Introducing Frogs Teams: Line Dance, Sky Dive, Square Dance and Synchronized Swim

Frog's Teams

Of more than 4800 species of frogs world-wide, there has been no identification and therefore no academic attention paid to the sub-order, Competrachia, and its families of Competitive Frog Teams. This scandalous void will be filled during the next year by research sponsored by small friends. Four families were identified in June 201:  Line Dance Team, Sky Diving Team, Square Dance Teams, and Synchronized Swim Team. Here are their stories.

Frogs’ Line Dance Team

The Frogs’ Line Dance Team benefits from the frogs’ natural abilities to move and their special aptitude for moving in concert with one another. Their movements – up, down, backward, forward, flips (double and triple), and their incorporation of ice skaters’ jumps (Axel, Salchow  and loop) have changed the grammar of Line Dance. The most honest of human line dancers readily admit that they are green with envy at this team’s performances.

The Frogs’ Sky Diving Team

The Frogs’ Skydiving Team competes against other Amphibians and Flying Squirrels in the World TinyChute Association whose members compete in three events: Formation Skydiving (teams compete against the clock in geometric freefall formations); Freeflying (3-member teams fall together in choreographed formations); and Freestyle Fall and Accurate Landing (freefall loops and turns, landing on a target the size of a dime). Frogs and Squirrels split the honors in Formation Skydiving; the Squirrels are long-time champions of Freeflying, and the Frogs always sweep Freestyle Fall and Accurate Landing.  The Frogs have a rack of tiny medals, ribbons, and trophies to show for all of their hard work.

Frogs’ Square Dance Teams

The Frogs’ Square Dance Teams compete throughout the Western United Stes. Well known for their intricate footwork, their interpretation of some of the classic calls, including Spin the Top and Ferris Wheel, they have dazzled other dancers for decades. Young frogs study their work through slow-motion videos on U-Frog. Some might argue that the Frogs’ Synchronized Swim Team enjoys a unique competitive advantage because the sport is a hybrid of swimming, dancing, and gymnastics, activities in which all frogs are gifted. They have embraced W.H. Auden’s instruction, “You owe to us all to get on with what you’re good at,” and use their natural propulsion techniques in twists, eggbeaters, and other synchronized swim movements. Their marks for artistic impression and technical merit are almost always outstanding.

 

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