Amazingly, gloomy skies cleared in late afternoon on the 31st, the courts quickly dried, and the Stanley Park Tennis Club was able to play and cook. The rains came again in the evening, but many a burger had been eaten by that time. Thanks to all who participated. Next Loonie Twoonie Tuesday barbecue is scheduled for June 21.
This year, like last, has not yet brought forth weather to make outdoor tennis always possible. A year ago, after the rainout of the club’s first barbecue night, I embedded some videos in a post here, to help show the way to getting some excercise indoors, when the weather outside may be putting the kibosh on plans for tennis. In this deja vu circumstance of unseasonably cool and rainy weather, I am moved to do something similar. Unfortunately, I cannot find any good videos of anyone doing as entertaining a job of at-your-desk dancing as Gary Broisma lip-synching O-Zone. But I have run across some neat videos that show great ways to dance to a lot of exercise without taking up much space, indoors or out.
The first is a video by a cute Japanese girl named Kozue Aikawa, who dances to Vocaloid songs – that is, songs made by a vocal music syntheziser. I’d say the dance shown below involves all the muscle groups. The video includes a few out-takes at the end.
Kozue Aikawa has over 60 of these videos on YouTube, and has formed a troupe of young ladies, called Danceroid, who perform to Vocaloid pop songs in Japan. She does not always wear the mask.
Many of you may have seen the video of a guy from Seattle, who backpacked around the world, and along the way shot a video of himself dancing on the spot badly at exotic locations. That original video attracted a sponsor, whose backing enabled the intrepid bad dancer, Matt Harding, to do the definitive, big budget, cast-of-thousands, blockbuster remake of that simple idea. He did that a few years ago. I saw the remake for the first time yesterday. Its a very upbeat thing, and I include it here, with apologies to all who have already seen it too many times.
Well, hoping we see some summer tennis weather soon, I end this post with a video of some weird, amazing, little-space-needed dancing, by popper, Phillip Chbeeb.
Remember, you cannot get too fit for tennis. Go easy on the munchies as you watch these videos.
