Clogging Competition 2011

We had our 1st clogging competition of the year this past Friday. Oakley did 2 dances and 5 solos and did a GREAT JOB!

This first dance is called Country Rock Star and she is the 2nd from the left. They have these super cute guitars that they hold for the first few minutes and then shoot them through their legs before they really start dancing. They also have the super cutest rhinestone guitar belt buckles! They got a 1st place on this dance! Yay!!
The second dance is called Trashin The Camp (from the movie Tarzan) and is a cute, cute dance. They also got a 1st place on this one too....which means NATIONALS HERE WE COME!!
In this dance they are holding hot pink wooden spoons and have these little tin backpacks on their backs and they use their spoons to hammer on their neighbors backpack. SO CUTE!!

The video below is one of the solos Oakley performed. It is of her and Lara - one of the girls that is in her group. They both got off just a little - they said the music speed wasn't the same as they had been practicing to. Oakley got 3 1st places and 2 2nds on her solos. As long as she gets atleast 1 first place she gets to perform all 5 at Nationals again. The way they judge solos is you are just judged on yourself and how well you know the dance. If you do it perfect you get a 1st, not perfect but pretty good a 2nd and not know it at all a 3rd. So....yay for her! I LOVE watching her dance and I am SOOO PROUD OF HER!