Brown Belts

Luo Tien / Chan Ie “Descends From Heaven / Spreading of the Wings”

Black Belts

Tai Chi / Pa Kua Sparring (“Sticky-Hand” sparring and application (blindfolded)) – Tuesdays & Thursdays

Outdoor Conditioning – Saturdays 8AM

FESTIVALS AND SEMINARS

LOS ANGELES ELDER MASTER VISIT

Pakua Chi Hsing Kuen – 7 Star Staff Internal Fighting Form. Sat., September 11th (Testing 8AM-11Am, Festival 11AM-3PM) Open to all CSC Students.

ALBUQUERQUE ELDER MASTER VISIT

Dragon Pakua – Featuring Tung Hai Ch’uan’s famous footwork & the Exciting 2 Person Push-Hands Set. Sat., September 25th (Testing 8AM-11AM, Festival 11AM-3PM) Open to all CSC Students.

SEVEN STAR MANTIS TRAINING – PART IV

(Mantis conditioning and 8 Hand of the Mantis 2-Person Iron Training) Thurs., September 30th (7:30PM – 9:30PM) Open to all CSC students.

Brown Belts

Yeh Ch’an Pa Feng Tao (Chinese Long Knife Eight Directional Night Battle)

Black Belts

Tai Chi / Pa Kua Sparring (“Sticky-Hand” sparring and application (blindfolded))

FESTIVALS AND SEMINARS

CHOU CHIE SAN PIEN

(Chain Whip – Nine Section Supreme Whip Form) Starting Sat., Aug 7th (8AM – 9AM)  (for 3 weeks!) Open to 1st degree black belts and above.

CHI KAI PO AN SHO CHANG

Pa Hsien – 8 Immortal Weapon Form (Drunken Beggar’s Bowl & Frail Stick) Sat., August 14th (9AM – 1PM) Open to all CSC students.

SAN FRANCISCO ELDER MASTER VISIT – SHIH HOU YI SHOU

(Stone Monkey’s Crafty Hands) Sat., Aug 21st Testing (8AM – 10AM) Sat., Aug 21st Festival (10AM – 1PM) @ CSC San Francisco Open to all CSC students.

SEVEN STAR MANTIS TRAINING – PART III

(Mantis conditioning and 7 Hand of the Mantis) Tues., August 24th (7:30PM – 9:30PM) Open to all CSC students.

BROWN BELT PRETEST

Thu., Aug 26th (7:30PM – 9:30PM) (Black belt panel required.)

FIRST ROAD OF THE TA MO CANE

(The “Crutches of War”) Sat., Aug 28th (12PM – 3PM) Open to all CSC students.

Brown Belts

Kwan Kung Tao (General Kwan’s Long Knife)

Black Belts

Tien Ta Suang Hu Tou Gou (Double Tiger Hook Swords Shake the Heavens)

FESTIVALS AND SEMINARS

CHOU KUO CHIU

(Pa Hsien – Eight Drunken Immortals, “The Country Uncle”) Starting Sat., Jul 3rd (8AM – 9AM) for 3 weeks - Open to 1st degree black belts and above.

TIEN TA SUANG ER CHIE KUEN

(Exciting Single & Double Nunchaku Forms & 2-Person Double End Staff Set) Sat., Jul 3rd (9AM – 2PM) Open to white belts and above.

DENVER GRANDMASTER VISIT – TESTING AND METEOR FIST FESTIVAL

Sat., Jul 17th (8AM – 8PM), Festival – Liu Hsing Chuan, “Cannon Rock Fist” (Yang) and “Eagle Form” (Yin) Sun., Jul 18th (8AM – 11AM), Testing for black belts going from 2nd to 3rd or from 3rd to 4th degree. (Senior black belt panel required.) Sun., Jul 18th (1PM – 6PM), Testing for black belts going from 1st to 2nd degree. (Senior black belt panel required.) Open to all CSC students of schools under the guidance of Elder Masters Sharon H. & David N. Soard!

DOWN AND GROUND TECHNIQUES / SPARRING STRATEGY CLASS

(Sweeps, take-downs, and counters, plus sparring theory and application) Special Double Festival! Sat., Jul 24th, (9AM – 1PM) Open to all CSC students.

Brown Belts

Hai Loong Chang (Sea Dragon Cane)

Black Belts

Yang Chia Chiang (Classical Yang Family Spear)

FESTIVALS AND SEMINARS

CHUAN YANG CHIEN

(Elegant “Skewer the Sun” double-edged straight sword form) Sat., May 1st (9AM – 12PM) @ Woodley Ave. Park  Open to all CSC students.

TECHNICAL PUNCHING AND KICKING / WEAPONS DEFENSE

(Improve your focus, snap, and power! Plus, gun, knife, and stick defense!) Special Double Festival!! Sat., May 15th (9AM – 1PM) Open to all CSC students.

HSING I SIX HARMONIES STAFF

Sat., May 22nd, Test / Pretest (8AM – 11AM) @ CSC Boulder Sat., May 22nd, Festival (11AM – 4PM) – Open to all CSC students

INSTRUCTOR TRAINING SEMINAR

All CSC Instructors should arrive Friday morning, May 21. Training will continue through Monday, May 24th @ CSC Denver.

SEVEN STAR MANTIS TRAINING – PART I

Thurs., May 27th (7:30PM – 9PM) Open to all CSC students.

Brown Belts

Se Pa Kuen (Single Ended Staff)

Black Belts

Se Mien Pa Fang Suang Tao (Double Broadswords)

FESTIVALS AND SEMINARS

SAN PIEN

(Chain Whip Spins/Techniques) Sat., Jun 4th (8AM – 11AM) Open to brown belts and above.

SALT LAKE CITY ELDER MASTER VISIT – FIRST AND SECOND ROADS OF THE GROUND MONKEY

Sat., Jun 12th Test / Pretest (8AM – 11AM) Sat., Jun 12th Festival (11AM – 4PM) @ CSC Salt Lake City – Open to all CSC students.

CHUE’ CHIEN

(8 Immortal’s Drunken Double Edge Sword Form) Sat., June 19th (9AM-1PM) Open to White Belts and Above.

TIEN HSUI – PART II

(36 “hit the bronze man” with solutions, part 2 of 3) Sat., Jun 19th (1PM – 4PM) @ CSC Boulder Open to 5th degree black belts and above.

SEVEN STAR MANTIS TRAINING – PART II

(Mantis conditioning and Linkage Forms) Thurs., June 24th (7:30PM – 9PM) Open to all CSC students.

A few pictures from the Snake Pakua festival in Albuquerque last weekend.

Excellent!

From BBC News:

…Buddhist nun Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo says that she’ll be introducing kung fu into her own nunnery which is based in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

“It’s excellent exercise, secondly it’s very good for discipline and concentration, thirdly it arouses a sense of self-confidence which is very important for nuns, and fourthly when any young men in the area know nuns are kung fu experts, they keep away,” she says….

View the full article.

One more reason to get to class…

and show up for practice hour…

and for brown and black belts to stick around for lower belt class…

From the Wall Street Journal:

A new study shows women need 60 minutes of moderate exercise a day to prevent weight gain as they age if they consume a normal diet.

The findings suggest women need more exercise than the current federal guidelines of 150 minutes a week, or 30 minutes five days a week, of moderate-to-intense activity….

Source

Well, she’s not doing kung fu, but it’s still a great concept… (via)

To increase awareness and registration for their children’s self-defense classes, The World Black Belts Center in Dubai tackled this in an unconventional way.
Nope, they didn’t reverse punch parents into registering their kids, instead Memac Ogilvy Dubai created an illustrated children’s book that’s based on the well-known
story of Little Red Riding Hood. What happens in the end? Our little heroine courageously beats up the big bad wolf to save the day. A simple call to action on the back cover – “You Too Can Fight Back” – provides the reader with more information on self-defense classes for kids and directs them to register. The End.

Agency: Memac Ogilvy & Mather Dubai, UAE.

Great article today from Dr. Jay Parkinson over at The Future Well:

All I ask is that you stop and think about your life today.

…Spend a few minutes and write down how you spend your day. What are you doing? What are you doing that’s probably good for you? What are you doing that’s probably not that great for you? What are you doing too much of? Not enough of? Make a list. It’s actually pretty simple. For everything you identify that’s not so great for you, write a simple way you can change that behavior.

Think about just three things– sleep, food, activity. Changes should be very, very simple. It’s things like taking the stairs instead of the elevator. It could be eating less meat. It could be sleeping 7 hours instead of six. It could be drinking with friends 3 nights a week instead of four. It could be one less hour of sitting in front of your computer.

Life really isn’t about your health. It’s about happiness. Health is just one component of happiness. So take a break every once in a while and sit down and think about a few small everyday things that have huge impact on your happiness.