Training

Training for beginner students provides the foundation for a strong body and mind. The aim of training is to create higher levels of strength, stamina, flexibility, co-ordination and speed while toughening the striking weapons of the body and areas that are potential targets for your opponent.

• Calisthenics: Calisthenics are body weight exercises (push-ups, sit-ups, squats, etc) that increase muscle strength and endurance, and can increase speed and co-ordination by developing the core stabilizer muscles in your body that provide the precision the body needs to perform at it’s highest level.
• Weight training: Weight training helps to develop the fast twitch muscles responsible for explosive strength. It can also help maintain and build lean mass given proper diet and rest patterns.
• Cardio training: Running, Sanda (kick boxing) and other cardio drills and exercises help to develop stamina and a strong, determined mind.
• Gong-fu and Taijiquan forms: Learning these forms is a relaxing, thereputic way to improve flexibility, strength and stamina. These moving meditations can help to integrate the mind and the body through learning to coordinate the breath with mindful movements.
• Weapons training: Weapons training increases both co-ordination and focus. The focus and co-ordination required for example in the use of the whip chain or three sectioned staff can teach a person to quiet his mind and focus almost instantly.
• Body conditioning: Learn how to harden both the body’s natural striking weapons and the targets venerable to attack by an opponent.