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Q: Why do Chinese old guys walk backwards?
Walking backwards on a busy street in China with chaotic traffic is a recipe for disaster. What's the point of walking backwards?
Because by the time you get that old, most of your life is behind you, and it's a great way to see where you've been.
It is a well known form of exercising, used by old and not so old fellows in China. According to them, helps their mental balance.
It is also similar with those that walk slapping their hands front and back. The reason claimed is that it will activate circulation to those extremities. Now, you can beleive it and do it, or look at them and laught. Your choice. As for myself, if it does not help me, I do not mind trying it.
boomsticks:
There's a chap who does that hand slapping routine outside my apartment block some weekday nights at 4:30am. The acoustics are to die for. I'd love to "debate its merits" with him; sadly my Chinese is not up to standard just yet.
Specifically: "My good man, would your insanely naive exercise routine be hugely affected if you just swung your hands to marginally miss each other instead? The sleep patterns of a few hundred people would"
For the last 20 years, men all over China have been walking backwards.They are still trying to learn how to Moon Walk. I keep telling them, stand on toe, slide other foot. They just never get standing on toes. Chinese can't dance. I think most men think they are doing it correctly just by walking backwards. So next time you see a guy walking backwards, hum a few bars of Billie Jean for him. Maybe join him for a couple of steps. Poutine needs to come back and teach China how to dance. ..spinorama
Because they are getting old, they are testing if the reverse gear is still intact, just like and old car.
That is a popular and doctor-recommended form of exercise here. For fun, go to a park and try the exercise machines. Watch some else use them before you try, they're a bit unusual.
Must be good to work muscles that usually wouldn't be worked.
trying to wined back the speedo like on a car
I wonder if it would work on the wife
I thought it was to make spitting easier in a headwind
If you would tell MD in Western hospital, you fell because you walked backwards
, they would certainly take you to another ward for mental evaluation.
