Blues BootCamp '08

September 25, 2008 to September 29, 2008

Welcome to Blues Boot Camp...Part Deux.

Welcome to the Crucible.

The Crucible is the culmination of everything an aspiring Blues Dancer should know. It is three days of constant strenuous testing, dancing, hardship, and punishment (mental and physical). One of the goals of the Crucible is to train blues dancers to look out for one another. The Crucible consists of certain challenges for the recruits, broken into teams, to accomplish as a whole, or fail as a whole. One single recruit completing an obstacle means almost nothing. If anyone fails, it means that those that completed it failed to aid their fellow recruits in the accomplishment of their given mission. This is perhaps the ultimate goal of the Crucible: to instill in potential Blues Dancers that completing the mission is paramount to anything else. Added to these tasks, the recruits only get little sleep over the course of these three days, adding the very real element of fatigue to the situations .

(The above is based on part of Phase Two of the Marine Corps Boot Camp, The Crucible.)