Wushu Retrospective (Part 2) – 1995: The Honeymoon
I picked up the phone. “Hello?” “Hello. Is Mark there? I’m returning his call.” a woman’s Chinese-accented voice said on the other end. I figured it was someone from the school’s office or maybe a parent that helps with registration. “Yes, I’m interested in taking Wushu classes?” I said. “Have you taken any martial arts [...]
Wushu Retrospective (Part 1) – 1987-1995: Finding Wushu
Back in 2008 I started to write this Wushu Retrospective, an accounting of my personal history with wushu. Now that I have a smidge more time I am going to re-post the original entries (previously only posted for a select group of people) and continue writing them to completion. I will post a new segment [...]