Bhangra Teams’ Forum has a YouTube channel that includes short (2-4 minutes) videos reviewing specific moves and how to do them.  Many newcomers to the bhangra scene have commented to me how helpful the videos have been in educating their teams on traditional bhangra and proper form.  With no advertising or promotion of the existing videos, they have gotten about 55,000 views on YouTube. As more and more teams present traditional elements in their dances, it is increasingly important to properly execute moves to their completion (not running to the …

Some great features have arrived on the Bhangra Teams’ Forum Media Center: You can now search and sort through all the media (music, pictures, etc) uploaded to BTF.  This makes existing media on BTF much easier to access. Get all the available remixes by a certain DJ, or a remix of a certain song, or even all of your favorite team’s mixes.  A big thanks goes out to Swi for designing and coding this.

As BTF continues to grow, we are always looking for responsible community members who can step up to help manage the site.  Each of the moderators has a life outside of BTF (believe it or not), and we have been looking for a good addition to the team.
It makes me happy to announce (and it made her really happy to hear) that Dheerja is joining us on the Mod Team.  Dheerja, one of the first people to join BTF, has consistently made insightful and constructive contributions to the site.  I …

Early this morning, I upgraded BhangraTeamsForum.com to the latest backbone software, and introduced users to BTF 2.0.  Although ready to go for some time, the 2.0 project had been postponed due to conditions outside of our control, so I am very happy to finally get it live and to our users.
The past few days (after Elite 8 Bhangra Invitational) have been our busiest on record, with 60,000 to 70,000 hits per day on the site.  Despite this, I did not want to postpone the benefits of BTF 2.0 any longer. …

As many of you already know, I’ve been planning 02.10.10 as a go-live date for BTF 2.0 and all the improvements it brings to the forum and site as a whole.  However, the US East Coast was hit hard by a snowstorm over the past few days, leaving hundreds of our members stuck at home and relying on BTF to keep their sanity (I kid you not).
Throughout this morning and afternoon, I saw higher-than-usual activity and felt it would be an unnecessary inconvienience to bring down BhangraTeamsForum.com at the same time.  [ …