The primary and most important mission of the Durham
Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu Club is to promote the practice of traditional
Chinese martial arts as an honest and efficient approach towards a
persons, self-protection and self-defence. It is also our hope that
through the promotion and spreading of traditional Chinese martial arts,
the beauty of Chinese culture as a whole, will be better understood and
appreciated by the general world public.
At the Durham Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu Club, we give professional
instruction in the Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu system under the
guidance of Sifu Stephen Brown.
At the Durham Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu Club, you will learn:
Self-defence
At our school, self defence plays a major role in our curriculum
is an extremely important part of the training regime. The Choy Lee Fut
kung fu system is renowned for it's efficient and devastating
self-defence techniques.
Choy Lee Fut is a complete system that will teach you the necessary
techniques for practical and effective striking, blocking, and grappling
for a self-defence situation. Techniques include punches, kicks, blocks,
joint-locks and leg-sweeps.
Empty Hand Forms
Forms are pre-set sequences of techniques that have been handed
down, over generations from master to student. Choy Lee Fut hand forms
are fast, flexible, powerful yet fluid, Our forms are designed to help
you improve stamina, endurance and co-ordination. Hand forms are
literally a living encyclopaedia, containing the advanced concepts and
principles unique to the Choy Lee Fut system.
An Extensive Range of Traditional
Chinese Weapons
Weapons training not only gives you co-ordination, stamina and body
strength it also a good cardiovascular workout for the whole body. Some
of the weapons taught are the: Dan dao (sabre), Staff (pang), Southern
pole (gwun) Tiger fork (dai pa), Farmers hoe (chor dao), Spear (Cheung)
and the Gwan dao (General Gwan's blade).
San Shao Sparring (Full-contact)
San Shao (Also known as San Da or Chinese Full-Contact Fighting), is
very extreme sport that requires an immense amount stamina, and high
level of fitness and conditioning. The rules of San Sao allow
Full-contact punches, kicks and throws. Low leg-kicks and leg-sweeps are
also allowed. Although San Sao sparring is not compulsory at are school,
it is an excellent way to improve your speed, power, timing and
reflexes,
Lion dance
The Club has a strong tradition for Lion dancing, with the team of Lion
dancers and musicians being busy all year round, either opening
restaurants or performing at festivals. The Lion dance is usually
performed by the senior and most skilled members of the kung fu club,
because of the requirement for balance, co-ordination and strong
stances.
