Today, 3rd February, is the first day of the Chinese New Year; the year of the Rabbit.
A rabbit year is quiet, giving respite after the year of the tiger & that was certainly the feeling as I tagged along today with some of the Ladies from Line Dance Christchurch to the Buddhist Temple where our group were doing a couple of line dances as part of the multi cultural segment of the celebrations.
Before our group was scheduled to dance the Lion Dance troupe performed the cai ching.
Afterwards we were able to watch a demonstration of Aikido - a non aggressive Japanese martial art. It might not have been aggressive but it was effective & mightily impressive. I'd love to learn more about this.
In the blink of an eye you can disarm an opponent with just some pressure in the right places!
In less than a second you can go from this......
... through to this....
....ending like this!
Somehow I don't think my back or shoulder would handle it <---- that is the voice of one who a couple of nights ago ended up flat on her back in the garden in about the same amount of time as the above sequence took ;)
2 comments:
Looks like you had lots of fun!
Now that trip had to be fun! Sorry about your tumble. Hope that all is well.
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