Asian squat

plural Asian squats

1. A position assumed by bending at the knees with one's feet flat on the ground and knees spread apart.

   She assumed the Asian squat, feet splayed, sucking on her cigarette.

   2009, Christopher G. Moore, Paying Back Jack, New York, NY: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 178

   3 more examples

   I thanked him and dropped down into an Asian squat alongside the Cortina's left fender.

   1989, Robert Sam Anson, War News: A Young Reporter in Indochina, New York, NY: Touchstone, →ISBN, page 278

   Bring chest forward, settle hips very deep, almost assuming an Asian Squat position. Look forward, preferably not in a mirror. One explosive, highly technical movement now occurs as you whip the barbell overhead and jump under it, landing in a full Asian Squat holding the barbell directly overhead (bottom position of an Overhead Squat).

   1999, Steve Ilg, The Winter Athlete: Secrets of Wholistic Fitness for Outdoor Performance, Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, →ISBN, page 428

   My mother was doing the unnervingly uncouth Asian squat—a deep, flamboyant squat, feet flat, weight fully on heels. I could do it too, quite easily, in fact, and hold the position for a long time.

   2020, Lan Cao, Harlan Margaret Van Cao, Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, An American Daughter, New York, NY: Viking, →ISBN, page 77