PE Classes use Dance Dance Revolution |
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News that Konami's Dance Dance Revolution burns calories and is healthy for you aren't new. You don't really need scientific studies to support the obvious, especially given all the sweaty DDR players one can run into on a trip to the arcade. What's news though is that schools have now incorporated the tub-thumping game into their P.E. classes.
You know what? The kids love it.
The New York Times reports that at least several hundred schools in at least 10 states are now using Dance Dance Revolution as a regular part of their physical education curriculum. It is reported that based on plans, more than 1,500 schools are expected to be using the game by the end of this decade.
The system, including the TV and the game console, only costs each school around US$ 500, but most schools spend up to US$ 800 for more robust mats.
Linda M. Carson, a professor at West Virginia University's School of Physical Education, and director of West Virginia's Motor Development Center passed by an arcade. "There were all these kids dancing and sweating and actually standing in line and paying money to be physically active. And they were drinking water, not soda. It was a physical educatorÂ’s dream."
What's nice about this is that unlike other things asked of you during P.E., you don't have to be good in DDR to get a work out.
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My middle school had it last year and it wasn't that much fun for me because there was constantly a war of ITG vs. omfg DDR has butterflaiy ^_^ omg.
I wish My school had it, I'd willingly join the class just to play DDR everyday!
what an expensive way to do PE
Considering my school ONLY has $650 a year to spend on its PE department, if they go with a very robust mat. (AKA: Cobalt Flux) They would probabbbly never have to replace the mats and can keep it running all the time. (Untill the PS2 craps out.) I mean, it's a standard TV (I can get one at around $10, and my school has a huge surplus of that crap anyways) A new or used ps2 at around $70 to $30, and buy a tv/ps2 stand (Which my school has a surplus of those as well as we get rid of our projectors and use ceiling digital projectors. (720p Toshiba projectors) but those stands run from $20 to $50. The two dance mats can range from $35 each - $750 (Though Cobalt Flux is the way to go @ $300 each)
and a copy of DDR Extreme 1 or 2 or SuperNova ($30, $40, $60) so you end up if it was at MY school, it'd possible ending cost would be: at around ~$700. Smallest price range would be: ~$130 and largest price range would be: ~$1610
Notice that the most expensive thing would be the dance mat, but if you go with more expensive the less times you'd have to replace it.
Usually the saying goes "You give them what they want, you get what you want." So when you have the DDR Stations set up, you also put a portable water dispenser around the machine.
I'm sure that it'd be prettty popular. (Hell, I'd think it'd be popular if we had an arcade machine on campus that you feed quarters. *getting close to $3,500 with special monthly work, etc*)
So it's expensive, but it does exercise you pretty well. (I do DDR alot, I own a metal dance pad of my own, I own DDRs for Xbox and 360, and have StepMania.)
what a dumb idea