Jackie Chan is swinging his hips at me again. I'm trying to keep pace, but finding it hard. We've only been at it five minutes, and I'm already starting to feel the burn. Jackie makes big gestures with his hands. I wonder if I should do the same. Ah, what the hell.

Somewhere children giggle.

I'm a sucker for testing crap. When I saw the XaviX display in Yodobashi Camera, I had to try it out. While kid and wife wandered off to test fat scanning scales, I decided to burn off the curry rice I had fer lunch. And Jackie Chan was going to whip me into shape or something like that.

After I entered my age (27) and my weight (59 kgs) and my sex (male), Jackie appeared. The Yodobashi theme song was blasting through the store over and over again, so I couldn't really hear what kinda music was propelling exercise game. (I wonder if that stupid thing song drives the Yodobashi staff batty or if they've become numb? Perhaps they have special earplugs...)

With that retarded theme song blaring and children giggling and pointing, testing conditions weren't exactly prime. I wanted to tell them to stuff. I'm working dammit! I couldn't even figure out if I was supposed to copy Jackie or if I should've followed these DDR style patterns that appeared on the screen. Or maybe I should've done both. Copying Jackie's hip sways and arm gestures—now, those I should've skipped.

Jackie Wants to Pump You Up

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