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--- Quote from: RealityFreakWill on March 23, 2009, 10:56:08 AM ---Steve Wozniak's New 'Dancing' Injury
Another "Dancing With The Stars" contestant has been hit with an injury and ET has the latest.
Apple computer co-founder Steve Wozniak was previously nursing a foot injury but now ET has learned that the Woz has pulled his hamstring.
There is no word yet on whether or not Wozniak will perform on Monday night, but keep checking back on our website for more on this developing story.
http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/03/72065/index.html
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Going from bad to worse!
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Yeah, it sure is. Now Gilles is sporting a knee brace as well. The list of injuries just keep on growing.
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I called it first! Who else is going to go?
marigold:
Steve Wozniak updates:
On Mar 23, 2009, at 1:53 AM, Steve Wozniak wrote:
Yesterday evening I was sure that I couldn't dance on Monday, due to so much pain that I would wince when I walked. It wasn't pretty.
My partner, Karina, is very familiar with such injuries and worse. She was of the opinion that if I withdrew from Dancing With The Stars, rumors would fly that I was using this injury as an excuse. She has danced with pulled hamstrings many times. I can tell you from how this one felt, that it's not the same for a 20 year old as it is for a 58 year old.
Karina modified our routine to keep it as good, but avoid a few maneuvers that caused me extreme pain. We practiced a few times last night on the real DWTS stage and I decided that I could do the dance, a Samba, on Monday (tomorrow).
We practiced today. I had very little problem with my pain in the dance but now had to learn different sequences of the whole routine, and connect them. You have heard of muscle memory. One step reminds your foot of the next step, and so on. But now we took chunks in the middle and rewrote them. Plus we lost nearly 2 days of rehearsal due to my inability to do anything, not to mention hospitals and MRI's and more over 2 days. So rehearsal-wise, we are behind everyone else, but we are feeling confident that we can do something of value tomorrow. You'll have to see.
I have much more to say to you all, but it's an incredibly tired time for me.
Please, keep email and phone calls to an absolute minimum. I will not necessarily be by either with any time at all tomorrow. I have to ask your help in minimizing this.
thanks,
Woz
On Mar 23, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Steve Wozniak wrote:
My leg is doing fine.
I will Samba tonight.
I am constrained in movement a bit so my hip shaking may be low for the Samba, but I'll push through. I assure you I am trying hard.
We did our camera blocking this morning. It was my first practice of the day and I could tell by the end that the leg was fine for dancing. As usual, Karina got me doing a few small improvements. As I like to say, there are literally thousands of small things for us newcomers to learn.
We then did our routine twice to the real orchestra. They sounded GREAT on our song. I even got to sign the MacBook Pro case of the singer!
I hope the world is not too shocked by my adding break dancing moves to the end of our routine, including the worm! It should get a lot of You Tube hits I'm told. I know nothing about break dancing so it's more like Woz attempting the worm, but all laughter is good, even when it's at you.
I need all the support possible. A lot of people say they are voting for me but it really matters that you do it. That is my ace in the hole in this dancing competition. When you look at the background of many of the others, I should be able to pull in lots of votes via phone, SMS and internet. But I care more that lots of people feel good watching me, regardless of the outcome.
Please, don't bog down my email on these 2 critical days. And if I'm ejected, I have a bunch of scheduled appearances on both coasts until Sunday, so please hold off until then. After that I should be extremely free to spend time with all of you.
To great enjoyment,
Woz
On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Steve Wozniak wrote:
http://abc.go.com/primetime/dancingwiththestars/index?pn=aboutthevote
If that URL doesn't work, go to <http://abc.com> - Dancing With The Stars - click the "Vote Now" tab.
I can't stress how important in my case the audience voting is. It can fairly easily make the difference between last place and first place. When you are in the dance-off, you have to take extra time preparing for it instead of your next dance, which gets you further behind for the next week's dance. It's unfortunately a case of positive feedback and votes can pull me out of that situation. If you pull me out, I will owe you and love you all forever, as I do people who attended my US Festivals.
best regards,
Woz
http://www.facebook.com/board.php?uid=49720779842
marigold:
From the Woz:
On Mar 23, 2009, at 6:46 PM, Steve Wozniak wrote:
Dress rehearsal had a wardrobe malfunction
My pants were falling down and I had to keep pulling them up!
Ha ha, everyone loved it.
Also, before heading to the stage, Karina was looking for me and the camera went down to me crawling on the floor with a hurt leg. They loved it so much they asked us to do it live tonight.
The pants are being repaired now. I can't tell you how it feels to have your pants falling off in a dance. I lost too much weight again.
The worm went great in dress rehearsal. Enjoy the show tonight.
best wishes to all,
Woz
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=49720779842&topic=7976
marigold:
Ty Murray Blogs:
‘That’s what team work is all about’
Chelsie and I are really happy that our scores have continued to get better each week because that's half of it and we know we have the cowboy community behind us. The judges' scores are half of it and we're not killing them yet, but we have gone up from 14 to 20 and now tonight we were 23.
With Chelsie slipping tonight that was something we hadn't rehearsed, but, at the same time, she has prepared me for mishaps or mistakes. She always told me that if something happens just get back to her and she'll get us back to the right count.
When something like that does happen it breaks the chain of what we're doing and she has to put us on the right mark because every beat of the song is a count. You're supposed to be in a certain place doing a certain step and she got us right back on track.
All I could think about was that I needed to get her back up as fast as I could.
Unfortunately, the fall took out a really great part of the routine that Chelsie was really looking forward to, where we both spin around together. But the main thing is that we kept going.
I told Chelsie that we've been practicing several hundred hours together and I've made about 847,000 mistakes and that's only your second one. I think there might have been one time in practice where she forgot a step and the slip tonight was her second one.
I owed her that one.
She's a champ and she's a tough kid. It happened, but I thought she handled it good and she didn't freak out, got right back up and we went on with it. Afterwards in the press line she was a great sport about it.
That's just the thing, when she fell I just knew I had to keep hold of her to keep her from going all the way down and then get her back to her feet because that's what team work is all about.
It has to help us that our scores are going up.
Like I said, I really feel like we have the support from the western lifestyle – farmers and ranchers – so, I think, the fans are doing their part and we have to keep doing ours by improving our score every week.
Right now Jewel and I are going to have dinner with Justin McBride and Randy Bernard. They were both there tonight and in full support.
http://www.pbrnow.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/24/Thats-what-team-work-is-all-about
RealityFreakWill:
Tonight's results:
TEAM DANCE CARRIE ANN LEN BRUNO TOTAL
Denise/Maksim Samba 5 6 5 16
Chuck/Julianne Foxtrot 8 7 8 23
Holly/Dmitry Samba 5 6 6 17
Steve-O/Lacey Foxtrot 5 5 5 15
Lawrence/Edyta Samba 7 6 7 20
Shawn/Mark Foxtrot 9 9 9 27
Gilles/Cheryl Samba 9 9 9 27
David/Kym Foxtrot 8 8 8 24
Steve/Karina Samba 4 3 3 10
Melissa/Tony Foxtrot 9 9 9 27
Lil' Kim/Derek Samba 8 8 9 25
Ty/Chelsie Foxtrot 8 8 7 23
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