Thursday, October 27, 2005

Chinese Acrobatics, Beijing, China

Back in Beijing we went to see some amazing Chinese acrobatics. What strong athletes! Even little boys doing balancing tricks on each other. There was everything from hoop somersaults (pictured here), to girls balancing spinning umbrellas on their feet, to contortionists balancing stacks of glasses on each limb and heads. Impressive acts of guys free-climbing, jumping and somersaulting up large bamboo poles, juggling acts involving 9 guys etc, etc, etc. It was very cool. The audience were also allowed to take pictures and the flash photography did not seem to affect the acrobats at all. Wow!* Mush

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