The DDR Club paper...plz read

[Kayato]

           This is the paper that I wrote to convince my school in Newton, Mass to make a DDR club....enjoy! (btw I'm Dan)


THE DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) CLUB
                    By Daniel Jung and Jackie
   
So what exactly IS Dance Dance Revolution? It’s a revolutionary game that allows players to exercise while having fun at the same time. It stimulates both the feet-eye coordination, strengthens the muscles of the calves, increase concentration and focus, and maintains a healthy exercise habit. The game’s objective is quite simple: There are four buttons (up, down, left, and right) and you need to coordinate the skill of stepping on the arrows when the machine tells you so.
While the game is deceptively easy to learn -- stomp on the correct arrow as its corresponding symbol scrolls to the top of the screen, and you're "Perfect!!", "Great!", "Good"; or, if you come too close to missing the beat entirely, "Boo!" -- it takes months of obsessive arcade residence or training at home to perfect the lightning-fast footwork required on some of the hardest songs. That is why, four years after the Japanese arcade game's introduction, we’ve seen Dance Dance Revolution grow stronger within the Massachusetts area, let alone the United States, and we want to make the Newton Community witness not miss out on this whole Revolution. The DDR Club will be one of the most revolutionary clubs ever made in Newton North High School because this game allows people of ALL ages to come join the fun and is quite the ice breaker with many students and teachers to get along and build a better relationship.
In arcades alone, before the dawn of DDR, it wasn’t more of a social thing rather than a “I have to beat this guy up otherwise I’ll waste my two precious tokens and lose.” There are TONS AND TONS of communities within the Massachusetts area alone that hang out together and strives out to spread the Revolution to everyone they know. In a California Middle school, they made DDR part of the P.E. curriculum, where they bought out several arcades to the school, where it became a HUGE hit and made the community much stronger. I knew from experience that a LOT of people in this school wanted to have a DDR club and now is the revolutionary moment of truth that everyone has been waiting for.

Not only was DDR popular by teens, but also by the press: Fox News, North Shore Sunday, CNN, Yahoo Finance, Seventeen Magazine, USA Today, The Sun News, CBS Early show, New York Times Magazine, CNN International, Business 2.0 Magazine, ABC News, Oxygen.com, Wall Street Journal, and many more that have been doing articles, interviews, investigations, health checks, and how it affects the Teenage mind. All of them were positive. DDR is unbelievably popular throughout the United States and it should stay that way because this may be the cure for obesity. Also, this may be a chance to lower eating disorders for girls for a healthy and active exercise. If the school wants to aim to lower the percentage of obesity, DDR may be a better solution than most P.E. classes because DDR is like a P.E. class hidden behind a video game.
How are we going to support this kind of equipment, you say? Well one of our staff who will work for the DDR club will donate or bring in DDR pads, a game console, and the DDR game itself, and donations will be helpful to support and increase the full activity of DDR for it’s support helping out the entire Newton Community.
DDRfreak.com is a very popular website to go to where DDR players gather around in their forums and chatting about past experiences, tips, posting questions about the game, and building a very strong online community that is open to anyone. DDR is a game where one needs to practice, so it’s good to dedicate someone to something they love, while increasing their concentration and physical health at the same time. This would indirectly help the student’s concentration for studying.
DDR will be a huge help to everyone in the Newton Community and hopefully will not be just a rumor. This has so many positives that it is going to be a revolution of a lifetime!

Copyright 2004...

[NoNsToPpArAnOiA]

Awesome paper. I wish we had a DDR Club at my school......
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[decklin]

Double Post. Let's try to keep it to the original please:

http://www.ddrfreak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=94608

If there were mistakes there or something, please just use the edit function.

A mod should notice this and lock it shortly...

[P-Chan]

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