India - S'pore Wushu Exchange 11/08 - 15/08

Kuen Wushu hosted a team of Wushu students from faraway Punjab India, Amritsar last week. The visitors cross-trained with some of our students from Kuen Wushu and managed to learn some competition routines during their one-week stay.

Here are some pictures taken during the last day.

August - Olympics, NDP & National Comps

Quick update for those reading. Di Jiaolian back at Beijing from 7th to 19th August for the Olympics.

Sent him to the airport last night after class. He overloaded his baggage by 10 kilos! Lots of gifts to bring back to friends and family I suppose. I stole a peek, mostly stuffed full of instant coffee.
Yes. 3-in-1 instant coffee.
He's not the first to pack their luggage full of coffee when they go back though. According to them, we have better (stronger) tasting 3-in-1s than anything they can get in their Supermarkets. And over there, Starbucks is RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE! Aren't we lucky to have quality coffee at affordable prices...Lol.

Olympics opening on Friday. NDP on Saturday. Start of the National Comps 2008 on Monday.

Will be holed up at home watching the NDP on tv as usual I suppose. Wonder if we'll have anything interesting this year.

For those in the competition, I hope you're done preparing and all reared up to go. Its good to take part in competitions in an environment like Singapore, as most people need a reason to train hard and a motive for training. Most people find the period of intense training just before competition extremely rewarding, even for the "Tag-alongs" who are not actually in the competition. Same intense regular training minus the stress that comes with competing.

As always, have fun training. Enjoy the competitions, NDP, Olympics...etc. Whatever bakes your noodles. :)

Birthday Greetings - Chief Trainer Di

Instant update - photos of Chief Trainer Di and students during tonight's training session.

Happy Birthday Di Jiaolian!





It was pretty crazy last night at Partyworld Orchard KTV. Lotsa singing (good and bad), beer, liqour and breakdancing by the Man himself! Lol... I think Bag got a video in her hp, should we upload it up Youtube? Hmm... I don't know.

Nothing much. Just a little update.

Hiya all.

Haven't been updating the KUEN Wushu blog much, nothing much to shout about. Sure things have been happening, but I thought they were a little too trivial to be posting up here so I'll just write whatever comes to mind for now.

Sunday's not good for meetings anymore cos we can't ever seem to be able to get all the Trainers together long enough. Gotta find another day when everyone's free to sit down and listen to my ramblings...heh

There've been a couple of new additions to the KUEN Trainer Team, both full-time and affiliate trainers. I really really REALLY need to update the company website with ALL the KUEN Trainer details soon. The current KUEN Trainer list is already top-notch and VERY impressive, its just that we haven't been bragging. Humility is a virtue. Lol.

Anyone taking part in the upcoming competition who needs help? I'll be coming in on Saturdays to help whip a couple of the kids into shape for the comps. If ya need help, holler.

Oh Oh! I remember - Chief Trainer Di G.W. will be on leave from 07/08/08 to 19/08/08. Back to Beijing for the Olympics I suppose. :) Take note for those trainees in his classes, no classes during this period.

Thats it for now. Gotta run.

*Does anyone actually read the updates...*eye roll* I wouldn't. Would you?

Need sleep 2

Need sleep. Again.

I should be sleeping, but here I am instead, making full use of the momentary rush of awake-ness right after a bath. (there really should be an English word for being awake dontcha agree? heh)

Slept at 5.00am. Woke at 8.00am.

One full day again today (Sat). Was at Rivervale Pri in the morning. Quite sure I'd be too seh to think/teach/or even supervise, but instead I was riding on a surge of adrenaline throughout the lesson. Even had enough left over to do a trainer de-brief and sharing session with the trainers involved. Unbelievable. Think the 3 cans of Red Blue helped.

Red Bull junkie. Heh.

Need...sleep....can't...th...in..k

Yawn. Super seh now.

Slept at 4.00am. Woke up at 8.00am for a class in Rivervale Pri.

It was the first session of the new term and I was there with Hansong Jiaolian and Wang Jiaolian (female Wang, not Wang Liang Jiaolian). I bet Hansong must be equally seh, he went home about the same time as I did.

Rushed back to KUEN Wushu for class straight after. Ended up being late for 15min. At least Wang Liang Jiaolian is there to start class and take warm up. WRONG! Wangliang also late!!! OMG! *faint*

Anyway, here I am resting in the office blogging on the company PC. Wish I could just head on home to catch up on some much needed sleep. Alas, there are lessons at KUEN all the way till 10pm. Sob sob...

Sleeping - The Wushu athlete's favourite "activity".
I need my beauty sleep.

Blog drought

No. of days without updates: 21

Reason: Haven't got a chance to sit in front of the PC for the past 3 weeks.

Ok, here goes a quick update on the past weeks:

- Holiday training camps for the giinaz over and done with.

- Kungfu Panda performance for Nokia club movie treat last week - Loved the game with the big balloons and the movie was hilarious. So funny!!!

- Watched a crap movie. WARNING: AVOID SHAOLIN GIRL LIKE THE PLAGUE!

- Incredible Hulk was incredibly good. Enjoyed it tremendously.

- Took training slots last week while Wangliang Jiaolian was busy with the rehearsals for "U R the One" finals. I don't usually do that. Think I'll have to do it more often. Ok ok, if you guys insist! Sheesh... Irresistable Charm is my personal little cross to bear. Sigh.

- Tried to kick a little after nursing my torn hamstring for a while to discover its far from recovered. Dang. Watched the guys rehearse for tomorrow's performance at Sentosa, not sure what event. Will post photos if have.

- Been in discussion with Chief Trainer Di regarding new classes and development at KUEN. Gonna start a performance team training on one of the week days to learn all kinds of cool set-sparring routines and group items. I think its a great idea. It'll cut rehearsal time in half when we prepare for performances next time.

Train. Pain. Complain

Been trying to get back to training these couple of weeks. Did a session last Tuesday and ached till Sat...lol. Tried to work out again lightly during yesterday's lesson. Bad idea... ended up tearing a muscle and limped my way home.

Ouch.

Yeah yeah yeah... I know i know... always warm up properly, stretch out properly...yadda yadda yadda... Am glad it was the hamstring and not the knee joint, thank goodness it wasn't the knee joint. I'm sure we've all heard horror stories of Wushu athletes busting their knees during practice. Brrr.....*shivers* Kids... take care now. Bag ah, you too ah. Wasted to just get the Wai Bai Lian finally and then have to sit out because of some silly injury.

Oh yah before i forget - Kudos to Weiheng for his Cekong and Weixuan for his Zhuanti over the last 2 weeks. Yeaaaah!!! What do I keep telling you guys? Its not at all difficult when you have a good trainer, good protective equipment and good training techniques. Back in our days, we used to train...blah blah blah

So step right up! Who's next? Come come dun shy... just grab me, shake me and tell me how bad you want it the next time you see me around and I promise I'll stay around long enough to help. :) I'm such a nice guy... :)

KUEN Wushu ad in I-weekly

Here's a look at the lastest KUEN Wushu full colour ad in the Chinese magazine I-Weekly. Nice? I like...



Its the same series as the previous one with Wangliang JIaolian doing his thing with that rubber leg of his. Now its Zhipeng Jiaolian's one week of fame. I've got a chance to observe their lessons. Both excellent trainers, their styles complimenting each other.

Zhipeng Jiaolian's lessons engages the mind and leans more to teaching, great for fundamentals and techniques training. (Bobian... graduate with degree in Phys Ed leh...mai siao siao)

Wangliang Jiaolian's from a Pro-team and believes in tough-love + intense jibengong. Sado-masochists out there looking to give their body a whacking would enjoy his classes.

And let's not forget my contribution, I'm the icing on the cake...heh. I'm there to make everyone nervous. (in a good way) I help tweak lesson flow and atmosphere so everyone gets an exhilarating workout at the end of the day.

Then you have the experienced Kaiting laoshi helming the kid's classes and the newly added Powerhouse Trainer - World/China Champion Di Jiaolian taking the advanced classes. Such a strong trainer team, good training facilities, great training atmosphere. What else can you guys ask for?

Comeon now, time to show your appreciation to your trainers in the shoutbox!
Show them the luuurve... *lol*

KUEN Wushu 5th Anniversary Openhouse

Date: 18th May, 2008 (Sunday)

Uploaded some photos from the openhouse.

To be honest, it was rather chaotic. Not enough time to plan but I guess it turned out pretty ok, lots of ppl turned up. Was expecting ard 30-40. I think it turned out to be more like 80. Shrug.

Took the opportunity to introduce the new Dean of Kuen Wushu and the new Chief Trainer. For those of you who weren't there on Sunday, take a look at these pictures.



Trial class for the little ones.


We're starting a new gymnastics for children at KUEN.



Thanks for the flower basket Edmund!


From left: Moi, Coach Di (Chief Trainer), Mr. Picasso Tan (Dean)