I agree Lindsay.  The more you know, the better.  A dancer needs to be well rounded and ready for anything.  I re read all the posts and didn't see where someone said that SYTYCD is useless in the professional world.  I may have missed it, or taken a different implication from something.  I thought people were talking about relying on tricks instead of focusing on the whole picture. In Erin's post [when she was talking about SYTYCD], I thought she meant that people were trying to copy something they saw on television, instead of choreographing and performing something that they mean.