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		<title>Next Step!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long period of body conditioning training, aiming to transform a week body of a two hours a day martial artist into a stronger body of a twenty-four hours a day martial artist, finally we got to eat the cherry on top of the cake.
Over a period of six months and a half, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=907&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Awareness is not enough!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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On this semester we began training pushing hands. The basic training until now was just focused in body movements. It has been a very interesting practice. I thought that I was good in this because of my previous experience, but I was wrong. I think I’m starting to learn something now. My previous training gave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=641&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Final Semester Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a period of three months of intense training, the final test as come. Shifu tested us in most of all exercises we practice here, to evaluate our progress.
 
Friday and Saturday, where the days chosen for this test. Well, to be precise, the chosen day was Sunday. But, the weather report forced us to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=594&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Jennifer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday was a sad/happy day. We had a guest here for three weeks, living with us and training Taijiquan.
The guest was a Chinese woman older than us, that came to train here for a while. She never trained Taijiquan in her life, but she decided to try it and came here to do it. She [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=480&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bear Watching</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Friday and Saturday, where two very different and special days for me. I love wildlife, as most of my friends know, and being here is a good opportunity to be in contact with nature.
During Taijiquan practice, we saw some bears wondering on the land in their normal lifestyles, a rare opportunity for all my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=470&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Six days, good Improvement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shaolin Long Fist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shaolin White Crane]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally, to all of us, six days of training in our weekly schedule don&#8217;t represent to much improvement. In this case, I would say that it represents a lot. I don&#8217;t mean that one week of training can make me a Jedi, but if it&#8217;s done in the right way, it can make you evolute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=440&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The first week&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One week is gone! This as been a very good experience combined with some pain in the middle  . Is has been a daily schedule of training and working from 06h to 22h.
The first two days were soft. On Friday, we just cleaned the house and organize everything from the seminar period. Saturday was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=418&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dificult Judgment&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://apathtomastery.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/dificult-judgment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Today was the day of the II Traditional Taolu YMAA Championship, in Amora, Seixal. The championship was organized by YMAA Portugal and had the participation of the following associations: APKF Xuan Wu; Wing Sing Tong Portugal, Hong Long and YMAA Portugal. The event had almost 50 participants distributed in twelve categories.
It was the first time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apathtomastery.wordpress.com&blog=2776642&post=319&subd=apathtomastery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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