I made it through my first day of training, and think I'm going to stick with Wushu. The teacher is young, 24, and just arrived at the academy last week. He placed fourth in China's national competition this year, so I guess he's pretty qualified. We did a ton of stretching (including some forced stretching), and a lot of squatting in various forms. The basics of Wushu are very similar to Karate, but the stances are much, much lower. We did a total of six hours of training today, and I'll be sore as hell tomorrow morning. There's a belief common to most Chinese people that drinking cold water is bad during excercise (as is sitting), so during our breaks we have to just stand around and talk. There are eleven total students at the school right now, and eight of us did Wushu today; we'll see how many stick around.