Watching the stars 2017

The new DVDs have arrived and practice competitions are underway! Each year the School of Physical Culture compiles a DVD of the syllabus featuring the age/category champions of their respective sections. Check out last year's post for more explanation.

It is a wonderful practice tool for practising between classes as both front (mirrored) and back views are shown. You can put on your own physie workouts in your lounge room! Usually in a class setting you would be simultaneously mimicking your teacher's moves which leaves little time to take in all the nuances. Viewing the DVD gives you a chance to sit back and analyse the champions' nuances. The performers are stars, they are role models within their club. I wonder how they felt when they were announced as champions and syllabus demonstrators.

After the DVD filming at the Foxtel Studios in Sydney, many become idols for the physie community and continue to inspire their fans. It is a noticeable trend that some go on to perform on the syllabus biennially (when they advance to the next age group bracket). Perhaps, learning the syllabus by the April filming date sets them on the path to perfecting the syllabus for the current year's championships thus propelling them into perpetual success.





Now, a bit about my observations on this year's DVD:

• A lot of flexibility - bendy backs, splits (excluding ladies), kicks 
• Strength - planks, V sits 
• Feet gripping on floor after splits/astride sit
• Nicole and Carly both presented the ladies' choreography with their own flair
• Special bloopers reel - pulling out wedgies 
• Nine beautiful performers. Is Carly missing from the cover?
• Spectacular physie from all the performers