A 25-year-old woman from Australia has stunned the internet with her impressive kung fu skills, despite only training for one month at a martial arts school located near the Shaolin temple in Henan, China.

Amelia Michels, a freelance marketing expert and poet, has spent the last two years of her life traveling the world, living in different places a few months at a time. In April, she joined the training program, with no prior kung fu experience, and by early May, when she left, she'd already learned some incredible skills.

Driven by her desire to "find the place where not belonging makes sense," Michels had already traveled through lots of other Asian countries, including India, where she practiced yoga, and Vietnam where she learned Muay Thai.

But she knew nothing about kung fu when stepped foot in China, so armed with curiosity and enthusiasm, she totally immersed herself in the school's strict........

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