[lbo-talk] Yoga making inroads into dragon land quietly

[ravi]

At around 26/10/05 2:43 pm, Guest wrote:
>>>Maybe not.  Most of the young chinese women I know
>>>think tai qi is for grandmothers and wouldn't be
>>>caught dead in the park at 6AM anyway.  Apparently
>>
>>you
>>>do Yoga when you're young to improve your
>>figure...
>>
>>Huh?! Have these women taken a look at old B.K?
>>
>>http://www.iynaus.org/images/daily/vrksasana.jpg
>
> 
> anyway my point was that tai qi, at least where i
> live, means a few dozen grandmothers gathering at 6 AM
> in a mountaintop public park to practice tai qi next
> to the vegetable market, keeping time to taiwanese
> folk music from a portable radio.  By and large this
> is not something that young women are interested in.
> 

Sure, sure... don't take my post seriously. I was kidding (at the
expense of poor B.K.S). I don't remember seeing many younger folks among
the Tai Qi (or ballroom dancing, for that matter!) crowd in Beijing or
Shanghai, either.

	--ravi

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