MYDF National Champion in China

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On the 26th of February 2011, Chua Zjen Fong and Evon Chong our reigning MYDF National Championship left for Guangzhou to study and train in the Angel Dance School in a town outside Guangzhou City. They will be there for one year and we hope after their stint in Guangzhou, they  will return and impart their dancing skills in Malaysia. It is dedicated people like Chua Zjen Fong and Evon Chong that will change the Dance image in Malaysia, They will introduce new ideas and new method of teaching and generally keeping us updated. This is Chua Zjen Fong's narration. If there are any alteration it will be very minimal. Incidentally he did ask me what is the status of the Challenge Trophy, I told him nothing so far. This is so sad!

Life in a Dance School in China - date line : 3rd March 2011

we train from monday to friday, saturday half day.
every morning we wake up at around 6.45am and start stamina training by jogging a few km from 7am onwards and then continue with stretching. then we go for breakfast. classes start from 8,30am until 12.30pm then we have our lunch. its the best time ever through out the whole day because we got a 1 and a half hour lunch break. classes resume at 2 pm then continue dancing till dinner at 6pm. then group training at night starts from 7.30pm till 9.30pm.
we do latin and ballroom here. every thing has to start from basic. from posture into technique. it is really good. we have ballet and jazz classes too. basically everybody here can do 10 dances. they can really do it very well. they then choose to specialize in one field when they turn older.
we have supper after that. rules are very strict here.
the boys and the girls all stay in different hostels.
electricity is very limited. if we want to use electricity for charging hp and laptop, there are specific hours to do so.
hot water is based on prepaid basis and we have to purchase a hot water card,every time we want to use the hot water for shower we have to bring the card and insert into the machine just like using a pubic telephone.
lights will go off at 11pm. everybody have to sleep by then. its really healthy, but young malaysians typically has already got used to staying late at night on facebook and other stuff really need some time to get use to this environment. i think this is great because now we finally had the chance of sleeping early and wake up early practice.
weather is really cold here. about 10 degrees. morning and night is typically cold.
we have a school competition this coming sunday. where everyone studying in this school has to take part. it seems its like a monthly or semester activity. to get use to competitions and gain experience. even those without partners also have to dance solo. i think it is great. this competition is only open to the school's students only. really excited about it. everyone here is soooooo good. we really need a lot of work to catch up with them.
we also had a group lecture with klaus kongsdal a champion from Denmark, he visits this school for lessons very often. he is very good.
michael stylianous, and jugan is also coming to this school for lessons this month. michael stylianos, next week. i heard they are really great. every month there is at least one or two foreign coaches coming to teach.
this is all uncle john. basically weekends there's nothing much we can do, our school is very far from town. we have to take bus down town to do some major shopping. grocery shopping can be done opposite the school where there is a small convenience store.
going out is not as simple as going out just like that, we have to get 3 different teacher's approval to go out. but normally shouldn't be a problem.
everyday lunch and dinner definitely will be rice. breakfast and supper would be porridge or noodle.
healthy but really sick of the food now. but no choice. just makan only. when we get tired and hungry, every thing taste good.
that's all, we have to hit the bed and wait for head counts already.
chua

Pictures Shows Chua and Evon with their respective room mates