The showcase is on June 12th at Nikkei center 7:30pm (be seated by 7:15pm as space will be limited). Performers ranges from around 5 years old to our seniors. It is the first time we included our community center programs and it will be awesome!
Quite a few years back, I thought demos are irrelevant to my LHBF training but I have since changed my mind. Following are some key concepts and its equivalence:
| Fights | Presentations |
|---|---|
| Know your opponent. | Know your audience – on this occasion, we have very diversified audiences and they simply want to be entertained, impressed and inspired. |
| Make use of everything around you, people, objects and environment. | Good use of time, viewing angles, voice control, obvious analogies, etc. |
| It is an interaction – your moves have to cause changes to your opponent. | Engage with eyes, ask questions to engage their mind (with or without answers), use contrast to amplify effects, project voice and body language to make an impression. |
| Have clear decision, strategy and end point. | Be precise and have a clear goal in mind. Summarize idea with keywords. |
| Keep it simple and realistic. | Use simple words, terms, examples or experiments so that audiences of all ages / background can understand and arrive to same conclusion. Keep message simple. |
| Nerves are needed to kick in the adrenaline. Learn to accept and channel it. | Nerves are real. Visualize and breath! |
Exercise:
The dry run last class was very useful. It help highlight points that we can improve on. Review the above points and visualize it again. Communicate with your partner(s) through whatever means before the show – surprised bad for both.
- Summarize your thoughts and subtle changes to your plan AFTER the dry run as well as this blog by email or posting.
- For those that are doing gymnastics only demo, how you warmup and prepare is everything. Draft a warm up plan.
Incorporating LHBF mindset into the demo