ARMY Magazine - Special Issues ARMY Magazine Jimin Special Edition | Page 33

Imagine that you just spent a couple of years
of your life training vigorously for your body
to elongate, lengthen, focus upward, and
you spent hours daily doing so. You could
do this in your sleep. Add on top of this that
you are the top student with the pressures
and talent that come along with that. All
eyes are on you and the expectations are
high, so it would be natural to try even that
much harder. You are on your way to com-
plete mastery of this type of dance and you
have worked very hard to do so.
Now, we are going to throw a wrench in your
works. The opportunity of a lifetime has just
appeared and you are taking it. However,
everything you know, everything you have
learned and have mastered, must be dis-
carded. Completely. You are now required
to dance exactly the opposite.
In hip hop or street dance, the focus is
down. The positioning of the body is lower,
jumps and leaps are to achieve height, but
not through elongation, but physical height
or strength. The energy of the body in fo-
cused downward and outward, as opposed
to upward.
Through hard work, determination and in-
credible perseverance, Jimin managed to
make this transition. Even though his body
was trained to accomplish one thing, and
his muscles were trained to elongate and
lengthen, he reversed this instinct to mas-
ter hip hop. It wasn’t necessarily easy, as
we know, yet being as tenacious as he is,
he persevered and remained with Bangtan.
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