Happy New Year!
We are back with the first show of 2022 and with Chinese New Year soon upon us we are looking at the traditional Lion Dance and how this is very much a sport and how the competition has grown in the past decade. Aaron Loong from the Perth Chung Wah Association joins us to explain the origins of the Lion Dance and the training required and how the sport is judged. Interestingly this is one sport that has adopted to the Covid pandemic and still managed to hold competitions.
John looks back on some of the major sporting events that have taken place while we took a break, and there has been plenty. First up was the shambles involving the Australian Open, Novak Djokovic and the Australian Government gets reviewed. Next up is England’s insipid performance in the Ashes Series, and John asks did they really want to be here? Finally he asks how many sports are still trying to operate as they did two years ago prior to the Covid pandemic.
In his topic under discussion Ashley looks at why it appears to be OK to sing abuse at a game but not shout it. He also asks if the Barmy Army have lost their novelty value and now become more annoying than entertaining. John then asks if booing acceptable or if that is still deemed a form of abuse.
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