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American one month April, 2008-May, 2008
Carina
When I decided to go to China to train Shaolin Kungfu, I thought it would be one of the hardest things I had to do in my life.? Especially because I wasn’t in a good shape when I came here. But it turned out quite easy actually. Not because it hasn’t been a lot of hard work, it has. Trust me, but what I mean is that at the same time I have had so much fun training, so in that way it made it easy. The training schedule is very variable, each day of week we do different things, so the training never get bored.
My master, master Bao has been very patient with our classes, something is important if you are teaching people who hasn’t done any martial arts before. He is very skilled and I respect him very much. He is a good teacher.
There is not really anything I have disliked about the academy, or, well, at the beginning I was not quite used to the Chinese food. It’s all right though, you get used to it. But anyway, I have enjoyed my stay here very much: The training, the people here. The whole experience has been great. And at last I would like to thank master Bao for all the things. He has taught me, and I wish him everything good in life. I hope to come back someday to learn more.
three months January 5th, 2008-April 3rd, 2008
Stine Dalby
The atmosphere of the academy is really good. Everybody gets long with everybody. When there are new people arrive at the academy, everybody helps to make them feel welcome.
When I came here I need some time to get use to the daily life of the academy. It’s quite different from what I was use to from back in Norway, but after a couple of weeks everything felt normal.
The same goes to training, you need some time to get your body used to this much training. The first couple of weeks where hard, but that goes for everybody. When we were not training indoors but outdoors.
I think it took us longer to adjust because of the cold weather in Jan. To train in the cold was a big challenge. After adjusting the body to the cold and to training I felt that I could get more out of every training sessions and the motivation went up.
I had done some martial arts before I came, and I felt that was a big benefit for me. I have learned more in this 3 month than I could if I didn’t.
I like the schedule that says what we are going to do each day. Master Bao is a good at planning each session. So it fits the group his working with. For the time, I have been here it has suited my level very well.
Good balance between the more physical hard sessions and the more technical sessions. My Master Bao also shows great enthusiasm in the lessons and for the martial art, and that is really motivated and you want to work hard.
I am very please that I doing these three months have learned two weapon forms. That is something I always has wanted to do, and something I look forward to practicing more back home.
Thank you for 3 magnificent months, and I will miss this place and I will miss the training session with the Master Bao.
But hopefully I will be back some day.
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