Name:Ties    Country: Netherlands 

Email address: tiestenhagen@hotmail.com 

Learning time: 2024/9/14-2024/11/9 

 1.Why China Kunyu  to Learn Kungfu? 1.China is a beautiful country with a lot of cultural history. China is a growing country and to understand why China is growing you have to learn the ways of the Chinese.

 2.What is your greatest gain from your martial arts training ? 

I learned the varies in Chinese language and got my body and mind reconnected. I’m not where I want to be yet and this makes me want to come back. The things I learned gave me an insight in the beauty of this specific martial arts. 

3.Who influenced and helped you

Shifu Zhang (Master Zhang )motivated me to do my best in shaolin Kung Fu, Shifu Xu movivated me in wanting to become a kungfu teacher. Nino motivated me to get the most out of myself and my life.Nino motivated me to get the most out of myself and my life. 

4.Daily Life Everything is good, the teachers were strict but gave me a welcome feeling, the positive energy of Jolie is unmatched and the interest of Flora is something I will never forget. The training was nice and everything I learned I am grateful for it. 

5.The surroundings were better than I imagined. The mountains looks holy, the air is good and in Yantai city I even met a very nice girl!

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Name:Sonja Country:Italy

 Class:Shaolin 

Email address: sonja4rossi@gmail.com 

Learning time:2024/9/23-2024/11/4

 1.Why did you choose China to Learn Kungfu? 

I chose China to learn kungfu because it’s the birthplace of it. I wanted to meet the origin and authenticity. In general I always wanted to visit this big country because it’s so different to western culture and I am very interested and fascinated to learn and see more of the world. 

2.What is your greatest gain from your martial arts training ? I got the chance to integrate new moves, learned cool acrobatics and became more self-secure, I am really happy to have learned cupping! 

3.Who influenced and helped you 

Other students influenced me and helped me a lot . 

4. Unique experience! At times it was pretty challenging to keep up with the teaching methods but I got used to it and now I can say that I learned a lot. I feel very honored that I had the possibility to learn from such a powerful and wise master. 

Translation was very helpful in optional class and Kung Fu trainings. 

The surroundings are very peaceful and beautiful. I really enjoyed to be around mountains and glad to have been far from city-chaos.  

      Some masters and students in winter of 2024.