Amanda Williams (Female) - First Year Student

Tao Ling waved for the others to follow, and made his way over to the northern half of the compound. He led the group towards a low, stone-walled building with a sloping, curved Japanese roof of red wood and slate. The sound of something striking wood began to echo through the air, and as they rounded the building it began to grow louder. He led them around a collection of gardens, where students - some naked, some wearing robes - were tending to vegetables buried in the dirt, and up a gentle slope towards a tall stone wall. The sound of striking wood grew even louder.

They found Amanda - the source of the noise - behind this wall. The forest and wall created a sort of enclosed courtyard there, with an old fashioned well dominating its centre. Amanda stood to one side, her blonde hair tied back in a severe ponytail. The ribbon holding that hair was the only clothing she wore. She looked to be in her mid-twenties, and was a pretty woman with blue eyes. She was practicing the one inch punch on a piece of wood held firmly between two upright stout poles. Each punch caused a ripple through her D-cup breasts, her bare behind and the muscles in her arms and legs. Her skin was covered in a layer of sweat. Although the wood had not yet broken, a crack up its centre bent and flexed the wood each time she struck it.

"Just like Kill Bill." Greg commented as he set up the camera.

"That film was surprisingly accurate, yes." Tao Ling agreed with a smile. "In this case, anyway. Amanda is from America, and has been with us for a year now. She is a very talented student, however I feel that recently she has grown too comfortable here at the temple."

"How do you mean?" Sarah asked.

"As I said earlier, underestimating your opponent is just a part of Naked Kung Fu. It also requires focus; the embarrassment must **** you to attune yourself to the fight, and nothing else. Amanda, however, has grown accustomed to life in the temple. Today I intend to shake her up."

"Amanda!" he called. The rhythmic striking of the wood stopped. "How do you fare?"

She turned around, and although her eyes moved briefly towards the strangers and their camera she showed no sign of embarrassment. "I'm definitely improving, sensei. I'm able to get the wood bending in a single morning now."

Tao Ling moved over to the wood. In a single, sharp strike he broke the wood in half. "You're doing well. Soon you'll be better than me."

"Oh, no!" she said, blushing for the first time. "I'll never surpass you, master."

"You can, and you shall. But come; enough training for the day. I would like to introduce you to Sarah and Greg. They're from England, and they're filming a documentary about the temple."

"How do you do?" Amanda asked, shaking Greg and Sarah's hands.

"W-we're good." Greg stammered, not quite able to maintain eye contact. "Uh, we uh, we can blur your face, you know. If you want."

Amanda shrugged. "I don't mind. I've got nothing to be ashamed of."

"Quite so." Tao Ling muttered. Louder he said "Amanda, since you speak their language I was wondering if you would be so kind as to show our friends around the village. While you're there, you could also go to Quiying's store for me and ask him to send up some more beef."

"Of course master." Amanda said, bowing. She turned to Greg and Sarah. "I'll just go get my robe-"

"There will be no need." Tao Ling interrupted.

Amanda frowned, mouth still open from her unfinished sentence. "No need for my robe? But... master, the village-"

"Nonsense. As you say, you have nothing to be ashamed of."

"Umm... well yeah. But I mean... won't they be upset? The temple is for nudists, but..."

"Not nudists, Amanda. Students of Naked Kung Fu." Tao Ling shook his head. "I have spoken to the Police Chief. He said it was okay for 'that blonde American' to be naked in the village so long as you don't perform any lewd acts. I trust that you won't."

Without waiting for a response, Tao Ling turned and walked back the way he had come, leaving the naked Amanda alone with the camera crew. Sarah looked embarrassed, while Greg was just... looking.

"Um, you can get your robe first, if you want." Sarah said. "We won't tell."

"No!" Greg yelled, a little too loud. "I mean... the master! You should obey him!"

Sarah punched him in the arm. Amanda bit her lip. Her quarters were on the way to the entrance. She could pick up her robe on the way out and Tao Ling wouldn't be any the wiser.