Do you know what "yankee sitting" is? Nowadays, there are more and more people who cannot sit in the "yankee sitting" style, which was popular among "delinquents" in the 1970s to 1990s. You may think that it's okay if you can't do it, but if you leave it alone, it can lead to various physical disorders. ■Increasing number of young people who can't sit in the "yankee sitting"? When we asked Shingo Kanamori, representative of the Medical Foot Center, a physical therapist, about the inability to sit in the "yankee sitting", he said, "If you can't sit in the "yankee sitting" style, it means that your ankle joints and calf muscles are stiff." Stiff ankles and calves can also lead to various physical disorders. When did the "yankee sitting" style start in the first place? And is there a way to soften stiff ankles and other parts of the body? We asked Masaki Miyairi, a former reporter for the magazine "Champ Road", which was very popular among people who were called yankees, why they sit in this way. ▼To create an intimidating feeling ▼To avoid getting their school uniforms, which were custom-made for them, dirtying them. Although it is not seen much these days, you can see the "yankee sitting" at the coming-of-age ceremony in Fukuoka and Kitakyushu. ■ "yankee sitting" was a familiar movement... Yankees are thought of as people from overseas, but in fact, it is not as easy for people from overseas to do it. When I asked a German person to do the "yankee sitting" in Shibuya, he said, "It's hard on the hip joints and buttocks. I think Japanese people can do it because they are flexible." In the West, the "yankee sitting" is called the "Asian squat." In one survey, 13.5% of people in the United States can do the "Asian squat," and of those, 9% are Asian. In other words, it is a relatively familiar movement for us in Asia. The familiar movement is related to our lifestyle. In the past, we lived in tatami rooms, and we often stood and sat, such as sitting in seiza or cross-legged, and the toilet was a Japanese-style toilet, so we squatted a lot and our ankles were flexible. But now, our lifestyle has changed, and we have tables and chairs, and the toilet has become a Western-style toilet. If we look at the toilet to see how much our lifestyle has become Westernized, 97.4% of people say they use Western-style toilets. ■If you can't sit in the "Yankee" position, you may have physical problems... If you can't sit in the "Yankee" position, that is, if your ankles are stiff, it can lead to knee pain, back pain, and stiff shoulders. This means that your posture can be affected by the whole body. In addition, people with stiff ankles tend to have stiff calf muscles, and if blood flow to the calves is poor, blood circulation throughout the body will be poor. This means that you are more likely to get cold and swollen in the summer than in other seasons. So, what should you do? Here are some simple stretches for your ankles and calves. If you bend one knee and stretch each leg forward for 20 seconds at a time, you can sit in the "Yankee" position. ▼TBS NEWS DIG Official Website https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/ ▼Please subscribe to our channel! / @tbsnewsdig ▼Information provided by "TBS Insiders" https://www.tbs.co.jp/news_sp/tbs-ins... ▼Video provided by "TBS Scoop Post" https://www.tbs.co.jp/news_sp/toukou.... #News #news #TBS #newsdig