Chinese National Acrobatic Troupe

Thursday night, while Justin was attending Jake's and Sean's volleyball match, for which Ren and I couldn't get tickets, we accompanied the Curtis's to Pizza Hut and then to the Poly Theater in downtown Beijing to watch the Chinese National Acrobatic Troupe--a combination of the familiar and the new! The troupe is a-ma-zing! They use all sorts of props and apparatuses, like trays with glasses and spinning plates and poles, ladders, and hoops. Plus, they throw each other, balance on one another, Flip, tumble, bend, and balance, and gosh, there just aren't words. The hoops that I am pictured with are the exact hoops and height that one of the acrobats jumped through after doing two round-offs and a leap. He failed on his first attempt, but went through on the second attempt (He had to land on his hands, coming down head first). I tried to stand on my tip-toes to give you perspective of how high over my head that hoop is, but I couldn't get my heels to the full height of the curb. Nonetheless, my head is only a few inches lower than correct perspective. The floor-to-hoop height is 3.1 meters (10' 2").