The next Myachi Boot Camp is only 2 days away so if you're (a) in driving distance of Myachi HQ, (b) off of school on Friday the 13th and (c) looking for something fun to do from 1 to 3, you are strongly advised to grab your collection, brush up on your MYACH sets and head over to HQ for some absolute Myachi overload. Kid Myach, Pinky, Monk and Maverick will all be there running workshops, hosting contests, brokering trades, teaching tricks, posing challenges and showing off. There will be rares, trades, tricks, games and food. Pretty much everything a Myachi Maniac needs to survive.
This will be the 11th Myachi Boot Camp we've hosted (if I've got my count right), and it occurs to me now that I've yet to mention them here on the blog. This isn't as strange as it might seem; I usually try to keep the articles here "general interest". According to the stats Google gives us, we've got regular readers in 14 countries here and our US readership comes from all over the nation. If I write an article about using Traps in your jam, that's info that every one of our readers can use. If I write about an event that's happening at HQ, at most, only 15% of our readers can really act on that.
That being said, the Boot Camps are a big part of what we do and I'd like to think that a reader in Switzerland or Australia or Minnesota is still interested enough in the movement to want to know the extent of the ways we spread the word. So even if you can't come to the Boot Camp, at least you can know that such things exist. Of course, I'm sorry to anyone who reads this and thinks "Man, I'd love to go, but it's about 4,600 miles away...", but I'd be even sorrier if that person 4,600 miles away never even knew we did Boot Camps.
I'm sure that by now, many of you are wondering exactly what a Myachi Boot Camp consists of. Is it a tournament? Is it a class? Is it a party? Well, the short answer to all those questions is "yes". There are three main goals at Boot Camps and I'll list them in order of importance:
- Have Insane Amounts of Fun
- Improve Everyone's Myachi Skills
- Reward Everyone's Myachi Skills
Contests are part of Boot Camp, but it is not a tournament. We have tournaments and those are awesome, but the goal there is to test everyone's Myachi Skills and reward the people who stand above the rest. The first goal of having insane amounts of fun is the same at tournaments, but unlike a Boot Camp, tournaments aren't so much about learning new skills as they are about exhibiting current skills.
But a Boot Camp is just what is sounds like: Intensive immersion in Myachi. You will learn new tricks and you'll learn new ways to challenge yourself with existing tricks. You'll be given a chance to set world records and be given the tools to help you do so. You'll learn from two of the three best Myachi freestylers in the world (and I'll leave it to you to decide who's who there) and through it all, you'll be earning a chance to win rare Myachis that can be obtained only through tournaments and Boot Camps.
And as cool as that all sounds, the real fun of the Boot Camp is something else altogether. It's a class and it's a tournament, but it's also a party. You'll be getting together with Myachi Maniacs from all over the NY area and odds are pretty good that you'll meet a lot of solid jammers you've never met before. You'll learn not only from the Masters, but also from your peers. You'll make new friends with common interests and you'll get some great chances to improve your collection through trades. You'll put faces to the names you encounter on the forum and the Facebook page and you'll learn new moves and teach new tricks to people who share your passion for the game.
So if your interest is piqued, here's all the info you'll need:
Boot Camp begins at 1 and goes to 3 at Myachi HQ (1 Shore Rd., Glenwood Landing, NY). It's $15 per person or, if you're coming in a group, you can get a discount of 4 people for $50.
If you want more information, contact HQ at (516) 801-4949 or email us at MyachiHQ@myachi.com for more details.
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