Can you climb 1,320 steps with feet tied to wooden stilts? | Coimbatore News

ERODE: No one can watch kattaikal attam with out awe as the standard Tamil people dance type requires nice balancing expertise on the a part of the performers since they dance with their feet tied to two-foot-tall wooden stilts.Then, what about watching somebody climbing 1,320 steps with feet tied to such wooden stilts? A viewer could also be breathless, however not these youngsters.In Erode district, a bunch of girls and boys are showcasing their balancing expertise by climbing 1,320 steps main to the Chennimalai Murugan Temple with their feet tied to wooden stilts.Ok Shankar of Ganapathipalayam, who has 4 a long time of expertise as a kattaikal attam performer, is coaching youngsters aged above 4 years to climb the 1,320 temple steps standing on the wooden stilts. With the assistance of the Uzhavan Kalaikuzhu organisation, he’s coaching them to ascend and descend the steps. The final aim is to assist the youngsters set a document sooner or later. The group can be planning to climb hills in a close-by forest within the trend.

“Climbing hills or steps like this will improve children’s ability to balance better while dancing on flat surfaces,” Shankar mentioned.Apart from kattaikal attam, Shankar is instructing the youngsters different artwork varieties like valli kummi dance, salangai attam and perunjalangai attam.