Aquatic Entertainment

Aqua Zumba. Hilarious. The instructor dances outside the pool and simulates water resistance with huge movements like her limbs defy gravity. But then she can’t help herself and she shimmies till the cows come home and does a few booty drops. 

I’d love an underwater camera to capture these moves of the mostly middle-aged, older adult class… definitely prime footage for a gangsta rap music video.

My students just finished swim practice—I saw them in the hall in a quick confidence booster celebrity moment—and I’m glad they didn’t see me get down to songs I don’t let them sing in school. 

“Our teacher is HOT is Aqua Zumba class”…cause that’s fun recess banter, and pics might boost school website hits. 

“After a vigorous day of Latin instruction, our teachers burn off their extra energy at the local Y” …Latin instruction…hahaha…extra energy...oh my.

Lynne doesn’t like “land Zumba” because people can watch her. I’m thinking she can get as sexy as she wants under water, but she’s just self-conscious that she doesn’t know the moves.

I’m pretty sure the middle-aged black guy behind me wouldn’t care if he didn’t know the moves “on land.” He just wants to sing along and “git it!” “We work hard; we play hard”…. “BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!”

And the comfortably padded mature woman took her time as she climbed the ladder out of the pool. She covered her floral one-piece with a pink bath towel and just stood huddled awhile.

“I’m trying to get the courage to walk into the locker room,” she giggled. “Oooh, and then we have to go outside,” she shrugged her shoulders in delightfully endearing anticipation for the cold.

 I do make pastoral visits to local bars like other young adults, and recently I met a man who works for Comedy Central, and a guy who draws camels that look like dogs.

But I guess exercise classes and children thrill me. And Aqua Zumba, it’s just funny to say.

Amen.