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 [...]
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 [...]
Athlete Interviews
I’ve been thinking about expanding some of the content I offer on youtube and wushuzilla. Part of what seems to be lacking for a lot of wushu practitioners outside of China is a way to connect directly with athletes and coaches here in China. Sure, we have Chinese athletes and coaches in the West (or [...]
The Reason Chinese Wushu Athletes Are So Good
I used to hear (both from others and inside my own head) the question a lot: “Why are Chinese wushu athletes so freaking good??” The quick answer? In a cryptic nutshell: ((Ai/T) +((C*R)+M))(U+S) But let me start at the beginning … The Quest For Understanding When you first start wushu you are in a bit [...]