Three months April-July, 2010

Leopold Grupp (German)

Coming to the Kunyu Mountain Martial Arts Academy was a life-changing experience for me. I came with no martial arts experience and expected to get a good first impression of it in the time I would be here. But that was way under estimated. Next to learning how to fight, how to control your body, gaining flexibility, I made a lot of interesting friends and built up an amazing relationship with my master. Being a student in Master zhang’s shaolin group gave me even more than I hope to expect. In the form lessons, next to basics, I learned lots of kungfu, acrobatics and even an animal form. Furthermore, my master gave me an example and taught me the real spirits of martial arts. How you train and how you show respects and get respects at the same time. In total, I have to say that I leave as a changed person not just physically but also mentally. I will leave this academy happily with a clear, calm, relaxed and sober mind but also sad to leave an epic, spiritual place like this. I will miss the training, the people, the atmosphere and especially my master, which will make me definitely come back next year.