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Call that a Puma Mast Challenge ? Now this is what I call seriously getting up the pole.
Here, as JapanToday.com informs us, we see "performers demonstrating acrobatic stunts on top of ladders, which is known as "Dezome-shiki", as part of Tokyo Fire Department's New Year Fire Review held at Tokyo Big Sight on Tuesday morning (that's today folks !) About 2.700 professional firefighters and members of community-based fire companies in Tokyo and 137 fire vehicles, helicopters and ships were mobilized for the annual demonstration." For more photos, visit JapanToday.Gallery.
Now you see, that's why I really loved living in Tokyo. Imagine being rescued from the 36th floor by one of these guys ! (something that I don't really think the Tower Hamlets Fire Department would be up to, quite frankly, which is why we have to keep practising walking down 36 flights of stairs, an experience which does a lot for the thigh muscles but can really wipe out your afternoon). And it's dead symbolic too, because it's now official that of all the world currencies now laughing at the pound, it's the yen that has shown the biggest change - from 220 to the pound as recently as last summer, to a much more bracing 140 to the pound today.
What can we learn from this ? I have no idea. But just look at those firemen go ! Puma challengers, eat your heart out.
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