Karate in China 中国唐手

Today, my friends, I was missing my Chinese Karate friends and I decided to upload some pictures of all my years there.
Some pics are teaching, some pics are just as a student, all pics are learning.

Please, enjoy and comment!









  

 








Thank you everyone for sharing your training time with me and make me grow.
Deeply appreciated, brothers and sisters.





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Location: Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Comments

  1. Josep Claramonte7 January 2018 at 20:52

    Oh man, I just realized that I had kumite with all the people in the photos. More than once!!
    Long, hard and tough years there, that were too many, but I learnt so much...

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