{"id":26253,"date":"2016-12-01T15:55:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T07:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/?p=26253"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:39:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T03:39:23","slug":"flipping-out-with-joshua-goh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/flipping-out-with-joshua-goh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipping Out with Joshua Goh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Take a walk backstage of\u00a0Monkey Goes West<\/em>\u00a0and you might stumble upon Joshua Goh practising his somersaults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just 12 years old and fresh off sitting for his PSLE, this limber young man is part of Martial House \u2013 a wushu<\/em> training academy that\u2019s contributing its brightest talents to this year\u2019s pantomime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been training in wushu<\/em> for six years!\u201d he announces proudly, as he drops to the floor for a good, deep stretch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Driven and bursting with energy, Joshua also trains for a host of other sports: gymnastics, swimming and golf (in order of preference).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The worst injury he\u2019s sustained to date comes from the sport you\u2019d least expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I swung my golf club once, I hit a rock,\u201d he shares. \u201cI twisted my wrist and had to rest for a week!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua is also disarmingly frank about his present limitations as a practitioner of wushu<\/em>. \u201cI was way better a few years ago, \u2019cause I didn\u2019t have PSLE and all,\u201d he says candidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s had to put his wushu<\/em> training on hold for close to a month \u2013 partly because of his exams, and now because he\u2019s performing in Monkey Goes West<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although he\u2019s not planning to become a full-time performer any time soon, he does enjoy thrilling audiences with his gravity-defying feats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love all the cool tricks I get to do in the show!\u201d he smiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playing a younger version of the Monkey King, he tumbles through the air in an effortless series of flips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What has been the biggest difference for Joshua in returning to Monkey Goes West<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn 2014, I was a small monkey, but now I\u2019m a big monkey!\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His wushu<\/em> training \u2013 which relies heavily on choreography, timing and skill \u2013 meant that he found dancing relatively easy when he first performed in Monkey Goes West<\/em> in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singing was more of a challenge for Joshua, although he\u2019s considerably less fazed by the experience now. Indeed, he\u2019s pleased to have been reunited with his vocal coaches, Irene and Audrey Jansen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His only concern? The intervening two years have made a difference to his singing voice. \u201cMy voice is breaking because I\u2019m going through puberty,\u201d he explains. \u201cSo, when I sing now, I sometimes have to change from melody to harmony, or harmony to melody!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua has learnt quite a few things from his two stints in Monkey Goes West<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s quite fun working with everyone because they help me learn from my mistakes,\u201d he points out. He\u2019s also enjoyed learning to cooperate with the \u201cvery friendly\u201d adult cast of the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, most of all, he loves performing for a crowd \u2013 whether on stage or at a wushu<\/em> competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love the adrenaline I get from performing,\u201d he declares. \u201cAnd from being the centre of attention!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With six years of wushu training under his belt, Joshua Goh of Martial House can jump, tumble and flip \u2013 just like a monkey! He chats with us about singing, dancing and pulling off a few cool tricks in Monkey Goes West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[281,152],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}