Hitting the ground running
I’ve been trying to get back to full fitness now for twenty months, nearly two years, after a difficult eight or so years of ill-health. A brain haemorrhage in 2008, and a pulmonary embolism a few years later, in 2013/14,…
Tag White Crane Fighting Arts
Me in China: Kungfu, Fouchou and my Bonsai tree.
I have always liked the idea of growing Bonsai and, for my birthday last week, I was set up for the challenge and given this beautiful little tree called Syzygium buxifolium or Chinese myrtle. As today is China’s national…
Wolfie is back on the free weights with a touch of kungfu too – it feels good.
I’ve moved on again at the gym this week with a new programme that sees me graduating back – at last – to free weights. It’s been a long time – pre-haemorrhage days – since I’ve been allowed to get…
The Wolf returns to Kungfu again.
After a couple of months of inactivity I am back in my small Lewes courtyard garden doing my martial arts practice and it feels great. It would feel even greater if I was any good at it after all these…
Taichi – The Golden Cockerel Trying to Stand On One Leg.
Last Thursday (14/04/2011) I wrote a blog that described my new fitness regime which alternates sessions down at the gym with my heart rate monitor with my White Crane Taichi style, Suang-Yang. To illustrate a point I was foolish enough…
I am monitoring my heart rate with Ricardo at the White Hart Hotel’s gym
I am near the end of the second week in my new fitness regime which entails going to the White Hart Hotel five days a week, not for a few drinks but to their gym, above the swimming pool, where…
Everything except my left knee wants to go back to Kungfu
I have stopped wearing that support on my left knee and the sprained ligament seems a lot better so I am back with the hope that I get training again. It was a stupid kungfu injury – I was doing…
wolfiewolfgang looks back at his life in kungfu
Well I am back into kungfu training with a vengeance and, after so many false starts, I hope that I will now be able to return to full fitness and, who knows, even get better. I was looking back over…
Brain Haemorrhage – what brain haemorrhage? I return to Kungfu Dog Style.
Back in February 2008, I went on a trip to Fouchou in Southern China with a group of friends from my Lewes Kungfu club, White Crane Fighting Arts (see Links), led by our instructor Neil Johnson, to learn about a type of Kungfu known…
Kungfu means hard work for a humble foot soldier
Kungfu means hard work in Chinese and it means hard work for me too as someone who loves martial arts without being naturally talented at it. So, if it takes hard work then that is what I will try to…