Jow Ga Kung Fu Academy

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Happy New Year!

Had a great time training with my student Alexis Lex Sixlea and showing her around Arizona. Alexis is on the path to be a Sifu (Kung Fu teacher) and I have ac...cepted her as a private student, usually called a disciple. I’m very happy to share something I’m passionate about and to see future generations getting ready to teach. See more

Alexis made it here for training. Will post updates...

Hello Everyone, In case you don’t know we have a private page for students. You can go there to ask questions, post videos of yourself, and learn. Also, Alexis will be coming to Arizona to train with me in two weeks. I’ll put up some videos and possibly do a live feed if people are interested. Here’s a chance to get some training outside of regular class. I’m also open to suggestions. So if there is something you would like to see, or know more about let me know. ... Participate. Learn. Grow. ~ Sifu

Drills and conditioning. Love to see happy faces doing kung fu!

I’ve been asked this since I first started martial arts training....

https://thetruekungfu.com/blog/126025/styleorart

June 24th was the 7 year anniversary of the Jow Ga Kung Fu Academy. I’m a little late, but I want to thank Jon Jon C Strong for taking over when I was no longer able to stay in Georgia. He’s done a great job and has some amazing students of his own. Happy Anniversary!!

Free course - Introduction to Qigong will be up shortly. Also, Level I Qigong for Health which will break down the entire 8 Pieces of Brocade and cover Breathing methods and exercises for developing Bioelectricity, or Chi/Qi https://youtu.be/Mi_zsTgVP54

This new blog post also applies to Kung Fu training. Because Kung Fu applies to life.

10 Animals of Jow Ga Kung Fu https://thetruekungfu.com/blog/104377/10-animals

Great classes tonight. lots of fun! "Faht Yeung " spread Jow Ga Kung Fu

Great Lion Dance training. Lots of fun, now off for some Dim Sum.

I know you guys learned a lot this weekend during lion practice. There’s a lot of good information on the link provided. Don’t worry about the Northern Lion . But it’s good to know the difference between Hok and Fut San lions. Jow Ga is Hok San with a twist. : ) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_dance

Happy New Year Everyone!

OK. It looks like something happened to my previous post sundown to try this again. Had a great time this weekend working with your Dai Sihing Jon C Strong. We covered a lot of material, to include sequences techniques and applications from: Sei Ping, Small Tiger, Faa Kyun, Man Ji, Eagle Claw, Fu Pau, Staff, Sword, spear and daggers!! It was nonstop for three days! As my Sifu Tai Lik Cheung always says, The ultimate goal in kung fu is the pass on what you have learned, so that others may benefit The ultimate accomplishment in Kung Fu, is to pass on what you have learned, so that others may benefit. Jon even got himself a Jow Ga hat! - Sifu

Great class tonight!

Kung Fu family it is time for some new shirts. Sifu has found us someone to help with getting shirts! Cost will be $20 each. At this time we will only be ordering red shirts that will be either 50/50 short sleeve or wicking sleeveless. Please let me know how many, type and size. I would like to give the order to Sifu by 8/25.

Yesterday, Kung Fu sisters outnumbered the brothers for our sparring class. That absolutely made my day!!

Jow Ga fist is highly important, you don't get the option to be lazy with forming the fist correctly. Tonight I hit someone with my thumb while sparring. I think I would have severely damaged my thumb tonight had I not made a proper Jow Ga fist. LESSON TO LEARN: Don't be lazy with making the Jow Ga fist. I know it seems like such a small thing would make much of a difference. I hear to tell you first hand I could tell by the impact that I felt on my thumb that it makes all the difference in the world. Train making a Jow Ga fist every day at work, when you are walking from class to class, when you are watching T.V. Train it until you don't know any other way to make a fist.

OK Jow Ga family. Lesson that was learned today. The boxing type gloves kills part of our technique. If you are like me and have learned to develop some sensitivity with your hands and controlling punches, then the boxing type gloves will take all of this away from you. The size of the gloves also make it really difficult to slip in punches that normally would go in. My experience tonight reminds me about may saying. "Fight where your opponent is weak and force your opponent to fight where you are strong." Well the boxing gloves is a weak point. So if you ever have to spar with those things on, then you are already at a disadvantage. The is good news is that it doesn't you can still use some Jow Ga techniques. Big wheel punches are no problem.

Everyone did a good job in Monday's class. We currently have potential student trying out a week of our classes. It's always nice to see how people smile, laugh, and enjoy themselves when training with us. That tells me that we are doing really good at making people feel comfortable around us. I also notice that one of the students had a focus that I've never seen before. The focus had purpose and intent. It was the kind of focus that people get when they understand a technique. The student wasn't just doing the technique, she was using the technique as if her attacker was standing right in front of her. We had another student come back to training and it was really good to see him there. Over all everyone did a really good job with Monday's training and helping out when needed.

Here's a short clip from a few years ago of me working on a basic Jow Ga technique (I'm in the red shirt). I made a lot of learning mistakes that day and ate a few punches, but it was worth it. Now I have a much better understanding of the technique (which I won't name). Jow Ga Kung Fu is much more evasive than what it appears to be on the outside. It's simple and complex all at the same time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSMKWmktpZE

Come join us today at 2 pm for free relaxing martial art exercises. It's perfect for releasing stress and tension.

Excellent arm workout today. A couple of bicep curls, lots of stomach exercises and tons of pushups. Expect to see more bag work for our kicks and attacks with knees in the future. We'll keep doing until the kicks begin to fill comfortable to everyone. We'll keep doing the news until we learn how to correctly drive the knee into the target. Expect to see more arm, hand, chest, back, and core exercises for (lion dance training, sparring practice) at least until the muscles ...in our legs heal completely. For the past 3 weeks we have been really pushing hard on our legs on Thursday and we need to let up a little. I'm noticing improvements in body coordination and footwork. Everyone has made big improvements with the endurance training. We are no longer out of breath with certain cardio exercises. Awesome. Sometime around the middle of this month or the end of this month we'll get back into full sparring. March will be our grappling month. Keep up the good work.

Another great sparring class tonight. We did kicks, conditioning, take-downs and strength building exercises. Everyone did a good job with pushing through.

Another great class of Jow Ga kung fu training. Lots of effective strength building exercises. Everyone did a great job with the pad work and honest effort. Jow Ga ladies had excellent focus tonight and it's clear that everyone will have a boost in ability with the help of the new training gear. After the regular class, 2 students did extra lion dance conditioning exercises to build up strong arms, shoulders, legs, back and hand grip. I can't wait to see the results after 3 months. Don't miss out on the next class. We have more fun building up for our Thursday Sparring class.

After my 2 hour Sunday training session I decided to test out a new training and conditioning tool for our Thursday sparring class. Here are some of the new exercises that you'll be enjoying this week. My technique was a little off thanks to the 120 bicep curls (30lbs one arm), weighted big wheel punches, 80 punches, the ab work, and tossing the bag continuously for 20 minutes. But I feel really good today. The bag keeps its shape after impact and it's just the right weight to really work on some of our techniques without hurting ourselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pASP4XB7nY0&feature=youtu.be

Good workout today. Everyone did a good job today. This week has been very productive and it looks like we will be training new exercises to help us develop strong legs and strong arms. Keep up the good effort in your training.

Lion Dance practice for Saturday 2/11/2017 has been canceled. Monday 2/13/2017 class has also been cancelled. Think of it as healing time.

Beginner, Intermediate, and Advance students going through the stepping form. The basics are a critical to developing advanced skills. Our Intermediate and Advanced students train the basics with the beginner students. The basics are always worth training especially if you want to be good at something. This applies to everything and not just Kung Fu. Fun Jow Ga Kung Fu Academy Fact: We are like family and just like family some of us end up with nicknames. The names us...ually fit something that's personal and it usually relates to how we train or behave. Here are just a few of the names that some of us have unfortunate to earn lol. MadKat, Cobra, Thumbs (not official), Anthrax, The Hammer, Pearl Harbor, Hollywood, Angry Bird (not official) Pockets. Some are still working on earning their nicknames. All of the nicknames were given with kindness. See more

This is why we spend so much time training footwork at school. Side hops, cross overs, backwards movement, and especially Jow Ga Stepping Form; all provides us with the tools to avoid and with stuff like this. Do you remember hearing about the limitations of the retreat? That we can only retreat as far.....? Well here you are. How many legs do we put at risk at any given time? What happens when your feet start "talking to each other?" How many times have we heard the lecture about the "tip toe" retreats? How many times have we heard about the importance of footwork and our feet? You may not be a professional fighter, but you have the knowledge to deal with things like this (grappling attacks targeting your root). The only thing we have to do is train honestly, practice, trust in the techniques, and practice some more.

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy New Year Everyone.

A big welcome to the 2 new students who joined our school this week. We now have 9 Jow Ga ladies in training.

For anyone interested in learning true defense/offense against an MMA fighter, or how to apply your art realistically; take the time to go spend a few days with Nick. He's a talented martial artist from MMA (UFC) to Tai Chi Chuan, to qigong, but more importantly he's a great teacher who doesn't hold back. There are no "secrets" with him. Make yourself a better martial artist; Step up your game and get out to California.

I will be holding classes for adults on Saturdays at 1000, at Chapparal Park, Scottsdale Arizona. Main focus will be on Jow Ga Kung Fu, but I will also cover Yang Tai Chi Chuan and qigong. Contact me for more details [email protected]

Thank you for everyone who participated in today's self-defense class. Everyone had a good time and learn some new things about self-defense. Thank you Jow Ga ladies for also participating. Today made it very clear just how much your training has improved. There will be another free Women's self-defense class on Thursday after sparring class.

Excellent training and conditioning today. Everyone in sparring class should be proud of themselves. Your biggest accomplishment today was that you had a difficult challenge and you pushed through even when it got tough. Here's what you did tonight. 195 Push ups (One of the ladies did 225 push ups), 13 squats, 13 ground recoveries, 260 touch the ceiling crunches, 260, jabs, 4 minutes of grip exercises while standing in horse, 20 arm grabs, counters, and escape drills, about 20 or more front kick counter drills (leg grab drills), 66 curls. This is how strong you have become and you'll get stronger with each day of Jow Ga Kung Fu Practice.

Just some light sparring and working on basics. We spar to learn and not to win. This approach allows us to safely make attempts to use Jow Ga Kung Fu techniques that we are still learning, without the fear of being knocked out when we make mistakes or get something wrong. Winning causes students to fight with what they feel most comfortable with. Usually when students are too afraid to take the necessary risks to learn how to use Kung Fu during sparring, it's because the sparring is probably too intense, or someone is too focused on "winning."

Screen capture from a video of 2 brothers sparring with each other at the Jow Ga Kung Fu Academy. Left : Jow Ga Kung Fu. Right: Muay Thai student from Maryland.

Great work out tonight 110 push ups, 132 sit-ups, 4 laps of Jow Ga shadow boxing, 220 jabs, 4 laps of shuffle steps, 20 low squats, and a good time watching our sparring videos in slow motion. I'm tired.

A reminder to Jow Ga sparring students: Thursday we will have our first Fight Analysis Class after our regular conditioning exercises. Bring extra water as we will have new Jow Ga shadow boxing and strength exercises..

Everyone gets an A+ for tonight's effort. I don't think I've seen everyone so focus before. Everyone pushed through even when it things were difficult. Our 4 new students gave it their best and it showed during training. Keep up the good work.

No Classes today due to weather. Stay warm and safe.