China trip 2025
10th November Myself Neil, Imogen, Alex and Lee are on this years adventures to Fuzhou, Southern China. This is my 23rd trip and even after so many visits it never disappoints. Many of the local Dog Boxers really are close…
China Blog 2024
Thursday 14th / Friday 15th Nov D-Day - The start to an exciting experience visiting China, for my first Dog Boxing training experience with Master Lin and visiting places… 11.15am and a phone call from Neil –“ I can’t get…
Neil’s solo China trip 2023
Two days of travel to arrive in Fuzhou. I set off on October 2nd to China with a 7+ hour time difference ahead of the UK. The first day of jet lag, not too bad. The hotel was cheap but…
China training 2019
This year is my 20th trip to China training Kungfu and performing... This year we were supposed to be seven strong but sadly it ended with five of us being able to go - Myself Neil Johnson, Matthew Brooks, Imogen…
China training 2018
30th January - 14th February I am sure that this years trip to Fuzhou will be as amazing as the last 20 years of travels to the Fujian area of this spectacular country. In all we are seven strong; myself…
Summer camp, Denmark 2017
By Matt Sartori Intro The idea for a danish summer camp has long been one of those oft mentioned possibilities that never quite materialized. Last year, when I brought my student David along to a weekend training trip to visit…
China Training Trip to Fuzhou 2017
By Dave Etheridge-Barnes aka Xiao Davee Ok, so you may have heard this before but I’ll kick off by saying it again. If you haven’t been to China before for training and are thinking about it, then you really should…
Summer camp, New Forest 2016
August 20-28, 2016 Round Hill Campsite, The New Forest, Brockenhurst, England H. Helene McGall
Training trip to Fuzhou China 2016
Max Johnson’s Blog Day 1 Let me introduce you to the gang going to China this year! My dad - Neil Johnson, Me - Max Johnson, Mat Brooks, Imogen Thomas, Liz Billington, Dave Edwards, Ali Canals and Dave Etheridge Barnes.…
China trip to Fuzhou 2015
Ok, so before I crack into this epic of beauty, passion, kung fu, food, more food, and more kung fu, there are some things you need to realise, oh reader Point One: I strongly believe that everybody needs to go…
Why do the Tiger face?
The Tiger face has been around for many hundreds of years in the Yongchun area of Fujian, practiced by pure Tiger and White Crane Kungfu practitioners. Even the lions seen out side temples have tiger faces to scare away the…
Summer camp, Burgess Hill 2014
This year’s summer camp was a different style of camp to previous ones as it was held at Neil’s house, with occasional trips to the local recreation ground and St. John ’s Park, as well as being focused on dog…