A kung fu master (C) training with his students at the kung fu academy in Qufu, Shandong province. (AFP/Fred Dufour)In the countryside outside the birthplace of the Chinese sage Confucius, 35 students — the vast majority of them foreigners — battle the elements as well as exhaustion at a remote kung fu training academy.The students in Qufu, from as far afield as Brazil, Ukraine, Spain and France, vary in age from six — a young boy who accompanied his mother on a summer holiday — to 50.It is a disciplined, regimented regime, with activities beginning at 6.00 am every day …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
