Beijing Wushu Team – 2011 Summer Training
This past summer I visited Beijing a few times to see some friends. But while I was there I was able to snap a bit of footage (“snap footage?”) of the Beijing Wushu Team’s practice session. Not a lot of stuff, but thought it would be nice for you to see the current line-up of [...]
Four More Days in Beijing
A mere 10 days after my previous trip to Beijing I was back again for some more Dong Bei goodness. This time around Ruhi was also in town. She had gone a couple days before me to attend a teacher training and she was going to leave a couple days before me too, but we [...]
Four Days in Beijing
I recently took a couple trips to Beijing to visit friends who were in town. My teacher, Hao Zhi Hua, along with several Wushu West students, were taking their summer training trip to Shi Cha Hai, and of course I was also able to spend some quality time with a bunch of other friends who [...]
Beijing – Day 13/14: Training and New Arrivals
Sorry for the lack of updates over the last 2 days. Not that much have happened to warrant a single entry for each day, but now two days have passed. And since I’m waiting for the guest blog entries on the F0rbidd3n City and The Gr3at Wa11 (Pierre and Ashley? Hellooooo?) I’ll fill some time [...]
Beijing – Day 11: Weight Lifting, the Forbidden City and Hutong Pizza
Finally our last 8:00 am training was here. I will not be sad to see those be a thing of the past. Next week all our trainings are at 9:00 and 3:30 in the wushu hall. Jennifer eating breakfast Pierre enjoys some cereal We were in the lower wushu hall for basics and forms. Also [...]
Beijing – Day 10: Pierre and Jennifer arrive
The day had finally arrived for two more members of Wushu West to join us in Beijing. But first, we had to deal with some morning training in the upstairs wushu hall. When we arrived in the wushu hall there were a few of the professional athletes stretching on the main blue carpet; Zhao Qing [...]
Beijing – Day 9: More of the Same …
It was another early morning for us today. The first training session was at 8:00 AM in the lower wushu hall. Today also marked 1/3 of our trip completed. Just 18 more days until most of us head back to the U.S. I’m sure it will go by quickly (and yet, ironically, the training seems [...]
Beijing – Day 7 & 8: Training Next to the Pros
This blog entry is being written for Wushu West’s website, wushuwest.com. However, since I’m the one writing it, I thought it might be of interest to other folks too. If you would like to learn more, please visit the Wushu West website. ———— Edit 7/27: Swapped out videos with youtube embeds First, sorry for the [...]
Beijing – Day 6: Last Day of Quarantine
This blog entry is being written for Wushu West’s website, wushuwest.com. However, since I’m the one writing it, I thought it might be of interest to other folks too. If you would like to learn more, please visit the Wushu West website. ———— Today was the last day of quarantine. Other than that it was [...]