my life, my pace

Or at least that’s what physical educators in West Virginia think. After a successful pilot program, all public schools in West Virginia will be implementing a Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) program in their PE classes. Dance Dance Revolution is a video game in which players “dance” on a dance pad by following arrows that scroll on their TV screen with their feet to make their characters dance to the music. It can be quite the workout as these songs are quite fast-paced and increase in difficulty as you move along in the game. Make too many missteps and you’ll be booed off the stage and it’s game over. I think that this program is a great idea for kids who are already good at such things, like my husband who claims to have been a master at it and who stayed fit back in college by playing it so often. However, it could prove to be yet another hugely embarrassing activity for those (like me) who are completely uncoordinated. I can’t for the life of me remember where to put my feet let alone move them to all those arrows scrolling way too fast for me on the screen in time to not look like an idiot and get booed off the virtual stage (and, believe me, I’ve tried). So I sure hope that these programs include alternative activities for klutzes like me or else they have simply come up with yet another way to humiliate the not-so-athletic-types into never wanting to do any sort of physical activity ever again in their lives.

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