Asha De­fre­itas As­mose­ley

The "hand-stand wine," al­so proud­ly and con­fi­dent­ly dis­played by Machel's "poom-poom" shorts-clad gym­nasts, has brought great en­ter­tain­ment and jaw-drop­ping dis­be­lief to the lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al pop­u­la­tion. The core con­trol and shoul­der sta­bil­i­ty re­quired to main­tain a hand-stand, while si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly gy­rat­ing one's pelvis as the legs are con­trolled over­head must leave for­eign­ers thun­der­struck, rant­i­ng about such "erot­ic" Tri­ni "win­ery" to friends long af­ter they have re­turned to the cold. I now un­der­stand this ob­ses­sion Tri­nis have with fit­ness at Car­ni­val time. It is more than sim­ply want­i­ng to look good and with­stand both days of rev­el­ry...get­ting fit is nec­es­sary in or­der to be able to wine! So maybe I will no longer be­come an­noyed at the last minute crowds over­whelm­ing La­dy Chan­cel­lor or the Sa­van­nah six weeks be­fore Car­ni­val...af­ter all, these are the same in­di­vid­u­als who amuse us with their win­ing an­tics, and they cer­tain­ly need to be fit in or­der to do so! So no mat­ter how you de­cide to ad­van­tage the stage, be it win­ing to d side or get­ting on "wot­less eeen de mas" try to avoid "mak­ing ah jail"...or the hos­pi­tal!