on challenge head on and don't avoid them, that is where you will find your training and preparation, that's where the growth takes place." But if you constantly do what is easy, you will never grow, and your mind and body will never have the necessary training, you will never be equipped and ready for the challenge. Remember, if you stay ready, you don't have to get ready. #mrkid

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It's Going To Be Alright

Daily thought It's Going To Be Alright I understand how hard it can be for some people to have hope. Sometimes it just seems that you're always heading for it, going through it, or coming out of it. So it's important to constantly reinsure yourself that it's going to ALRIGHT, and you'll bounce back from it and take it head on. It's going to be alright!!

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Adversary

Yourself is your biggest adversary.

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I'm Not Out

When you're down and out, say to yourself, "it's not over and I'm not out."

I'm just getting up and I'm just getting started.

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Love What You Do

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Your Path

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Living Life

The struggle and pain isn’t something unique that only few people go through, we all go through it, its called LIFE. If you haven’t struggled and haven’t felt pain, then you haven’t LIVED yet.

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Friendship

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Business & The Ones That Want It

In business I've come to realize no one can create a product that everyone wants. So I don't waste time trying to create something for everyone, I use my time to create better things for the ONES that want it, appreciate it and the ones that were there at the birth of it and the ones that supports the growth of it. Mr. Kid 💚

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Ask Questions

One thing I do in all of my classes, as uncomfortable as it may feel is after I've shown the choreo and we've done it numerous amount of times I ask, "Does anyone have any questions?" They start to glance around to see who will be the one. 90 to 95% of the time no one raises their hand. So then I follow with, "So that means if you don't have a question you have the choreo, ok let me see it one by one." Then the hands start to go up, "Wait I have a question." That's how kids are being raised today. Don't ask any questions just follow along, blend in as much as you can and you won't be noticed. They feel being noticed and having questions means they are less inferior to the rest of the class and the authority will feel that they are the weakest in the room. They associate being noticed with being different and being different is associated with weird. They associate having a question with not being intelligent. They rather just fumble through it, barely make it and be satisfied with what they've produced. That's also why some people don't get any where in life. They are happy, safe and content with what they have done up to this point. So teachers, encourage your students to ask questions, take risk and have a mind of their own. The rewards are far more greater than just being a robot. Les Brown said, "Program your mind or your mind will be programed for you." Mr. Kid 💚

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Be Yourself For Yourself

I'm going to be so anti society perceptions from now on. Who gives society the right to decide what's normal and what's not? What right and what's wrong? Who's weird and who's not? You have to do it this way and not that way. I see so many people, especially kids trying their best to fit in with a crowds, friends, co workers and just the world in general. We have to be ourselves for ourselves and not for society. I remember my wife and I hung a big picture of a big tiger on our kitchen wall, and people said, "but that picture is for a living room not a kitchen." Why? Who said? Who made that official? So call me crazy, if I'm not doing the "Norm". So if it says Thursday on the Calendar and I feel like it's a Saturday, then to me, it's Saturday. If I buy something and I think it's red, and you and 40 other people say it's blue, then to me it is red. If I think a person has talent and 1 million of you say they don't, then my opinion stays the same. I'm going to eat, drink, listen, watch, wear, think and speak how I want to!

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Learn from the past.

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Team Spirit

I believe if more parents really sat and spoke to their kids about what being on a team means, there would be better results. Kids think being on a team means, just showing up, checking in, dancing together and having a title. Instead of telling them what commitment is? They should practice it. A lot of parents don’t look at dance as an importance. Little do they know practicing good team work, good team values, sportsmanship, team etiquette and commitment will build better character. They will have more of a chance of making it in the real world. When they get older they won’t be placed in the back, they will be fired.

If you want to know where you are going, just look at where you are.

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Well Rounded Judges

We need knowledgeable judges with strong HIP HOP backgrounds at competitions. I truly believe the hip hop at competitions needs to be APPRECIATED and JUDGED correctly, NOT CRITICIZED and OPINIONATED. The comment/ critique sheets will also make more sense to the dancer, if the judges knew and understood what the movement is. They will know what needs to be improved, terminologies etc. Yes, dance is dance, but even someone with my experience and level could not, and will not judge any other style than hip hop or breaking. The most I can do is give my OPINION through perception. Someone can get the greatest advice in the world, but that individual would never be fully understood unless the person giving the advice is speaking from experience. If your students are performing a contemporary piece with powerful music and deep content. Would you want a panel of strongly based hip hop dancers judging and critiquing it? This goes for any genre of dance. I understand the nature of things, but at the same time we cannot cut corners in the pursuit to educate and build child development through the art of DANCE.

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Guide them

One of the things that makes a great dancer, is direction and guidance. Most kids out there, have something special, but they need someone else to help them find it, and dig it out, embrace it and share it. Some dance teachers, teach, teach and teach, but what are they teaching? A dance that’s gonna be performed 3 or four times, then that’s it? The only thing they’ve learned is, once you've work hard for something, you do it and that’s it. The task is not getting there, it’s staying there. Teach them consistency. It’s not the first competition that counts, you're either going to do well or not. It’s the ones that come after, the makers or breakers. Those are the moments of clarity. Are you consistent with doing well, or are you consistent with not doing so well?

So teach them not by showing them, but by directing them and laying out a map, so they can follow all the way to the end.