WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT....

I appreciate anyone who takes the time time to check me out. There is a story here and I am going to blog this next journey as it happens. I am walking into new brand new territory and def not on any of the paths I had thought I would be, I realized I have been expected to take a certain path, and so I just accepted that is what I would do. As I started getting ready for my expected next steps, I realized that the choices I have made over the last four years closed some doors that could have made that pathway a lot easier. But I have no regrets, those were sacrifices I chose to make and I helped some kids maybe have new paths open for them. I also see that new pathways, I never considered, are there should I choose to take them. If I learned anything when my father died and I had to leave the sport I loved, although it was devastating loss at the time, I ended up getting a job as a gymnastics coach at the gym I thought I had left behind. I love my job and the boys I coach inspire me everyday. I also

found Lite Feet dance, which has been the most incredible journey and changed everything about who I was before. It's still competitive but its artistic and creative and fun. I am going to follow my heart and follow this calling, and follow a dream that is a whole new world for me, but that I feel that gymnastics and dance experience has prepared me for. So this is the "UNEXPECTED JOURNEY", I am giving myself a year to see if I can climb another mountain and succeed. I am driven and determined and I am going to give this all I got. I am choosing this new path now, unfamiliar and unknown, but i have confidence, a strong support network of friends and family and a definate vision of where I want to be. To all my freinds who were there in the years my father was sick, and who stood by me as I suffered both the loss of my father and my sport I loved, you all kept me going. Even when I started doing this "weird" dance and you all probably thought I was crazy, but I saw what Lite Feet was, I knew what it could be, but NEVER did I think it would transform our lives and inspire our community. And to my new friends who support me and believe in me, you are inspiring me to take this risk and fight harder. I am humbled by all the support and greatful for the amazing friends I have. None of that would be. had I followed the "expected' plan and was still a gymnast, I am sure there was a future there for me, but I learned it's useless to try to figure out where I am gonna end up, I am just going to start climbing the mountain and see how high I can get.

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Thank you for taking the time to check out my site

BY MATT EALLY Made me a Hi Lite Reel

Published on Feb 23, 2013

What's Spankology? A Highlight and History Reel of the Best Dancers in the New Hip Hop Phenomenon Originated in New York City, Litefeet.

D Lite's Spankology:

"When my dad was dying, I learned at a young age you can't fix the world, but I found a way to still find joy in it. I danced. This is a video journal of the last four years, as you will see, I never stopped dancing, I got all my friends to dance, then my community. For anyone who is struggling and needs some Lite and joy, I say DANCE..." - D Lite

Music by SGFLOW

  DLite Spankology

DLite model Comp Card, comp card creator | Wix.com

DLite model Comp Card, comp card creator | Wix.com

ARE YOU TAKING A GAP YEAR?

ARE YOU TAKING A GAP YEAR?   

I want to... I believe I can ..  Send MTV MY VIDEO IF YOU AGREE DillonDLite Ideal candidate for Gap Year? if u agree tell MTV

INTRO TO DLite

Dillon DLite

INTRODUCTIONS: 

DLite YouTube Introduction

Dillon DLite Online CompCard and Social Networking Share

WHYI DECIDED TO BLOG: 

I will be blogging my journey in my goal to become a working model. I feel this is going to be an interesting ride and from where I stand today I am willing to share the entire journey in the hopes that I can inspire others to find their passion and reach for the sky....  

I know this will be one of the most challenging goals I have set for myself, mostly because in my previous endeavors, gymnastics and dance, when I started I didn't have a goal initially, they were simply what I was doing  and was content with that, I didn't start out as a gymnast or a dancer looking ahead to where it would take me. Only until I began to be successful did I realize I had reached goals and at that point it was easy to set new goals because I had accomplished the hardest part and was already confident in my abilities. In this case I it's the opposite, I am starting with a goal, knowing that I am at ground zero and that I am at the starting line of a race in which the terrain is a mystery and how to compete is not yet clarified. 

That being said, in an effort to be realistic, my goal is simple:  
To work doing something I love, with professionals who are equally as passionate about this work. 

I have always had a profound passion for performing, athletics and dance have provided the stage and the platform, but now I am ready to take the next step. At 18 I have been a state champion athlete, a community organizer, been employed since the summer after my freshman year at the same job, and an honor roll student throughout high school. I have demonstrated I am responsible, driven and passionate, I believe if your intentions are right then any goal is attainable. i am seeking a career in modeling because I have always felt that was my calling, but I needed to accomplish other goals first and I now feel prepared. I am not seeking fame or fortune, my goals are realistic, I want to go to college and have a job that can support that goal in order I can get the best education possible. 


I have been a gymnast and then a dancer for most of my life and have been successful in both endeavors. When i commit to something I give it everything I got. I was a NY York State Champion Gymnast and was competing at skill set level 9 by the time I was 12, competing against gymnasts 3 and 4 years older then me. I was introduced to dancing when I was invited to be on a competition team for a couple of years when I was younger, I competed in Hip Hop, Jazz and Acro Dance partnering with a female gymnast. I started dancing again at age 14 when I discovered Lite Feet, a YouTube dance sensation that has spread across the country. I travel to NYC frequently to compete and I host battle events in my own town as well.  As part of volunteer work with gang prevention, Lite Feet was the ideal activity to engage the youth in my community that is a viable and fun alternative to activity that is negative or harmful. Lite Feet take hours, days even months of practice to be battle ready, but once you participate in a Lite Feet battle and it's posted on You Tube, there is no feeling to describe how awesome that is, judged by your peers, wining a battle is as good as any trophy or medal I won in gymnastics.  

Dancing and gymnastics gave me a unique set of skills and attitudes that have prepared me for this next goal I have set for myself. They include, determination, focus, grace, dedication, patience, flow, creativity, core strength, endurance, and finally both confidence that you gain from years of succeeding at the goals set and humility, which comes from knowing there is always room to grow and your only as good as your last performance. In gymnastics, win or lose I always felt a winner because my goal was to push my limits and exceed my expectations and as long as I accomplished that I was proud.  In dance it's similar only now I have the ability to be creative and my confidence increases the more I grow in my creativity. I am humbled by both, in gymnastics the boys I coach (as one of the youngest USA Gymnastics certified coaches in NY state) look up to me and I am have the unique opportunity to work with each child individually, knowing their limits and pushing them to exceed their limits in order they grow. In the Lite Feet Dance world I literally have hundreds of young kids who come to my events and who I have inspired to dance. I know these young eyes are watching me, I learn from them as much as they learn from me, they keep me in check. 

In an effort to create a location for everything social networking, I created an online comp card and am including my blog postings as well. 

More pictures to come, this is the first draft with the photos I had. I am seeking a photographer who will work with me on Comp Card and portfolio build.  But I wanted to get something up and connect all my social sites.I am basically starting this process by building a network and creating places that allow me to to showcase my photographs and my dancing..  

Building my network, has already paid off, I was offered a job with a company that does nationwide staffing for events, promo and modeling, they had me booked to work at a VIP event at a concert but the concert was cancelled. I got this job because I decided to register with ONE of the pay for online casting sites.  The staff at the company who I deal with who hires talent seem to really like my resume and in turn their client wanted me to be hired for the event. Had I worked just this one event,  I would have paid for the pay for site with just a days work, at the rate agreement offered. 

I also met the owner of an agency and I was invited to take the  Modeling for Catalog Class, with James Pintaud at ALBANY TALENT At my next photo shoot, I now have all the tools, tricks and tips every model should know to make every shot viable and usable, ideally the client can look at your sheet and  have to decide which look they want because every shot would be usable..  My ability to deliver a good photograph consistently, and to quickly ascertain the photographers timing and apply these basic and simple steps that the course covers, has improved 100% as well as my confidence.  There is a course II and III .Which I intend to take, but once you take the first one, you can can take it again because its all technique, basic simple steps, but the more comfortable you are with the content the easier it will be to apply. 

Anybody aspiring to be a model, your photogenic and take great photos but at a photo shoot not 100 percent comfortable, I recommend you take this class. This gives you a step by step simple guide to make EVERY picture the look you intend for it to be, which will impress the photographer and the client, and if its a catalog shoot its almost a guarantee

Good Luck to all Aspiring Models, hmu if you want to share stories, success and even when not so much...... 
DLite 

MY FIRST BIG TRY... PASS IT ON IF YOU BELIEVE

SO I was expected to go to college.. That was what it was.. I expected to go to college.  I was told it was the road you take when you graduate from the last road...  

Now here I stand .. last journey counting down, and I notice . there is no ROAD .. there is no path, no map, no directions.. I don't get it.. I thought you go to college, you get a great education, job and happy ever after. 

I stand here at a crossroads.. All I see is a giant dark forest with a million pathways to get in, but I have no clue what is in there, what I want from there if i do go in, what dangers lurk especially for those of us who are wondering around trying to figure out what we are doing there... only knowing we are "SUPPOSED TO BE THERE" ...  I mean seriously people, just blind faith, walk in and figure it out as I go.  They say no kid knows what they want, they just go, and maybe back in the  day before tuitions skyrocketed you had the luxury to end up at a school that once you figured out your true calling you discover you spent years at an institution that doesn't support that degree.  I mean what if I go like you all say to a Liberal Arts school, which seems to be the place most undecideds go, and i realize I want to be a marine biologist *OK NOT LIKELY ..but say thats the case, .. what you all also didn't tell me is if you make it thru this forest intact .. degree in hand... that one the job market is so unstable that "career'  because you have a degree thing is not so much.. and there is this mountain you now have to climb of tens of thousands in debt.. that will pay for this degree that most likely in todays world will have nothing to do with the job or career I will end up having.   

so .. I STUMBLE ON THIS MTV GAP YEAR

so  I SEND IN THIS  DLITE MTV IDEAL GAP YEAR CANDIDATE

 I AM THINKING . IF I HAVE ANY FANS OUT THERE .. TELL MTV.. SEND MY VIDEO WITH YOUR COMMENTS WHY I AM THE IDEAL GAP YEAR.. I WANT TO DO BIG THINGS,  I WANT TO HELP MY COMMUNITY AND WORK WITH MY BOYS.. I WANT TO CHASE MY DREAM.. WHAT COULD BE BETTER STORY THEN THE 2013 AMERICAN DREAM ...  

PASS THIS ON IF YOU BELIEVE IN ME ..HOW YOU CAME TO BE A FAN.. AND WHY I WOULD BE YOUR CHOICE.. FOR THE MTV GAP YEAR.. THANKS ..  DLITE 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwoeEXBzVsM&list=PLwNUgNCFxLFOup3N3iHEN4gSUdCVEy8H0