Competition

The daily life of a Polynesian dancer is the competition life. Competition life is sometimes very stressful, tiring, and long. For us the biggest competition is San Jose Tahiti Fete on July 2-5th weekend. This competition is actually the biggest it is held at San Jose State University. A lot of groups compete in this competition. This competition has many division like solos, amateur, senior division. But getting into the competition life for the years I've been dancing. Tahitian takes up mostly your summer vacation. So this summer I spent my whole summer with my girls from Tahitian and practice everyday from 11 am - 10 pm. We usually train for solos and the group competition. This year we just did an Auhora a slow type of Tahitian like hula but more modernized. Even though it was much slower an Auhora take a lot of work, you have to be all together and so much cleaning to do and touch ups. But other then that you have solo competitions, and a solo competition is where you compete on your on doing a free style you do on stage. Your up against 4 to 5 girls at a time. But for this you have age categories like 5-8, 9-12, 13-15, 16 - 18, 19 - 23, 25+ The hardest divisions are usually 13 - 15 and 16 -18. Well back to solos there are 2 rounds, first round is eliminations second round is finals, then after all of it is done its award ceremonies.
Here's videos of the solo competition:
1. Solo eliminations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=277AW_1gFeg&feature=related
2. Solo finals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8mT38f6uls&feature=related