ok so i'm now at the qufu shaolin academy. that is why i dont have any hebrew font to type with. the place is nice, the meals are good, for meat eaters and for vegetarians. the shifus(matsers) are good and knowledgeable and nice people and the younger masters can become good friends with you if you want to befriend them or just keep a professional rel;ationship. there were during the winter about 30 guys and 4 girls training here at a time, although new people do come and older students do leave every so often. the spring/summer wave of new students should come soon and bring like 20 new guys and girls here to join training. the schedule is quite similar to their web site, like, tuesday's "applications" class is actually wing-chun. and friday's "endurance training" has been a free hour to train whatever you wish... so far, because at the end of the summer we will probably move to the new school that is now being built farther north near tai mountain, and there we will be doing endurance training again weekly, which will probably involve much running up hills. much time is spent on learning shaolin forms and practicing sanda, but you can have 1 hour a day to learn wudang forms such as bagua or if you wish to skip sanda class you can even get in 2.5 hours of bagua/wudang training a day with Wu shifu. he is a very good wudang master. i actually like being close to qufu city for going places on weekends but i guess the new school will look nicer with new improved facilities and better more mountainous clear air and such, so i guess it will be a welcome move. people who come here to train are from all ages, from 18 to someone who was 55 and mostly liked to spend his time learning tai chi and bagua. now one guy has a birthday and another is leaving tomorrow so i am typing from the youth hostel computers in qufu city, practically everyone from the school is here in the hostel's bar. the school does have a computer in the office to use sometimes, but the hostel is free to use unlimitedly so while i'm here hanging-out i type this. the mandarin lessons are helpful but to really learn the language you must get yourself books or computer programs. the massage/healing/buddhism classes are not every week but once every few weeks when new students come. the students are all nice and get along well, even people from all over the world like an israeli can find themselves roommates with a palestinean or a syrian person, or sitting next to them to eat, or training with them when something is practiced in pairs, so you know, a person who is racist should not come to china to learn kung-fu at any school and just make a bad environment. the school is successful and people are happy with it usually, only once did someone leave to look for another place to train because he was young and expected some hardcore boot-camp type thing of the masters being all yelling at him and kicking him to train harder, but we here are adults, and know when to be laid back and when to train seriously as well as how to laugh while we are training. excpet that one guy, everyone i met during the last 2 months here have likied their time here and i have nothing bad really to say about the school. i gonna spend another year and a half here so whoever comes over may meet me in person. questions can be sent to [email protected]
happy travels!
Qufu Shaolin Kung Fu School
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