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marigold:
Ty Murray Blogs:

‘I’m really starting to get in shape’

Yesterday I got up in Albuquerque and went straight to practice right up until we had to catch our flight back to Los Angeles. Once we got back here we had a wardrobe fitting at 8 o'clock and then we had another practice on the main stage from 9 o'clock until 10, but we even pushed that to about 10:15 because we were the last to go for the night.

It was a pretty good day and the routine is starting to come along. Now it's back to that stage where we just have to polish it as best we can and then make sure we run it enough times to where if anything does happen you always know where you're at.

I'm really starting to get in shape. This dance will really do that for you. But, again, I'm just starting to get in shape and my cardio is getting better.

All my muscles are getting in shape and I can feel that I'm getting leaner. I can tell that my legs are a lot stronger. They're not strong in a bulky way, but in a good way--in the type of way that you would want as a bull rider.

We're doing the type of work that is just fast, twitch muscle strength and flexibility, and it's not just bulking up with weights.

I've had both of my knees reconstructed so my knees get to feeling better as I get in better shape. Even my shoulders feel better as I get in better shape. You start to have faster twitch muscles to help encapsulate those joints and really protect them.

I'm doing things and able to physically try things now that I wouldn't have been able to when the show first started because I would have been afraid of injury. I would have been nervous that I might tear a knee or something like that.

Today we're going to do some camera blocking, but first I'm going to go grab a nice breakfast with Jewel. We have a nice little café we like to go to so we'll go there. Then I'll head to the studio and I'll have another wardrobe fitting after that.

I had one last night and the tailor knows what he's doing so I don't know why, but the pants they made for me last night looked like they were painted on. I told him he needed to loosen them off a little. He said he'd fix it. So today – after Chelsie and I are done camera blocking – I'll get to see how those fit.

The one thing about this Lindy Hop routine is that I get to wear tennis shoes.

I get to practice in tennis shoes and then I'll even be doing the actual dance on Monday night in tennis shoes. That's been a nice break for my feet, especially for this dance because all you do is bounce up and down on your feet all day.

Chelsie will have an extra busy day because after the camera blocking we have some extra studio time booked so we can go do some more practicing, and then after we do all that she has to go do a group rehearsal for some group dance they'll have tomorrow night.

http://www.pbrnow.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/29/Im-really-starting-to-get-in-shape

RealityFreakWill:
brief article in this week's tv guide, scanned....

marigold:
Daredevil Steve-o:

steve-o and jolene van vugt

If you thought Steve-O had a face full of consternation on Dancing With The Stars this past Monday, just wait until you see the grimace he pulled out for the Nitro Circus crew when they got him up and running on a motorbike for the first time. Jolene Van Vugt was kind enough to provide him with some remedial lessons (and kick-start his bike on most every stalled out occasion), but most of the time Steve-O just appeared to be nervously lost in the act of visualizing himself going off the launch ramp. Not surprising, though, seeing as he’d just agreed to appear on Dancing With The Stars and was now putting his soon-to-be waltzing ankles directly in harm’s way. It took a few laps—okay, a lot of laps—before Steve-O finally committed to the jump (and the two more he was goaded into afterward), but jump he did, the outcome of which can be seen tonight on an all-new episode of Nitro Circus on MTV.



http://www.jackassworld.com/blog/2009/03/29/photo-of-the-day-steve-o-and-jolene-van-vugt/#more-9276

marigold:
An interview with Ty & Chelsie:

Dancing's Ty and Chelsie: Tearing Each Other's Hair Out

After scoring a 14 on the first week of Dancing with the Stars, rodeo star (and Jewel's husband) Ty Murray didn't seem like he'll be long for the show. But like any good bull rider, he's holding on for as long as he can. "I think the nature of being a bull rider and being a cowboy is you don't give up that easily," Murray tells TVGuide.com. "It's still really hard for me, but we just keep trying to put in the work." Murray and his partner, Chelsie Hightower, have the Lindy Hop next — a new dance on the show and took time out to chat about their progress and why Hightower may join Murray and Jewel on the farm one day.

TVGuide.com: How's the Lindy Hop going?
Ty Murray: It's tough. I thought I was sore and tired up to this point, but this dance so far is the hardest physically. There are a lot of lifts and me flipping her over my head. I have a really sore back right now. [There's] a move where she comes through my legs head first, so I went to reposition my foot and stepped on her hair and pulled a handful of hair out of her head! [Laughs] But she's tough as nails.
Chelsie Hightower: I had a ton of hair pulled out! I was also dropped on my head twice. I fell on my back twice, once with my mic pack on, Steve-O-style. I grew up with five brothers, so I was constantly thrown around and beat up a lot, so this is OK. But Ty hurt his shoulder a little bit, so that's payback.

TVGuide.com: Are you more worried because it's a new dance for the pros?
Hightower: I'm not worried. I've just been learning from the Internet. It's been an interesting start, so if it comes out a success, I will be super-proud of myself!

TVGuide.com: Ty, you're hosting your bull-riding invitational in Albuquerque. How's that going to affect rehearsals?
Murray: I don't think it will. We have a studio booked in Albuquerque. It has my name on the event. This is our 13th year having it, so I'd feel like a rat if I didn't go. We're moving into a new bigger, better venue, so I want to check it all out.

TVGuide.com: You guys have been the surprise of the season. You've been called "most improved" since the first week and fans are really rooting for you now. How does that feel?
Hightower: It's definitely a big step. It's cool to be able to beat the limits and help take Ty to that kind of level in a short amount of time. To see the reaction of everyone and the judges, it's fun.

TVGuide.com: Gilles Marini was worried about his lack of a built-in fan base. Were you too, not being a household name?
Murray: I don't know. I'm just trying to do the best job I can and I figure the voting will take care of itself. I'm not really one to campaign. That embarrasses me and I don't think that's how you ought to do it. If people like you, they'll vote for you. I feel like the cowboy, rodeo and bull-riding community are really behind me and that's probably a bigger fan base than people think. I really appreciate the fans. Obviously, the first week, I bombed. [Laughs] But it was the fans who got us to stick around this far.

TVGuide.com: Did the show approach you and Jewel together, or one of you first?
Murray: They approached me three seasons ago, but I didn't do it. They came to me and Jewel last season, [but] Jewel had a big tour with Brad Paisley. They came back to us this season. We thought it'd be a unique opportunity to do something as husband and wife. From my standpoint, it brings unbelievable recognition to cowboys and my sport.

TVGuide.com: Why didn't you do it three seasons ago?
Murray: Um, I don't know. I didn't really know much about it. And when you haven't heard of something, you're like, "No." After that, I looked into it and I saw the guys who've done the show — Jason Taylor, Emmitt Smith — and saw they got some really top-notch athletes from different sports. I guess that was that.

TVGuide.com: How's Jewel doing?
Murray: She's doing a little bit better. She'll probably be on crutches for another three weeks. Now it's a matter of staying off of it so it can heal.

TVGuide.com: Chelsie, this is your first season. What's surprised you about it?
Hightower: Just the scheduling is really overwhelming. We were just talking about this. You know, we wake up, do press, do practice, do more press. I feel like I don't stop for my friends. I don't talk to my mom even! But it's cool because you know it's going to pay off. It's not something where you wake up and go, "Oh crap! I've got to practice again." It feels good to work.

TVGuide.com: The judges have said you've been stiff, Ty, which was OK for the past two dances, but how are you going to loosen up for the Latin ones?
Murray: Well, there's not, like, a secret shortcut. Believe me, if there was, I would've taken it. I'm just going to get in there and focus on it and do what she tells me.
Hightower: I think the more he gets the feeling of the dances, the easier it's going to come. In the beginning, he, like, barely moved any body part!

TVGuide.com: How close are you to the rest of the cast?
Murray: We get along really well. We have lunch a lot. Actually Chelsie comes to dinner with me and Jewel a lot. Me and Jewel are gonna adopt her as our kid. [Laughs] She's a great kid. She's the type of person where you're around her, you think, if I have a daughter, I want my daughter to be like that. You can tell how she got to be such a great dancer at such a young age because she doesn't get distracted.
Hightower: We've talked about this many times! The only downfall is that I have to wake up at 7 and I have to feed the cows and I don't know if I can do that!

TVGuide.com: I know it's more about bull-fighting, but would you incorporate something from bull-riding in your paso doble costumes?
Hightower: We'll see about that one. We'll add in the cowboy get-up somewhere!

http://www.tvguide.com/Dancing-Stars/Ty-Murray-Chelsie-1004488.aspx

marigold:
Ty Murray Blogs:

‘It makes you feel like you played an entire football game’

We came to the studio for camera blocking and ran through the Lindy Hop three times full out so the camera operators could figure out their positions. To run this routine three times in a row just kills you and it makes you feel like you played an entire football game.

This is the first time that I didn't really get nervous during the camera blocking.

When you come in here for that it's just like running the show. They have all the lights and the music just the way it's going to be on the show Monday night, and they run it just like that.

I didn't feel nervous, but I could feel my adrenaline.

That helps in this kind of dance because you're not trying to just glide around smoothly. This dance is more physical and feels more like bull riding, where you can attack something and let your adrenaline work for you.

I actually think you have to learn how to make your adrenaline work for you in all the dances. You have to learn how to channel that energy, but this one is definitely easier for me to channel my adrenaline to the physicality of the Lindy Hop.

Anyway, last night, we videotaped our rehearsal that we did here on the stage and Chelsie wants me to watch it over and over again tonight, which I'm going to do. This dance is so strenuous and it gases you so much that you have to find that balance because it's the day before the competition. It's about how much better can you get without killing yourself.

We ran it three times all out and then we went to a rehearsal studio and worked on a few key transitions. And, like I said, now she wants me to go home and watch that flip camera before I go to bed. It's just a little digital camera that's about the size of a billfold.

We stopped our practice at 3:30 because Chelsie had to come back over here to the TV studio and do a group rehearsal with the professionals because Tuesday night they're doing another group dance. I came over here to catch a little bit of that just because I want to see what that process is like for the pros.

Jewel is back at the apartment. She has a friend who won songwriter of the year in country music and he flew in so they've been writing songs together yesterday and today. When I get back there I'm going to get a good meal and good night of sleep, and then I'll be ready for tomorrow.

http://www.pbrnow.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/29/It-makes-you-feel-like-you-played-an-entire-football-game#more

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