Yoga Championship

[generatrix999]

Who needs a goddamn mat anyway?

[sandrismat]

beautiful energy! thank you very much!

[tauktome]

5 cheers.

[23yogini]

championship ?!? and yoga ?!?

what are those words doing together ?

[dany080]

@23yogini your brain and your body?What are those things doing togheter?Cmon,if chess is sport than who gaf?

[Purushadasa]

Wow -- this guy is amazing!

[vgbasil]

is that healthy for the joints?

[Purushadasa]

@vgbasil Let's look at your question logically: Do you think that this guy's joints are in good condition or in bad condition?

[TheCloudXTraining]

@vgbasil Yes! The difference between Yoga & others is that it moves the body according to our human anatomy. It seeks to harmonize the body with the law of nature.

[Meryog]

Surender Singh is still a super star.. would love so some from him..

[Vairus461]

2,29.. "wytarłem dupe.."

[Dracula3423]

ебать срать

[athleteo1]

Is this the same Surinder Singh currently teaching yoga in Rishikesh?

[wallyspet]

ahahahahah what's with the music and cheering?

funny video but PLEASE don't do this to yoga, people. at least call it something else.

[jenkomagic]

I have to agree with cspace 1234nz as a practitioner of Ashtanga yoga for over 10 years its just an asana exhibition to music

[sqazimoto]

nothing to do with yoga? such a universal expert! I think its awesome and is absolutely positively yoga!

[cspace1234nz]

Gymnastics.

It's pretty cool stuff but really has little or nothing to do with yoga.

It is a good representation of how yoga has been bastardised in the west though, this is what people in the west think yoga is for the most part.

[SONIAZANINELLI]

AhAhAh...what about the music?!?!?!

[cspace1234nz]

I was waiting for him to start doing the Riverdance or something !

[phillykid1780]

this is kinda effed up. i mean, this is yoga totally out of context but whatever it doesn't matter i guess

[HumanRightsVideosT]

It looks like Olympic gymnastics. Great stuff !!!

[FranAsso]

FANTASTIC....PERFECT!!!!!!

[globalreality]

Great! Resplendent!

[jenkomagic]

I could really see BKS and Sri Pattabi getting into this...not

[JustinHSabaj]

it's like they took the sounds that go on in my head when i practice and put it to some other guy's video

[Pancakrtya]

maya !!!

[LALU505]

hindu yoga

[albatrossdumale]

Gesu' Cristo....

[thiagohac]

THIS IS NOT YOGA. THIS IS GYM

[Babliclat]

i wonder how much applause you would get for samadhi hahaha

[mre33snare]

This just goes to show that people are competitive in nature. The only people who would try to hold competitive yoga are the upper middle class, suburbanite, average american, slobs who only do anything for vanity. Yoga is a way of life not some sport. The point is about cleansing your mind body and soul, not showing off how bendy you are. Save that for gymnasts.

[parsha43]

Wow. Maybe you should do your yoga, lighten up and stop being such a hater. Lifes to short to be such a miserable, judgmental know-it-all.

This competition is actually being held in India. You should go there and tell them what yoga is supposed to be.

[jimsuttra]

@parsha43 I have been living there for quite a while, and sadly most Indians (to) has lost the essence of yoga. You should also have in mind that India is a vast country with over a billion people, there is plenty of things weirder then this.

Yoga is the path to experience your true nature, which is pure being, through your body. Asanas (positions) is only the third step out of seven. But people get caught up in the positions, and think they have reached somewhere. But they are still on step 3.

[gafnidikla]

@jimsuttra

agree

[tinypants143]

WHOO!! i second that!

[badreef]

Yoga is not a way of life...being a yogi is a way of life. Hatha yoga is physical yoga..and its not about cleaning body/mind, its about connecting body and mind. a yoga competition is mainly a damonstration on the benefits of a consistant practice = good for yoga = good for mankind. people who call them slobs doing it for vanity = bad for mankind.

[FenrisInvictus]

Seriously, why are you going to chastise someone and pass judgement on them for having fun with something they obviously enjoy? what a douchebag

[dinasaur1]

this is more like gymnastics im sure the upper classes would enjoy this rubbish...enjoy

[Steeveyoga]

Surinder is a little bit disturbed by the music, no doubt (good music but the rhythm is far too rapid for hatha-yoga), but absolutely fantastic. Namaste.

[Steeveyoga]

As they say: "Fantastic Surinder!". You are a man!

[Steeveyoga]

The music is quite rajasic (doesn't bring peace of mind) for a "yoga championship". But thank you anyway, this man is very flexible.

[richard9829]

With the music, i thought is a new "Pop-Yoga".......

[ezh108]

my friend Denis was participating in this competition. it was in Delhi in 2000. Indian orginisers said to all teams @dont use indian music, only western" why - i dont know. My frien was nat happy from this championship - he told thats to much corruption & people who organising it not practise yoga themselves - they are indian businesmen, not yogis

[sukhasana]

In this november, in Mexico, one teacher will give a Pop Yoga class (thats the name he choose) in the Encuentro Nacional de Yoga 2008. Its a style in the same mood of this vdo. I think yoga most take care about how do I feel, more than how do I look.

[zygomatic79]

not healthy

[stasenjka]

Viparita Salabhasana...amazing and ... this funny twist from Upavista Konasana I gonna use to do it :)

[m00v]

n1 wiLL be on this skiLL Level in 2 years ;)

[jimsuttra]

this is not yoga

[HumanRightsVideosT]

what is it then ???

[jimsuttra]

A tacky circus performance!

[ChinaKillsTibetans]

I thought it was interesting. Some trivial events get medals at the Olympics.

[jimsuttra]

Shure! And yoga is supposed to be a counterforce to that. If you compete and show off with yoga you have simply not understood its essence.

[MENCADO]

Beautiful physique.

[doubleleo]

wow he is amazing. Beautiful simply

[TEXGLAM]

boy this requires some serious "letting go"

[AguFungus]

Holy crap! He can push his leg all the way down!

[ttt60]

Dhalsim and other Yoga masters are very skinny, this Yogi is quite mucsular. This video clip has changed my thinking about Yoga. I may have a chance.

[dwaynemac]

shure you can try it ttt60! yôga is not just about your body any way. ásana is just one technique.

and any way ásana can be realy muscular.

watch some SwáSthya Yôga coreographers, they do amazing stuff.

[firenam]

can you say Dhalsim....from street fighter