I've always admired flexible people as my own flexibility is something of a wooden rocking-horse.
It has always been a part of a circus:
in the beginning of 20th cen
And you all have probably seen these little chinese/mongolian 'snake-girls' who do tricks with a glass-pyramids, standing on plates.
And perhaps you've seen gymnastics on olympics - all this little woman-to be girls who do absolutely incredible things.
There is interesting tendency - and it is probably so everywhere - to test the limits or go beyond these. Sometimes it is lovely to watch - you have this very Ooh!-moment. And sometimes it is painful. I wondered for a while from where this comes. And I must say - I don't know.
I recently met this circus-set of Lake of Swans. I was stunned, yes. It is amazing flexibility but same time - it hurts to see. (And I must admit - thing they do on about 50th sec reminds me barbeque-chicken...)
And she makes even more incredible things but it is much more calm to watch. Is it because she smiles? That this is solo-project? It feels more... relaxed in a way.
I wondered why this is so with me? Prejudice perhaps - I can not watch Russian and Chinese group-gymnastics for example. I've seen trainings from aside, seen clips and documentaries about how they train small children and read stories what is the price and - it hurts. Even it is beatuful and almost beyond the limits of human body... it hurts and tastes for blood, swet and tears.
So how you feel while wathcing that kind of things? Would you for example put your child to the training-group for gymnastics? Where is the end of practice and training and starts mutilation and destructiveness?
There are no free lunchic but what could be the reasonable price?
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