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Ty Murray Injured During Dancing Rehearsal
Tough guy Ty Murray took a hit to the eye Wednesday but said it’s nothing he has hasn’t seen before.
As the seven remaining couples in this season of Dancing with the Stars practiced a group routine, Murray, 39, threw his partner Chelsie Hightower, 19, in the air, but her microphone pack fell off and struck Murray in the eye.
“It was bleeding for a little while,” Murray tells PEOPLE, “and is slightly back and blue but I kept ice on it. It’s not a big deal to me because in bull riding you see that from time to time, but I guess people aren’t used to seeing a little blood in the ballroom.”
Pro dancer Derek Hough says Murray shook it off, despite the bleeding. “He’s a cowboy, so he’s used to that kind of stuff,” Hough says. “You know Ty, he’s like, ‘It’s alright. No problem. Don’t worry about me.’”
For the last couple of weeks, Murray has struggled to please the judges with his jive and paso doble. But compared to where he started, Murray has come a long way since he botched the cha-cha-cha in his opening performance.
Murray, who is a seven-time rodeo champ, says his secret weapon is that he knows how to compete. “I like the challenge of it,” he says. “The challenge of the show is fun and it’s interesting as a competitor. It’s 10,000 times harder that you could ever imagine.”
http://tvwatch.people.com/2009/04/16/ty-murray-injured-during-dancing-rehearsal/
RealityFreakWill:
Ty's blog post:
‘My eye is doing pretty good’
So far the waltz seems to be going really good.
Every week each team on the show has to film what you call your "wides" and that's where your producer who films you in practice every day shoots your routine from one end of the studio and then he goes to the opposite end and shoots the whole routine from there.
So you run through it twice and he shoots it from both ends and the reason you do this is so the director can look at everybody's "wides" and begin putting a game plan together for how they're going to film the dance.
We generally haven't gotten our "wides" done until Friday and, in some cases, we haven't gotten to it until Saturday. We were able to do that today so that tells me that it is coming together pretty fast compared to some of the other routines.
We are getting to the point that a lot of things that are in the waltz are things I learned before; like the frame, the shaping, the pivots and few other things so it's not as time consuming.
Now it's about making sure we get it to where it starts feeling natural to me so I can do less thinking and just go with the music. And not have any questions about, "Hey, where am I at?"
Today we were able to run the routine several times with music and that's way ahead of the game. Like I said, most of the time we're not getting that done until Friday night or even Saturday. Now mind you, tomorrow we'll start working on technique.
But, I think, what helps me is to have the routine down pretty good in my head before I start working on the technique because it's hard to work on both at the same time. It's hard to think about your technique while you're trying to remember the routine.
If I'm able to get the footwork down of where we're going and how we're going there and at what tempo then, I think, it becomes easier later on to polish up the technique.
They can be really critical and what I mean is you can remember the whole routine, rise and fall at the right part, but if you take one wrong heel lead and they'll point it out by saying, "You weren't supposed to take a heel lead."
There are times you take a heel lead and times you don't so you have to be real clear on when and where.
We also filmed my long interview today, which is something we do every week, and that's where they pull out all the comments you see in the pre-taped packages right before Chelsie and I dance. It's an hour-long interview and they ask you a million questions about what's going on.
Speaking of which, my eye is doing pretty good.
I think some of the press wanted to make a big deal out of it, but it's not that big of a deal. It turned slightly black-and-blue, but it's not real bad. The cut's already scabbed over and on its way healing. Everything is fine with that and, I think, hopefully by Monday it should pretty much be back to normal.
But I feel like we're ahead of the game on this one. I'm just trying to stay focused in and put in the work every day. Our scores have been going back down the wrong way so we need to get 'em up!
http://www.pbrnow.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/17/My-eye-is-doing-pretty-good#more
RealityFreakWill:
Ty on Chelsea Lately
credit to DWTSSeason8
RealityFreakWill:
someone found this on melissa's facebook...
Melissa behind Rascal Flatts and Randy Jackson
RealityFreakWill:
Dancing's Tony Dovolani Keeps Tabs on Fam Via Video
Although he's making a strong bid for the mirror-ball trophy with his season-eight partner Melissa Rycroft, veteran Dancing with the Stars pro Tony Dovolani says the prize he's most focused on is his family.
"I find myself crying at a commercial if it's got kids in it," says Dovolani, whose wife Lina, daughter Luana, 3, and newborn twins Adrian and Ariana, live in Connecticut while he films DWTS in California. "I'll watch a movie that has to do with children and I find myself tearing up. I'm a family guy and every season I've had my whole family out here and this is the first time where the entire season I don't have my family out here."
With children too young to travel often, Dovolani's wife Lina keeps Tony up-to-date on the twins by sending him videos so he can watch them grow. "She's my hero," he gushes to PEOPLE.
Like Mother, Like Daughter
As for the twins, they are now 7 months old, a whopping 28 inches in length, and they sleep through the night for "12 to 13 hours" as they also develop personalities of their own, Dovolani says.
"My boy, we keep calling him a boxer because he's got these big hands and he just makes fists," Dovolani says. "He's very active. The girl takes completely after Lina, the way she looks and the attitude she has."
Dovolani says Lina and Luana do try to visit every three weeks "so I can get that loneliness out of my system." During those visits, Luana will tell her dad how she's helping Mom take care of the babies while he's dancing. "She does not have ounce of jealousy in her [about the twins]," he adds.
Luana "is very attentive, especially when they cry or need something," Dovolani says. "She handles things as if she's the mom. When they notice her, they smile right away. It's amazing to see at such a young age that they are developing the brother-sister thing. She is a little helper to Lina, too. She brings her the diapers, the wet-naps, when she needs them. When you see a three-and-a-half-year-old doing things like that, then we adults, we have no excuse whatsoever."
Although he readily helps out as much as he can while he is at home, Dovolani refers to an old adage to describe his family. "You know they say behind every great man there is a greater woman?" he asks. "In my case that is completely true, because my wife makes me who I am today. The way she handles the home front, that's the only way I can be out here to do what I do. If I didn't have her I don't know that I could have done what I've done so far."
Lina, Tony & Luana
Adrian & Ariana
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20273101,00.html
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