Wright State University - Raider Spark Dance Instructional Video

Captions Added for the Hearing Impaired - Keep captions on to learn the names of each of the moves of the dance!

Wright State Student Government (www.wsusg.com) and Raider Athletics have teamed up to create a new dance that we hope to make a tradition at Wright State. The Raider Spark is a dance we plan to do during media timeouts at the WSU Basketball games. WSU students can use this video to learn the dance and be ready for the next time it is performed at upcoming games!

RAIDER UP!

A big thanks to:

RAIDER ATHLETICS
Cinematographer: Ashtyn Law

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[trivedi21]

I think I have solved this problem, the new tradition should be actually going to the games.

[DominickMEvans]

@trivedi21 what advice do you have for this? SGs have been trying for years through a variety of ways to get students interested in games - from events with free food to prizes, etc. Ultimately, you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink. Instead of all the criticism why not propose some solutions we can try to get students there. Two free tickets doesn't seem to be enough incentive.

[bigbangtheologist]

You're right, the UNI song is better...

[DominickMEvans]

@bigbangtheologist Raider Athletics chose the song.

[trivedi21]

Instead of spending time making dances that no once is going to memorize or even do at the basketball games, the student government should be working on how to get more people to the games. The only games that have crowds are the Valpo and Butler games. What is even more disappointing is that there is a grand total of 200 people at the women's bball games. They have a far better record than the men's team but get no recognition. This dance is not going to help attendance or school spirit.

[DominickMEvans]

Also, look at all the cheers, alma maters, and other traditions that schools use - many of them are recycled or slightly modified by other schools. Nobody accuses schools of using the Go Team Go cheer, when obviously one school did it first. You never see anyone else complaining when fans do the wave when obviously one teams' fans did it first. UNI had the idea of a techno music timeout first, WSU thought it was a good idea and thus developed a crazy dance, too.

[DominickMEvans]

@uniftw10 There were about 10 different moves in this. The UNI dance is mainly the Monkey arms and clapping. I counted about half the amount. Some of the moves were original.

[uniftw10]

@DominickMEvans The only difference is the music...the moves are the same you just do them in a different order.

As original as one of todays singers doing a remake of a song from the 60s and calling it their own....

[uniftw10]

This is beyond bad...blatant rip off of UNI's interlude, and a shitty effort at that. Wow.....I really hope this never catches on...bad song, worse dance moves...AND WAY TOO LONG for a media time out.

[BlackPantherUWM]

way to steal interlude from UNI

[MrJakesmith3]

@WSURaider125 All im going to say is that you can shoot the AD's ideas down in the future and come up with something original, and don't force a new tradition. We are a young school, tradition will come.