WTV #5: Keeping in iTouch
My office is loaning me an iPod Touch for one of my projects so I took it to tonight’s practice to see how it did with video and photo capturing. Unfortunately I didn’t make sure to keep it relatively empty and had filled it up with miscellaneous stuff. By the time I was shooting the [...]
The Weekly Wu #4 (9/19-25)
Wow. #4 already. Life is zooming on by! A recap of last week Here is last week’s goal list: Train two times with Yuan Min: Well, I trained two times, but he wasn’t there for the first one. I consider this one done. Bike to work on my non-wushu days (except for downpours): A week [...]
Athlete Interviews
I’ve been thinking about expanding some of the content I offer on youtube and wushuzilla. Part of what seems to be lacking for a lot of wushu practitioners outside of China is a way to connect directly with athletes and coaches here in China. Sure, we have Chinese athletes and coaches in the West (or [...]
WTV #4 – Yuan Min and I
After Monday’s solitary wushu confinement, I wasn’t sure what might happen with tonight’s wushu training at 5:00 PM. But Yuan Min said it would be okay so i hopped on the scooter around 4:45 PM and headed to the wushu guan to see what he had in store for me. Wushu, it turned out. Plenty [...]
The Weekly Wu #3 (9/12-18)
And so begins week 3 of my Weekly Wu. Not too bad. But I won’t be impressed until I’m at Week 30. Recapping from last week, these were my goals: Daily bicycling to work Train with Yuan Min on Monday 25km bike ride on Saturday New daily schedule Again, a bit of hit or miss [...]
WTV #2
During the week I had experienced the joys of lactic acid build-up in my chest, shoulders and arms. Fortunately not as much in my legs, although they were still a little sore. Yuan Min, as I had mentioned last time, gave me some homework to do. In hind sight I should have rested Tuesday, done [...]
WTV #1
Well, my first training has come and gone. Not as bad as it could have been, but no walk in the park either. I arrived early, partly because I was biking and had made sure to give myself plenty of time before-hand until I knew how long it took to get there from my office, [...]
Returning to Wushu: The 40YO Version – Update and First Classes
Edit: I meant to post this up waaaaay back in December, but never got around to finishing it. The workout sort of tweaked my leg and then right after that the team went on a training break during Chinese New Year. Then Spring semester started at work and that’s all she wrote. I wanted to [...]
Getting Back on the Horse … Again (Plus Angelica Cukon!)
And so I made my way back to wushu class with the Shaanxi Wushu Team. Over 2 months away from training and I don’t think I need to tell you that it was a bit on the painful side. 2 days later now, and I’m really starting to feel it in my hamstrings — but [...]