What It’s Like to Study Kung Fu in China

What It’s Like to Study Kung Fu in China

In the fall of 2007, I went to study kung fu in China. The experience was one of the strangest and most painful of my vagabonding travel adventures. If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to study kung fu in China (specifically, Shaolin in the place where it...
Studying Kung Fu at Xiao Long Wu Yuan, Shaolin Temple

Studying Kung Fu at Xiao Long Wu Yuan, Shaolin Temple

This begins a series of posts written by myself while studying kung fu at Xiao Long Wu Yuan, near the Shaolin Temple in Henan, China. I trained there with 12 or so other Western students in September and October of 2007. These updates are a mess. For one, there...