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Monday, September 10th, 2007Ah, freedom… I can taste it again! I am happily writing this on my way away from Songshan and the hellish Kung Fu training experience endured there. [read on]
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Ah, freedom… I can taste it again! I am happily writing this on my way away from Songshan and the hellish Kung Fu training experience endured there. [read on]
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“Welcome to Boot Camp!”
“You are basically paying them to imprison and torture you.”
“The first morning you wake up after training, every inch of your body will be sore. The second day, it will be worse. On the third day, you will be in so much pain you want to die. On the fourth, you will wonder how it got worse.”
I heard all of these quotes from fellow students at the Song Shan Shaolin Temple Xiao Long Kung Fu Training Center, and after four days I can attest to their accuracy. [read on]
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