Shibashi

Randomly typed "shibashi" and "st. scho" in Google and came across this video of Sr. Mary John Mananzan teaching shibashi steps in some conference:


Too bad the video's dark.

This clip reminds me of a St. Scho retreat in Batulao where a number of us students woke up early and saw Sis. Kristia Bacani doing the shibashi. We ended up joining her. Turns out that the SSC Manila nuns practice shibashi every morning.

Learned from other, younger Scholastican's blogs that eventually, shibashi was incorporated in the grade school Morning Praise. That would mean a looonger Morning Praise.

I doubt if other Catholic schools have that! Ha ha ha! Stuff like this reminds me that studying in St. Scho isn't your ordinary Catholic school experience. Oh man, the idea of fighting nuns is running through my head right now. Shibashi after all means 18 movements of Tai-chi ... which is, apart from being a relaxing exercise, can be treated as an introduction to the Chinese martial arts.