July 2024 Newsletter

Nan Shaolin Wuzuquan – Chee Kim Thong UK/EUR [Han Jin Yuan]

The above course was held at the KIXX Martial Arts Club full time training facility in Maidstone, Kent on Saturday the 8th of June 2024. We were very pleased to welcome senior instructors and students from the UK, Ireland, Norway and Holland to the event. Not all of the attendees were Wuzuquan students but due to the contact emphasis placed on the course all could practice and benefit together.

Joint Chief Instructor, Nigel Gilham, Senior Instructor, Ian Gauron (UK) and Senior Instructor Robert Bannon (IRE) gave much appreciated presentations that elaborated on partner contact training, mental and physical preparation, practice and objectives.

The range of topics used for practice each day included the Sanzhan Form, stance training with stance base (rooting), Chi Gong breathing and relaxation, Sanzhan partner catching (sensing and timing), conditioning (limb knocking, limb knocking set and set sparring routines), free style catching (fixed stance base), reaction training and self-defence applications. A continuous changing of partners was used to help turn theory into practice to adapt to new opponents and new conditions (intent, physical differences, range, etc). It was very important for everyone to understand and apply technique alongside objectives and new constraints.

We all observed a one minute silence in memory of Grandmaster Han who sadly passed away on the 11th June 2023.

We would like to thank everyone who invested their time and energy on this first day of the course. We sincerely hope that everyone managed to tune in to applying the theory in more demanding situations.

A few photos from day 1...

For more photos and information, please use the link below...

https://www.kixxmartialarts.co.uk/about/news/articles/two-day-nan-shaolin-wuzuquan-chee-kim-thong-uk-eur-han-jin-yuan/

Nan Shaolin Wuzuquan – Chee Kim Thong UK/EUR [Han Jin Yuan]

The above Nan Shaolin Wuzuquan course was held on Sunday the 9th of June, day two. We were very pleased to welcome senior instructors and students from the UK, Ireland, Norway and Holland to the event. Once again, not all of the attendees were Wuzuquan students but the same contact emphasis for the course provided benefit to all.

Joint Chief Instructor, Nigel Gilham and Senior Instructor, Peter Dillon (IRE) gave much appreciated presentations that elaborated on partner contact training, mental and physical preparation, practice and objectives.

The range of topics used for practice each day included the Sanzhan Form, stance training with stance base (rooting), Chi Gong breathing and relaxation, Sanzhan partner catching (sensing and timing), conditioning (limb knocking, limb knocking set and set sparring routines), free style catching (fixed stance base), reaction training and self-defence applications. A continuous changing of partners was used to help turn theory into practice to adapt to new opponents and new conditions (intent, physical differences, range, etc). It was very important for everyone to understand and apply technique alongside objectives and new constraints.

Once again, we all observed a one minute silence in memory of Grandmaster Han who sadly passed away on the 11th June 2023. Almost a year to the day.

We would like to thank everyone who attended either one or or both of the two days.

We sincerely hope that we managed to help each other to improve our standard of application by turning theory into practice.

A few photos from day 2...

For more photos and information, please use the link below...

https://www.kixxmartialarts.co.uk/about/news/articles/two-day-nan-shaolin-wuzuquan-chee-kim-thong-uk-eur-han-jin-yuan/

We held the course on Saturday the 22nd of June. Everyone enjoyed the opportunity to train together in an atmosphere of competition preparation. Focus was placed on the upcoming competition in July organised by the BCCMA.

Fitness is always a key issue when sparring so circuit training was used to promote a strong emphasis on the cardio, strength, stamina and endurance...

For techniques such as, takedowns, footwork, head movement, accuracy and conditioning, the opportunity to spar with many different opponents provided a good method for learning to cope with a range of skill sets...

Sparring with many different partners is key to practising and improving; movement, striking, avoiding, countering, takedown prevention and competing in a small, defined, area for 'push outs' ...

Good luck to those entering the Competition in July...

WELL DONE to the following winners of the KIXX KIDz Chinese Boxing Merit Certificates for June...

Simran, Aaron, Martha, Socrates, Sohan and Oliver

Please note that these certificates are awarded to acknowledge their extra effort in a range of skills and disciplines that were exhibited during the class (eg; effort, determination, flexibility, etc. etc.)

For those that would like to come and train Kung Fu, this class is on Thursdays from 5pm to 6pm (+8 yrs)...

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CALENDAR DATES TO REMEMBER...

Sunday 7th JULY – Invitational Higher Grades Xtra Training from 10am to 12noon.

Sunday 21st July - Nan Shaolin Wuzuquan Forms Training from 9:30am to 12noon. We want to use this extra time and opportunity to concentrate on the many forms that we have not recently had time to address. For more information, please get in touch...

Saturday 7th SEPT – Chinese Boxing Grading AND Course. Your Instructor will give you an invitation to grade if you are ready. Correct uniform must be worn to the grading (no shorts). Please speak to Tracy for more information.

Sunday 8th SEPT – Course - We will be hosting an external Approved Emergency First Aid course from Pulse First Aid at our club on the 8th September. We shall start at 9am and finish no later than 5pm (depending on the lunch break time agreement?). We are now fully booked but if anyone would like to add their name in case someone pulls out, please get in touch for more details on 07941 340284.

9th to 13th Nov 2024 – The Annual Nan Shaolin Wuzuquan Friendship Association meeting and competition in Quanzhou, China. More details will follow as we get them... Deadline for those that are eligible to attend is 22nd July 2024.