Another good day? - what on earth can be wrong with things?
Yes readers I am getting sceptical in my old age.
I've had so many highs brought back down to earth with crashingly, painful bumps, that I have now got to the stage in my life where I expect every good time to be followed by a large and very usually painful bad time.
So why has today been good? Well to be honest the day itself wasnt that good at all. I haven't done anything special or spectactular. Havent seen or spoken to anyone really.
But
(There is always a but)
But this evening I took my two freinds and my father to the Chinese State Circus at Star City in Birmingham. and What a FABULOUS evening it was.
I have always been a fan of live entertainment - theatres, music shows, even the mime artisits that do the "Fake statues" but I do not think you can compare any of these to a circus.
The Chinese State Circus has been around for many years and to the best of my knowledge this is the first time Ive had the pleasure of seeing them.
We arrived at Star City quite early and were shown to our seats - only three rows from the ring side not a bad vantage point at all.
Then we were entertained by two hours of ...... to be honest breath taking spectacular human acrobatics and stunning beauty and also terryfying feats of human endeavours.
The acrobats dived through rotating hoops, tumbled across the ring, used each other as climbing frames, jumped from 20 feet high poles, juggled heavy clay jars (massive flower pots) and climbed a slack wire.
The dancers brought colour and beauty to the ring with the electryfying marks of the Dragon dance and shear magic of the lion dancing including walking on huge spheres across a see saw.
The Human Candleabra was a contorstionist who twisted and turned into some very unusal and surely uncomforatable situations with groups of candles on her head, feet and hands - How she ever discovered this ability is just mind boggling.
Then finally the super human super fit Shaolin Wu Shu Warriors performed thier martial arts fest of sword and stick work.
Through special breathing techniques they enter a state of deep meditation and permit the inner spirit to assume total control of every action and emotion through positive thought and clarity of purpose. This not simply a style of martial arts - it is a way of life controlled by religious culture. Through their actions, you could see the incredible power of combining physical and spiritual strength.
Not to mention breaking bricks or slabs of concrete on their bodies or climbing onto the centre piece of a pointed trident and rotaing themsleves around on their belly or even headstands and flips using their heads to spring from the floor.
Readers all in all this is why last night was so amazing. How the human body can achieve these things is only is beyond my imagination.
But a truely truely amazing night.
Thats all for now folks
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