There will not be any classes on these dates!

Sunday 14th March 2010 – Class closed

Thursday 18th March 2010 – Qi Gong Class closed *London class unaffected*

Sunday 21st March 2010 – Class closed

Thursday 25th March 2010 – Qi Gong Class closed *London class unaffected*

That’s all for now.
Shaolin Culture

An extra thank you goes to our friends from France (Guilaume and Francois) who showed their Gong Fu skills to the British public.

Please take a look at the photos below, to see some of what went on on the day!!

We hope to see you all at the Kung Fu Classes and Tai Chi classes throughout the coming weeks.

If your were fortunate to recieve one of our cookies we hope to see you at classes very soon!!

Peace, Love and Happiness…

Shi Fu Yang, Shi Fu Heng Yi and the Shaolin Culture Team.

 

To celebrate this occasion we will be hosting a demonstration in Bromley outside Primark from 9am until 4pm on the 20th February 2010, those who can help during this event would be most appreciated. Please let either Shifu Yang, Shifu Heng Yi or Koh know.

Please note that classes on this day will be cancelled.

Finally to also celebrate as a school, we would like to invite students, families and friends to a Chinese New Year meal at Miso’s in Bromley at 6pm on the 20th February 2010. I will require numbers before booking the tables, so if you wish to attend please express your interest by 16th February 2010 by sending us an email or speaking with Koh Shifu Yang or Shifu Heng Yi

Peace, Love and Happiness…

Everyone trained together, they practice Wu Shu and taught us some of their forms and weapon training and Shifu Heng Yi gave their students some Traditional Shaolin and Qi Gong training.

It was really interesting and we all got on extremely well, it’s a great club with lovely students and instructors. We look forward to welcoming them to England in the near future.

Monday was the first day back after the Christmas break and we were pleased to see some new faces, welcome to them and good to see the oldies too.

We’ll be having a workshop for the second part of the Tiger form in the next few weeks, so you had better get practicing the first part so as to make the most of it. Don’t forget it’s the year of the Tiger (that’s me) and it’s going to be a great one!

 

Also, we had our Christmas party the same evening. There was a good turn out, I think about 65. The food was fantastic, Shifu Heng Yi, Koh and Ono did the cooking, while some of the other students, including Sandra, Richie, Richard, Alex, Bosco and Gio helped get the tables ready, serve the food and decorate the rooms.

As I said, the food was great and there was loads of it. We played lots of games, including a quiz, of course there is always one table head and shoulders above the rest and of course it was Sandra and Richies table, well done to them. At the end Gio dressed up as Father Christmas and handed out presents to everyone. That only left the balloon popping ceremony, lucky we had lots because everyone wanted to get involved. Great fun!

I would like to say thank you to everyone, those who did the organising and preparations, the people who helped set up, everyone who came along and made the evening such fun and of course to Shifu Yang, Shifu Heng Yi and Koh who do such a wonderful job all year.

Merry Christmas everyone and see you all in the New Year.

To all the dedicated students who worked so hard and did so well – don’t forget to practice! In next Monday’s and Saturday’s classes Shifu will be going over the form, so try to get to them.

Team Shaolin has been created in order to standardise the level of Shaolin Kung Fu that is being taught outside of the Shaolin Temple in China. For more details visit the Team Shaolin website.  The Competition was open to all schools teaching Traditional Shaolin Kung Fu and Chen Style Tai Chi or any individual students thats study these disciplines.

The event was held at a lovely sports centre in Swiss Cottage by host school “Tang Long”. We started a little late because the Jubilee Line was shut down and some people had difficulty getting there, but it was really well organised and once it got going it ran like clockwork.

There was a good turnout and the standards of the competition were very high. The categories were divided into; Traditional Shaolin forms, Chen Style Tai Chi forms and Weapon forms. To view the categories in more detail take a look at the  Team Shaolin Application Form.

Shifu Heng Yi, representing Shaolin Culture had 4 of  the schools students competing, the youngest being 12. Between them they won 6 medals, which we are extremely pleased with considering the standards.

We at Shaolin Culture would like to say a great big thank you to the team at Tang Long for a lovely day and making us so welcome.