KIDZ!!!!!

Ah the joys of working with teens...
Nothing like it. I have been working with this group of teens since October 2006 and I felt that we were inseparable. I mean I put in so much work and time and effort into these teens, finding them jobs, letting them ride in my damn car, eating and dropping shit everywhere...but i didnt mind because they were my kids. Started a step team traveled the east coast stepping and performing for places, fighting my boss to keep the step team and just wanting the best for them.
Shaped them to be one of the best step teams in Philly and not by any other standards of getting a trophy or anything. I mean there were no other teams in the city doing what we did. Everything was lovely until one day...

One of them decided that since we were entered in competitions that kept getting cancelled she would quit..one of our powerhouse steppers, We called her Dr. Evil, because of her plans to be a veterinarian and her some times mean spirited nature...She also felt like we were losers...Then We lost another powerhouse, Da Rapture named for her thunderous feet when she stepped. Then they started to peel off...Fan favorites like Panic Room, Revenge, Blackheart, Miss Sassy, Storm, the Joker, all gone because of 1 reason, they hated stepping. No matter what I did for them steppers they still didnt see it. But nothing compared to today...when I lost FIERCE.

FIERCE a 14 year old princess, diva, way more mature than most 14 year olds, a dymanic energy and wonderful stepper, was very little and wasnt afraid to try anything. She is turning 15 on Tuesday April 22 and everything that I worked for in her is gone, because she decides that she wants to be very very very rude to me...saying things like I cant step because I have to shop, and I have always been disrespectful, you just had to learn it this way...WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO CHILD? I am not going to allow that from you. I am not! Well she thought that I was going to let her back on because here we sat with 5 steppers of what was once a 15 member army.

Booking shows like Temple Greek Spring Fling and West Chester U. I can rebuild a team I still have 4 strong.
MAMA
FORCE
TWO-FACE &
BOOTZ

We are have auditions soon for me not to make the same mistake twice...

Letting these teens too close to my heart and being their friend...

Until next time...

MADMAN