Team Tempest on Dancing with the Stars

[NoSole]

So I've been really busy lately, but in a good way. My latest journey took me to LA for week to meet up with the rest of Tempest and work on performance for Dancing with the Stars. The request for a 30-second segment paired with a few bboys. It ended up being 1:10 with pauses and all (which were needed cuz we were bookin it!). Basically, they set up some scaffolding for us to climb, flip, hang and jump off of. It was a ton of fun... hard, but a ton of fun!

The performance was for the results show, which will be on Tuesday (10/21) night at 8pm on ABC. They pulled in some REALLY talented dancers and choreographed four different segments for four different eras... 1930s, '60s, '80s, and future. We did the '80s with the two bboys. It turned out really well cuz we'd pause periodically and watch the breakers. Everyone was way on point and punched out some seriously big moves! I love adoration, but Caine definitely took the cake with his massive 16-foot front tuck off the upper balcony! It was hard for me to really see what the audience saw since I was concentrating on my own line, but everyone who was there said it was unreal... and who am I to dispute that :tongue: I absolutely can't wait to see how it all looks on TV!

Freerunners involved were (from left to right): Gabe "Jaywalker" Nunez, David Elson, Paul "Diddy" Darnell, Luci "Steel" Romberg, NoSole (me), and Caine Sinclair. We picked our lines and tricks, but Victor "Showtime" Lopez got us on track and made it pop!

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j66/norcaltrjn/80spose.jpg

Big thanks to my homies on Tempest and all the other people/performers there. This was fun as shit, and I can't wait to do it again!

[Ascent]

wat time is it on? i forgot to ask NoSole

[NoSole]

:bowdown:

will blog it once updated!


Already did. :cool:


(corn edit: read it here - http://www.sfparkour.com/blog/2008/10/20/tempest-freerunning-on-dancing-with-the-stars/ )

[ANDREY]

Wavavia! Can't wait to watch it!
A front flip from a balcony sounds unbelivable, from what I see in my mind. lol
They are always look sick!!!

[Ascent]

yes indeed! cant wait.

NoSole you have to teach me your diving front flips off of such altitudes!

[BENNY]

wow thats amazing nosole you are tv celebrity now! oh man i cant wait to see you guys dance lol.

[BENNY]

hey brian so are u and that girl Luci "Steel" Romberg two new member of tempest?

[alekkein]

:ohnoes: I can't wait to see the Performance on DWTS tonight. I think it is great that they let local talent be showcased on the show! It is going to be awesome and I can't wait for tonight!!!!

[alekkein]

everyone should check out the DWTS LiveJournal page at:

http://dancingstarsabc.livejournal.com/

:kekekegay:

[hillexallen]

This was fun as shit, and I can't wait to do it again!

Shit sounds fun lol

But seriously, that sounds awesome!

I'll definitely watch.

[TraceurKel]

hahaha just saw it, looks pretty sweet hahaha

[Haku]

Brian you beast...

:tongue:

Great job Brian! You are really going places!

You are going to have to help me with my Frontflips...You pulled two awesome ones from what I saw? It flashed so fast I could barely tell who was who...

[hillexallen]

I tuned in just in time to see like the last 20 seconds. I'll watch it on youtube when it gets released.

[Zack Weldon]

Hahaha! I saw you with that back full twist and the vault off the top of the scaffolding. and maybe the palm spin at the top towards the beginning?

[hillexallen]

YouTune Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-HMxeiS3bw

Nice performance, Brian!

[Corndogg]

heh sweet :bowdown:

too bad the camera didnt show a wider angle and more of the freerunning stuff :mad: pretty cool though, must be fun on stage in front of the lights and crowd!

the robot dancers were pretty cool actually. well everything was.

[Ascent]

great job brian. i was afraid that they would cover the b boys too much because they are pretty stationary and thats how it ended up. never enough coverage. sick full off of the block tho bro. keep it up man. your definitely a big inspiration for all of us.

[2nd Chance]

Tight. Way to go Brian.

[BENNY]

yo brian awsome job!:biggthumpup: those jerks at DWTS really shitted it up tho, with you guys in the background and at the last couple minutes. it shoulda been front and center and also at the beginning lol. damn me and my friend sat through 2 hours of really awkward dances to get to it!:redface:

[ANDREY]

Great man!!! Awesome moves!!!
Loved it!

[hillexallen]

sat through 2 hours of really awkward dances to get to it!:redface:

lol me too :squint:

You should have been the show yourselves.

[lethalbeef]

lol thanks for the link, guys :P

[Kirill]

The camera operators are male genitals.... they mostly showed the b-boys...

[BENNY]

man after watching that again on youtube i feel a little bit pissed off! :squint:

i feel like DWTS ripped us viewers off.

the show didnt emphasize parkour or freerunning AT ALL! they put the tempest guys in this background where the cameras were hardly able to film the tricks, and freerunning was made to be the background act for breakdancing? pk/fr deserves more spotlight than that!
plus they gave our free-runner reps those red costumes so they are even harder to see when that red light comes on!

that show was horribly lame and the one thing they had that was original was the pk/freerun and they didnt capitalize on it! unbelievable!:nono:

[hillexallen]

Yeah, they should have showed more pk/fr, but come on, it's a dancing show, not a pk show, so you can't really blame them.

[BENNY]

Yeah, they should have showed more pk/fr, but come on, it's a dancing show, not a pk show, so you can't really blame them.

yeah thats true lol

[Austin]

I like how the last act got no cheering at all. Complete fail. Tempest and the b-boys stole the show.

[Corndogg]

I like how the last act got no cheering at all. Complete fail.


thats cuz there were no robots in the audience. all the robots watching at home were cheering.

[Deejay]

What better combination? Dance + Parkour = Brilliant

Great Job!!

/Ina

[lethalbeef]

Now it's like dancing plus dancing plus running from cops.

[hillexallen]

Now it's like dancing plus dancing plus running from cops.

hehe

wow that sends a bad message to the public lol

that and "escape and reach" even though the intentions are good

[Corndogg]

yeah that saying is old and bad and not something we should perpetuate...

[Corndogg]

NoSole

would love to hear a bit on how the prep was. did you plan it all out beforehand? how much did you practice on set? did they have to show you how to do the b-boy poses? did you all have to freeze at certain times?

[BENNY]

yeah were you nervous at all? if it was me i would be so scared of messing up on stage lol

[NoSole]

Wow! OK, a lot of questions to answer. Ascent, you got it homeboy, we'll train soon for sure. Haku, anytime (sorry it's taken me so long to respond to your PM. My bad :happysad: ) Corn, yeah, I know. I would love to see that with just a single wide angle on the action... they caught most of the big things, but missed how well we all meshed together. Oh well.

There was a ton of prep than went into the show. The dancers rehearsed for at least a day or two before even getting to the studio. We couldn't, obviously, because we needed to have the scaffolding to practice on. All I can say is that it took a lot of work to get it where it was. It changed several times to get it just right. All in all, we put in 20 hours of practice.

The first day, we checked out the stage and just kinda monkeyed around for about half the day til we picked lines that we were all comfortable with, and that wouldn't interfere with anyone else's. Then we practiced getting it to fill the 30 second requirement.

Halfway through the second day we found out that the bboys would be dancing with us, so we had to add the pauses in, which consumed a lot of time getting them right. That screwed up a bunch too because people had to be sure they were at a place in their run so a pause would look natural. Eventually, we got it worked out and used the third rehearsal day to work out the kinks.

The third day was pretty rough because we had to wake up at 5am to do a piece for KTLA (which I find a link for, and post up here). So when we finally got to the studio two hours early for rehearsal, we all passed the fuck out! Some seriously needed sleep. We didn't actually do any full run-throughs til Friday (meaning all flips and tricks) because the strain on our bodies to do that many takes was pretty brutal. By the end of Friday, we had it down pretty good.

Eventually we got it down to where all of six of us were hustling full speed to our locations and timing was so precise that if we waited a beat or two longer in any one place it definitely woulda caused some serious injuries. But big props to Tempest for being so professional! Everyone was really on point so when final shoot came, it was all business and not a single person missed a beat or stumbled in the slightest! We went through 6 full run-throughs on the day of the show so the guys could get the 12 cameras synced up to our runs... that sucked a lot of energy out of me for sure!

Once it came to show time, we got a lil nervous, but like I said, everyone was all business. I was nursing several injuries, but once we were in the thick of it, the adrenaline took over and everything but the tricks faded into the background. The segment they aired, was the last of three takes we shot in full costume with lights and everything. It was awesome to be in a room with so much energy. Having the pressure for perfection was good too. Def made us hit all our cues right on point. At the end of each run each one of us was pumped because we all knew that we did it exactly like we were supposed to. The 45-50 runs we practiced the days prior made the end product a snap.

My favorite part... never once did ANYONE say "Don't do that" for any reason whatsoever! It was liberating to be in a professional environment where people expect you to do "crazy" things they've never seen before. I only say "crazy" with quotes cuz to us, it's normal :tongue:

If I can get photoshop reinstalled on my comp, I'll try to trace the paths that each person took so you can get an idea of how complicated it was.

[hillexallen]

Hey, thanks!

Sounds like it was awesome!

[Corndogg]

wow. :eek3: its cool to hear the behind-the-scenes, obviously theres a LOT of work and training and conditioning and practicing to get there! not quite as easy as people may think :kekekegay:

[NoSole]

Alright, so unfortunately the way KTLA's site is set up I can't link directly to the videos of our news segment, but I can tell you how to get there:

1.) Go to http://www.ktla.com/pages/alliemackay
2.) In the media player scroll through the other vids on the side bar til you find Allie tries Free Running?!? and What is Free Running? Those were two of the three segments they posted from that morning.

I thought they were pretty funny and a lil lame, but I guess it's still press! Haha.

[Corndogg]

be sure to add all these links to your "Traceur Bio" ;)

[BENNY]

hey brian ive seen u at monthlies but ive never trained with u before, can i come train with u one of these days?

[NoSole]

Sure. I'm usually at the gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And during the week I just walk around and find stuff that looks interesting.

[Ascent]

dam. i agree i wud love to train with u... sooo far away :(

[NoSole]

FYI, Diddy just slapped this together and put it up on Tempest's new YouTube channel.

Behind the scenes footage at DWTS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYBhTPsuvpk)

[alekkein]

Are any of you guys going to check out the results show tonight? Lionel is going to be performing. I am so excited for that one! Something to look forward to on my Wednesday night!!!

[Corndogg]

FYI, Diddy just slapped this together and put it up on Tempest's new YouTube channel.

Behind the scenes footage at DWTS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYBhTPsuvpk)


sweet, shows a lot more :biggthumpup:

[Meatlad]

FYI, Diddy just slapped this together and put it up on Tempest's new YouTube channel.

Behind the scenes footage at DWTS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYBhTPsuvpk)

Sweet!

Tempest pwns the SuperFriends.

[NoSole]

Sweet!

Tempest pwns the SuperFriends.


Hahahaha

[Adroit]

I could only watch until around 1:45, at that point I was blinded by the sexiness of the outfits and couldn't watch the rest.