Saturday, November 5, 2011: Kuk Sool Kwan Demonstrating at US Martial Arts Festival
This event will feature a demonstration from Ancient Arts’ Kuk Sool Kwan practitioners in the 1500 seat Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center as part of a large production and performance with the purpose of raising money for charity. This event has been organized by Shin Koyamada from “The Last Samurai” and will feature other performances by Shaolin monks, Fumio Demura, and others. Numerous martial arts and other celebrities from film, professional fighting, and top martial arts academies from around the world will both be demonstrating and in attendance. Tickets for this event can be purchased at the USMAF official site.
Luke Holloway from Raw Combat International Does VidBlog Spot on Kuk Sool Kwan
Sensei Luke Holloway who, through his company Raw Combat teaches tactics and combatives to military personnel around the world, stopped by for a surprise visit at Ancient Arts Dojang in early October, where he did a blog spot for his popular Youtube Channel “Team Wujin”. In the video Master Dunchok gave a brief and simple introduction to the fighting approach of Kuk Sool Kwan and how it differs from other arts, without going into too much detail about other aspects of the art.
Welcome to New Instructors Nina Raab and Ali Reza Tajik
In October, Ancient Arts began to offer Yoga and Karate classes. The new yoga class is taught by Ms. Nina Raab, a Registered Yoga Teacher who is trained in the Atmananda Yoga Sequence along with a host of other certifications and credentials. She’ll be offering her new yoga classes on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, but she’s also available for personal training (which she’s also certified in).
The new karate class is taught by Sensei Ali Reza Tajik, a karate champion of Asia and Europe. Sensei Tajik is trained in Shuko-kai karate, and now hosts his class on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. Say hello to Sensei Tajik and his two children Sarah and Mike!
Sunday, October 8, 2011: Gu Zheng Performance at Richard Nixon Library
Last Sunday, students from Lotus Bud Gu Zheng Academy had their yearly recital at the Richard Nixon Library. Bei Bei He, composer and instructor of the academy, performed with her compatriots in the “Dragon’s Daughter Trio”, an ensemble which includes a pi-pa and erhu along with her guzheng.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011: Kuk Sool Kwan Seminar at So Cal. Univ. of Health Sciences
Kuk Sool Kwan demonstrators will be featured for a special one hour seminar at SCUHS on Tuesday at 5:00 pm. SCUHS is a school for chiropractic, acupuncture, massage therapy, and ayurvedic medicine. In attendance will be Master Dunchok, Tina Tsan, Dan Bukaty, Gabe Ruan, and Mitch Weiss, demonstrating swordsmanship, groundfighting, rope strangulation defense techniques, knife defense and kicking arts.
Sunday, September 11, 2011: Archery BBQ at Mile Square Park
A fairly sizeable group of us from the Kuk Sool Kwan training headed up to Mile Square Park and spent the day on a really sumptuous potluck BBQ, then migrated over to the targets where we shot until sundown. In a memorable opener, we shot 3 out of 5 bullseyes from 30 yards off the hand, completely showing up the people on the next target over who were shooting with modern compound bows with targetting sights. lol Use your feelings and let go your conscious self!
August 1, 2011: Congratulations to Davis Ho for Accomplishing 1st Place at the Long Beach International
It’s true. Davis Ho, longtime student and blue belt in Kuk Sool Kwan, made his mark at the longstanding Long Beach International, famous for being the place where Bruce Lee first demonstrated the one inch punch and Ed Parker established American martial arts as we know them. Congratulations to Davis Ho for this final achievement before he heads off to college at UC Santa Barbara this September.
