Good morning again, another early morning for me, 03:53. Ready for the 'Main Event' of the WBCOOP. Lets hope I actually get through to at least the last 153 today, so I have not been getting up in the middle of the night twice for nothing... ;-).
04:55. The first break coming up. Not very succesfull so far. But as they say, a chip and chair .. ;-). Currently 1029th of 1448. The tourney started with 2062 players.
05:59. Second break. Going a bit better, currently 383rd out of 785.
06:26. Well, that was it. Ended 495th position. Pretty unlucky with the last hand: I got KK as hole cards. One player raised, I called. Flop came up 2 6 8. So I go all in. Other players calls (I think, oh oh, would he have AA?). Cards shown, does he have 6 8 ... No further good cards on turn or river, so his two pair (66 88) beats my KK.
Anyway, as they say, that is poker...
Monday, February 01, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
very early :-)
Well, the first tourney yesterday did not go too well, ended up in 1356th position (of 1533 entries:-). Of course being an 8-game, it was a bit too challenging. I probably should have played only the Texas Holdem hands to get a bit further... but anyway, for that tourney I did not have to get up in the middle of the night.
Today's one I did have to do just that... It is 03.55 AM now. The 6th WBCOOP event will start in 5 minutes. At the moment there are 1908 players that entered the tourney. Let's see if I can improve the score. Aim is to get at least to the 153rd place (which gives a SCOOP 11 USD entry ticket). Of course, winning would be all the more interesting (SCOOP 1050 USD entry icket) ......
05:00.
Well, Survived the first hour. Made 2 bad calls early in the tourney which cost me a lot of chips. I have been able to win some back later on, so still hanging in there :-), Currenty in position 467 of 1165...
05:38.
Well, that's it, I'm out (364 th). Not too bad, but empty handed all the same. Give it another try tomorrow morning. For now time to go back to bed an get a few more hours sleep :-)
Today's one I did have to do just that... It is 03.55 AM now. The 6th WBCOOP event will start in 5 minutes. At the moment there are 1908 players that entered the tourney. Let's see if I can improve the score. Aim is to get at least to the 153rd place (which gives a SCOOP 11 USD entry ticket). Of course, winning would be all the more interesting (SCOOP 1050 USD entry icket) ......
05:00.
Well, Survived the first hour. Made 2 bad calls early in the tourney which cost me a lot of chips. I have been able to win some back later on, so still hanging in there :-), Currenty in position 467 of 1165...
05:38.
Well, that's it, I'm out (364 th). Not too bad, but empty handed all the same. Give it another try tomorrow morning. For now time to go back to bed an get a few more hours sleep :-)
Friday, January 29, 2010
Check check double check
Just found out that I did not read the description of the tourney for tomorrow morning (Saturday) very well yesterday. Tomorrows tourney is a so called 8-game tourney. This means that every few minutes (when the blinds are being raised) the type of poker game played is changeed as well! Since I usually only play Hold'em (and 98% no limit only) that is going to be a very interesting challenge, having no idea how the other types really work...
Maybe if I find some time tonight I can play some of the other types (playmoney) to try and get a hold of it. And of course tomorrow try to mainly play the Hold'em ones!! And hope that luck is on my side ....
Maybe if I find some time tonight I can play some of the other types (playmoney) to try and get a hold of it. And of course tomorrow try to mainly play the Hold'em ones!! And hope that luck is on my side ....
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Early morning game(s)
Well, my blog was accepted so I did get the ticket for the WBCOOP tournaments. Hooray!! The confirmation of getting that ticket was sent at 03.20 AM. Funny thing was that there was also a reminder in there that the first tournament will be starting in 40 minutes .... :-). So missed that one of course!
Basically one of those tourneys starts everyday at 4 AM (this is WST time), so it is out of the question for me to play in today's, tomorrows and Friday's one. But the Sunday one (and probably the Monday one I have registered for). So, keep tuned for my results (if any ... :-)).
Edit:
Good that I checked once more, I found one more WBCOOP tourney that I can play at a more normal time: Saturday morning 08:00AM. So that is a better time to play:-).
Also what I have learned is that the prizes to be won at these WBCOOP tourneys are tickets for the upcoming SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker). These tickets are worth from 11 dollars up to even more than 3000 dollar. These tickets can then be used to enter in one of the preliminary SCOOP tournaments. As you would expect the more value your entry ticket has, the higher prize you can win (or the lesser steps you need to take to get to real, real money). The total prize money for last years SCOOP was up to 30 million dollars, so interesting to know what it will be this year ..... (Did I say before: "keep on dreaming, Pete" ? :-))
Basically one of those tourneys starts everyday at 4 AM (this is WST time), so it is out of the question for me to play in today's, tomorrows and Friday's one. But the Sunday one (and probably the Monday one I have registered for). So, keep tuned for my results (if any ... :-)).
Edit:
Good that I checked once more, I found one more WBCOOP tourney that I can play at a more normal time: Saturday morning 08:00AM. So that is a better time to play:-).
Also what I have learned is that the prizes to be won at these WBCOOP tourneys are tickets for the upcoming SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker). These tickets are worth from 11 dollars up to even more than 3000 dollar. These tickets can then be used to enter in one of the preliminary SCOOP tournaments. As you would expect the more value your entry ticket has, the higher prize you can win (or the lesser steps you need to take to get to real, real money). The total prize money for last years SCOOP was up to 30 million dollars, so interesting to know what it will be this year ..... (Did I say before: "keep on dreaming, Pete" ? :-))
Monday, January 25, 2010
Time flies - Poker
Wow, I almost cannot believe it myself, the previous post is from May last year! I guess it is actually time to catch up a bit on all the time past since then!
As you may know the financial crisis has had a bit of an impact on us aswell. From December 08 till September last year Peter was out of a job. Luckily Ellen was working all the time so, no real financial problems for us.
Of course being at home for a long time means you have time 'on your sleeve' available to pursue other interests. One day in June I was looking at the Windows games availabe under Vista and played some Texas Hold'Em games. Of course it took some time to have an idea of the game, because other than seeing poker in movies, I had no idea what the game was about really.
A few weeks later I discovered there was (actualy are more, but this would probably the biggest one) an online poker site (pokerstars.com) where you can actually play (for free as well as for money) against people all over the world. Now I have always been enjoying playing card games since I was a child, and after years of hardly playing any at all, I now had an opportunity to catch up on some card game time:-).
By now (a good half year after 'discovering' Texas Hold'Em BY chance), I have become a fairly regular (online-) player. Of course, somewhere in the back of my mind always the idea that it would be very nice to get to a professional level and who knows in time being able to earn an income playing poker (keep on dreaming Pete ;-) ;-))
Except playing against other people (at sit&go tables as well as playing tourneys) pokerstars also organize all kind of freeroll tourneys that give you options to get into the major tournaments. Not easy of course, but possible...
The latest initiative is the online championship for bloggers. Another opportunity to play some serious (freeroll) poker and have a chance to earn something nice ;-).
A condition for entering into this is that you have an active blog which is older than 2 months (easy for this blog!) and updated regularly. For the rest it would be appreciated to keep update on the progress for these tournaments...
So, a long introduction, but expect to read some poker stuff in the next days ... I am going to enter this blog tonight, and hope they will process it with speed since the tourneys start today ... :-)
Finally, in case your interested as well HERE is some information on this particular tournament. Hope to see you there:-)
As you may know the financial crisis has had a bit of an impact on us aswell. From December 08 till September last year Peter was out of a job. Luckily Ellen was working all the time so, no real financial problems for us.
Of course being at home for a long time means you have time 'on your sleeve' available to pursue other interests. One day in June I was looking at the Windows games availabe under Vista and played some Texas Hold'Em games. Of course it took some time to have an idea of the game, because other than seeing poker in movies, I had no idea what the game was about really.
A few weeks later I discovered there was (actualy are more, but this would probably the biggest one) an online poker site (pokerstars.com) where you can actually play (for free as well as for money) against people all over the world. Now I have always been enjoying playing card games since I was a child, and after years of hardly playing any at all, I now had an opportunity to catch up on some card game time:-).
By now (a good half year after 'discovering' Texas Hold'Em BY chance), I have become a fairly regular (online-) player. Of course, somewhere in the back of my mind always the idea that it would be very nice to get to a professional level and who knows in time being able to earn an income playing poker (keep on dreaming Pete ;-) ;-))
Except playing against other people (at sit&go tables as well as playing tourneys) pokerstars also organize all kind of freeroll tourneys that give you options to get into the major tournaments. Not easy of course, but possible...
The latest initiative is the online championship for bloggers. Another opportunity to play some serious (freeroll) poker and have a chance to earn something nice ;-).
A condition for entering into this is that you have an active blog which is older than 2 months (easy for this blog!) and updated regularly. For the rest it would be appreciated to keep update on the progress for these tournaments...
So, a long introduction, but expect to read some poker stuff in the next days ... I am going to enter this blog tonight, and hope they will process it with speed since the tourneys start today ... :-)
Finally, in case your interested as well HERE is some information on this particular tournament. Hope to see you there:-)
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Dutch Remembrance Day 2009 / Friends visit
Last Sunday (May 2nd) the Dutch club in Perth (Neerlandia) organised the Dutch Remembrance Day. This is in effect the Perth version of the 'dodenherdenking' in the Netherlands which takes place every year on the 4th of May.
The Australian War Cemetery (in Karakatta/Nedlands) has a Dutch Annex were 28 (Dutch) victims have been buried. These 28 people were refugees that fled the Japanese army from Indonesia to Broome (in the North of WA) only to be killed in the air raid on Broome.
(the Dutch Annex at the Australian War Cemetery in Nedlands, WA):
This is the story as per a government website:
In February 1942, Broome in Western Australia was used as the Australian end of an air shuttle service from Java. Hundreds of evacuees were ferried to Broome in Dutch, American and Australian military and civil aircraft, including flying boats of Qantas Empire Airways.
By the end of that month, the town was overflowing with military personnel and refugees. People slept wherever they could while waiting for a flight to continue their journey south. During the last weeks of February 1942 over 7000 people, including the former commander of the 8th Australian Division, Major-General H Gordon Bennett, who had escaped from Singapore, passed through Broome. On one single day, 57 aircraft landed there.
On 3 March 1942, without warning, Japanese fighters attacked. The attack lasted no more than 20 minutes, during which time 25 Allied aircraft were destroyed and dozens of people were killed or wounded. Many victims were Dutch women and children packed into flying boats on the harbour either waiting to be unloaded and ferried ashore or waiting to depart for the southern states. Another 30 crew and passengers, mostly military personnel, were lost when an American Liberator bomber was shot down shortly after taking off. Precisely how many people died in the raid, and who they were, will never be known.
Correspondence, coins and trinkets that were recovered from the wreckage of the sunken flying boats can be seen in the Broome museum. Dozens of people lost their lives during the attack on Broome on 3 March 1942. Many of the Dutch women and children were trapped in flying boats in the harbour. Others were incinerated, drowned or taken by sharks as they attempted to swim ashore. The Dutch bodies recovered were first buried in the Broome War Cemetery but were later removed and reburied in a special area in the Karrakatta cemetery in Perth. Many were not identified and they lie in unmarked graves.
Although it felt a bit uneasy (for me as photographer) to take photos, I have done so and I believe it is actually good to make (more) people aware of this.
For more photos have a look here
On a bit lighter note:
After the ceremony Neerlandia had opened their clubhouse for coffee and lunch. We enjoyed that so much that we actually decided to keep our membership of Neerlandia going (we had just send an email the week before to cancel ours!!)
Then at the Easter weekend we had (Dutch) friends over who are living in Sydney. They have family in Perth and stayed a few days at our place as well. They have a weblog of their own, feel free to have a look there to see how they liked their stay (please note, their website is published in Dutch!)
The Australian War Cemetery (in Karakatta/Nedlands) has a Dutch Annex were 28 (Dutch) victims have been buried. These 28 people were refugees that fled the Japanese army from Indonesia to Broome (in the North of WA) only to be killed in the air raid on Broome.
(the Dutch Annex at the Australian War Cemetery in Nedlands, WA):
This is the story as per a government website:
In February 1942, Broome in Western Australia was used as the Australian end of an air shuttle service from Java. Hundreds of evacuees were ferried to Broome in Dutch, American and Australian military and civil aircraft, including flying boats of Qantas Empire Airways.
By the end of that month, the town was overflowing with military personnel and refugees. People slept wherever they could while waiting for a flight to continue their journey south. During the last weeks of February 1942 over 7000 people, including the former commander of the 8th Australian Division, Major-General H Gordon Bennett, who had escaped from Singapore, passed through Broome. On one single day, 57 aircraft landed there.
On 3 March 1942, without warning, Japanese fighters attacked. The attack lasted no more than 20 minutes, during which time 25 Allied aircraft were destroyed and dozens of people were killed or wounded. Many victims were Dutch women and children packed into flying boats on the harbour either waiting to be unloaded and ferried ashore or waiting to depart for the southern states. Another 30 crew and passengers, mostly military personnel, were lost when an American Liberator bomber was shot down shortly after taking off. Precisely how many people died in the raid, and who they were, will never be known.
Correspondence, coins and trinkets that were recovered from the wreckage of the sunken flying boats can be seen in the Broome museum. Dozens of people lost their lives during the attack on Broome on 3 March 1942. Many of the Dutch women and children were trapped in flying boats in the harbour. Others were incinerated, drowned or taken by sharks as they attempted to swim ashore. The Dutch bodies recovered were first buried in the Broome War Cemetery but were later removed and reburied in a special area in the Karrakatta cemetery in Perth. Many were not identified and they lie in unmarked graves.
Although it felt a bit uneasy (for me as photographer) to take photos, I have done so and I believe it is actually good to make (more) people aware of this.
For more photos have a look here
On a bit lighter note:
After the ceremony Neerlandia had opened their clubhouse for coffee and lunch. We enjoyed that so much that we actually decided to keep our membership of Neerlandia going (we had just send an email the week before to cancel ours!!)
Then at the Easter weekend we had (Dutch) friends over who are living in Sydney. They have family in Perth and stayed a few days at our place as well. They have a weblog of their own, feel free to have a look there to see how they liked their stay (please note, their website is published in Dutch!)
Monday, April 20, 2009
Dancing: Metropolitan Championship (part 2)
Ok, the videos have been uploaded by Martin (Thanks again Martin!!). The specific videos where we have 'performed' (;-) are the ons embedded below. If you are interested in ALL videos of the championship have a look at the link under 'Dancing in WA' at the left of this blog....
Also inetrestign was the fact that one of the guest judges at this competition was none other than the Director of the Australian Dancing with the Stars shows, Paul Green. He also presented some of the trophies to winners, and yes, one of them to us too ;-). In case you are not sure who paul Green is, look at this page. He is the guy with the nice suit and the big smile!
Meanwhile we are preparing for our next competition where we plan to enter all dances and all levels again...
Also inetrestign was the fact that one of the guest judges at this competition was none other than the Director of the Australian Dancing with the Stars shows, Paul Green. He also presented some of the trophies to winners, and yes, one of them to us too ;-). In case you are not sure who paul Green is, look at this page. He is the guy with the nice suit and the big smile!
Meanwhile we are preparing for our next competition where we plan to enter all dances and all levels again...
Monday, April 06, 2009
Dancing: Metropolitan Championship
Well, we have done it again. We competed in another dancing competition, the Metropolitan Championship. Again it was very successful for us ;-). On our own level (L1) we won all three styles (Standard, Latin and New Vogue). Winning the standard and latin is not too surprising (since we have done some competition back in the Netherlands as well and should not be called beginners really, but everyone needs to start at the first step anyway). Winning the New Vogue competition was something we were very happy with! Do not forget that we are definitely beginners in regards to that style, last year August was the first time that we actually did our first New Vogue step anyway...
We also competed in the standard and latin competition in level 2 (the level above ours) and got second places there as well).
The same guy (Martin van der Poel) that took some videos last time was there again this time (with his new camera, good on ya, Martin!!). We have not seen any uploads of his videos yet, but we are giving him some time, after all it is all just voluntary work by him ;-) ;-).
When winning a style in your own level you get a 'perpetual' trophy that you can keep for about a year at your home. If you like you can have your name(s) engraved on that, you just need to organize that yourself. Besides those trophies you also get something for keeps. At the Blue Riband competition (by AID) this was a certificate, at this competition it were medals (gold, silver,...).
We have created an online display cabinet so not only we can show off (.... ;-) to everyone, but also these perpetual trophies will be kept in this cabinet even after bringing them back!. (see the link under Dancing in WA on the left)
Now before showing off all these trophies and medalds for this competition, please be aware that there were (as usual) not too many competitors. In two of the styles we were competing against one other couple, in all other ones against two other couples. So, do not be too impressed with all the shine and glitz and glamour ...... ;-) ;-)
Also this (few number of competitiors) means we should now think of ways to get more people (in our age-group!) involved in competition dancing, because the rule is you only get elevation points (for promotion to the next leve) if you win a final with AT LEAST 4 couples. Hence our little 'wanted' call at the start ;-)
Oh, and when the video's are available, we will of course put them on this weblog as well.
Right, if you look here you will find all the medals and trophies that we won this time ...
We also competed in the standard and latin competition in level 2 (the level above ours) and got second places there as well).
The same guy (Martin van der Poel) that took some videos last time was there again this time (with his new camera, good on ya, Martin!!). We have not seen any uploads of his videos yet, but we are giving him some time, after all it is all just voluntary work by him ;-) ;-).
When winning a style in your own level you get a 'perpetual' trophy that you can keep for about a year at your home. If you like you can have your name(s) engraved on that, you just need to organize that yourself. Besides those trophies you also get something for keeps. At the Blue Riband competition (by AID) this was a certificate, at this competition it were medals (gold, silver,...).
We have created an online display cabinet so not only we can show off (.... ;-) to everyone, but also these perpetual trophies will be kept in this cabinet even after bringing them back!. (see the link under Dancing in WA on the left)
Now before showing off all these trophies and medalds for this competition, please be aware that there were (as usual) not too many competitors. In two of the styles we were competing against one other couple, in all other ones against two other couples. So, do not be too impressed with all the shine and glitz and glamour ...... ;-) ;-)
Also this (few number of competitiors) means we should now think of ways to get more people (in our age-group!) involved in competition dancing, because the rule is you only get elevation points (for promotion to the next leve) if you win a final with AT LEAST 4 couples. Hence our little 'wanted' call at the start ;-)
Oh, and when the video's are available, we will of course put them on this weblog as well.
Right, if you look here you will find all the medals and trophies that we won this time ...
Saturday, March 28, 2009
My old piano....
About 11 years ago, while still living in The Netherlands, an old wish came through. I bought an electrical baby Grand Piano and started to take piano lessons. We found a piano teacher with the same love for music as we did and Peter and I had a lot of fun during our piano lessons for about a year. But then her father suddenly and unexpectedly died and we never saw her again!
A replacement teacher took over, but she was like a school teacher for juniors and treated us that way! A second replacement teacher (Peter already had stopped playing) expected far too much, so the piano lesson became a stressful event and the fun was completely gone. So I stopped as well.
Meanwhile our life was busy and without us noticing it, the years flew by without touching the piano.
Before we migrated to Australia I still wanted the piano to join us, because you would never know, I might want to start taking lessons again? So, it migrated with us and took the long journey in the sea container.
We are in Australia for 3 years now and we noticed a music tuition school about 1.5 year ago and gathered some information. Again we were very busy and still I took no action to actually start taking lessons.
But then we rearranged part of our home which triggered the move of the piano. Again the question popped up…………. should I sell it?
In the same period we had visitors who saw the piano and they asked how it sounded. Peter showed a demo song played by the piano (it is electrical) and I was completely hooked again. No, of course I should not sell the piano, but in stead I should start taking piano lessons!
So ………three weeks ago (it was about time!) I started taking piano lessons and really enjoy it. They are using here the same type of learning books as we did in Europe and I am actually using my old Dutch piano book again to catch up the lost knowledge. It is amazing how much your hands still seem to remember after so many years!
A replacement teacher took over, but she was like a school teacher for juniors and treated us that way! A second replacement teacher (Peter already had stopped playing) expected far too much, so the piano lesson became a stressful event and the fun was completely gone. So I stopped as well.
Meanwhile our life was busy and without us noticing it, the years flew by without touching the piano.
Before we migrated to Australia I still wanted the piano to join us, because you would never know, I might want to start taking lessons again? So, it migrated with us and took the long journey in the sea container.
We are in Australia for 3 years now and we noticed a music tuition school about 1.5 year ago and gathered some information. Again we were very busy and still I took no action to actually start taking lessons.
But then we rearranged part of our home which triggered the move of the piano. Again the question popped up…………. should I sell it?
In the same period we had visitors who saw the piano and they asked how it sounded. Peter showed a demo song played by the piano (it is electrical) and I was completely hooked again. No, of course I should not sell the piano, but in stead I should start taking piano lessons!
So ………three weeks ago (it was about time!) I started taking piano lessons and really enjoy it. They are using here the same type of learning books as we did in Europe and I am actually using my old Dutch piano book again to catch up the lost knowledge. It is amazing how much your hands still seem to remember after so many years!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Dancing: Blue Riband Championship
"Well, well, well, there is life after all ..." some of you might think. And you would be sort of right as well. It has actually been more than half a year since our last post. Now that does not mean nothing happened of course, but from our perspective it was all probably not worth while [considering the time involved] mentioning here. But now that I am also not working at the moment (hmmm, one thing worth mentioning is it not? ;-)) one should say I have enough time now.
So, to basically just continue with our most recent 'new' item: we have entered our first dancing competition here in WA, the Blue Riband Championships which is a yearly event (organised by the Australian Institue of Dancing, AID). Because this was our first competition over here we had to start (as anyone else) at the bottom. We were happy with that since we think that the competition here seems to be a bit more serious than what we were used to back in the Netherlands.
Now with the (current) system here you dance 1 dance in each type (Standard, Latin and/or New Vogue) in Level 1, 2 dances in level 2, up till the highest level (Open) where you dance all 5 standard, all 5 latin en usually 5 (out of 15 accepted!) New Vogue dances. Now you can compete in your own level but are also allowed to compete in one level up.
(Getting bored already? Hang in there, almost ready for the viewing stuff ;-))
So all of this together, we decided to enter not only in level 1 (which was our own level) but also in level 2 because otherwise we would only have 3 dances for the whole day. Oh yeah, one more thing: in our age group called Masters (as in: above 35) there are usually not too many competitors. So most of the competitions are straight finals. Hence our choice to compete one level up as well.
Now at these dancing competitions there is (luckily) a guy called Martin van der Poel who (besides competing himself ;-)) records the majority of the dances as well. So therefore we can now give you a very good impression of our (first) dancing competition.
So to start with an example (and I will start with the best examples to keep your attention up ;-)) have a look at the following highest level (open). Please note, if you can try to watch the videos in High Quality)
Standard:
Latin:
New Vogue:
Hope you're enjoying that!!
Now before (for those of you that are interested ;-) specifically showing the videos where we are to be seen in, some start competition dancing at a very young age, this girl would have been 4 at the most:
Now, 4 of the dances we competed in were video-ed as well:
Level 1 Latin:
Level 1 New Vogue:
Level 2 Standard:
Level 2 New Vogue:
Did you see that at level 2 all our competitors were actually wearing full suits and dresses? We are not there yet ;-).
Oh yes, and of course our results:
L1 Standard => 1st of 2
L1 Latin => 1st of 3
L1 New Vogue => 5th of 5
L2 Standard => 2nd of 5
L2 Latin => 3rd of 4
L2 New Vogue => 5th of 5
Then finally, if you are interested in even more movies of this competition, have a look under 'Dancing in WA' ;-)
So, to basically just continue with our most recent 'new' item: we have entered our first dancing competition here in WA, the Blue Riband Championships which is a yearly event (organised by the Australian Institue of Dancing, AID). Because this was our first competition over here we had to start (as anyone else) at the bottom. We were happy with that since we think that the competition here seems to be a bit more serious than what we were used to back in the Netherlands.
Now with the (current) system here you dance 1 dance in each type (Standard, Latin and/or New Vogue) in Level 1, 2 dances in level 2, up till the highest level (Open) where you dance all 5 standard, all 5 latin en usually 5 (out of 15 accepted!) New Vogue dances. Now you can compete in your own level but are also allowed to compete in one level up.
(Getting bored already? Hang in there, almost ready for the viewing stuff ;-))
So all of this together, we decided to enter not only in level 1 (which was our own level) but also in level 2 because otherwise we would only have 3 dances for the whole day. Oh yeah, one more thing: in our age group called Masters (as in: above 35) there are usually not too many competitors. So most of the competitions are straight finals. Hence our choice to compete one level up as well.
Now at these dancing competitions there is (luckily) a guy called Martin van der Poel who (besides competing himself ;-)) records the majority of the dances as well. So therefore we can now give you a very good impression of our (first) dancing competition.
So to start with an example (and I will start with the best examples to keep your attention up ;-)) have a look at the following highest level (open). Please note, if you can try to watch the videos in High Quality)
Standard:
Latin:
New Vogue:
Hope you're enjoying that!!
Now before (for those of you that are interested ;-) specifically showing the videos where we are to be seen in, some start competition dancing at a very young age, this girl would have been 4 at the most:
Now, 4 of the dances we competed in were video-ed as well:
Level 1 Latin:
Level 1 New Vogue:
Level 2 Standard:
Level 2 New Vogue:
Did you see that at level 2 all our competitors were actually wearing full suits and dresses? We are not there yet ;-).
Oh yes, and of course our results:
L1 Standard => 1st of 2
L1 Latin => 1st of 3
L1 New Vogue => 5th of 5
L2 Standard => 2nd of 5
L2 Latin => 3rd of 4
L2 New Vogue => 5th of 5
Then finally, if you are interested in even more movies of this competition, have a look under 'Dancing in WA' ;-)
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