U.S. trip update

Hi everyone!  Xuan Yun here (Julie translating).  We’ve been very busy lately.  I’ve been in the U.S. for almost a month now.  I spent the first week or so getting over the jet lag and settling into the different rhythm of things on this side of the ocean.   We’re trying to get a lot done, but it hasn’t been easy.  Last week we spent a day working in the yard, and I ended up with very bad poison ivy, which lead to my first trip to a U.S. hospital.  We don’t have poison ivy in China.  It’s no fun.  The poison ivy was just in time for a demonstration I did with YMAA (Yang’s Martial Arts Association) who we are working together with on the upcoming DVD’s.  I feel good about the demo, and helping to raise money for the Children’s Hospital, but am now taking a few days to get healthy again.  Tomorrow I’ve got the first of the Wudang Kungfu Fundamental’s class.  I’m sure I won’t be at my best, so hopefully the students will be patient.  A reporter at the demonstration told me about an upcoming competition in New York, and we’ve decided to go.  I haven’t done competitions in a long time.  I’ve always felt that it’s way more useful to focus on my own practice, and I hate dealing with all the competative baggage that comes along with competitions.  But, I’m also very curious about the state of Chinese martial arts in the U.S. so it is too much to resist.  I definitely want to see who else is there, and what sort of things people are working on.  I’m very new to the U.S. martial arts world, so it would be great to make some friends!  Anyone else going, please come and say hi.

Demonstration…

Xuan Yun is doing a martial arts demonstration this Saturday in Copley Square (Boston).  All proceeds will go to the Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital.  Anyone interested should come down and say hi!

Upcoming Classes. . .

Xuan Yun’s Resume

Hi everyone!  This is Julie.  Xuan Yun has just landed in the U.S. and is resting and getting over his jet-lag.  We have a few busy weeks ahead of us, with videos and workshops and demonstrations.

The folks as YMAA (who are publishing the videos) have asked us for a resume, so I’ve been working on that today.  Here’s the draft…Zhou Xuan Yun Resume