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New students who register for classes with Falling Leaves Kung Fu before the end of August will receive Two Weeks at no cost and no obligation to continue.

Offer Valid Through 08/31/2010

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!

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.

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 "shuaii" 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.

Is it a mystical ancient art?  Is it a health panacea?  Is it a black and white circular symbol?  How about an ultimate fighting system?  What about a philosophy or conceptual framework?  Depending on who you ask, tai chi could be any one of the above mentioned possibilities.  There is a joke that goes “How many tai chi practitioners does it take to screw in a light bulb?  100.  One to screw it in, and 99 to say ‘that’s not how I was taught to do that.’”  Similarly, if you ask 100 different people what tai chi is, you’re liable to get nearly as many different answers.

Avatar: The Last Airbender Special Offer

When we discovered the Nicolodean animated series "Avatar: The Last Airbender" in my house, it was a real treat! The whole fmaily loved watching each new episode (we watched them on DVD). Since that time my kids *cough*and me*cough* have enjoyed watching them again and again.

Growing up during the 80's, the movie The Karate Kid certainly helped influence my desire to learn martial arts. I always dreamed of finding a master as wise and kind as Mr. Miyagi. I was lucky enough to find my Mr. Miyagi, so in honor of the new Karate Kid movie we're offering one free week of lessons to anyone who brings in their ticket stub from the new movie!

Some photos from last weekends workshop in Arizona.

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Submitted by ashe on Wed, 03/31/2010 - 5:05pm.

Are you uncomfortable with the idea of just jumping right in to a trial class?

Not sure if our program is right for you? Let's talk about it over coffee.

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