Keeping You On Your Toes: Clogging

Alright, so most of you know that clogging is a big part of my life. It's how I met my wife, and what I do with a lot of my spare time - if you can call it spare time. We own a dance studio in W. Columbia, the Capital City Clogging Co. It's a second full-time job, but we love every minute of it.

So, most of our time after school and now starting on weekends is devoted to the studio. Our studio competes all over the south, from March until October. We just had the summer off from competitions, but started back this weekend. Sometimes we gripe and complain about how we don't have real lives, and don't get to see our friends that often (which we still hate!) - but yesterday's competition sealed the deal about why we do what we do.

We enjoy competing, and love performing. We don't always win, but of course it's always nice. Yesterday, we debuted two new dances - both of which we haven't been working on for that long - I guess since July when we started back.

The day started with our line routine, which was ok - except I flubbed on a turn. We got 3rd. With our second routine, traditional line, we debuted a new dance. We did really well we thought, and I guess so did the judges, too. We won 1st in our age category, and Overall Traditional Line. With Acapella, we won 1st. Then, our last team dance - was Bleeding Love. A new routine, that we brought in a guest choreographer for. Brittany did an awesome job, and we loved working with her, and knew that we had done a good thing by bringing in someone else to do the choreo. The dance was like nothing anyone had seen on stage before. So, we danced it. We started and the place went silent. Halfway through - we all got the chills from the yells from the audience. Then at the end, the place went crazy. It was awesome. We honestly didn't know what to expect, because it wasn't like anything else. We were going to be pleased just to place. Well, we did. We won 1st. Then we won Overall in that category. Then, at the end of the day, when they give out all of the big awards, we won OVERALL FOR THE DAY! You've never seen a group of 20-somethings so excited before in your life. It was awesome.

Here's the video.