Well, the 1st day of hip hop don’t stop and everyone seems to be loving another action packed year and so much knowledge being dropped it’s making people dizzy!We even had Dickson the 2008 Uk popping champ drop in with Mekanikool from the Urban Strides family. I had a great day sharing, you guys are dope, there was some serious funk kicking around! Thanks for all the fantastic feedback I got today if you are on Hip Hop Don’t Stop drop us a comment and let us know how your feeling the vibe.

p.s. In class today I mentioned the locking duet which is a good example of funk check it here, blog.urbanstrides.com/category/videos/

p.p.s I know I mentioned the star wars vid, I have put it below cos it made me smile

peace

Andy

On Monday I did a presentation at Tring school. The 6th form students are doing an activities week and I was asked to talk about my life and career and share some stories that may be of interest to the students.  The students were engaging and fun and so polite, thank you so much for all the feedback it was really nice to meet such energised and passionate young people. I have no doubt you will achieve what you want in life, if you were there drop us a comment and let us know what you thought.  If something particularly struck a chord with you let us know what it was, it’s so useful to know what makes an impact.

 Good luck,

Andy Instone   

I just spent the morning presenting certificates to a group of exceptionally gifted young people, and I have to tell you it was fantastic.  The urban scholars programme was set up to help young people in London Boroughs to access expertise and experiences that might not have been accessible to them otherwise. The Moody foundation funded the enterprise and the benefit to the graduating students was obvious.  I was fortunate enough to be invited to give a key note speech and present the awards and I felt privileged to be asked.  When there is so much negativity going on in the news right now about the hardship facing many residents of london it restored my faith in society to be able to celebrate the incredible achievement of these young adults.  It took 4 yrs of commitment and a lot of hard work to graduate and  to see so much joy in one place was wicked. I personally received so much positivity from the event it will keep me going for months!  Congratulations to everyone involved in urban scholars both the staff and the graduates.  Good luck to everyone you deserve everything you get.  If you were at the event let us know what you thought, drop us a comment and stay in touch!

Peace

Andy Instone