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The Birthplace of Kung Fu: The Shaolin Temple

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

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Entrance to the Shaolin Temple

The Shaolin Temple is only 9 kilometers from my Kung Fu school. It is said that Kung Fu began in the Shaolin Temple and that all other martial arts styles (Karate, Tae Kwon Do, etc.) developed from Kung Fu, so the Shaolin Temple could be considered the birthplace of all martial arts. This Thursday my roommate, Marta, and I spent the day there. [read on]

Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

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It’s been a long week. We loaded up two buses last Friday with all of our belongings and a ridiculous amount of swords and drove about an hour southwest to this new school which is much larger and much more modern. [read on]