Saturday 23 March 2013

Clogging nearly killed me.... i swear its true :)

Today marked my  return to clogging, i did not do this alone, i dragged my mum back there too. we started clogging together back in around 1999, 2000... eeek I'm old.. i loved it, we danced every week and i then practised like a madwoman every day at home. 

Then mum and i started fundraising for the fairy sparkle garden here in bundaberg,  this was always needed on Saturday mornings,  which meant we had to decide on either clogging or raising money... sadly we said goodbye to clogging.. then i went along and had 3 more kiddies,  after which we tried clogging again, sadly each time we restarted we had to go all the way back to beginners class, lol that sucked so we got bored rather quickly  and clogging fizzled out,  due to way too many reasons. 

we thought about starting up again but something always stopped us, mainly this time was my vertigo, and too many kiddies, i didn't have a way to keep the kids settled while i danced, so i waited, now they are older , and I'm sure if i needed to they could happily come and watch... I'm also hoping they might like to join up one day too for the fun of it. 

well today mum and i showed up, i was so nervous, i have the same clogs that i started with, and now it was 13 years on. i remember dancing years ago and having my stompers fly off ahead of me, lol big fail.    see pic below




well we got on our most comfortable, clothes for clogging, i assumed that all the workouts this round would have prepared me somewhat for the  stamina needed for an hour of clogging.. oh boy , i was wrong, i wonder how the hell i managed all those years ago . 

the hall we had to use was a very hasty replacement as the usual hall was double booked. the only hall was one that had gone under in the floods, so the fans and aircon were not rewired yet so they couldn't be turned on,  ai ai ai ... it was almost 31 degrees today, the hall had no airflow as it had a massive tree blocking one side and another disused massive hall on the other, plus bars on the windows, it was terrible, 
 After a brief review of some steps  we were into it. within the first 30 minutes i thought i might need a pace maker, a drip and  long cool bath. lol i was  a mess. i had already drank my 750ml of water and was not going to drink the water out of the tap as I'm a snob and these pipes had been flooded, they might say all is well with the water but i just thought icky no way .  next time i take two water bottles just in case., i will also wear a better bra as you will see from the video. I forgot how bouncy clogging is.


i managed to get a small bottle of water from my daughter as she had plenty and was only spectating. 

mum was a real goer lol she was getting into it. because of vertigo i have to be careful with turns so sometimes i did them others i didn't lol I'm hoping i can get the video to upload and you will be able to see a snippet of us clogging. 


finally  got the video edited,  

this  is about halfway through the lesson, I'm the blonde in the blue top and tattoo lol



the second one is of how wankered i am after the hour, i am seriously not enjoying myself anymore . i will be glad when i dont have a wobbly neck anymore. oh gosh, what if i am stuck with an old lady wobble.







well my pretties i better get off here and spend some time in the fresh air, otherwise Damian will wonder whats wrong with me . 
have a great weekend . i did have another video but its just not working for me today