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Whipping Top Competition Opens in Southwest China, Attracting 2700 Players

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• published: 18 Jul 2016
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The fifth Whipping Top Competition opened Saturday in Liupanshui City of southeast China's Guizhou Province, attracting 123 teams totaling some 2,700 players from across the country to showcase their fantastic stunts. "We are lucky to have the chance to be here. The ways people in the mainland play whipping tops are different from ours, but they can be combined. I feel it's a great idea to combine your whipping way and our fixed spinning," said Lin Senhai, a famous player from Taiwan nicknamed “Taiwan's king of whipping tops". A gigantic top made by the whipping top association in Liupanshui became the focus of public attention. "The whipping top is made from a kind of wood from Cambodia. It is 2.6 kilograms in weight, 1.15 meters in height with a diameter of 0.95 meters. We need dozens of players whipping together to make it spin,"said Zhao Kuining, chairman of Liupanshui whipping top association. As a sport entertaining both the old and the young, whipping top is enjoyed by more and more people. This year's competition has attracted players aged from 2 to 85 years. The news that hotels in the city were all booked Friday made people excited. Liupanshui expects that this event brings more people to visit. More on: http://www.cctvplus.com/news/20160717/8027278.shtml#!language=1 Subscribe us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CCTVPlus CCTV+ official website: http://www.cctvplus.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cctv-news-content Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsContent.CCTVPLUS Twitter: https://twitter.com/CCTV_Plus