Author: stev

After a great first year of our Teacher Training Program, our first season comes to an end. Students from all over the world dedicated themselves to our second most intense frame of practice, in order to build up step by step a solid foundation of the Internal Martial Arts of Wudang Principles. Even the Covid 19 Pandemic situation couldn’t stop our work together and instead helped us to develop the program further so that now our training is always held online and offline. This opens the space for students from even farther away to join us. A good time now to look back and review how the last year went with one of our students. Andre is sharing with us in this video his experiences of the program. With his history in other Gong Fu schools as well as joining us online and offline, he brings a very wide view of the program and was, therefore, a very nice companion to talk about our last year. Thank you very much Andre for your time! And of course also a big big thank to all the other Teacher Training Students that gave everything the last year and brought all that motivation and work that made all of this possible!

Xing Yi Quan is the art of Shape-Shifting. Imitating the qualities of the 5 Elements and later on even the spirits of 10 Animals, Xing Yi Quan practitioners not only develop the ability to bring relaxed explosiveness into all directions and angles but also to fill the body with different movement qualities. In order to dive with us deeper into these concepts join our upcoming online 3-month course, in which I will teach and explain to you the basics of Wudang Principles Xing Yi Quan in a weekly 1 hour Xing Yi Class. Sign up at:

https://www.xuan-gongfu.de/Seminar/xing-yi-quan-online-course/

As filling and inspiring it is for me to hear the teachings of my teacher, as filling and inspiring it is for me to hear the teachings of our students. The art of studentship is to open ourselves to our own self. With the gates open everyone and everything becomes our teacher. Be part in the next Everyday Kung Fu Episode on our journey to open ourselves up individually and together. In this episode, I had the first round of talks with our students in their daily individual training routine. I was interested to hear what they train and what are their experiences and feelings with that. In the second part coming soon, I will continue with some other students hearing more wisdom from my students and friends :). Subscribe for not missing that! https://www.xuan-gongfu.de/

WE HAVE SOME NEWS FOR YOU! After some time of deep thinking, we decided to change the name of our academy. Being very thankful for the name that has been with us for over 10 years, it became an important step on your way of growth to let the name grow with us into something that represents our way of gong fu better. Help us to bring the message out and to spread the new name to all corners, so that friends and new students will still know where to find some decent gong fu ;).

In episode 6 I open with you some ideas about competition. Looking at questions like: why do we join competitions and what value they bring into our training. In our Training Records series, I talk in regular episodes about our training. About what we train, how we train, the methodologies of our training or philosophies connected to our training. With this series, we hope to share with your our training process and keep you up to date of what is happening at our academy here in Berlin.