What Does New Life Kung Fu Mean?
When people think of Kung Fu they think of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li. When they picture these 3 famous martial artists they think of action packed fighting sequences, explosions and a lot of punches and flying kicks. While Kung Fu does have a lot of flashy...
Is Tai Chi A Martial Art
To answer the question is Tai Chi A Master Art, Yes Tai Chi is a Martial Art. The problem is that most people who do Tai Chi do it for health and wellness and not to learn how to fight. Tai Chi has many fighting applications build into the moves. So many in fact that...
Are you walking the path?
“I can show you the path but I can not walk it for you.” Most of the research on the health benefits of martial art is on Tai Chi, which focusses on developing a stable, balanced stance, on improving flexibility, and on using breathing as part of a light meditative...
Are you living a Kung Fu life?
"Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu." - Jackie Chan as Mr. Han, 'Karate Kid'. Not only do you start to improve your posture and energy levels as...
Top 10 Meditation Music To Help Calm In Anxiety
Stress and anxiety are a pretty normal part of our lives. This is due to the hectic routine that most functional people will have, usually because of study or work, or both. You may even require home care assistance . However, stress and anxiety can become very...
Modeling Positive Lifestyle Choices for Your Children
Children learn best by seeing what others around them do. This is how they develop life skills, coping mechanisms, opinions, and appropriate behavior from an early age. You can model positive lifestyle choices for your children in many ways. By doing so, you lay a...
What is Ji Ben Gong
Ji Ben Gong stands for Basic Foundation Work. So any time you see the word Gong, that means work. Like Qi Gong (Energy Work) Nei Gong (Internal Work). With that being said anything that is practiced to enhance your form can be considered Foundation Work. At New Life...
What is Ting Jin
In Chinese Ting means to listen! Ting Jin is Listening Jin. When we say listening, we don't mean listening with your ears. We mean listening to your body and your opponents body. We work on building a perfect connection and communication with our opponent. Ting jin is...
Class notes for Michael P.
We discussed the new student class notes, which can be found here. We went over Ji Ben Gong, which stands for Basic Foundation work. Here is the link for the videos. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJz8UD6FwCQxdsntuJKMpJev1bO9d49wZ We discussed Yi, Qi and Shen....
Lesson Notes For Saturday Morning Class, 10-3-20
We went over New student notes, which can be found here >> NewLifeKungFu.com/new We went over Ji Ben Gong and those videos can be found here >> Ji Ben Gong Videos We talked about the Ji Ben Gong set being the 1st test, so be sure to practice this so you...