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Yizhong Hotel Yantai

No.1 Xinxing North Street, Guanhai Road, Laishan District Yantai, Shandong, China

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Day 3

A travel blog entry by kungfukroeker

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... training hall which is older, and kind of looks like a small barn with a worn cement floor. I like the oldness of it. We're at the hotel nearby, so I have no idea what the dorms are like.

We've trained now for two full days. Tristan is learning some crazy kung-fu forms and has done power training. I'm only learning tai chi, and have now learned three moves. I go as slow as a sloth and told I need to always go slower, slower, slower. There ...

Let the training begin...

A travel blog entry by v-nessa

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... stand in front of the others and introduce myself to the students as well as the Masters and translators.

The training started with a warm up run. (Yes, I came in last and completely out of breath.) Then some individual stretching before we did the group stretching (one leg up on a bar for 60 seconds each). Then we did the actual warm up. Starting with about 100 jumping jacks and other jump forms. Then some ...

Old Man and the Chi

A travel blog entry by david_chung

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... mind you - to Joseph: sometimes the punches never stop.

Joseph's past combat background (unarmed, that is) consisted of some western boxing (his newness to Asian martial arts is most evident in his white man's overbite while doing the Baji form), but he's pretty well versed in Asian culture. He plays Go (or baduk, in Korean), and has not only read both Journey to the West and 3 Kingdoms, but the third classic ...

5 Point Heel Exploding Blister Technique

A travel blog entry by david_chung

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One of the upsides about being full-blooded Asian is that you look young for, like, ever. One of the downsides is that you're not particularly encouraged to learn social skills until you get to college. For both of these reasons, plus the fact that both Gross Pointe Blank and Romy and Michelle came out my senior year of high school, I had been really looking forward to rolling in on a motorcycle for my 10 year high school reunion and wowing ...

Ali Baba and the Four Thieves

A travel blog entry by david_chung

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... for an, ahem, happy ending.

Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty (NP4: open hurry!).

And since that note isn't the happiest one to end on, a final observation. The slippers used for padding around the bathhouse were not supposed to be taken out of the facilities (they keep your outside shoes hostage to ensure you return them), but I noticed a striking resemblance between them and the ones seen quite frequently around the Shan ...

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