Kick day:Day 7:Jackson:Isaak:

Today we got to go to a Kung Fu workshop. Our workshop was run by a 34th-generation Shaolin Monk named Master Feng. He led us through several warm-up drills including skips, roles, and cartwheels. Here are some photographs. 

After doing our warm ups Mast Feng talked to us about how to bow, and what it meant. He said that to put your fist and hand together was to represent power, but also discipline. 

Later that we learned how to punch. we started with the straight punch and then tried out the hook, and upper punches. 

At the end of our exercises, Master Feng talked to us about some of the American cultural perceptions of marital arts like the one-inch punch, and the Whooshi finger hold from Kungfu Panda. He explained how even though some of these moves seem impossible, they are actually deeply rooted in very old martial arts practices based around control, and discipline. 

Master Feng also told about his life experience as a monk at the Shaolin temple. He told us that every day he used to hike up a mountain at 5:30 in the morning, and meditate. Then he would hike down and eat breakfast while waiting to be called for a martial arts demonstration at any moment. The rest of his day would be spent training and studying. 

At the end of our conversation, we all bowed and Master Feng gave us little red cards with a sticker, bracelet, and card for the school. Then we went to eat. 

We ate out at a really good Japanese ramen place called Jinya. 

I had Shrimp Wonton soup and is absolutely scrumdidly-umptious. After eating we walked down the street and Bobba and went home.  

When we got back we did wrap up for a scavenger, my team was Me, Cece, and Wyatt. Even tho we clearly won, our victory was stolen from us by a technicality in the form of "rules". After that, we watched a golden globes speech by Michelle Yeo. Then we wrapped up the day.