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| HANGZHOU COMPETITION - Tuesday August 13th
The morning of competition, i remember an early wake up call for an early breakfast. Soon afterwards, we were in the hotel corridors practicing our group Golden Fist form. It was great when the elevator doors opened and the expression on people's faces was like, "what the heck is going on here?". But then they'd stay a while to look, got amused, and it was all good.
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| Ed makes friends everywhere he goes. Look at all the sweat on his back! Almost as bad as me. |
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| Oops, Bill cut the strings too short so they had to spend a while stretching them out to make them fit. Luckily i had my old ones, which fit perfectly. |
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Lindsay, Phil, and Ai chilling. Their job was done after performing our crowd-pleasing Golden Fist form. |
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| These pictures were taken in the warm-up area. It was a little crowded and crazy back there at times. Luckily, Master Zong was there making sure that everyone was checked in and in the right place. It was great watching some of the other competitors warm up, especially the little chinese kids. |
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| Rocky, James, and Me |
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| Timmy and Jose |
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| yay, Rocky beat one of the chinese kids. |
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Bill, Me, and Rich sporting Bill's famous picture face. |
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The picture's blurry, but that's how it actually felt at times. |
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| The ladies that showed us the way up the medal platform. Okay... i just performed a wushu form, i think i have the coordination to walk up a few steps. hahaha. |
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Jiayin being presented her medal |
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Back at the hotel, waiting for the elevator, Rocky and Jose killed time by doing random poses for the camera. |
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| HANGZHOU BANQUET for OUR SCHOOL and ZHEJIANG TEAM - same day
After being given a half hour to get ready, which meant cleaning off a day's worth of sweat and other nastiness and getting into nice clothes, we were ready to PARTY!
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| Their wushu might be incredible, but you have to go to the States to see how breaking's really done |
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Master Zong having a great time. |
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| The ladies at my table. Two of them seem to have a cyborg right eye... i knew they weren't human. |
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| Chen Ming could really really dance. |
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Rayva and Ravenna doing their cute little Indian dance thing. |
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| A TOAST! TO LIFE! TO WUSHU! (BTW, That's Bills hairy forearm)
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| Awww... how cute |
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| HANGZHOU - SOME RANDOM HOTEL PICTURE
Cause it's the random stuff in life that you remember the most.
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| Jiayin playing me her JAY CD for the first time... that music ends up becoming the theme for this year's china trip... to me. |
Jose flexing his muscles in front of his hotel room. |
It just happened to be Phil and Nolan's birthday on the night of the banquet. |
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| Pictures don't lie? They don't tell the truth either |
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| I am just an evil evil person. |
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Dude... look at this guy... he's wasted