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History
The American Lindy Hop Championships were born during the 1997 U. S. Open Swing Dance Championships. It was a Saturday afternoon when its founder, Paulette Brockington, came to view the Lindy Division. The event called the Lindy Hop competitors to the floor to warm up for the division which was to directly follow. This is something that was standard at dance competitions to make sure that the dancers muscles were supple and ready to dance. This was particularly important since - the event started on Friday - there had only been one big band song played up to that point. Unfortunately the DJ's choice for the warm up song was a "let's warm up your muscles" song, but a "let's give the people a show" song. He chose "Sing, Sing, Sing" and he called for a jam session.

A jam session for Lindy Hoppers is normally a relatively informal activity where the dancers perform a kind of informal show-off during a social dance party. Dancers clear a space making a circle (also referred to as a jam circle) wherein soloist ro couples take turns showing their best tricks while the remaining dancers cheer the jammers on.

Dancers do warm ups to prepare for the physical and mental exertion needed for the coming dance routine. An effective warm up increases heart rate and gets blood pumping, decreasing the chances of injury. A warm up and a jam are not the same. The Dj of course knew that and decided to use the requisite time to keep the non-Lindy Hoppers from being bored with a dance they don't do by calling for a jam.

During the contest division, after watching couple after couple stumble, fall and in one case injure themselves Brockington quietly fumed. One of the dancers next to her said "Why would they do that to them?" The answer lies in the fact that the U.S. Open Swing Dance Championships is a West Coast Swing dance event. Having the Lindy Division was a way to bring in more cash just with some other novelty divisions.

Brockington left the ballroom. She went to look at the flyer table. Discovering no event focused pn Lindy or West Coast Swing planned for Halloween weekend 1998 she went to the hotel's business center and made a flyer announcing the First American Lindy Hop Championships was to be held on October 30, 31 and November 1, 1998. Now she just need to find a place to hold it. BrockingtonP (talk) 20:42, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

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