The Center Hotel Weihai
No.58 Xinwei Road, Huancui District Weihai, Shandong, China
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Kathy's taiji form
OK, here is the taiji form that I learned while I was there. I suppose it's fair that I post this, since I want Tristan to post all of his. A word of warning though... even watching GOOD tai chi is pretty boring, and I'm about 20 years away from being good! But, for those who are interested... here it ...
Video: Tristan's first form
Tristan is practicing his first form. He won't be grading (testing) on it until the new year, so it's still a work in progress!
His master is watching with a spear in hand. If the students don't do well, he sometimes whack them with it -- depending on his mood. He rarely uses the pointy end, thank goodness!
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Big training hall
This is where Tristan spends almost all of his time training, except for the occassional class outside. I go back and forth between the small training hall and the big one. This is also where sparring takes place every other Friday, and grading (testing on the forms people have learned) takes place on the 1st and the 15th of each ...
Yantai and random pictures
Yesterday we went into Yantai and had a great time. We went with two other people... a youngish guy from London who is super friendly and talkative, and a quiet middle-aged ex-military guy from Colorado... both really nice people. We went to a mall and had a great lunch where we cooked our (unidentifiable) meat on a grill at our table, and had some other salads and a seafood hot pot. It was actually really, really good. Then we got Baskin Robbins for dessert.
On our way ...
Tristan's Training Update
This week we did a bunch of Sanda, which is Chinese kick-boxing, and some appliable self-defense. The first day we did Sanda we worked on a bunch of kicks, working on getting our knees higher and turning kicks to the head, and it sucked because I had to do like 100 kicks on each side. The next day for Sanda I did a bunch of combinations on Tai pads, going up and down the floor doing punches. We had to scream when we did the punches or else the Shifu would hit us. My arms ...



