REMEMBER high school physical education class and all its stupid requirements? The rope climb? The Trampoline? The snapping towels?
It was the one class where your intelligence didn't matter. The one class where all the jocks shone and made life miserable for everybody else?
Imagine taking a P.E. class and learning how to dance the tinkling, otherwise known as the Filipino bamboo dance that tests your nimbleness and sense of rhythm. Why not?
The Tinikling had its debut on an American sitcom recently, The Middle. Here's a video of that sequence. The video is trending. Who would have thought?
Could the Tinikling be the next yo-yo, that cultural phenomenon that came from the Philippines that is so "American," that most don't know of its Filipino origins.
Oh yeah - I can see fitness gyms giving aerobic classes ... clap, clap CLAP! Clap, clap, CLAP! OUCH!
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| American school kids (above and below) learn the "tinikling" during their exercise period. |
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