7-Star Phoenix Kung Fu

Getting ready for Saturday in Denver when Ben and Vincent Martinez have their big test to 2nd degree black belt!

Their last pretest over styles like Pa Kua, Shantung Black Tiger, Spears, Mantis, and Yang Tai Chi went really well and they've been polishing up for the final test these past 4 months!

You guys are going to do GREAT!

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Then we get to train in exciting new material with these beautiful custom Sun & Moon Fork Knives we got!

Twin Tigers Defend the Mountain

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We are so looking forward to this weekend!

Some of the black belts doing 3 minute Lohan Short Forms in the park yesterday 👊🏽 ☯️

A rare treat of 1 long line of 30 Northern Tan Tui without having to turn or back up or run into each other like in the school. 🤣

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The smoke haze wasn't bad, maybe because we had extra breeze around us.

Hoping all the fires in Colorado and elsewhere get extinguished soon ❤️‍🩹

Yesterday, we channeled legends like the Drunken Immortals and General Kwan Kung (Guan Yu) through our Shaolin card deck all the way from Honan!

Black Belts pushed themselves with a variation on our kung fu circuit training (2 cycles, 30 seconds each), this time left to chance when Master Tanisha pulled 13 random cards to determine each station, such as:

🀄 Double smashes over the benches
🀄 Lohans
🀄 I Chin Ching
🀄 Kwan Tao form
🀄 Hua Mountain Fist
🀄 Tiger Crane
🀄 Cartwheel kicks!

Later, Lower Belts pulled random cards for Master Tanisha to drill them based on the position and styles on the cards - brand new exposure for them to

🐅 Tiger
🐒 Monkey
🍶 Drunken styles!

Always serious training! Always a fun time!

Kung Fu Kick It at the Movies!

Shaolin and friends at Mortal Kombat II.

Fair warning, this whole reboot series is extra gory...

But the martial choreography and Kung Fu weapons are great, especially the star of the show - Kitana's fans!

Our next fan training will be around soon as well!

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Kung Fu Kick-It ~ D&D Style!

We had a fun one-off adventure with our creative DM, Sifu Josh, and chosen legendary kung fu characters:

Famous Generals Yueh Fei & Kwan Kung

Physician and developer of 5-animal chi kung, Hua To

Drunken Immortals He' Hsiang Ku, Chou Kuo Chu, and Li Tung Ping

Outlaw of the Marsh Li Kwei

It was great questing with you!

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Time for another fantastic Shao-lin road trip this weekend in Albuquerque...

Training this fast, explosive, internal weapon - Meteor Spear!!!

Yessss!!!

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Looking forward to our Monday night Lower Belt Kung Fu class with our non-profit community partner The Bridge!

Serving those who are acclimating to life after prison, or otherwise justice-involved, or their supporters.

DM me or contact our 2nd Black and The Bridge co-founder Dan Hugill!

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