An Exhibition Team is a Competing Team

I began thinking about this next quarter and the quickly approaching Vibe practice schedule with reflection of my past year on MCIA. I look forward to these new practices that will truly be a test of our competitive spirit. 

I say that an Exhibition team is one that competes because i believe we do, it is just the field on which we compete is different. First and foremost is the competition against yourself in order to further improve yourself because the reason you dance goes beyond a trophy or name recognition, although recognition is nice FORSURE, but it is simply to enjoy and grow as a dancer. The second competition we face is one as a team, which is team morale. I believe that the true competition for any team is not what happens on performance day but the practices that lead up to that performance...

To continue my thought i also want to put my two cents in for the new Vibe practices and after...

This is because practices are the time where you decide as a team whether you will all just barely carry your bodies to and from practice or you will find a way to to be happy at practice, and don't get me wrong because the topic of happy versus having fun is another topic in itself, but i feel that if you as a team are happy throughout practices then you have already gain a prize that is worth more than any first place at any competition. I say this because come competition day we will all be winners no matter how the performance went.

Therefore back to the discussion of being happy...

Being happy is not a case of cause and effect but BEING THE EFFECT! It is easy to "feel happy" when you gain something or someone does you a favor, but to be happy is that simple set of changing your mindset from whatever it may be and saying this is good and i'm happy with it. Now i go back to the second competition with an exhibition team which is morale, i believe that the key to success in this aspect is the same. It is hard to say that you will always come to a practice "feeling happy", due to drama or school work or just feeling cranky, BUT the key is to take whatever circumstance that you have and say you know what, i may not agree with it but i'm happy because at the end of the day i am here and that is enough, because if you think about it most people don't get to end at least 3 out of 7 days with 40 people that they love.  

In conclusion, positivity is a thought process and happiness is the mind set. Together with the determination to push yourself in order to improve yourself is the ultimate field of any dance team in my opinion, which leads to say that whether your competing for a place or doing it for the performance the grand finale of any dance team is the same hence and exhibition team is a competing team.