Asian squat

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

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

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

     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).

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

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

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

     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.