Why do I keep seeing old Chinese men walking backwards?

your eyes are back to front?

@MsCheeky – that sounds awesome!

Are you seeing the same chinese person everyday in different places?

astrojax said :

they might find you running round an oval or something similar just as odd…

Yes, I’ve wondered that, too!

New Yeah said :

Give it a go, you’ll never look back.

well, actually, you always will!

this is quite common in china; and they might find you running round an oval or something similar just as odd…

You’re not hallucinating. I spend a bit of time in China and often go to the park in the morning. The people, and particularly the older ones, congregate in the parks for their morning exercise and hobbies. Tai chi, kite flying, music, board games, ballroom dancing, kung fu, all sorts of things are on display. As well as walking backwards, they often rub their backs on trees (like bears) and clap and wave their arms about in all sorts of fashions while walking, backwards or forwards. It’s a moving spectacle every day.

The interesting part about it for me is that you can join in by being just as weird as you like, and you’ll get lots of smile and thumbs up from the locals. Great fun.

Now you mention it, I saw that last week in Civic. Wonder why…

I see gweilo folk riding bicyles wearing skin-tight lycra all the time, and I reckon that looks pretty strange. It certainly doesn’t look good.

(Walking backwards also exercises different muscle groups to walking forwards)

Not a Canberra thing, not a hoax and certainly not reptoids. Doesn’t mean that you’re not hallucinating though.

Walking backwards is good for one’s health and a Taiwanese man has run several marathons backwards. Give it a go, you’ll never look back.