Wushu Retrospective (Part 6): 1996-2000: Sifu Video
I can remember the first time I saw a wushu video. I was at Mai Morgan’s house one day after an early wushu class on Sunday (she was a Cal Wushu student who was training at Wushu West) and I noticed she had a video tape labeled “Beijing Wushu Team” on it. My eyes bugged [...]
Wushu Retrospective (Part 5) – 1996-2000: Wushu Friends
Before getting back in to the experience of learning wushu itself, I thought I would take some time to talk about something that had a huge impact on my experience with wushu over the years. In fact, besides my coach, I would say that this is one of the two factors that contributed the most [...]
Wushu Retrospective (Part 4) – 1996-1998: An Introduction to Wushu Politics
When I first started training at Wushu West my focus was pretty much centered on the world inside my school. It took me a couple months just to get to know my fellow students and start bonding with them. But it became clear after a short time that there was a whole world of wushu [...]
Wushu Retrospective (Part 3) – 1995-1996: Competitions and Demonstrations
This is part 3 of my Wushu Retrospective, a look back at my personal history with the sport of wushu. Please note that there are syncing issues with the sound on the following videos that I didn’t have time to fix before posting them up. ———————————————- It was round-about the time I was 3/4 of [...]
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 [...]