Hey guys, this is . As a lot of you may have seen, I recently competed with a crew I am apart of in a big event known as World of Dance. It's a pretty big competition that is held in many big cities across a few countries, but mainly the United States. The one I competed in was held in Dallas and I just kinda wanted to share my experience with you all while I tell you the outcome and lend some advice.

Before I start though, I want to thank each and everyone of you who sent me texts, tweets, shouts and comments with good luck wishes. It really helped to have positive and supportive feedback from you guys. It honestly did. So thank you so much.

Starting off, it wasn't really nerve racking at all. Just extremely exciting. I saw many famous dancers there, some of whom inspired me to start dancing, including one of my tutting idols Mike Song. The vibe you get just from being in the building with so many other dancers and choreographers is just impossible to describe. It's just so energizing and well, incredible.

However, when coming closer to performance time, especially when waiting for our turn in line, adrenaline and worry starts to kick in. And I felt like I could possibly fuck it up for all of us. It's hard to calm yourself from that and just prepare to really, just get out there and murder the show. You just have to put faith in your body being able to remember the moves and let your mind sit back and let it happen.

We got up there and did our best. Well, at least I know I did. Put as much as I could onto that floor, and it felt really good. But, I wasn't completely satisfied. Because I knew we didn't do as well as I'd of liked. It wasn't as close to perfection as I'd of liked. And sometimes that's just not in your power to control. But what bothered me most was that it was something we could have changed.

So now here's my advice to you all. If you are ever in a crew, whether you're the leader or not. You need to know that you have a say in things. If you have an idea, or critique, or even something that you think should be completely changed, you should be able to voice it. Now, don't get outta hand with it, but when it comes to competitions and you know things can be better or more well used, for the better of the crew. It should be done.

We placed 8th out of 19 competitors. Which isn't bad considering it was our first time at the event, with a 6 minute set and going against very well known crews in the area. But still isn't as good as I'd of liked. One thing was said by all the judges when we got our score sheets back. And that was to not walk through transitions. This same thing is something I brought up to our leader while we were choreographing and putting together our set. However he denied my opinion due to his own, saying it was okay because it was on beat and had a purpose.

I was overruled regardless of what I knew. What has been said countless times by other judges, and what people have lost before due to doing. It really made me rage that we got marked down because of that. And that we could have easily placed way higher if we had taken the time to fill gaps with other things. It just irks me so bad that we could've done better so easily.

The other thing, though the judges did not catch it is cleanliness. I've watched this video quite a few times now and I can point out mess-ups, times when we aren't all doing moves the exact same way (disregarding formation stuff of course) and times when even our leader/director did things wrong. That pisses me off because one thing that is sanely obvious about competing with a crew is being clean. You have to be clean no matter what. We could've been wayyyy cleaner if we had spent the whole last week cleaning our WOD set instead of learning a whole new piece that we didn't even use for World of Dance.

So, that's just my advice to you guys. If you're ever doing something with someone or a crew. Make sure you have the right to voice opinions and change things. Because it could just be the thing that makes you lose a higher spot.

Now saying all that negative stuff, it was still an incredible time and I had a blast. I still loved being up there in front of all those people and having that energy flow through me from all those other dancers. It's a great event that I would love to attend sometime again even if I wasn't competing.

I guess that's it guys. If you read it all thanks, if not that's cool too didn't really expect it to become this long anyways.

I'm gonna post a few photos and the video of our performance for you all to enjoy. Hope you like it, we really did work hard on it.

(I'm the one with the yellow billed hat incase you're wondering)

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- as a side note I do apologize for the lack of updates that have been done recently. I've just been really busy with this whole WOD thing. Now I have two weeks of school term/finals left to do so after that I'll be sure to keep you all updated on things happening in the furry community and other stuff as well. c: