Chinese New Year in Chaoyang with Wu Di 吴迪
We am spending the Spring Festival holiday in Liaoning province with Wu Di. I will be posting up lots if photos and updates from my trip on twitter so search there for #travelzilla to see all the good stuff. I will be using both my @naromkram and @wushuzilla accounts so searching for the hash tag [...]
Mark’s random status update
So, it’s been a little while and you’re probably wondering what happened to me. Or .. perhaps you don’t care and are just wondering where more wushu videos are. Well, a couple things have been going on so let me give you a quick status update: Wushu Hiatus As you remember from the last WTV, [...]
WTV #14: Alone at the track
Earlier in the week I was inundated with work at the office so I had to cancel my Monday and Wednesday practices with Yuan Min. Just as well since it took me about a week to recover from that last training session at the track. By the time I got back to the Sports Center [...]
WTV #13: Solo Practice
Yuan Min had contacted me on Tuesday with a message to let me know that I would have to come to practice at 5PM the next time around. I wasn’t sure if something happened with the other coaches, or maybe the team is preparing for something specific? Sometimes there are weird political things that happen. [...]
WTV #12: Condition: Dead
I’m becoming more familiar with the schedule with Yuan Min’s class so i knew without even checking that they would be at the track today. Luckily today’s weather was beautiful: blue skies, not too hot … not too cold … just right. As I pulled up to the track the kids had already started jogging [...]
WTV #11: Third time’s a (c)harm
Yes, my play on words with the titles is undoubtedly groan-inducing across the whole wushu blogosphere. Pardon me. I can’t help myself. So, today was day 3 of the week for wushu. My scooter is still out of commission (will get it fixed this weekend) so I cabbed it up to the wushu guan, arriving [...]
WTV #10: A tumblin’ we will go
Today’s workout is brought to by the letters “T” and “umbling”. I sent Yuan Min a message around 2PM to let him know that I would be a little late to practice as I had a few things to finish up at work. When I got there the kids had just finished their stretching so [...]
The Monthly Ma (October 2011)
I started writing this back at the end of September, but here it is the 11th of October and I haven’t finished it yet. Well, I suppose most of it still holds true so I will post it up as a “3 out of 4 weeks isn’t bad” sort of thing. That week-long National Holiday [...]