Chinese Kung Fu and Tai Chi Academy August 08
Mini Workshop
Master Zhao Shihua will be conducting a 4 hour workshop where you can now learn pain-relieving massage techniques for the head, neck and shoulders, for yourself and your family, which shows you important pressure points, or acupuncture cavities to bring you quick drug free pain and stress relief. The workshop also deals with headaches and migraines.
The exercises are simple to learn and enjoyable to practice and can be practiced anywhere both sitting and standing. And you don’t need to have learned Chi Kung previously in order to do it. Investment for this workshop is $120.
The workshop will be held at the Balcatta School on the 5th of August from 6:00pm to 10:00pm. Kung Fu classes will not be running on this evening. Please ring 9240 4240 to register or register at the front counter.
Club Members
For students who are in certain clubs at the school, they will need to develop stronger foundations such Lion Dance Troupe, Demo Team, Tournament Team and Assistant Instructor there will be a 15 minutes horse stance every time you come to the school.
Fight Night
The next fight night will be held on August 30th at the Italian Club. Marco Tentori will be fighting on the night. Poster and tickets will be out soon, so don’t miss out, come down and support your kung fu school.
Lion Dance Troupe
For any student interested in joining the Lion Dance Troupe, should do so now. We are starting a beginners group at the start of August, so speak to your instructors or Sifu if you’re interested in joining.
Sparring Club
Sparring Club members need to make time to be consistent. All members need to be sparring twice a week or more. This is the only way for you to progress in your training. Also you need to practice 10 minutes of deng gerks each time you come in to training, this will give you reflex action for your kicks.
Grading and testing weeks
O’Connor grading week is August 18th to the 23rd.
Balcatta grading week is August 25th to the 30th.
Remember, horse stance training will apply to students who forget to bring their grading or testing sheets in.
Timetable Changes
From the beginning of August there will be a slight timetable change to work in with everyone better.
Saturday afternoons at Balcatta and O’Connor will change to 12:00 to 1:30pm and be all levels (except gold/orange) make up class. Classes before 12:00pm will remain the same.
There will be no more women’s self defence class in O’Connor from 12:00 to 12:30pm. On Monday, O’Connor 6:15 to 7:15pm “No Belt” Class and Tuesday Balcatta 7:15 to 8:15pm “No Belt” class will no longer be running on these days. If there are any problems you may have concerning the changes to the timetable, please talk to Sifu, or see one of the team at the front counter.
Demo Team
Demonstration team will be running every 2nd week. O’Connor will be Wednesdays from 8:15 to 9:!5pm and Balcatta on Tuesdays from 8:15 to 9:15pm. Demo team members get to learn weapon forms, hand forms and two man forms that are not taught in your curriculum. If you’re interested in the demo team, please talk to your senior instructor to find out how to get involved.
Black Sash Club
Black Sash Club for Adults will be:
- O’Connor Monday 18th August from 8:15 to 9:15pm
- Balcatta Thursday 28th August from 8:15 to 9:15pm
Junior Black Sash Club will be:
- O’Connor Wednesday 20th August from 5:30 to 6:30pm
- Balcatta Tuesday 26th August from 5:30 to 6:30pm
If you are a BSC member you need to attend on your dates. The topic for August Black Sash Club will be Analysing Techniques out of Forms. There are lots of secret techniques hidden in your forms – so don’t miss out.
Friendly Reminder
A friendly reminder to all Advanced Levels to start preparing yourself for the 2008 Sparring Extravaganza, which will be held on the 2nd of November 2008.
Nutritional Corner
We now have a nutritional corner on our notice board at both schools. Information on the boards will change every 2 weeks so make an effort to have a read of the information while you can. I feel that students who take their training seriously must have a well balanced diet.
You must be eating lots of fruit and vegetables, fish and a little red meat each week. It’s hard to know where your food comes from these days, if you do that’s great, but if you don’t then try and find sources of food that you do know where they have come from and what is being put on them before you eat.
There is a lot of processing done to our food before it gets to us. This processing can sometimes be to prolong the shelf life of our food but unfortunately depletes the goodness in it. I believe this is why degenerative diseases are growing at such a rapid rate.
Our bodies are unable to get the same nutritional value from foods that we used to because of the modern farming and preserving methods. I believe this is why it is so important to use a high quality supplement to add to our diet.
Our bodies can only run as good as the quality of products we put in it, and we have a great ability to heal and renew when given the right ingredients. This is one of the many reasons why I use and promote the Usana products because they are the highest quality you can get on the market today.