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Awesome choreo-thon!

So, my dear international friends.. This will be in swedish too, but then I’m going back to write in english…so don’t give up on me 🙂

Så alltså, sex klasser non stop – och alla drog liiiite över tiden, så det blev typ 7 timmars dans. En fantastisk lördag!

Jag tänker inte göra någon sån (lite cheesy) grej som att recensera klasser eller presentatörer… 
Uppenbarligen är alla grymma, annars skulle de inte varit med på den här dagen.
Och, hur varje klass upplevs tror jag är mer upp till mig; vilken stil jag föredrar, vilken personlighet som passar mig, vilken typ av pedagogik jag gillar – tillsammans med min egen dagsform och inställning under klassen. Eller vad tror du?

(Det är inte för inte alla presentatörer vill köra andra klassen på dagen, på events.
Ju senare på dagen desto tröttare blir gruppen, och ju tröttare man blir desto svårare är det att att ta in information, att vara öppen och uppmärksam = dagsformen hos gruppen påverkar upplevelsen än själva klassen eller instruktören.)

Hur som helst, det var sex grymma klasser – och det är klart jag hade favoriter.
Eddie till exempel. En co-worker till mig från Crunch. Vi har alltid haft klasser parallellt när jag varit här och jobbat så jag har aldrig tagit hans klass. 
Men jag vet att the swedish invasion gjorde det förra året när de var här.
Jag ÄLSKAR hans stil.  
 Nike Finland fick ett smyg-tips av mig om honom så han var där i Januari och presenterade – och jag vet att de finska dansarna också gillade honom: )
Madonna Grimes då?
Yes, självklart – en rätt enkel, kul och tjejig hiphop-ish klass a 2011. Awesome!

Av sex presentatörer så var det bara en female, hade gärna sett fler grymma tjejer såklart.(Det finns ju en hel hög av dem i den här stan om man säger så) 
Men that’s NYC. Och alla klasser var ju fantastiska så jag är lycklig över att jag fick vara med idag. Värsta lyxen!

Hade min gamla danslärare från Balettakademien varit med idag kanske det här hade varit en sån dag hon tillåtit sig att “synda” med bananer och popcorn.. ; )


Marvin – som också var där och deltog – jag och Eddie.

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A Friday-blog in Swedish!

Fredag i New York! 
Jag har tagit klass, bland annat, en street jazz.
Det var varmt, fuktigt och supertrångt. Och i uppvärmningen när folk slogs som bäst om utrymmet, så kom en av mina favvolåtar på – i hög volym.
Då kunde jag bara tänka på en enda sak:
ÅÅh – vad jag verkligen älskar mitt liv just nu. Amazing!

Imorgon tänkte jag också ägna större delen av dagen åt dans, sex timmar för att vara exakt. Fick precis en inbjudan till ett dansevent som Calvin Wiley arrangerar. Det är sex master classes som körs back 2 back.
Inga uppvärmningar, bara 60 minuters ren koreografi X 6.

De flesta presentatörerna känner jag – mer och mindre – och någon är helt ny för mig. Först ut är Madonna Grimes, som var en av de första jag tränade för som körde streetdance-som-träningsklass. Det var waaaay back, på ett Nike Convention.
Typ år 2000. Det var grymt!
När jag sen var i LA och dansade efter det så passade jag på att ta några klasser för henne där också.
Och, så har hon varit i Stockholm och gästat, på dåvarande Sports Club.
Tidigt 2001. Här är ett gammalt klipp på det.
Nu när jag kollar så är det ju sjukt mycket 90´s feel – men back then så var det the sh**.
Förhoppningsvis har hon – som de flesta andra – hakat på utvecklingen och kör något annat imorgon, hehe. Lovar att rapportera!

Och yes, man kan även se mig i klippet. I en väldigt ful (och fel) tröja. Men det här var några månader innan Nike kontraktet signades.
Just sayin’… ; )

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Yes…

…I know – I have been lazy with my blog. I’ve been busy living my life more than writing about it. But hey, back to doing both : )

Since friday last week I am off from teaching classes for a while. Vaccation!
Not a common word in Åsa F’s vocabulary. But 2011 is the year when it happens…

And at the moment I’m in NYC for a refill of my own training. (and maybe some guest
appearances)

I was lucky to be in cockpit for both take off and landing this trip – and it was pretty awesome to see the whole skyline of Manhattan from the frontrow.

And as always when I get here… it feels like no other places can messure. No mather how hard they try. This is where the energy is – this is where it happens, and counts… and I love it!

Happy weekend y’all – with or without training.

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Morning stress!

Last early morning class of the semester – and today it was very close that it actually happened – what I’ve feared every tuesday night all year.
That I’ll oversleep and miss my class.
Unless the gym called me at 6.15 – I’d probably still be sleeping.

It was my third BODYBALANCE™ in less than 24 h, but the best crowd, of course.
The morning crowd = the royal crowd.

Time to refill for tonights class; streetdance at Fridhemsplan.
Last chance on the Pause-routine. Come join me!

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A doze of monday magic!

Yaay! Summer’s back.
And this is my last week of teaching in Stockholm before it’s time for me to get some summer holiday and a luxorious refill of my favourite place in the world.

This week I’m teaching:
tue 11.00 BODYBALANCE™ Fridhemplan
tue 12.30 core Tule
tue 18.30 BODYBALANCE™ Tule
wed 06.45 BODYBALANCE™ Fridhemsplan
wed 17.30 street Fridhemsplan
thu: 18.00 jazz Odenplan
thu: 19.00 core Odenplan

Tonight’s classes at St Eriksbron was amazing – as always! Despite that it was sunny, warm and just awesome outside, I had a full class of fierce and sweaty dancers.
One of them was my co-worker, the beautiful and talented Annica!
Annica sats street dance great vibes
She rocked – and contributed big time with her great vibes, thank you for that!

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Holiday Rocks!

I got a summer delivery today – with some cool gears from the Holiday collection. And talk about happiness when I saw that my favourite top from the spring collection was in it – in a new colour. PURPLE! Which I happen to love. (among all my other favourite colours)


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I ♥ Nike, still!

…something I’ve said before – I know, but it still applies.

I’ve been sponsored for 10 years to be exact.
But our collaboration doesn’t feel old – it’s quite the opposite actually. It’s something that constantly envolve, grow and change.

And you might  have known the team as Team Nike, Nike Elite, Nike Instructor Team – and now me and 11 other instructors represents the Nike Trainers, which is the 2011 edition.

We’ve had a great weekend together this past weekend – under the direction of our super creative and professional boss Lina.
THANK YOU trainers, and THANK YOU Lina!!

I had a blast, even though it’s only june! : )

Lovely chicas chillin on the porch… with an equal lovely dude in the background that does his best to get in to the pictures… and he did – thanks to the delay on the camera.

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Weekly Update with Åsa F. : )

It’s been a good last week of the spring schedule.
Yesterday I taught a new street-routine at my class on Fridhemsplan.
This is the song I choreographed to.

Awesome class! As always! Love u!
It was a lot of upper body work and I was actually a bit sore today when I started to choreograph the jazz routine for tonight.
And today we did a bit of lyrical style. Lyricalish as I like to call it.  
Rihanna – Complicated! Love that song, still.

Another fun thing that happened yesterday is that when I came home this stood outside the door.

No – it wasn’t a neighbour that thought I was thirsty and wanted to surprice me.  
Les Mills have started a collaboration with Vitamin Well – who sponsor all the trainers.  
I love sparkling mineral water – so the bubblish edition is my favourite, and among the still flavours it’s the defence-taste.

Tomorrow I’m heading out to Nike’s main office in Solna – it’s time for our annual trainer weekend. Good stuff!

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Monday night at the bridge…

This is the last week of the spring schedule.
21 weeks flew by, just like that.
I’m teaching all my classes this week, except the BODYBALANCE™ at Zenit – since we have our annual Nike weekend this weekend, with the entire team.

And then next week the summer schedule starts – and I’ll be teaching almost like usual for the first two weeks – with some small adjustments.
Stay tuned here at my website, blog or at SATS.

Today’s class was a blast, so much fun!
Thanks awesome peeps for your energy, and your great spirit!
Here are a few from tonights crowd, chillin after the class.
street st eriksbron måndagar crowd

I did my S&M-choreo when I subbed saturday, and I got some requests to do it again, so that’s what we did tonight. I liked it, liked it! : )

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A kind of long recap.

During my NYC-stay in 2008/09 I taught a class every week at thursday mornings 7 am. That class had a really particular crowd, the people that came were always really focused and did not really payed attention to anything else but their own image in the mirror and the day they had coming up ahead of them.
A silented blackberry next to them was not un-usual, just to make sure they didn’t miss anything – workwise.
It always felt like they were in a bubble and that everything outside the bubble was not important, and nothing they bothered to see.
Nothing wrong with that. Just something I noted.

Any how.. one week I taught my class.
Then I headed back to Scandinavia for a qw event just for the weekend.
In 4 days I flied from NYC-Sthlm, then Sthlm-Gothenburg where I taught, Gbg-Malmö for another workshop, then back to Stockholm for dinner with a couple of friends and on tuesday I landed in NYC again.
And, thursday morning I was back with my class with the very focused people that had no idea what I’ve done the past week. Not that they cared or wanted to know – and I didn’t wanted to tell them either. It was just a kind of weird feel.

And I felt a bit the same this week.
Last friday I taught my BODYBALANCE™  – and in one week I have done loads of wedding prep – married – had a party – went to Istanbul for a mini honey moon – headed back home, and yesterday I was back teaching the BODYBALANCE™ like nothing ever happened. But is sure did!
Not that this crowd is anything like my morning business crowd in NYC, it was more the weird feel that here’s a group of people that I don’t know anything about.. and they don’t know anything about me.
And in 7 days I lived, experienced and enjoyed so many things.. and who knows what any of my participants went through in the same 7 days.

And my friday ended at the Royal Opera – with lovely Soffan – where the royal swedish ballet school celebrated 30 years anniversary with a jubilee performance.
Thank you for a superfun event! : )
Soffan Operan
And now – I’m about to sub a street class 12.00 at Odenplan.
If you liked my S&M-choreo I did on my wednesday class earlier this spring, come join me. I feel a rerun coming up.
Enjoy your weekend beautiful people!