Thanks Becky,

It's tough managing a whole team, juggling everyone's
schedules, dealing with personality clashes and quirks
within the team. Sure is different then when it was
just myself I had to worry about. I wasn't sure how
things would turn out but I'm relieved that we got
through it. I always learn new things from it. Now I
have two more performances to focus on. My own son's
Bar Mitsvah liondance and a Martial Arts Hall of Fame
Dinner Banquet a week apart from each other. I have
only a few weeks to get that together and I want to
add some new elements to the routine. After those are
done I think we'll need a rest from Liondance for
awhile. *LOL*

Mel


--- Becky Sheetz <rssheetz@...> wrote:

> Mel, congratuations to you and your team! Sounds
> like a teriffic show. I'm so impressed with how far
> you have taken this and how committed you are to it.
> But knowing you, I'm not surprised!
>
> Becky
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mel <tonji152@...>
> To: tristatewushukungfu@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 12:07:41 AM
> Subject: [tristatewushukungfu] World Taichi/QiGong
> Day '06 Liondance and wushu demo a huge success!
>
>
> Hey gang,
>
> Despite some unforseen setbacks, which were numerous
> for some
> reason this year, we pulled it off despite
> ourselves. There was alot
> of stress going in today. I had to come straight to
> the event
> directly from working all night this year. Who would
> be performing
> with us was sketchy in both the liondance as well as
> the
> Taichi/wushu demo due to some misinfo with Coach Li.
> He pretty much
> gave up on it this year and it was left to me. We
> were committed
> however and couldn't bail out so we winged it as
> best we could. Some
> last minute hustling brought in a few more players
> from LMAC which
> helped our cause. My thanks to Valerie and Josh
> Walls as well as
> Mareisha and Margarita Toro. Last minute music added
> by Tammy and
> shuffling of performers ended up working out
> nicely. The Liondance
> went great with huge applause with a new lift. A
> firsttime "Headsit"
> by Dustin and Jeana, "Tailgag" went over huge and
> for the firsttime
> the poppers for the "spitting the greens" went off
> without a hitch
> and was applauded as well. We were let into the
> facility late which
> trickled down to cutting the Liondance short which
> was the only
> thing that hurt and disorriented us but we managed
> through it. We
> opened the demo portion with Wushu group form then
> with 32 Taichi
> sword, switched gears back to wushu broadsword. Last
> second I
> elected to drop 24Yang TaiChi hand form preferring
> to end our demo
> on a high energy note not to mention the host's own
> team did the
> same 24 Yang handform after us so we avoided
> redundancy. A little
> bit of a shock for me was TC, showing up with his
> own team including
> Doris, Robert and Brandon, independant of LMAC which
> they wished to
> keep separated as opposed as working together with
> us as I hoped
> when they showed up. Oh well, it happens, natural
> progression. Some
> will leave the nest to fly off on their own. We wish
> them well. Pics
> will be posted soon!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mel
>
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