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Married and all is changing in the Oakley house!
Thanks to everyone for all the wonderful messages and cards and to all of you who shared our special day with us! We had a wonderful week in Sweden with you all and miss you already. Reunion already planned lol for next year! The last 2 months have been very jam packed with change and it just keeps changing, starting next week again. We hope though to see most of you in Sweden next weekend to catch up! Thanks again and lots of love from us both!!
Also BIG thanks to Barbara and everyone in Switzerland, for arranging such a top event. Loved it!!! Bruised and achy after the 10hours of traning leading up to it but it was all worth it.
Summer is here, and what a summer!
Already in july month, where did the months go. Matt and LeeAnne has had one of their busiest spring/start of summers ever. With about 2 weekends off in 6months they have worked extremly hard and are now pleased to get a few days to enjoy the beautiful weather. Things are happening extremly fast right now and plans are made and altered as usual from week to week. They are pleased to hopefully announce som exciting news very shortly. Its all changing in Matt and LeeAne world, so keep up! ;)
European Championships 2010 - Netherlands
Majority of Style Studios dancers all came to the European Championships weekend just gone in Holland. With us arriving late and returning pretty shortly after having danced in Champions we still managed to get lots of fun stuff rammed into our days over there. Some new SS ProAm dancers did their premier there, well done to some great results for Rebecca, Josefin and Frida! Also well done to Becca who won both Teen advanced and Teen showcase, you go girl! See some more of our great results from the weekend below:
Matt & LeeAnne - 1st Champions Couples
Becca Lodin - 1st Teen Renegade, 1st Teen Advanced & 1st Teen Showcase, 1st Teen Novice West Coast Swing
Johanna Lodin - 1st Youth Renegade, 1st Youth Intermediate, 1st Youth Intermediate ProAm
Madde Lodin - 4th Open Intermediate ProAm, 1st Regal Female
Camilla & Barry - 1st Open Intermediate Couples
Camilla Beskow - 1st Open Advanced ProAm
Bella Scholtze - 2nd Open Novice ProAm
Emelia Ohman - 1st Youth Newcomer
Rebecca Ohman - 4th Teen Novice, GH in Teen Newcomer Proam (Nightclub & Cha cha)
Frida Johansson - Finalist in Open Novice G in Open Newcomer Proam (Nightclub, Cha cha & WCS)
Josefin Sjolund - Finalist in Open Novice G, GH in Open Newcomer Proam (Nightclub, Cha cha & WCS)
AWESOME, Congratulations ALL!!!!
Danish Championships - TOP EVENT!!!
Tenna & Kjeld did it again, what an awesome weekend. Together with all of our SS crew, the danish dancers and also some old familiar faces made this weekend one of the best! We all had an amazing time dancing until late midnight and up early to compete. Congratulations to all of SS dancers who all danced FAB! This event is not to be missed next year!!!
Norway is already here - Championships this weekend!
Awesome weekend, so much fun to see all our Norwegian friends again. And as always a relaxed and friendly event to take part of. Thanks for all the lovely words we recieved as well. Makes all the hard work well worth it. Congratulations to Rebecca getting her first win in Advanced since graduating after Worlds. And well done to Barry & Camilla, you gave a very classy performace, cant wait to see the next one! See you all soon!
Benelux Open Championships - hot hot hot!
What a baking weekend, arrived to tropical heat...almost. Nice event and met up with lots of people we had not seen for a while. Lauren entered as the only StyleStudio dancers for the weekend in Intermediate Teen Line which she won, and also got some smashing GH's in all her proam with Matt. Well done Loz!!!
Sunny Berlin, what a great event!
A great weekend at the Berlin Championships are over, the event run by Gert and Susi was once again a lovley event, so well run, friendly and FUN! We both enjoyed our time there so much and met some new friends and a lot of old ones too. A great show was put together on Saturday night with some rapping from the German volanteers and the weekends judges and some wonderful performances from some top performers, amongs them being Style Studios Camilla who performande a smashing Hip hop routine it was freaking hot and Matt and LeeAnne took part as well, performing for a few tearfilled eyes. Thanks so much for all of your beautiful words and support. Cannot wait for next year, Wonderful job Gert and Susi and look forward to seeing you next year again!
Also well done to the attending SS crew who all danced us proud as always :
Loz Taylor 1st overall Teen Intermediate Line
Loz Taylor GOLDEN GIRL Teen Intermediate Proam
Loz Taylor 1st Showcase Teen
Miss Bella Scholtze 3rd Proam Novice Open
Camilla Bekow 1st Advanced Open Proam
Camilla Beskow also 1st in MegaStar
Robban Muller 1st Diamond Intermediate ProAm
AnnBritt Muller 1st Silver Advanced ProAm
Robert & AnnBritt 1st place Waltz Couples Diamond Combined
Matt & LeeAnne 1st place CHAMPIONS
Some Heart Warming words from Spain!
WE received some lovely words from our visit to SPain in November last year. To read the whole newsletter from Cities In Line, see here>
Champions - Performing at Euro Swing Masters
Weekend just gone Matt & LeeAnne performed their winning Champions routines, waltz and twostep at the Euro Swing Masters. Given some incredible feedback from many extremly talented dancers and spectators made their weekend even more enjoyable. What a BUZZ!!
WINNERS of Couples Champions Divsion!
Matt and LeeAnne returns as extremely proud winners of the highest Couples divsion Champions - World Champions. Also a massive Congratulations to all StyleStudio dancers who did an awesome job. Some top World Champion titles was taken home with us. More images and info coming soon!
STYLE STUDIO WORLD CHAMPIONS:
Matt Oakley & LeeAnne Forsen - Top Divsion Couples Champions World Champions
NEW SOVEREIGN COUPLE: Helene Callmyr & Dorsey Napier - Diamond Combined Couples World Champion
Graduated to Intermediate Couples: Madelene Lodin & Egils Jurkovskis - Open Novice Couples World Champion
Graduated to Advanced: Rebecca Lodin - Intermediate Teen World Champion
Rebecca Lodin - Showcase Teen World Champion
Rebecca Lodin - Renegade Teen World Champion
Graduated to Intermediate: Johanna Lodin - Novice Youth World Champion
Johanna Lodin - Intermediate Youth ProAm World Champion
Johanna Lodin - Novice Renegade World Champion
Jonas Dahlgren- Open Advanced World Champion
Camilla Beskow - Open Advanced ProAm World Champion
Egils Jurkovskis - Crystal Novice ProAm World Champion
Graduated to Advanced: Egils Jurkovskis - Crystal Intermediate World Champion
Graduated to Advanced: AnnBritt Muller - Silver Intermediate ProAm World Champion
Robert Muller - Silver Intermediate ProAm World Champion
Graduated to Advanced: Emil Zetterstrom - Teen Intermediate World Champion