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Today the Fujian White Crane Kung Fu competition starts. All actual events don't start until tomorrow morning actually.

I will compete in Patterns, Suan Yang, Semi contact sparring and Demo.

Wish me luck!

Yesterday Sunday I went to one of Dennis Kung Fu camps in St Albans. It was a beautiful day with a chilled breeze.

We practised a two-man-pattern that I've never even seen before and it was great fun.

Just as it was getting dark I was just about the only one left in the field practising my patterns. (A pattern is a combination of movements you perform on your own to remember and learn your kung fu principles.) After a few runs I notice a strange thing. One of my ears got really hot. My forehead was normal and the other ear was really cold as normal. It was just like when you're about to get a fever except it was only the ear.

Strange but interesting since I've never experienced this. And no, there is no simple geometric explanation for it. It's got to be internal; or?

I have now trained with Dave at FWC City & Islington for two years.

It's been great so far and I plan to stay on and train even harder.

To celebrate I accept donations such as a car, a woman or a video

I'm back from my training camp and with me I have some nice photos

Enjoy and give feedback here or on the private kungfu-taichi.com private forum.

Today I'm going to Cornwall (Wales, west coast of GB) for a weeks traning camp Kung Fu

I'll be back again on the 30th of August.

See this clip for what it was like two years ago. That was before my time.

Here are some photos I've forgotten to upload. They're all from the Fujian White Crane competition in Hastings in April this year.

Some photos from the last camp.

A couple of weeks ago I graded my third pattern of Fujian White Crane Kung Fu. That pattern is called SHI ZI (The Cross).

So today the grading results came out and I find to my great happiness that I passed it. This means that I can now start learning the fourth pattern (...surprisingly :) which is called SHI SAN TAI BAO (Thirteen Wonders). Interesting!

This does not mean that I get a different sash like they do in Japanese martial arts. No, you get a sash when you've passed your first grading and then you keep that until you become a master and get the black sash. However, if you're an instructor you wear a blue sash.