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Bluesky Hotel Yantai

No.131 Changjiang Road,Opening Development Area Yantai, Shandong, China

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Day 3

A travel blog entry by kungfukroeker

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... optional tai chi class first thing in the morning, but we've decided that mandatory classes will be enough for us for the first two weeks.So we start our day at 7 for breakfast. Then, we clean our rooms etc and meet in front of the school for training at 8:30. Every training session, morning and afternoon, starts with a 2k run as a warm up. It's a very picturesque road that we run on, and walking is ok for newbies and old people like me, so it''s not ...

Let the training begin...

A travel blog entry by v-nessa

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... including splits and then we had to form 2 lines. We did various forms of kicks, me a bit slower than the others.

10.00-10.30h Break
Run to the toilet (remember to get the toilet paper from the room first), drink water and go back to the training hall.


10.30-11.45h Training

Old Man and the Chi

A travel blog entry by david_chung

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... literature, Outlaws of the Marsh, which is apparently pretty sweet.

His rather unusual interest in Tai Chi in particular was sparked by an older friend of his who had studied it all his life -- and no other martial art style. Detecting skepticism that anything old people spend their mornings doing in the park could be combat effective, the friend asked Joseph to try taking a punch at him and then tossed him to the floor ...

5 Point Heel Exploding Blister Technique

A travel blog entry by david_chung

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... people who were too cool at the time but are now already showing crows feet.

So I was rather gutted when the reunion was cancelled, and not at all consoled when they sorta later reinstated it, rescheduled 5 months later and lamely appended onto a broader reunion weekend that itself was subsumed into homecoming. With a small informal event just for our 97 class, I might have still attended had it not fallen during a 12 month period ...

Ali Baba and the Four Thieves

A travel blog entry by david_chung

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... unused pair under my bed when I moved into my dorm).

So clearly more than a few people on the Shan really had been living up to the 40 thieves theme...
-DAve
posted: Fri July 30, 2010 from Kunyu Shan Shaolin Academy

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