Martial Art of Awareness Students Test For Rank!

On Sunday July 17th, 2010, Arizona students from all over the state gathered at the Kung Fu Studio in Tucson to test for their next student level. We had 10 successful tests for student level one, and one successful test for student level 2. Many congratulations to all the students of our style of Tai Chi - Kung Fu for your hard work and determination to pursue our wonderful martial art!

Clips From Our Martial Arts Classes in Tempe, AZ - 7.11.2010

More Sunday goodness...

Falling Leaves Kung Fu students of I Liq Chuan, Ashe (Cheif Instructor at FLKF), and Glenn work on some basic partner drills that incorporate our spinning and sticky hands training.

In these clips we work on I Liq Chuan principles like "guard center/ use center" "no landing" as well as "circle to center, center to center, center with cross" and the "five qualities of unification", "bridging" and more.

Here in the second clip we work on the same qualities as above but starting from a position of no contact. in martial arts it's important for the student to learn to maintain readiness at all times.

In this second clip we also start to work in some training on the "phoenix eye" material and trying to maintain the "fullness" so the opponent can't strike in at any point.

In both clips we're only working from stationary position. Later, when the student has a grasp of these concepts, the same training must be done with moving steps, then into full sparring.

Some Sticky Leg Training

Falling Leaves Kung Fu students Will and Jonathan train some "sticky leg" during our martial arts classes from this Sunday at our Tempe, Arizona facility. Sticky leg drills are used to develop both offense and defense within the "shuai" 摔 section of training. Shuai is often tranlated as "wrestling" and can include trips, sweeps, throws and various take downs, similar to Judo or Jiu-Jitsu.

This Sunday's class focused on our basic exercises (jibengong 基本功) 11-15, which is the required content for student level 2, but since we were working on footwork and stepping anyway, I had us train some sticky leg as well.