Kung Fu and Love

Kung Fu and Love
A great gift for Valentine's day or Chinese New Year

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Percussion Work Out

Yesterday we went to the Wake Up the Earth Parade. We brought our cardboard flat faced Lion heads. Noah paraded for most of it. Jonah started off and took a break in the wagon later. Then we left the parade early to check out the other activities. I always like the home made drums made of barrels and buckets that they put out. This year they also had this giant steel cage looking thing with cans, bells and painted cupcake trays hanging from it. Noah dressed in an owl mask he made at another station and two drum sticks went around hitting everything. That's actually what you are supposed to do. But I noticed was Noah was hitting everything pretty hard and cuts and thrusts were part of his routine. He was doing Kung Fu Percussion. It was pretty awesome. But I was worried that eventually he would actually hit another child. He came close a couple of times but seemed to be able to stay in control of his movements despite the fact that he was wearing an owl's mask. In fact the first person to get him was Noah. This girl actually hit is owl mask on purpose. But Noah didn't pay any mind to that. He was too busy continuing to play. But I felt I shouldn't test our luck so I tried to get us to eventually move onto something else.
But he really could have stayed there hitting things all day.
I've seen training videos where they hang a bunch of stuff up for people to hit. But it's usually sacks or tires and some pieces of wood. But hanging stuff up that also make cool sounds has an added benefit to it.

Basically I really want to make one of those things somehow. It would make a great workout system. You could do pull ups, climb on it, and then hit all that stuff on it... I could work out on it. But I also just noticed that Noah didn't need any prompting to do his Kung fu moves on it. He just did it and probably could have kept going for hours.

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