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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Kung fu class in the morning today.

We were taught by actual monks who had incredibly lame names like siao chen and siao song but they were damn good.

They tried to teach us some moves for filming. Thank god the guys learned tai chi and could mimic moves to a decent level already. Their art is interesting. Every attack serves two purposes. The first is to attack, the second is to store chi for the next attack, and so on. Its like a chain. Store, attack and store, attack and store, attack and store, attack and store. So when they land a hit, the chi focused in the blow will hurt big time.

There are alot of martial artists around here. Mr Netherlands practiced karate for 8 years, and Mr i forgothiscountry practiced muay thai for 2 years and was the district champion for 1 year and national second place. I could tell by the heavy air following his whiffed roundhouse kick that I dodged that it packed a punch and he wasn't shitting. So yeah duh, they wanted to spar. Haha. Its always fun to spar with pupils of different arts. You can learn so much.

Kayaking today for my team. Most of the guys weren't much of a challenge except Australia who can bench twice as much as me and ha slike 3-5 percent body fat... -_-

The first 4km he was on par, but after that it was my ride all the way. So yeah, the kayaking race was concluded with singapore first, australia second, can't remember the rest except canada came in last hahaha.

Nigeria has agreed to teach me dancing because we can talk street fighter alpha 3. I've learned hip hop and salsa today, and abit of stage 1 crip walk and stage 2 crip walk. Can you imagine that? There are two types of crip walk. First type goes on 3 counts then pause for one count, the other goes on 4 counts with stat point on the 3rd point. Its godamn tiring for the calves. But yeah, I can dance godamnit. There's no better person to learn crip walking from an actual african american.

There is too much to learn from each of these guys, and I'm going to level up like hell during this trip. Going to learn karate, muay thai again..., dancing, and gym techniques from the monsters. And there are so many other guys that are full of various experiences and specialties.

Getting used to the cameras and stuff. Its like they are everywhere until the point that you couldn't give a damn about them anymore. And everywhere we go people want to take pictures with you. Singapore seems to be quite popular with the chinese people for some reason... it must be a pretty good country eh?

Tomorrow we are going to the nan fu temple or something where the actual shaolin monks are to see their performance. Can't wait. And then there's a godamn boring press conference argh.

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