I knew that I had potential that someone was trying to push down," says Blokker. "It was just the most incredible feeling.
His classes got really popular.īlokker had a two-hour meeting with Beach Body, which produces many popular in-home fitness workouts, and left with a contract for his first video, Hip Hop Abs. When he moved to LA, he was teaching workout dance classes at the gym, in between auditions and dance gigs. "I was at the laundry mat, with my pocket full of quarters, when I got the phone call that the agency wanted me to move to LA to pursue a career in dance," he says. He returned home to New Jersey and two weeks later, found out that audition would change his life. "I literally left there like, 'Whatever, this doesn't really matter. The judges said they would contact the dancers in a couple weeks if the agency was interested. Out of hundreds of people auditioning, seven men and five women were left at the end of the cuts.
They're gonna remember me even though I don't live here,' " he says. "I was frickin' living in these dance moves. With his headshots in his car, Blokker decided to go in. When he got to Los Angeles, he checked out a dance school in North Hollywood and found out about an audition for a new dance agency that was happening around the corner. "Let me tell you, those abs were poppin' on those shots," Blokker says. His friend had one demand: He wanted Blokker to get some headshots taken before making the trip. "I gained up enough strength to leave that relationship."Ī friend invited him to come to Los Angeles for a vacation at his beach house. "No one out there is going to stop me from living the life that I want to live," he says. That was the final straw in the relationship. "My partner at the time said, 'You'll never be a professional dancer so you can immediately delete that dream from your head.' " "After the show, I mean, people wanted my autograph, and I was really no one," says Blokker. When he got his first big choreography job in his home state of New Jersey, his partner was not supportive. The story of his big break begins with someone breaking him down.īlokker says he was in an emotionally and physically abusive relationship for "four years too long." Shaun Blokker, better known as Shaun T, is the man behind the fast-paced, strenuous fitness programs Insanity, Focus T25 and Hip Hop Abs. Shaun Blokker, known as Shaun T, is the man behind the fitness programs Hip Hop Abs and Insanity.
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