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For those who enjoyed The Three Musketeers, fencing might be just the sport to consider taking up. It involves strategy, precisely timed movements and a bit of that swashbuckling spirit....

To be quite simple about it, the object of golf is to hit a small dimpled ball with a golf club a predetermined distance into a hole in the ground. The ball is played from a teeing area to a green where the hole is indicated by a flag. The distances between teeing area and green vary from as little as 90 yards to more than 600 yards.

If you are thinking of starting golf, some say that all you need initially is one lesson. This might last for only thirty minutes, but you will soon d...

Chinese Kung-Fu or "Wu-Shu" is one of the oldest martial arts systems and can be traced as far back as 2,000 BC. The evolutionary history of Kung- Fu is varied and colourful. It is believed that a Buddhist monk at the famous Shao-Lin Temple devised various methods of exercise to help fellow monks be more alert for their long hours of religious study and meditation. He believed that "A Fit Body would lead to a Fit Mind".

At this time, many monks were being attacked and even killed by b...