VS Wushu Team: Beijing Training Trip (Day 3)

We have come to our 3 Day of the Beijing Trip.
Today we woke up bright and early and had our second training session at one of the underground sports hall.

Today's training was more intense as the boys were more acclimatised to the weather.
It's 17 degrees, so it is cool without being cold and this allows us to train harder without tiring.


We managed to put the finishing touches on all our group events. After that we had our lunch and in the afternoon we will be touring the Bird's Nest Stadium and Aquatic Centre.

VS Wushu Team: Beijing Training Trip- Compulsory Self Study

Hi parents,
As discussed prior to the trip, we set clear expectations for the Wushu Boys before heading off on the trip. As our focus is on training to prepare for competition, we also wanted the boys to spend more time to catch up on their holiday homework to ensure that they will not be stressed by homework and studies as competition date draws nearer.

Thus, once we have time during this trip, I will actually schedule time for rest and study. This morning after our initial tour of the school and shopping in Xiu Shui Jie in the afternoon, we returned for dinner.

The boys have been their playful and mischievous selves all this time but have also been very well behaved and it is my pleasure to be able to lead them on such a journey.

Tonight, as I assigned them their study duties and made my rounds, I was pleasantly surprised that all of them were really engaged in their own roomds, hard at work.


It's good to see all of the boys having fun and yet taking our instructions seriously. This means they are slowly maturing into Gentlemen and that is what martial arts training is all about





I'll spend some time going through reflections with them at the end of the day and will organise some games for them in the room. We will aim to sleep early at 10pm tonight before waking for breakfast tomorrow at 7.00am

I will update again as and when I can.

VS Wushu Team: Touring ShiChaHai Sports School

After breakfast, we began touring ShiChaHai Sports School.

It is a impressive, modern facility with well provisioned space and equipment for the training of elite athletes.
Here we see the Sanda Tem (Full-Contact Fighters) Training

They are one of professional teams maintained and housed here at ShiChaHai. These are basically members of the Beijing Sanda Team

Another professional team housed on the campus is the Boxing Team. Those were the guys we saw doing their early morning laps. Here we see their training arena:


There is also a well-equipped modern gym that is open to public on weekends.


Next we saw one of the wushu training groups in the basement of the stadium. Their training areas are really well thought out and are structured to all for viewing by public as well as provisioned with lots of space.

This is one of the training areas we will have the priviledge to train in during the days to come.

But what really showed us the toughness and resiliency of the students here was witnessing the children's gymnastics class.
Their discipline and hard-work without complaint at that age is really something we need to emulate

Just look at the end of the clip and you can see the young boys holding themselves in handstand position on their own.

Hope this will inspire our boys to perservere and train hard in the week to come.

VS Wushu Team: Beijing Training Trip- Rooming Arrangements!

Hi Parents, I know many of you are worried about the rooming arrangements for your sons, so here are pics of them in their rooms.
They are staying 2 to a room but some of them are spending time with their friends in these pictures so you see more than 2 in each room.

Here we see John, Darren, Yuda and Wei Chung in their most favourite place:


Our 2 well-behaved boys, Kang Jie and Nicholas- Can you figure out who's leg is that stick out?.....


Our two sleepy heads, Howard and Saw still looking forward to sleep:


Our team Captain Ryan with Lloyd, Jingwei and Samuel:


Here's a view of my room and some activities we can see from the window.
Our floor directly overlooks the track and we can see some of the professional teams starting their morning workout (I believe it's the men's boxing team doing their laps)