5th Nov 2006

Whilst on my way to buying junk at the 100yen shop saw some Japanese (?) dancing on the promenade outside the shopping centre. There were ladies dressed in what looked like Japanese style dressing gowns (I'm sure they weren't dressing gowns but they weren't kimonos…) with some sort of maracas…a wooden clapping device they move in time to the music with…there was also a very impressive martial arts type dance routine made up of girls wearing very skimpy crop tops hot pants and boy mainly topless (even the younger ones) wearing black trousers and some black waistband-cummerbund thing…which did just make them look like they'd pulled their trousers up to their nipples. Anyway large age range…OOooOoooh and there were two larger guys at the back waving the largest flags you have EVER seen… with Japanese on them. It looked like a lot of effort to get the kind of whooshing affect they were achieving… one of them had two mega flags attached to him. They looked ridiculously heavy… felt quite sorry for him actually…looked rather weighed down by it…anyway the whole troupe were running about doing some weird moves with nun-chucks and other things, generally kicking about and thrusting fists…etc.. a good show me thinks…