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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]