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Martial Arts Show

This two day event is well worth a visit. Once you are in the event virtually everything on offer is free to enjoy, from seminars with the world’s greatest martial arts names, to demonstrations from some incredible martial artists. Meet, greet, train and spend time with your favourite martial arts greats, buy products, and have…

Don’t walk before you can run

Some people are impatient to learn more patterns, as they feel that they have learnt the moves of the forms they have been given so far and are ready to move on, or that knowing more patterns in some way makes them bigger and cleverer than other people.

BCCMA Traditional Forms Championships

The British Council for Chinese Martial Arts (BCCMA) is holding the Traditional Forms Championships on 29 April, for adults and juniors. Possible competitions for you to enter are: Southern Hand Routine; Internal Hand Routine; Southern Short Weapon; Southern Long Weapon. Beginners are students that have trained under two years; everyone else is to enter as…

Junior Grading

Invitation only.

Biggest event of health Qigong ever held in the UK

Some 300 people welcomed the modern practice of the ancient art of Health Qigong to the UK last weekend (Saturday 21 April 2012) at a Health Qigong event held in Epsom, Surrey. Visiting Chinese professors and teachers demonstrated the gentle movements, which like Tai Chi can be practised by young and old.

Going for Gold at the BCCMA Championships

By Ken Sim, student, Southern Crane Kungfu. My alarm clock went off very early on a Sunday morning in May last year. As I was waking up my first thought was that the day had finally arrived, the day of the BCCMA Forms Championships, and I was taking part…