The DDR Club paper...plz read

Kayato · Basic Member Joined: 29 Sep 2002

This is the paper that I wrote to convince my school in Newton, Mass to make a DDR club....enjoy! (btw I'm Dan)

THE DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) CLUB
By Daniel Jung and Jackie

So what exactly IS Dance Dance Revolution? Its a revolutionary game that allows players to exercise while having fun at the same time. It stimulates both the feet-eye coordination, strengthens the muscles of the calves, increase concentration and focus, and maintains a healthy exercise habit. The games objective is quite simple: There are four buttons (up, down, left, and right) and you need to coordinate the skill of stepping on the arrows when the machine tells you so.
While the game is deceptively easy to learn -- stomp on the correct arrow as its corresponding symbol scrolls to the top of the screen, and you're "Perfect!!", "Great!", "Good"; or, if you come too close to missing the beat entirely, "Boo!" -- it takes months of obsessive arcade residence or training at home to perfect the lightning-fast footwork required on some of the hardest songs. That is why, four years after the Japanese arcade game's introduction, weve seen Dance Dance Revolution grow stronger within the Massachusetts area, let alone the United States, and we want to make the Newton Community witness not miss out on this whole Revolution. The DDR Club will be one of the most revolutionary clubs ever made in Newton North High School because this game allows people of ALL ages to come join the fun and is quite the ice breaker with many students and teachers to get along and build a better relationship.
In arcades alone, before the dawn of DDR, it wasnt more of a social thing rather than a I have to beat this guy up otherwise Ill waste my two precious tokens and lose. There are TONS AND TONS of communities within the Massachusetts area alone that hang out together and strives out to spread the Revolution to everyone they know. In a California Middle school, they made DDR part of the P.E. curriculum, where they bought out several arcades to the school, where it became a HUGE hit and made the community much stronger. I knew from experience that a LOT of people in this school wanted to have a DDR club and now is the revolutionary moment of truth that everyone has been waiting for.

Not only was DDR popular by teens, but also by the press: Fox News, North Shore Sunday, CNN, Yahoo Finance, Seventeen Magazine, USA Today, The Sun News, CBS Early show, New York Times Magazine, CNN International, Business 2.0 Magazine, ABC News, Oxygen.com, Wall Street Journal, and many more that have been doing articles, interviews, investigations, health checks, and how it affects the Teenage mind. All of them were positive. DDR is unbelievably popular throughout the United States and it should stay that way because this may be the cure for obesity. Also, this may be a chance to lower eating disorders for girls for a healthy and active exercise. If the school wants to aim to lower the percentage of obesity, DDR may be a better solution than most P.E. classes because DDR is like a P.E. class hidden behind a video game.
How are we going to support this kind of equipment, you say? Well one of our staff who will work for the DDR club will donate or bring in DDR pads, a game console, and the DDR game itself, and donations will be helpful to support and increase the full activity of DDR for its support helping out the entire Newton Community.
DDRfreak.com is a very popular website to go to where DDR players gather around in their forums and chatting about past experiences, tips, posting questions about the game, and building a very strong online community that is open to anyone. DDR is a game where one needs to practice, so its good to dedicate someone to something they love, while increasing their concentration and physical health at the same time. This would indirectly help the students concentration for studying.
DDR will be a huge help to everyone in the Newton Community and hopefully will not be just a rumor. This has so many positives that it is going to be a revolution of a lifetime!

Copyright 2004...

kaname-kun · Basic Member Joined: 02 Sep 2004

i should try to get one of those started too. nice ta meet cha dan. i'm dan too.

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Prefect · Trick Member Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Location: Sandwich, MA

I want to try to get one at my school, I just need to spark enough interest.

Kayato · Basic Member Joined: 29 Sep 2002

Well just a post up...I did a DDR CLUB advertisement where I brought two REDOCTANE PADS, a tv, DDRMAX2, and a PS2 and at Club day, we recruited around 30 or 40 people! Thanks to everyone who read...

polo_prep · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:18 pm Post subject:

What an awesome idea....I would definantly join one at my school and I know some kids who do it, but I dont think the interest would be there at my private school,lol(only bout 500 kids and there is not enough of us,lol). Glad to hear that your club worked out,CYA

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Daniel · Trick Member Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Location: Sonoma, CA

If you really like the exercise aspect of DDR, you should consider adding Pump It Up to your DDR club. DDR lacks exercise and is based more on PA and competition. Pump It Up has more of a focus on physical prowess, because the mechanics of PIU aren't good for PA.

utakpogi · Trick Member Joined: 31 May 2004

This thread sadly doesn't answer my own question: How do you convince a school's godforsaken staff to start a DDR club?

I love the idea of starting a DDR club, and i have over a dozen friends who can help me. I just need advice on what kind of stuff you should say to sway the mindset of a traditional-based principal.

Daniel · Trick Member Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Location: Sonoma, CA

Noobus Kahn · Trick Member Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Location: CA

i heard some schools actually have ddr as a sport... is that true?

utakpogi · Trick Member Joined: 31 May 2004

I have never heard of it being as a sport, although it'll be so kikass if it was. But some schools do have it as a part of their PE curriculum.

So unfair...

diddrstrait · Trick Member Joined: 01 Jan 2004

DDR is registered as a sport in norway, just so ya know :0)

Pantera · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:09 am Post subject:

Daniel · Trick Member Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Location: Sonoma, CA

Just because you don't see it often on TV doesn't mean it isn't a sport. DDR is highly competitive, and with Stepmania being a free program that imitates DDR perfectly; DDR is a sport.

Kayato · Basic Member Joined: 29 Sep 2002

It's pretty funny that I was the first person to start this club because there was many other people that wanted to start a club three years straight but always failed. I'm the person to get things started...so it'll be awesome...YEAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Pantera · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:39 am Post subject:

kablooie13 · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Location: Hamden, CT

The high school in my town just got one going a few days ago, apparently somewhere around 30 people signed up...more than I would have expected. They raised something like $1100 for pads

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Kayato · Basic Member Joined: 29 Sep 2002

Noobus Kahn · Trick Member Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Location: CA

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you got 30 member....
wow
where i live almost 50% of the populations doesn't know waht ddr is, and the other 49% think it's stupid.
we have like 10 (infrequent) or so members at our hs for bemani club

DDR Azn · Basic Member Joined: 15 Jul 2004

a DDR Club? DDR as a sport? holy crap. wish i could be in that club, dawg. and another thing, if i had a dollar for everytime i kicked myself in the arse during DDR, i would be rich.

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