No longer unplugged

Praise Jesus, after searching high and low all over this city, I finally found a new power adapter for my microphone. Don’t think I could have handled screaming through another class.

Temporary studio change

Due to construction that will be happening at 80th + Broadway in the first half of April, my 6pm step classes on Friday, 4/6 and Friday, 4/13 will be moved to the 76th + Broadway location. Be forewarned — the studio there is quite small.

UPDATE: The class on 4/6 is cancelled (Good Friday).

ECA

The number of step classes offered wasn’t as high as in previous years, but I did manage to get a couple of classes in: “Dance Step,” taught by Marc Kluike, and “Step Gone Wild,” taught by Rob Glick.

Although Kluike was a charming presenter and a good instructor, nothing about his choreography was particularly amazing. (This didn’t prevent the attendees from gushing over him as if he had reinvented step as we know it.) Despite this, he did have a couple of moves I’ll be able to use in my classes.

Glick’s class was more intricate. He took ages to introduce and develop a move, but once the final product was laid out, it was impressive. The only thing that drove me nuts was that the pace of the music was so slow. (Actually the pace was what it should be. My classes are too fast.) With some modifications, I’ll be able to make several of Glick’s moves my own.

I also bought three CDs from a German company called Move Ya! Hopefully they’ll sound as good in class as they did when I previewed them.

I have a Secret: I hate Rhonda Byrne

That’s all there is to getting what you want in life. According to Rhonda Byrne, author of “The Secret,” if you really want something and believe it will come to you, then it will come to you.

This isn’t just another positive thinking self-help book. This is an insidious pile of bullshit which claims that, according to the scientific “law of attraction,” someone is actually able to influence the universe around them with their thoughts. Want to get rid of that pesky cancer? Don’t bother with chemotherapy — just visualize your body as cancer-free. No fuss, no muss.

Here’s the best part: There’s no need to come to come to the gym any more! If you want to get thin, just don’t look at fat people. Food doesn’t make you fat — the thought of food making you fat makes you fat. I wish I was joking, but that’s actually her advice.

PLEASE don’t listen to this crap. There is no “law of attraction” in physics. Yes, masses attract each other through gravitational force and charges of opposite sign attract each other through coulomb force, but that’s where it stops. There is no natural law that will attract a diamond necklace to your neck, no matter how badly you want it to happen!

You want advice on life? Here it is: steer clear of this book, and don’t give this woman a single penny of your money.