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Nike Top Instructor 2012!

Are you an awesome, fun and inspiring instructor?!
Then you might wanna accept this challenge: apply for Nike Top Instructor 2012. 

It’s a competition that Nike Sweden organizes for the third year in a row, along with the Nike Blast.
And, I’m working with the project this year as well.

You need to be located in Sweden to join the contest – and you should teach freestyle dance classes.
Which means – where you make the choreo and choose the music.

So, if you’re up for a fun challenge – send in a film.
If you need a little push forward – send in!
And, if you are one of those instructors that had a lot of opinions on last year’s competitors – then you should definitly send in. 😉

If not now – when?

You will find all info you might need on the website. So check it out! 

The winner of Nike Top Instructor 2011; the sweet and talented Åsa Ingelög is now a member of the Nike trainer team. And she rocked at the best of the best-convention earlier this fall.

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More NIKE BLAST!!

The NIKE BLAST site opened up last wednesday, nov. 30th. And in this very moment it’s 1466 people that have payed and signed up.

One year I helped Lina out – that’s the organizer and the brain behind this amazing event – at the office. I worked with her for three months, nov, dec and jan – for the event of 2007.
And one of my assignments was to manually type in all the people that registred.
Back then you signed up by sending in a fax with your class selections – and then I had to sync the fax with their payment that came by mail – and by mail I mean snail mail.
It took like forever. Haha!

It was only five years ago… These days, it’s like a totally different event.
2012 is the 18th year in a row for the Nike Blast!
And my 10th year as a presenter. It feels awesome!!

The first time I visited the convention I was just a tiny teen, still in high school (gymnasiet)I went to the dance program… and one of my class buddies was performing at Nike – so we went out super early saturday morning to look at her… 
Then –  I was totally unaware of dance as a way of training…and conventions… and Nike… more than as a brand of sneakers and clothes.
But as I was watching a class with Ms Gustafsson right there and then, I thought to myself – I wanna be on a stage like that too…doing my thing… without really knowing exactly what they’re were doing – or what the purpose was – or what kind of people that came to a thing like this…
And it actually didn’t took that long until I was there – doing my own thing.

I was overwhelmed of the glowing energy that was all over the venue… and I still am. That’s the one of the things that makes the NIKE BLAST so special. That magic glowing energy is still there – and it’s a very special feel that you need to experience for yourself.

So – I hope I’ll see you in Globen the first weekend of february 2012.
There’s still plenty of spots left in several classes and lectures. You don’t wanna miss this happy BOOST of inspiration & energy!

100 % earned
From 2011-BLAST, the 100% earned teamclass.

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Sweet and sour…

Yesterday was a sweet day… at least the beginning of it.

Yesterday’s work = to teach a BODYBALANCE™ quarterly at SATS Hötorget.
It was a packed class – and more than half of the instructors that participated was my own awesome co-workers from SATS, and among the rest it was no more than a lot of familiar (and just lovely) faces.

When it is on the home ground – city wise – but also literally – at my club where I teach every week with a crowd of well known people, that I work with – it can either be just extra awesome, warm and positive… Or it might be just the opposite, a little extra harsh.

But I chose for it to be the first option – and I had a great time balancing with a lot of talented instructors.
And – I love the release of 55. (maybe not fully unexpected)

Later on it was christmas party time with my home club, SATS Fridhemsplan. I’m not exaggerating when I’m saying that this was like the first time ever I could join a social event with Fridhemsplan. Since I’m working a lot of weekends I’m never around – or available for these kinds of events.

I ended up right next to the spinning instructor that thinks blogging is the most ridiculous ever… and he didn’t pass up an opportunity to mock me for mine. 
But – I can take it. 🙂
I also mock blogs every now and then – those who only contains a lot of food-pics; break fast, snacks, lunch, snacks, dinner etc. Hehe!
We’re all allowed to a free opinion, right?

Unfortunately – during the dinner – the migrain from hell joined me.
She (or he – more likely a he 😉 ) have been in the background for a few days – and when I was done with the work, and had an entire day off ahead of me – it sort of exploaded.
So – I sneaked out right before the party was about to begin for real. Isn’t that just typical?
But – after yet another hard core and just awesome – thai massage , several pain killers and some sunday-slowday-recovery it feels a bit better.

This upcoming week, I’ll be here all week and teaching my classes.
This is also the last week before xmas schedule at HoS.
Hope to see you somewhere!

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NIKENIKENIKENIKENIKENIKE….

Yesterday the NIKE BLAST website came alive, and the registration opened.
It opened up around 4.30 pm – and last night (ie. in a few hours only) it was more than 900 people that have signed up.

Crazy?!
Totally! But crazy-good of course! And totally expected.
Cause this is the BEST event in the world.
It’s the BLAST of the blasts – and the EVENT with capital E!

I’ll be presenting – my tribal house in a new fresh and updated version, with a brand new name: AfHo (as in afro & house)
Last year I got to open up the entire BLAST on the big main stage – and this year I’m shutting it down by tearing the dance studio-stage down.
It’s gonna be awesome, LOUD and just BOMBLASTIC!! Come join me sunday afternoon!

I’m also teaming up with Åsa and Kristin – for a smoking hot Femme Fatale, at the big stage! Also sunday!
Don’t know what to say… more than that we’ll be dancing till the world ends… Don’t hold it against us! It’s gonna be criminal fun – up n’down crazy sexy fun – and some BIG PHAT BASS!
You’ll be (DROP DEAD) beautiful on the dance floor. Cause this is your time to shine!
Your time to be selfish! 

I think you get it…
And yes, we might play some Britney – LOL!

See you in the GLOBE!!!!

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More QW’s…recap

Besides today’s qw’s – I’ve done a few more.
The first was in Finspång two weeks ago. It was a in-house quarterly for Medley. I did BODYBALANCE™ as a quarterly, and then BODYJAM® as a promotion class – since they don’t have that program just yet. My guess is  though, that they will have it pretty soon. Cause they sure seemed to like it. Maybe at a Medley near you.

Last weekend it was the capital-jammers turn (capital and surroundings I better say) to be updated!
Sunday afternoon in late november = dark grey and foggy outside!
The 1st of advent = people wants to be home and eat ginger bread and drink their glögg. 
Despite that – I had a group of 27 awesome BODYJAMMERS that danced their booteys off.
Olle was there…

and he was probably the freshest jam-instructors of them all.
Fresh as in most recently educated. Hehe!
Not as in the rest of the crowd seemed to be fading.
Quite the opposite! It was so much fun to see old faces – and new faces – and that they all went all in! GOOD JOB! And thank you all!

BODYBALANCE™ in Stockholm this weekend, and then both programs in Gothenburg the next. I’m hoping for lots and lots of just as happy, lovely and relaxed people as it’s been this far, the upcoming weekends. 🙂

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Estonia rocked!

When I woke up at 5.30 am this morning (about the same time for the third day in a row) one of my first awake-but-really-tired thoughts were that – in about 14 hours I will be back here, in bed and then I can continue sleeping. Ha!

And since I left my house around 6.30 – I’ve been to Tallin and back – and taught two quarterly workshops.
BODYJAM® and BODYBALANCE™. 
And my tiredness and the longing to sleep was gone by the time I went of the plane in Tallin.

In the jam class it was a few familiar faces from the initial training that I held there exactly two years ago. I haven’t done any more trainings since then – but I’ve been there for quarterlies several times and it’s always fun to see both old and new jammers – and their progress. And just fun to se them, simply.

The BODYBALANCE™ class was huge – it’s the second biggest program in Estonia. And they were good!
So, I’ve had a great day!

Time to reload for the quarterly in Stockholm this weekend.
And, I’m happy to be back at Kings Island 🙂

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Sweet Saturday!

It was a good day, fo shizzle. 
The event was fully booked and we had a crowd of awesome dancers that definitly brought their A-game, great energy and positive spirit all day.

Un-pretentious, fun and happy!
Thank you all for coming and shaking your gorgeous ass with us 🙂

Unfortunately I didn’t take that many pics – but here’s one from my class…

If you want to stay tuned for more upcoming events – find the Beatz Group Training Event page on Facebook – and like it!!

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Reminder…

…to all of you who lives in Linköping, or happens to be in the near…
Next saturday october 29th it’s time to dance.
With me and Petra!
I’ll be teaching two master classes; Commercial Hiphop and Girly Grove. So come join us. You need to sign up in advance, and you do that by emailing petra.kardell@gmail.com

Have a great weekend and I hope to see you next saturday.

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Jazzzzz handz!

My 11 classes at SATS are done for the week and I’m happy after a FUN thursday at Odenplan.

A few of my students have requested a musical jazz routine –  since it’s not really my favourite genre I don’t do pure musical that often.
When I was a kid I LOVED musicals.. and now I can’t stand most of them – especially not american musicals in a swedish version with a poor translation. That makes me wanna crawl out of my skin!

But today I went all in and did a cheesy broadway musical routine.
It was a lot of fun – and the crowd danced like true Broadway stars! And it was fast.

One more class this week – and then it’s weekend. And this weekend it actually is weekend even for me.

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Monday monday monday…

…in a grey and rainy Stockholm! How about that?

The weekend was great.
It was an intense training since I had almost exactly 48 hours from start to stop. A little bit less than usual.
And the instructors from Friskhuset did awesome. They worked hard and they challenged themselves for sure. And it paid off! The progress was huge. Well done!

This was a in-house training only for Friskhuset – so I had six instructors from Mo i Rana where we were, and then three ladies from Friskhuset Bodö, where I also have been. For their convention two years ago. It’s even more up north.

Here’s the crew of the weekend

A funny note: one of the chicas that got to present track 10, Turbulence, is working as a flight attendant at the airline that’s flying the tiny propeller planes all over the norwegian mountains – that I was going with the last bit.
And she did took us for a wild ride on the dance floor!

She was on the same flight as me on the way back – which made the trip much less scary, and now I know a lot more about the planes.
I kind of like all the private aircraft-lessons I’ve gotten on my trips lately… it’s like therapy, sort of.

Time to charge up for some BODYBALANCE™ at noon, and then tonight’s classes at St Eriksbron.
Happy Monday y’all!