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The
Caper Cutters SD Club will celebrate its
60th Anniversary in
October 2010
With square dance caller, Jim Osbourne
and Wendy Jean Iannico cuing the rounds.
Our popular Holiday Dance Hoedown was held again on December 7, 2009
at the Elks Lodge in South San Francisco
It was another spectacular affair to remember and attended by many former
square dancers and friends who had fun reminiscing the good old days when
we were young and full of energies to expend.
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For future events, please RSVP to Deane or Rita Gough
by calling 415.467.7353
This club's holiday party is an annual event a square dancer
around the area must attend.
So, mark your calendars and sign up early.
Hope to see you there again this year!
By the way,
here are a few
of the many, good and healthy reasons
why YOU should try square dancing!!
The following
are excerpts printed from the United Square
Dancers
Association News,
reprinted from Dancing News of Central Florida
and The Caller of Memphis, Tennessee.
Live Ten Years
Longer!
Square Dancing
will add ten years to your life,
a surprising new study shows.
Dr. Arron Blackburn states
" It’s clear that square dancing is the perfect exercise.
It combines all positive aspects of intense physical exercise with
none of the
negative elements."
Dr. Blackburn
said square dancing is a low impact activity requiring
constant movement
and quick directional changes
that help keep the body in shape.
The study was based on their physical examination which indicated
that both female and male square dancers could expect
to live well into their 80's.
Square dance
movements raise heart rates like many good aerobic
exercises should. All the quick changes of direction loosen and
tone up the muscles--
but not so severally as to cause injury.
In square dancing, when you’re not moving,
you’re clapping hands and tapping your feet, which all contributes to
long term fitness.
"You
don’t see a lot of 55 year old basketball players, but that’s
just the age when square dancers are hitting their peak", he said.
So next time
the Caper Cutters
Square Dance Club
offers a Beginners
or
Newer Dancers Class,
perhaps you may want to
give it a try?
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