Team Rules

[Havish]

Ya, I can see it going both ways too.

 

[zagreus]

First off, I like seeing how my little post brought 4 pages of awesomeness.

It's a hard balance to find unity and strength. I find that you have to make trade-offs and hope the person will catch on and get better. Sometimes, you just can't teach strength...but atleast you get unity. I personally look for both, unity is KEY and strength is important. I would love to compete, but if you can't...atleast you still have time to be around people who enjoy being around each other and enjoy doing bhangra.

With independent teams, usually the people already know each other, and the practices themselves are around friends and easier to run i think. I wonder the situation with PPA/MAD, United, SGPD...you guys have practices, and I'm sure you guys have known each other for a while...does that unity itself help make for great practices, and eventually becomes your greatest asset?

I think with a college team, it's hard to guarantee unity when you're trying out new people. You may think the person is great at first...then later on, you realize some things about the person you don't like. The person might be the best dancer you see, but has the attitude of a child...what do you do in that situation? I'm just putting out scenarios right now to see what the response is.

 

[tonygarcha]

Majority of our team members have known each other since childhood. Having this connection definately builds unity and strength as a team. Everyone has those practices where one day you get nothing done and the next you have half the routine completed, there are always ups and downs.
With many collegiate teams, the members are constantly changing over the years and it can become difficult building that unity. Just as you think you have build a solid team, someone graduates or has other priorities that come up and another new face is introduced. Being independent, you have a more set roster. We have had the same members on our team since we started over 2 years ago. And the reason I think we havent gone through any changes is because we've all been together for the same common goal, we are all close friends outside of the bhangra scene and we enjoy what we do. Whether its a friends reception, a competition, or a community event, we bring our personalities onto stage onto stage, the smiling, laughing, yelling, etc isn't an act, its just us showing everyone our bond as a team and how much fun we have doing it.

In my opinion, unity/strength builds your teams overall performance as well. Bonding with each other helps develop you as a group and as individuals. I know some teams that are strictly together to do bhangra, you won't see them interact with each other in different environments, go out have a team get together, get to know each other..simple things make a big difference. But again, different things work for different teams, this is just my personal opinion.

 

[Jagga]

I think it works both ways yes we have known eachother for a while but then at the times it can be difficult to seperate business with personal friendship.....and i think yelling does work at times to keep everyone in check but all the time.. u wud def. lose respect from your team...but i luv how our team works together.. 16+ idiots and jkrs do make a right hahahah

 

[Kaur]

i defy all rules.......harkiran lolllllllll "IF MEISTRO SCREWS UP TOMORROW HE'S OFF THE TEAM" - response to me being drunk before socal bhangra good tams. lollll love you HK

Heres the reason why ahahhah....pure jokes

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NygpUJddXDY

 

[zagreus]

i defy all rules.......harkiran lolllllllll "IF MEISTRO SCREWS UP TOMORROW HE'S OFF THE TEAM" - response to me being drunk before socal bhangra good tams. lollll love you HK

Heres the reason why ahahhah....pure jokes

Wow...honestly that was hilarious! Damn...the guy is gone!

 

[Vick]

who is that fool?

 

[zagreus]

Majority of our team members have known each other since childhood. Having this connection definately builds unity and strength as a team.

Whether its a friends reception, a competition, or a community event, we bring our personalities onto stage onto stage, the smiling, laughing, yelling, etc isn't an act, its just us showing everyone our bond as a team and how much fun we have doing it.

In my opinion, unity/strength builds your teams overall performance as well. Bonding with each other helps develop you as a group and as individuals.

I find your approach very interesting. I remember when I met some of you guys at Bash 2007, and it felt as if most of you guys were a family. I mean, every one of you were sitting around the lobby cracking jokes and stuff. It was infectious.

It seems like the teams that have the easiest time bonding and such are those that came on as friends or independent teams. It seems to be harder for college teams I think, unless that team spends 24/7 with each other. And FORCE the bonding.

 

[tonygarcha]

its like a brotherhood, we treat each other like family and have since day one.

It does create a differnet environment being friends rather than meeting complete strangers. Its harder as a college team to create that unity and strength unless you already click with each other and have that bond. Our team came from different successful teams, but we werent all friends; we were there to do bhangra and we did it, but without the connection with the rest of your team, you feel more restricted on your performance. Especially when you are not comfortable with each other. Comfort levels have a lot to do with it as well. Again, just my personal opinion.

 

[HarmanSingh]

I agree Tony. Our team formed when we were in high school/middle school and we have gone from competing in junior competitions to competing on the circuit. It def. is a completely different environment since we have known each other for so long and most of our team has been on it from the beginning. The team is much more relaxed..we've even added people to the team that we had never seen dance before over experienced dancers just because the guys we added were are boys and fit into our team chemistry.

At the end of the day, if you arent having fun on your team and enjoying every minute...from the practice to the competition, you should just quit.