8 History to go unrepeated once again The Falcons men’s soccer team to go another year out of the provincials By SEYEDMOSTAFA RAZIEI fter last weekend’s losses, the ys Vere College men’s soccer team will once again not be at- tending the provincial championships. Head coach Marc Rizzardo returned to the Langara Falcons in 2013 in hopes of bringing the team back to its previ- ous record. He led the Falcons for 22 seasons before he quit in 2009. During that period, he created a legacy of 137 wins, 56 lost and 35 ties records. Still, the team has underperformed in the last two seasons. 66 Rizzardo _ said the team was “al- most in the same exact situation,” as Lack of last year. concentra- “We need to win . the last games of ne and this league,” he osing said fo cus dur- After two con- . secutive losses, the ing games _ Falcons _ finished last among teams led us to competing in Pac- losing West, leaving the leads team out of the pro- vincials. SEBASTIAN The Falcons lost KRIWOY PEREZ on Saturday to the Capilano Universi- ty Blues at Cap- ilano’s Lillooet Field 1-0. On Sunday, they lost 4-1 to Quest Kermodes at Musqueam Turf sport field. Goalkeeper Sebastian Kriwoy Perez said that the Falcons need to regroup as a team, and do their best to prepare for the next season. “Lack of concentration and losing fo- cus during games led us to losing leads,” Perez said. “The team got along extremely well,” Rizzardo said of last weekend’s loss. “We just did not have any breaks during some games and the season crumbled at the end. It’s disappointing for everyone.” The provincials will be held during the next two weeks for the four teams at the top of PacWest 2015 standings. The two winners of the provincials will go to the nationals, held in Saint- Lambert, Quebec. FALCONS GOAL- KEEPER SEYEDMOSTAFA RAZIEI photo Falcons vs. Blues at Lillooet Field. & Falcons’ Tally i) WOMEN'S Soccer MEN'S Soccer W-D-L W-D-L 44-7 5-2-8 Ranked: 5th-Eliminated Ranked: 5th-Eliminated WOMEN'S Basketball MEN'S Basketball W-D-L W-D-L 0-0-4 1-0-3 Ranked: Pre-season Ranked: Pre-season ANNE-SOPHIE RODET photo A zombie is about to attack a blue team member at the Surrey Panther Paintball and Airsoft Sports Park on Sunday Oct. 25, 2015. Gear up, - zombies are coming The Langara Airsoft Club helps take on the living dead By ANNE-SOPHIE RODET Ihe new Langara Airsoft Club had an unusual obstacle while fight- ing an opposing team last Sun- day—a zombie attack. Using airsoft guns, realistic guns that shoot tiny pellets, 150 participants from across Metro Vancouver who gathered at Panther Paintball and Air- soft Sports Park in Surrey, were split into two teams to fight each other while finding the cure to the zombie infec- tion. With dHalloween approaching, OmegaOps, an Airsoft community, wanted to add something fun, said Scott Hackenbruch, an organizer from OmegaOps, so they decided to throw zombie impersonators to the mix. The zombies, who don’t belong to any team, could kill the players by touching them but could not be killed. “Usually, it is team one versus team two, then we introduce other things to increase the complexity,” said Hacken- bruch. Fighting for the winning team was Khai Lam, a first-year psychology stu- dent at Langara College. He started the Langara Airsoft Club in October. So far, six members have joined, Lam said, but nobody else was able to make it on Sun- day for their first outing. “The zombies were great,” Lam said, “Some are very sneaky and they make people more focused and on guard the whole time.” Zombies add more action and inten- sity, he said, but because they do not die, “it is a little unfair.” Their next out- ing is Nov. 11 at Panther Paintball. 66 The zombies were great, some are very sneaky KHAI LAM LANGARA AIRSOFT CLUB Dancing your way to a fitter lifestyle At Crystal Ballroom, danc- ing isn’t just competitive, it can be good exercise for those who dislike the gym By KATHRYN WU the question ballroom dancers are asking each other at the Crystal Ballroom Dance Studio. Min Khant and Amy Suen are com- petitive ballroom dancers practising for the upcoming Snowball Classic dance competition, taking place in Van- couver from Nov. 6 to 8. Khant and Suen met through a student dance club at S: you think you can dance? That’s UBC two years ago. Prior to their first ballroom competition, both had limited danc- ing experience. Khant explained that it did not take too long for the MIN KHANT pair to grasp the Competitive choreography dur- ballroom dancer ing their first training season as beginners. “We only learned two or three danc- es during that time, it was the most ba- sic steps but it took around 3 months to get ready,” said Khant. Jackson Li, studio manager at the Crystal Ballroom Dance Studio, ex- plained that in competitive ballroom dancing, there are two main streams: international standard and internation- al Latin. The international standard dances are the the waltz, tango, Vien- nese waltz, slow fox trot and quickstep. The international Latin dances are the samba, cha-cha, rumba, paso doble and jive. Li recom- mends that begin- ners try both streams. During a_ ball- room dancing com- petition, up to 12 couples take to the dance floor at once. Judges look for good posture, smooth movements, communication between partners and musicality. An- nually, six or seven competitions are held in Vancouver and Victoria. Com- petitive ballroom dancing is a recog- nized Olympic sport, even though it does not appear during the Olympics. For people looking for a good alter- native to traditional workouts, Li said a variety of different muscles could be targeted through dancing. “T guess legs would be the more im- portant [muscles], but we use our lower backs a lot, our trapezius muscles to keep our frame up, and then of course a lot of cardio because dance work could be quite intensive,” Li said. JACKSON LI Crystal Ballroom studio manager KATHRYN WU photo Min Khant and Amy Suen practice their routine.