As mentioned during the last LCL session, there's 5 designs for the highly anticipated LCL T-shirt!!!
Yes that's right, LCL is going to have our own T-Shirt. Sales of the T-Shirt will be OPEN TO ALL; anyone will be able to get the T-Shirt. Have a look at the designs below, and vote for your favourite design by posting a comment on your choice! You may choose up to 2 designs as your choices:
1) Funky Red Top, with list of locking moves on the back! You'll never forget moves this way would you? 2) Declare your love for locking! 3) Show everyone that you're from LCL with this old school design! 4) So loud, it's hard not to notice the words and see that you are from LCL. 5) Clad yourself in this cool, black top and declare your love for locking too!
The top 2 designs voted will be considered for prints in February! I'll be trying to source for a good and cheap shirt printing manufacturer, and hopefully by February I will be able to give u guys a price quotation for the shirt costs. =)
As for ordering of the T-Shirts, it will only be open once we have confirmed the designs as well as the cost of each shirt. Thanks for your patience and understanding, and Vote for your favourite LCL T-shirt design now!
Yo guys!!! The highly anticipated upcoming LCL session is now confirmed!
Date: 22nd January 2009 (Thurs) Venue: Republic Polytechnic Time: 8pm to 10pm Costs: FREE! For Who: Any lockers. Those interested to pick up locking can come too!
Meeting time and venue: 730pm, Woodlands MRT Contact persons: Ceekay (82287254), Su Ling (91869083)
Apologies to all lockers that this session took so long for me to organise. I had been trying to look for a permanent place for LCL for the past 1 month, but couldn't manage to get a place where we can settle down once and for all. Still, may this upcoming session be a funky and enjoyable one!
*Disclaimer: For those who have never been to any of our sessions before, this session is not a class or locking course, but merely a session for lockers to gather and dance in their own comfort. Of course, if you are looking to learn something from any of the lockers, feel free to come down! This session is a great opportunity for everyone to share the knowledge of locking and have fun dancing to the music together. So don't hesitate to come down if you're keen in locking. See you!
Ceekay will be conducting a 4-weeks Locking Introductory Open Class with Natasha Studio, starting on 4th Jan (Sunday)!
Venue: DanceOnUs Studio (For a map of the venue, click here! -> http://natashastudio.blogspot.com/2008/07/studio-details.html) Time: 12pm - 1pm Costs: $60 for 4 lessons Dates: 4th Jan, 11th Jan, 18th Jan, 1st Feb (no class on 25th Jan due to CNY)
The course will cover basic fundamentals of Locking, meant as a short introductory course for beginners as well as those who are keen to brush up on the basics. All levels of lockers are welcomed!
May 2009 be a great year ahead for Lion City Lockers. It promises to be more happening, with more sessions, events, and competitions for Singapore Lockers! I'm sure that more renowned lockers will make their way to our lion city too... =)
Of course, Chunky and I also have many plans for you guys. March 2009 will be our 1st Anniversary, so expect something funky coming your way!
Last but not least, wish everyone all the best for 2009! Stay funky, happy and enjoy locking!
May you guys have a funky christmas... Get out there and dance with your friends, spread the love for funk and enjoy yourself!
Do check this blog for updates soon, I'm arranging for a session for LCL soon! The session should be within the next 2 weeks. I'm sure all of you can't wait for it! =)
As we're coming near to the end of 2008, it's perhaps a good time for us to look back and evaluate the locking scene in Singapore... In case you guys didn't realise, Lion City Lockers was formed in March 2008, meaning that we are already 9 months old!
It has been remarkable as to how the locking scene in Singapore has grown during the past 9 months. Just barely a year ago, one could count the total number of recognised lockers in Singapore with 2 hands. Yet fast forward to the end of 2008, we see people picking up locking almost everywhere, and with more lockers being recognised within the local dance scene.
Credits definitely go to Chunky, the man who formed Lion City Lockers and made it possible for the locking scene to grow so rapidly. His vision was simple; he wanted to spread the love of locking and funk across Singapore, and also encourage more people to learn the art form of locking. Hence LCL was born, and the seed of locking has now grown up here to be a young but strong tree.
So nowadays we see people picking up locking from dance studios, as well as joining LCL and gaining their first exposure to what locking is. But still, one question lingers in everyone's mind, and it's also something that many people have came to asked me: "How do you improve in locking? What does Locking mean to you?"
I think I shall answer these 2 questions here; hopefully it will inspire all lockers out there. My opinions are, however, purely my own perception of locking. It is still up to your own personal intepretation to understand what locking is. =)
Locking, as most of you should know, was founded during the Soul Funk era in the 1970s, by this man called Don Campbell. Just like for any other dance genres, the music plays a big part when it comes to Locking. Hence, it is important to know the history of locking and understand why Locking was done to Soul/Funk music in the 1970s. At that time, locking was born on a well known TV show called "The Soul Train", where black americans got to express themselves by dancing to Soul and Funk music.
It doesn't matter to them whether the moves look good; they just wanted to enjoy the freedom of expressing themselves, and dance to the music the way they love to. That is why they look so funky... Every move they do is natural, and comes from the bottom of their heart. Everyone has their own character and their own way of intepreting the music!
Check out this video here to see an example of blacks dancing at "The Soul Train":
Therefore, in my opinions, you gotta feel the music and express yourself from the bottom of your heart. Techniques and form are important of course, but the foundation of it all comes from your love for the music as well as your own way of expressing yourself. Techniques, form, angles are things you can always work on to improve by constantly practising hard, but truly dancing to the music is something that is born in you... Feel the music through your own character, dance with your own style and your own way of intepreting the music. =)
Also, remain humble in dance always. There's always something for you to learn, something new for you to try, and every time you dance it should be a new experience. Even when you hear the same songs over and over again, you may dance differently to the songs everytime as you can intepret it in so many different ways. I'm sure that this applies to any form of dance, not just locking.
Last but not least, enjoy the music and stay happy when you dance! Locking is so different from many other street dance genres, because it is funky, happy and it celebrates! Be happy to dance, and enjoy expressing yourself like there's no one watching you. You should do locking as if you're celebrating your freedom to dance! There may be only a certain number of moves we have in locking, but there's endless ways of doing each move and different ways of combining them. You can always add in your own flavour, your own moves... Don't stop exploring!
This post may be long, but I hope that it has inspired you somehow. Locking may not be easy to many of you, and the road towards improving is long and arduous... But I'm sure that as long as you truly love funk music and enjoy dancing, nothing can stop you from being the dancer you can be.
Stay funky always, and enjoy your festive holidays coming up!
1) Funky Red Top, with list of locking moves on the back! You'll never forget moves this way would you?
2) Declare your love for locking!
3) Show everyone that you're from LCL with this old school design!
4) So loud, it's hard not to notice the words and see that you are from LCL.
5) Clad yourself in this cool, black top and declare your love for locking too!
