NATIONAL CHAMPIONS in youth smooth

Here are some videos of the final for youth smooth and the Nationals Champions! Here are the dances in order as they happened. There are usually 6 couples in a final and the judges choose their favorites. Jens and Kim got 2nd in the waltz, 1st in the tango, 1st in the foxtrot, and 2nd in the vienesse waltz. Adding all those numbers up makes 6 points. The couple placing 2nd recieved 12 points, meaning they recieved some 3rd and 4th placings. In the heats
before the final the judges just mark down which couples they like and then you go on if you have the highest amount of votes. In the final though it's the couple with the lowest number that wins. It is quite confusing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ef5Ld5FGTo&feature=channel
Here is the waltz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxopwu7mrvc&feature=channel

Here is the tango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIN9Ml90lew&feature=channel
Here is the foxtrot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-JV6ID-Hvo&feature=channel
And finally the vienesse waltz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPHTULvR3VI&feature=channel

And here are the awards.

I must say that I'm so proud of Chelsey and Parker too (2nd place couple) At every competition I'm always worried. They always look so great! Way to go to you guys too!

Nationals is the culminating event of the ballroom world. What a wonderful ending to his high school ballroom career. Kimberly has been such a treat to have as a partner. She is so talented, dedicated, hard working and soo soo sweet. Even with all this talent you would think she would be snotty and think she's all that but she's not at all, quite the contrary. Jensen LOVED dancing with her. Who knew what 5 months of hard work, a great coach, lots of time and money, and two very dedicated dancers would accomplish. This was the highlight of nationals. I'll post more pictures of them with their medals after they won when I get the pictures.

Here is a picture of them with their coach Michael Johnson.

Nationals

The latin medley team right after a disappointing placing. They performed so well and thought they would make higher than 5th place out of 8 teams. The new latin medley this year was done to a cool arrangement of Queen songs, hence the wild "hang loose" hand signals.

All the senior boys right after the latin medley.

Aren't they so handsome?!!
Jens, Skyler, Maurice, Austin


Buddies
Austin, Katie, Cristin, Jens Everybody is so tan. You tan and put tons of makeup on so you stand out to the judges.



Cristin and Jens and the whole outfit for latin. They got called back 2 times to the quarters. Cristin and Jens also place 2nd in syllabus waltz/quickstep out 71 couples. Wow!!! Cristin and Jens have only been dancing together for 6 months. What great things they accomplished together. They were really great together!