Kids with sticks and cobras on the prowl

It happens every year around this time.
Kids beating numchuck type sticks together.
No they aren't about to do a Kung Fu hit on you, they're warding off snakes and dragons.

It's all practice leading up to the dragon festival held this year on December 11.
Nightly training sessions are now underway at the local Chinese temple.
The cobra snakes you see aren't real.