RedOctane opens GETUPMOVE.COM

hikarate · Basic Member Joined: 15 Jan 2004

My Fiance and I saw the MTV show that Seanbaby hosted and saw the DDR Story. We are getting married in October and decided to try it out for weight loss. I had a demo disc with DDR on it already so we tried it out with the controller to see if she liked it and she did. So I have BNS DX pads on order and hope to start playing next week. I picked up DDR1 at KB Toys for $9.99 in case anyone doesn't have it. I'll pick up DDR2 when it hits $20. Anyhow, I don't see anything wrong with Red Octane using the story to sell pads. They also have the testimonial page which really isn't "Red Octane"Centric, but just about DDR helping people lose weight. Any of the other vendors could put up the same type of marketing page if they wanted. Anyhow I got a BNS pad, and I don't think the getmove.com website would have changed that, those RO pads are just too expensive for me.
BTW I'm 31 so add me to the old folks list.

t3nacious · Trick Member Joined: 03 Aug 2003

Sinistar · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:32 am Post subject:

Sinistar · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:42 am Post subject:

Chris In Texas · Trick Member Joined: 05 Mar 2002

ok, how about this

if you don't like the marketing thing, then don't buy red octane
if you don't think people should play ddr just for exercise, then you go play it for fun
if you don't think tanya should be doing this, then ignore her

thank you for expressing your opinions, but they are all getting repetitive now

now shut up and play damnit!

SaeNoDa · Trick Member Joined: 04 Mar 2002

BemaniFreak488 · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:38 pm Post subject:

Don't Ignore Tanya. She's a really cool girl. She never did anything to anyone, so don't give her crap.

Chris In Texas · Trick Member Joined: 05 Mar 2002

Quite the contrary. I told Tanya about 18 months ago she was a hottie. I'm talking about people riding her because of this.

I'd never hate on Tanya.

SaeNoDa · Trick Member Joined: 04 Mar 2002

<3 AWWW you guys!

Thanks for standing up for me XD.
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nurseminako · Basic Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: kansas city, mo

IguanaGrrl · Staff Member Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA

*blink blink*

Ok, maybe I didn't make my sarcasm dripping enough, because all of our older crowd has been picking my extremely sarcastic comment to respond to.

I AM 27! IT WAS A JOKE!

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gojeta4 · Basic Member Joined: 27 Jan 2004

forget ddr im the best at this freaking game forget all of you especially that little punk ervin ramos

SaeNoDa · Trick Member Joined: 04 Mar 2002

Um, ok.

SO, www.getupmove.com has opened forums for anyone interested in learning more, asking questions, or for support.

http://getupmove.proboards26.com/

They're still a little buggy, but everything's getting worked out. Thanks.
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nurseminako · Basic Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: kansas city, mo

Sadly, Iguana girl, i have an unfortunate disability caller literalitis - which causes me to take way too many things literally, therefore I can miss sarcasm at times. Interestingly, I can be quite sarcastic myself.

FaerieLink · Trick Member Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Location: Nor Cal

One last thing for all those people freaking out about us focusing on the Ignition pad to lose the weight...

i was recently asked to write up more infomration for the health section.. so i gathered research and made sure that it was a focus that DDR can help you towards a healty lifestyle... not that the ignition pad will...

the getting started section.. of course.. is a place for us to show off our products, but the health section is really just that.. health... so... most people will read that before they read get started... and see that is is just about DDR... no matter how you slice it!

so...that is it... hehe...

ok... and yea..the messsge boards... i made a whole bunch of forums today...so...yea.. check it out if you get a chance!
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HipHOpNoTIc · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 11:12 am Post subject: Re: gojeta4

worknman · Basic Member Joined: 29 Mar 2003

I will be 30 this summer and just got into DDR a couple of months ago. The sole reason I did so is because of its health benefits, and I don't think I would've ever gave it a second look had it not been for this reason. Now, don't get me wrong, it *is* a fun game, but I generally have more productive things to do than play DDR (or any video game for that matter) for hours on end - the fact that I can get some exercise out of it just gives me a good excuse

I only play it at home though. So far, I have not once played it in an arcade.
What I'm trying to say here is that the fun factor of DDR is not lost on those of us who use it use it for it's health benefits, though not all of us feel the need to go out in public and show off our DDR skills (or lack thereof in my case!), so you may not see many of us play it in public at all. Perhaps when I can AA 7 or 8 footers, I might venture out to the local arcade every once in awhile, but I'm fairly content with playing it in my bedroom for now.

As for the whole weight loss thing, the problem I've been having with it is that the more you play DDR and the better you get at it, the harder the songs get. This is not really a bad thing, except with the harder songs, it usually becomes necessary to go into training mode and either play a certain part of a song over and over again, or play it in slow motion, which kind of breaks the flow of a workout.
I am trying to overcome this problem by working on a new song in training mode as part of the warm-up, and then gradually increasing the speed as the workout goes along. I mean, take the current song I'm working on - Afronova in DDRMax2 - light mode, 5 footer. If I tried to play that at full speed not having warmed up yet, I think my legs would fall off

So, what I do is when I start, I'll go into training modem and set the music speed to 2, and gradually bump it up until I reach 5. So far, this approach is working pretty well!

DJ Lancer · Basic Member Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Location: Dayton OH

Honestly I think the part of DDR not being given enough hype for being fun and such is kind of a given. The reason that it IS such a great weight loss tool is not the excersise... its that its fun. From my understanding swimming is the best excersise as far as calories per hour etc, but its dull.

However I can sit there and play DDR for about an hour without any feeling of boredom. the aspect of having so many songs, and so many ways to improve. I try to give myself a goal every time I play. I think from now on Im just going to go down the song list and do each song twice to try to improve my scores.

All be it Im still a vicious newb. =) My greatest accomplishment to date is getting A's in most the 3 foot songs in Ultramix =) but Im being able to go longer and with more accuracy. So its all relative. Hopefully one day I'll be able to brag about doing 6/7's without batting an eye like most of you. I've been playing seriously for about 2-3 weeks now. Only recently every night for 20 mins, and now up to an hour. Whee. =)

DJ Lancer · Basic Member Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Location: Dayton OH

sorry for the double post, I missed a lot I got mixed up (old age setting in). As far as RedOctane, ya know. If I was a company making pretzels, just because I like pretzels, and thought they were tasty, and believed in the tastiness of my pretzels, and suddenly they said "Hey! Pretzels cure cancer!" but no one knew about it. I would do everything I could to let people know pretzels are great for you. And mention I sell wonderful pretzels. Its called buisness. They are not a non-profit organization. They exist to make a buck. They can just go home now feeling good about what they do that their product is making people healthier. As far as Tanya goes, you know if you lost 95 lbs, and someone wants to pay you to tell people about it or be their spokes woman/man. Do it. Do it as long and for as much money as you can. She put in the effort, she didn't do it for money, she did it for fun and health, she just happened to get a fringe benefit out of it. We all wish we were so lucky.