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Kettering - Bishop Stopford:
Currently our most popular class...
Aspects of the Syllabus taught include:
- Pushing Hands Drills:-
- FIXED STEP: 4 Directions, Fu Yang, Reeling Silk
- MOVING STEP: 7 Stars Step, 9 Palace Step, Gather The Wave and Da Lu
- AUXILLARY EXERCISES: single push hands, push absorbtion, fixed step (*not core syllabus, but part of training)
- Hand form: Short (Square and Round - as well as Mirror)*
- Long Form Square and Round
- Advanced Short Form*
- Hand form applications
- Sabre form
- Sabre Applications
- Spear
- Sabre and Spear Applications
- Conditioning - Running Thunder Hands
- Pads and Mitts work (learning to box/punch as well as slap!)
- Applications (san sau):-
- Shiai Jiao
- Qin Na
- Individual San Sau Applications from the form
- Qi gong - we practice Yi Jin Jing as well as other forms of qi gong - and relevant training in the Eight Pieces Brocade we practice in our system is given at appropriate times to certain students.
Weedon Bec Village Hall:
The club's (perhaps?) most rural class??
Involves many aspects of the Syllabus, including:
- All aspects of Hand Form
- Sabre
- Limited applications work from the Hand Form, Sabre and Spear
- Minor conditioning offered sometimes
- Qi gong
- Fixed and Moving Step Pushing Hands