The Chinese Lantern Festival marks the end of Chinese New Year and has been celebrated for about 2,000 years. It marks the first full moon of the new lunar year welcoming Spring. This year the Lantern Festival falls on Tuesday, March 3rd. The lanterns symbolize people letting go of the past year and welcoming the new year with good fortune. Lighting lanterns symbolize "illuminating the future." For our first official School Lantern Festival, we will have our Lion walk through

With the arrival of our Kung Fu New Year (Lunar New Year), we are eager to get ready for another exciting year for Kung Fu and Tai Chi students. As we welcome new faces, we want to remind all students about the etiquette of our kung fu school. 2026 Etiquette Six   1.    Wear school t-shirt/sash always, change into kung fu shoes inside the school, do not wear jewelry, smart watches, earbuds, or anything that distracts, is disrespectful, or could harm you or your partner during

Understanding how to be a student and your relationship with your teachers is very different in the outside world than that in your martial arts school (Kung Fu/Tai Chi school). Here is a clip of a lecture Master Brown gave back in the early 2000's. Although the lecture is over 25 years old, it still is very relevant in our Kung Fu/Tai Chi school today.