Kung Fu Camp/ Martial arts and nature become one each summer in the Colorado mountains

From: The Gazette | Date: August 27, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

GUFFEY - There are more than 6,000 miles separating China and the tree-covered hillsides here, but each August, that distance diminishes somewhat.

That's when Sifu ("teacher") David Simeone and his wife, Sifu Holly Sparks-Simeone, open their 35-acre Sacred Mountain Training Center to the public for a Kung Fu camp.

For five days, a few dozen Coloradans gather to celebrate the Chinese martial arts and accompanying culture at a camp near the base of the Black Mountains, some 60 miles west of Colorado Springs, near Guffey.

Campers experience Shaolin Kung Fu in the secluded high-altitude ...

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