Faces of Ashihara Karate #1 - Li Qian

Karate draws people from all walks of life – young and not-so-young, students and retirees, men and women, of all shapes and sizes. But why take our word for it? In this series, we hold a quick Q&A with our students to find out about them.

We catch up with one of our students, Li Qian, 30, who joined in 2016 and is a brown belt at the time of this post! 

Li Qian (far right), mingling with participants from other karate clubs at the K-Con 2019 at Nanyang Technological University.

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1. Why did you join Ashihara Karate?
 
I grew up with watching TV shows of Jin Yong’s martial art novels, and Jet Li and Jackie Chan’s action movies, I always had a dream of learning martial arts and becoming a “fighting hero”. However, this dream only came true after I started to work and gained more independence.
 
As to why I picked Ashihara Karate, it was because I thought the Gi and the whole culture of karate looks pretty cool, and Ashihara Karate was said to be very practical (which makes it even cooler for me).

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