Kungfu or the gym?
Sometimes I look around my kungfu class and play a game; spot the martial artist. This might sound like an odd comment, as surely everyone in a kungfu class would be a budding martial artist, wouldn’t they? Well, no.
Sometimes I look around my kungfu class and play a game; spot the martial artist. This might sound like an odd comment, as surely everyone in a kungfu class would be a budding martial artist, wouldn’t they? Well, no.
We’re back! We have just returned from a fantastic training trip to Fujian Province in southern China, where we spent 10 days under the expert guidance of our Tiger Boxing Master, Master Ying Zhang Lin. As well as learning further patterns from the Yong Tai Tiger Boxing syllabus, we were also given the official manual…
We are shortly going to be hopping on a plane to China, to go to Yong Tai to study with Tiger Master, Master Lin. I cannot stress how important and enriching it is, to both your own world view and to your skill and understanding in kungfu, to go to the country of its origin…
Southern Crane Kungfu recently attended the National World Tai Chi Day event in Nonsuch Park, Cheam, Surrey. We had a brilliant time, with great weather and a lot to watch and experience. As well as joining in with the tai chi, we were able to give large groups of visitors an insight into Shuang Yang,…
It was our first weapons workshop of 2011 last weekend. I decided to try a new approach for teaching weapons in Tiger Crane combination and Fujian Yong Tai tiger boxing styles. I gave students at the workshop the opportunity to try three weapons of interest. Ironically the staff was favoured by most, followed by the…
I have trained in Tiger Crane Combination kungfu for over a decade. I have evolved from being a student obsessed with martial arts, to a kungfu-obsessed teacher and student. At the age of nine, I began my training in martial arts with a Judo class. Following tough years as a teenager, he found myself going…
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