Fun Clogging

Sometimes your desire to try something new can open doors for you that can change your life forever. We opened one door that brought us many years of enjoyment, great exercise, and made us many new friends that we shall never forget. Here’s the story.

Fun Clogging

 

In 1987, we were square dancing with the Micky Mouse Gang (see earlier post) when some clog dancers performed for the square dancers at a square dance. Sue, a mouser, asked them how they learned to do that and they told her they had taken lessons. They told her when the next set of lessons would be given. In the meantime, Sue began working on the Micky Mouse Gang to take the lessons as a group. We all decided to give it a try and showed up with our families at the first lesson given at Willow Hall in Tulsa. Pam and I struggled a bit as did most of the Micky Mouse Gang, but our daughters, Kristi and Tamara, were natural born cloggers and whizzed through the lessons and were doing the dances with the other veteran dancers after the lessons. We all graduated and all the Micky Mouse Gang but us decided to give it up. We started going to the dances each Sunday at 1 PM. Danny and Jeanie choreographed dances and taught them on Sunday. In a couple of months our daughters, Tamara and Kristi, were asked to join the exhibition team and to be on the competition clog teams they were putting together. They danced both on the Children’s And Hoedown Competition teams.

 

We continued learning dances and in about 8 months, my wife Pam and I requested to join the exhibition team and were allowed to do so. That’s how our fun with clogging began. We continued to dance with the “Oklahoma Land Rush Cloggers “later changed to “T-Town Cloggers” for about four years. Our girls danced in competition each year and we participated in hundreds of exhibition dances. While we were with this group, we became very close friends with directors Danny and Jeanie and many other people in the group. Our “Miscues and the Cuties” Team (see earlier post) was formed with some of these friends. We had found an activity all our family members enjoyed that was really fun. This began another decade of family fun clogging together. Thank you Sue, for talking us into this.

 

If you haven’t tried clogging, find some place giving lessons and give it a try. You may become hooked like we did.

T Town Cloggers Exhibition Team under the direction of Danny and Jeanie
We’re all in there somewhere

Children’s Completion Team with their director Jeanie
Tamara and Kristi in center on back row

Hoedown Completion Team with Tamara and Kristi
Thank you for reading Fun Clogging,

Hawg Jaw Bill