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Learning the Unlearn (a student's perspective)
(This post written by Agata) I could say that I started practising Kung Fu about two years ago. I'm a freelancer, my life is spread out...
Michael
Dec 7, 20223 min read
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Guess what - you have A Body!
Your body is not just a piece of flesh and bone for transporting you around and manipulating physical objects at your whim. It is a...
Michael
Oct 7, 20212 min read
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The Heart and the Ego
Chiu Chung taught Sifu: ‘If you do not learn Lung Ying through the heart, you will never learn it’ What did he mean? We are driven by two...
Michael
Jul 16, 20211 min read
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Destruction is Good
As I step forward, repeating the Lung Ying technique, I feel my confidence increase. I sense an inkling of power.. I move quicker, adding...
Michael
Oct 17, 20202 min read
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The Core of the Matter
My father-in-law recently needed some help in the garden to prepare for a new concrete path. It involved shoveling a lot of heavy, wet,...
Michael
Nov 11, 20192 min read
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Finding Purpose
I recently had a surge in applicants to our introduction Kung Fu class… and this meant that on one night I had potentially many more...
Michael
Sep 20, 20192 min read
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Mark, the Over-Qualified Green Tip
In college, as a hobby, I spent four years learning a particular martial art. Like many martial arts, the one I studied then used a...
Michael
Sep 2, 20192 min read
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Hands up who is the teacher
I wasn’t exactly bad at maths in school.. but not great either. I remember a teacher advising me that, even if I found it hard, staying...
Michael
Aug 14, 20192 min read
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Influence
As the parents of two small children, we occasionally have to deal with meltdowns. The reason could be something reasonable like ‘I want...
Michael
Aug 5, 20191 min read
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Heart
Having decided to replace our wooden decking with stone tiles, we recently received a delivery of some 120 granite slabs which were...
Michael
Jul 30, 20192 min read
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