Children's Class Weekly Re-Cap, Nov 21-23
Lil’ Leopards
Our last Lil’ Leopards class was an extra special one. Each student received their very own lion, crafted by the I Ho Chuan team, to take home and decorate. Moving forward we will be practicing our lion dancing each week in preparation for the upcoming Chinese New Year Banquet on February 10, 2024. Lion dancing is not only a traditional tenet of Kung Fu, but is an incredibly valuable tool to build on so many skills that make a successful martial artist. Strength, power, speed, timing, team work; all skills that are transferable to any other aspect of Kung Fu. And on top of all that, it’s just a whole lot of fun!!
Tiny Tigers
We utilized our Tiny Tigers class this past week to start preparing for the banquet as well. The Tiny Tigers will be demonstrating their skills using our traditional Dragon Dance! Dragon Dancing is a challenging facet of Kung Fu. It takes a great amount of stamina, focus, strength, hand/eye coordination and a whole lot of teamwork. As a team of 9 dancers, the students have to work together flawlessly to make the dragon come alive. This week we started to work on some of the basic movements and even practiced some circle formations. The students did amazing and we are looking forward to working on this more!
Young Dragons Level 1&2
For our Young Dragons classes this past week we were surprised with a special Master Instructor Class! Sifu Hayes led both classes, covering a variety of skills and techniques. Horse stance, bow stance, side heel kick, slide stepping and more…all basic, but very important skills that need to be mastered in order to support all of the more advanced Kung Fu we will end up learning. We are so fortunate to have 4 active Master Level Instructors at our school, including Sifu Hayes. And when one of them is able to participate in our classes to this degree, we are very grateful. The students were all very attentive and focussed and every one of them was able to take something away from this special class.
Special Announcements for All Classes
The next Open Training takes place Saturday December 9 from 10-12noon.
