Don't forget about our Project Based Leadership Training this Saturday.
Don't forget Ten Tigers workout Saturday.
Don't forget I'm not answering my phone on Sunday.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
A New Mission.
When I first decided I wanted to teach martial arts, I had a mission. I wanted to transfer the martial art Hung Gar in as authentic and traditional a way as possible. My dedication was to the art.
My mission changed.
After a while, I realized that the art was a means and not an end. My mission became to better myself through practice of the martial arts and through applying the skills developed in martial arts to the rest of my life.
My mission changed.
Now I am reaching out to others. I want them to improve themselves through whatever means is available. Since I see martial arts as a powerful means to that end, I teach people through Hung Gar.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Lunging to Bow and Arrow Stance
I just ran through some of my Hung Gar forms and discovered that In Sup Yin Kuen you shift to bow and arrow stance 60 times, in Fu Hok 55, in Gung Gee 68 and in Warrior Palm 42 times. Warrior Palm has 74 stance changes total, I hadn't thought ahead of time to count the total stance changes in the others.
This high incidence of shifting to that one particular stance shows the importance of that movement in the Hung Gar system. To create a powerful punch or strike, we use the full mass of our bodies, and the muscular strength of our arm, shoulder, latissimus muscles, and our quads and glutes.
Many styles rotate the back foot away from the punch, moving some of the body mass out of the punch, and disconnecting the power of the leg from the power of the strike. In Hung Gar, we root that back heel to the ground and drive forward.
It's obvious to me from the prevalence of that movement in the forms that it is something we are intended to master that one small movement, to do it until it is automatic. So when practicing your Hung Gar forms, root that heel in and drive forward.
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