This is a traditional Asian game where players keep an heavily weighted shuttlecock in their air using thier feet and other parts of the body, but not hands. (Yes, that was from Wikipedia). And actually, I was so bad that they let me use my hands ;-)
This is the national sport of Vietnam, played especially in Hanoi.
Here is Ashton really getting into it... and yes, that is a baby riding a motorbike in the background... and yes, we were playing this game in the road... that is just the way it is done.
After lots of laughter and after lots of sweating...at the end of the game, we all shook hands and we went our separate ways. About 5 minutes later, a guy on a motorbike chased us down as we were walking back to our hotel. It was the same guy and he had made Ashton his very own AUTHENTIC Can Tho, Vietnam shuttlecock. Ashton was so pleased and this is his very most prized possession/memory from the trip:
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