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Tristan's Training Update
... on some of our gymnastic stuff like sommersaults, kip-ups, and other rolls. Then, for fun, I versed a guy who has been here for two years and is over 6 feet tall and two hundred pounds and I almost tapped him out!! My BJJ skills came in really handy... he tried to put me in a guillatine choke, but I slipped out and landed in slide control, got mount on him, and then got him in a triangle which was pretty frickin tight, so he had to pick me up and slam me on the ground to ...
Delicious lunch in Muping
... height: 17px; "> After some grocery shopping (I think I looked a bit like a monkey when I explained the lady in sign language that I was looking for shampoo, but she understood.) we all met up and went for lunch. We got one of the private rooms in the restaurant and ordered various dishes to share. In the room there is a table with a turning plate in the middle. The waiter started bringing ...
Fas, Moh Pawah! Kuai! Kuai! Kuai!
... with Zhang sifu, looking alternatively badass and ambiguously gay (yes, it is extremely weird, and I only feel safe writing that having left the academy).
While the quality of instruction on the academy is top notch, the Achilles heel is the translation. There are ostensibly 4 translators, as many as there are classes for international students, but 2 of them are absolutely useless, and only ...
Riven
... swoop.
And like I said earlier, it's a common fallacy to expect some sorta Spartan existence that would whip him into shape mentally as much as physically.
Anyway, they set a teenage boy who already had discipline issues among a male-dominated pack of twentysomethings in a foreign country where the closest semblance of parental authority within a 12-timezone radius spoke no English and spent a lifetime cultivating an air ...
AN ENGLISH NAME FOR YA HUI
... inspire and touch me the deepest.
Take, for example, Ya Hui - a real Eastern beauty. This girl's cheekbones and eyelids bulge roundly, on a slightly-taller-than-average body that is little more than small bones and glowing gray skin. Her curling, upper lip and eyes smile sideways, suggesting she knows tricks and secrets I couldn't possibly know. It often seems she wouldn't feel comfortable speaking a Western language. And yet, she speaks to me with ...



