Great Songs for Hip Hop Dancers

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Sarah James

Hip hop dance is more of a street dance which has been modified over the years. It’s more of an acrobatic performance with all the locking, jumping, somersaults and so on. Hip hop dancers are becoming famous these days as anyone can start a team. The movie Step Up is a great example of hip hop dancing. A lot of shows and competitions are conducted these days to encourage hip hop dancers.

Hip hop dance
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Step up 2 final dance
There are a lot of rappers like Akon, Flo Rida, Eminem, and Snoop Dog. Their music just puts everybody on their feet, giving great dance vibes. Lyrics are not a must for hip hop songs. Beats in the music make the listener go crazy. Rappers can make any song a hit by rapping. Just a small bit in the song pulls the song to heights. The Step Up 2 movie final dance is really awesome to watch. All the dancers and their flexible steps are the main highlight of the performance. It’s got a mix of some songs and plain music. The first movie Step Up has the final dance song by Petey Pablo who is also a good rapper.

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Jade’s hip hop Performance Company

It’s an entertaining piece from the dance troupe. There is diversity among the dancers only by their ages and not by the dance. It’s a scintillating piece of a big dance show. The choreography was done by Jade Jager the director of the company. It has got a mix of all songs of the famous rappers. It’s a good treat to the eyes to watch this entertaining and lively performance.

Jade’s hip hop Performance Company

If you’re in the New York City area, check out the dance classes and tutors on HeyKiki. We can assist in finding the perfect choreography tutoring for you.

If you’d like to learn another sport or activity other than dance, we have other instructors and classes in your area on HeyKiki too.

Keeping a Yoga Diary

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Beth Manning

Yoga is one form of exercise that keeps your body fit and your soul happy, calm and satisfied. Following a particular kind of regime could be very beneficial for you.

If you wish to start practicing yoga, it is advisable to learn through a proper coach and then practice on.
For beginners, yoga teachers start with easy poses and as the student progresses they turn to complex ones and also suggest posses according to needs of the body.

Maintaining a yoga diary

Yoga Diary:

Whenever you start these classes, always maintain a yoga diary. After every session with the coach, you should always jot down the details about the sessions, the yoga posses, the instructions given by the coaches, the do’s and don’ts about that pose, anything special that has to followed, and the diet plan. It can be helpful to maintain a daily sessions diary.

Benefits of Maintaining a Yoga Diary:

1. Detail Information: It helps you to maintain all the details of your sessions with the coach, which you might forget in future.
2. Reference: This will be with you as a reference that you can refer whenever you want to check through when exercising on your own. Even after many years you will have all the records in your hand.
3. Help Book: It will serve as your personal help book through which you can never go wrong; you can even give to your friends if they need any kind of guidance from you.
4. You Can Choose: As you are maintaining a yoga dairy, you can easily choose a particular exercise when required to. For example: if your arm hurts, you can look up for an exercise especially for that from your well maintained account.

If you’re in the New York City area, check out the yoga classes and instructors on HeyKiki and find the perfect yoga practice for you. If you’re looking for someone in the NYC area to practice with, we have yoga practice buddies on HeyKiki just waiting to connect with you!
If you’d like to learn a sport or activity other than yoga, we have other sports and activities instructors and classes in your area on HeyKiki too.

Golden Age of Boxing: The 18th Century?

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Beth Manning

It is difficult to separate Britain and boxing, as they both have a connection that started in the fifteenth century. From the year 1698, people witnessed many boxing matches at the most popular theatre at London, called The Royal Theatre. King George was really enamored of the thought of fighting and he conducted frequent matches there. In the year 1723, King George, for the love of the sport, set up a ring at Hyde Park.

Do you know who was known as the first ‘boxing champion?’ It was James Figg , the British boxer who was responsible for revolutionizing the game. He entered the ring in the year 1719 and he was triumphant till the year 1730. James Figg made the game popular, and many argue that much of what we see in boxing matches now takes James Figg as its origin.

James Figg – Father of British Boxing

Jack Broughton was the student of Figg and he organized the game. He laid down many rules and he is called the ‘Father of British Boxing.’ It was Broughton who introduced gloves into the game, at the time only for training.

The renowned London Boxer Daniel Mendoza is responsible for making the game more distinguished. Earlier boxing was merely brutal fights, but then the rules laid by Daniel made the game more classy. The Golden Era of British boxing was when the Queensbury Rules were laid, turning the game which was more like wrestling into a refined sport. The well known three minute round that we have now is included in the Queensbury Rules. The seventeenth century witnessed great world champions like Jem Mace, Jim Belcher, James Burke, and Tom Cribb.

If you’re in the New York City area, check out the boxing classes and instructors on HeyKiki and find the perfect boxing training for you. If you’re looking for someone in the NYC area to train with, we have boxing training buddies on HeyKiki just waiting to connect with you!
If you’d like to learn another sport or activity other than boxing, we have other instructors and classes in your area on HeyKiki too.

Best Special Needs Tutoring Agencies

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Sarah James

A student may excel in one subject in the classroom but lag behind in another subject due to his inability to understand the concepts. For students who need specialized attention in specific subjects, there are a number of tutoring agencies that can help.

Huntington Learning Center- With numerous branches in the US, it offers tutoring help to students aged 5 to 17 on a one-on-one basis. Math, phonics, reading, vocabulary studies and study skills are main areas of focus in this institute.

A student’s helping hand!

Mathnasium- Authorized by the Departments of Education of Colorado, Arizona, Florida and California, the main focus of this center is on math. Help in math is offered to students of all grades from elementary to high school. The tutoring program is designed specifically as per age and grades of the students.

Math!Math!Math! Come and become a master of the subject!

Lindamood-Bell Learning Centers- Established on international level with branches in Australia, United States and United Kingdom, it offers tutoring help in math, reading comprehension, and spelling. It provides help on a one-on-one basis in a welcome atmosphere.

Serving students on universal level!

Parents who are looking for a tutor for their kids should keep a few points in mind.

1. The tutor must be well-qualified and experienced to teach your child. He or she must be specialized in the relevant subject.
2. Pay attention to the method, formal or informal, that the tutor uses to teach students. Some students are more comfortable in a casual setting, while others require a little more structure.
3. The tutor selected by you should be patient, trustworthy, and honest.

Firing up the Square Dance: Key Pianists in Country Music

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Sarah James

Pianists have always been an important part of the musical industry in the U.S. Some of them have contributed to the development of contemporary music to a great extent.

Ronnie Lee Milsap- Born on January 16, 1943, he is a country music pianist who was quite famous in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a multitalented musician who attracted lovers of country as well as pop music. To his credit, he got six Grammy Awards.

Ronnie Lee Milsap- Winner of Six Grammy Awards!

Floyd Cramer- Born on October 27th, 1933, he was in the Hall of Fame and was recognized for his slip note piano approach. In this method, a note which goes out of series slips into the right note. He invented the Nashville sound. He played piano for famous celebrities including Roy Orbison, Brenda Lee, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, The Browns, Don Gibson, Patsy Cline, Eddy Arnold and Jim Reeves.

Floyd Cramer- Infused new dimensions into music!

Georgia- Born on December 5, 1932 in Macon, he specialized in rock n roll and had a deep impact on R&B sound. He is asserted as The Real King of Rock n Roll by a number of his followers. He played an important role in the advancement of music in the 1950s.

Antoine Dominique Fats Domino- Born on February 26, 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was an expert in rock n roll and classic R&B music. His piano style is quite distinctive and exhibits the bluesy technique of tramps and boogie-woogie manipulation.

Fats Domino- Known for Blue style!

If you’d like to get more into piano, we can help! If you’re in the New York City area, check out the piano classes and instructors on HeyKiki and find the perfect piano training for you. If you’re looking for someone in the NYC area to train with, we have piano buddies on HeyKiki just waiting to connect with you!
If you’d like to learn another sport or activity other than piano, we have other instructors and classes in your area on HeyKiki too.

Foreign Language Supplement: Ten Fun Facts About Portugal

Posted on August 17, 2012 by John Surico

The view from Lisbon, Portugal.

Continuing with our global fact-based reports, the tutoring lessons in NYC are getting a boost from the Portugese as we take a peak at the Atlantic-bordering country attached to the spine of Spain. The nation – an interesting mix of Spanish and African cultures – has a culture that is purely Portuguese and different from the rest of Europe. Let’s take a look at some of Portugal’s wildest features:

1. Portugal is a heavily urban-concentrated; about a third of the population lives in either the capital city of Porto or Lisbon.

2. If we were still ruled by the Roman Empire, Portugal would be known to us as Luistania.

3. Nine countries across the world have Portuguese as their official language; they are: Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea Bassau, Mozambique, Principe, Sao Tome e Principe and Equatorial Guinea.

4. Portugal is a teeny bit bigger than the state of Maine.

5. Bertrand Bookstore was established in 1731, making it the oldest of its kind in the world, and is located in Lisbon.

6. About 70% of the world’s cork supply comes from Portugal. Must be because of all that Port.

7. Portugal, back in the days when the New World was still a thing, was the first of the colonial powers to abolish slavery in 1761.

8. It was a Portuguese princess that introduced the art of drinking tea to the British. And look what happened.

9. The Vasco De Gama Bridge in Lisbon is about 10.7 miles long, making it the longest span of any bridge in Europe.

10. Want to try your luck a bit? Head to Estoril Casino right outside of Lisbon… the largest gambling spot in all of Europe.

That does it for our Portuguese version of the ‘Foreign Language Supplement.’ We hope this inspired you to get involved with the language, as well as the rest of the tutoring lessons in NYC. Join us next time for our coverage of France. Until then, adeus (goodbye in Portuguese!).

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Foreign Language Supplement: Ten Fun Facts About France

Posted on August 16, 2012 by John Surico

This is the City of Lights.

Next stop: Paris. In this installment of our ‘Foreign Language Supplement,’ we’ll be challenging your tutoring lessons in NYC with a dose of some French culture. France still remains as on the most influential countries in the world; in New York, bistros line the street and the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the French people, is etched in our national conscience. Let’s take a look at what makes France so special:

1. After English, French is the most commonly taught foreign language in the world.

2. Well this isn’t that surprising: France alone produces over 400 different kinds of cheese.

3. It is against the law to name a pig Napoleon in France. Which, of course, is the best law ever made.

4. Paris is famously known as the ‘City of Lights,’ except that name is not a reference to the street lamps – it actually has to do with the luminaries and intellectuals that made the French capital their home.

5. Disneyland Paris is visited by more tourists yearly than the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre combined. 13.3 million, to be exact.

6. About a fifth of France’s population lives inside or a bit outside of Paris.

7. Dr. Guillotin invented the guillotine – the execution weapon of choice during the French Revolution.

8. To get a picture of how powerful the French language was years back, how about this one: French was the official language of Britain for 300 years straight.

9. French toast and French kissing are not of French origin.

10. France is the most visited country in the world, with a yearly average of 70 million tourists a year.

Au revoir, everyone. And make sure you check out those tutoring lessons in NYC!

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Boxing in NYC: Four More Great Gyms

Posted on August 15, 2012 by John Surico

The boxing lessons are useless if you can’t train.

As we’ve said before, there’s not much point to our boxing lessons in NYC if you can’t use them somewhere. We gave you a bunch of places last time in New York that you can go hone your skills and, to follow up, we’ve collected another four great places. Here they are:

The Wat (291 Broadway, Manhattan) - In Thai, “Wat” means triangle. This little Downtown spot is home to a form of Thai boxing that runs a little contrary to your ordinary boxing skills. But there’s always room for experimentation.

Church Street Boxing (25 Park Place, Manhattan) – Church Street is a huge deal in the boxing world; Holyfield and Lewis both trained here and it has been a sporting establishment for many years now. So, if you decide to throw a few jabs here, you’ll be fighting in a hall of legends.

Fight House (18 West 18th Street, Manhattan) – This place is like a hodgepodge of boxing: MMA, Jujutsu and numerous other forms of fighting take place here. Like the Wat, come here to expand your skills.

The Sports Center at Chelsea Piers (Pier 60, Manhattan) - The Chelsea Piers is a Mecca for those looking to train in New York. The sporting quasi-arena lies on the Hudson and has many resources available for anyone looking to jump in the ring.

Hopefully, this itinerary helps you out after your boxing lessons in NYC. This City has plenty to offer and it’s time to start taking advantage of it.

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Four More Great Boxing Books to Read

Posted on August 14, 2012 by John Surico

The ‘Raging Bull’ himself.

Here at HeyKiki, we pride ourselves over our love of books because we believe they are wonderful additions to everything we offer; in this case, our boxing lessons in NYC. A few weeks back, we gave you a list of recommendations that spanned the history of the spot and, this week, we’re back with another four to throw onto that list. Enjoy!

The Fight by Norman Mailer – One of the most famous modern American novelists tackles one of the most famous fights in American history – Ali v. Foreman. This one is in the history books.

Raging Bull by Jake La Motta – The book Martin Scorcese decided to turn into one of his earlier films is the story of Italian boxer, written himself. We don’t want to ruin the book/movie so check it out for yourself.

A Savage Business: The Comeback and Comedown of Michael Tyson by Richard Hoffer – This is the tale of the last great boxing legend. And what a tale it is.

In the Corner: Great Boxing Trainers Talk About Their Art by Dave Anderson – This book takes a different approach than the three just mentioned; it speaks to the trainers, not the fighters. These are the guys that pull the strings and, without them, fighters would be nothing. See what the trainer world is all about.

Get yourself to your local bookstore or library and check these out for yourself. You’ll be glad, after your boxing lessons in NYC, that you did.

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Great Songs for Hip Hop Dancers

Top Three Fictional Tutors and Teachers

Keeping a Yoga Diary

Golden Age of Boxing: The 18th Century?

Best Special Needs Tutoring Agencies

Firing up the Square Dance: Key Pianists in Country Music

Foreign Language Supplement: Ten Fun Facts About Portugal

Foreign Language Supplement: Ten Fun Facts About France

Boxing in NYC: Four More Great Gyms

Four More Great Boxing Books to Read