15 November 2019
With Tao Te Kung Fu we use the most modern teaching concepts. This means students can develop new skills quickly and efficiently. Often instructors have great personal skill in their chosen style but without any understanding of how to teach those skills to others. The most skilled driver may not be a good driving instructor. […]
15 November 2019
Our students practice Tao Te Kung Fu with us for many different reasons. For some it is a way to keep fit and healthy, develop confidence in having the ability to defend themselves in dangerous situations or just to have fun. For many others their training represents so much more than these; it becomes integral […]
15 November 2019
You’re expecting me to tell you how your child will get fit, grow in self confidence and become a disciplined, well balanced young person by training in Kung Fu. The thing is – you know all that. So indulge me and read on anyway. When my wife first found out that I tinkered with a […]
15 November 2019
One root of both depression and anxiety is where you live… Anything that requires your total focus on the present will distract you from other issues. How can we use this knowledge to an advantage. What are the issues that we should be avoiding? Very simply put, the past and the future, but only if […]
15 November 2019
Over the last few weeks I’ve had several similar conversations and when that happens the ideas involved invariably cause me to consider if a blog covering the issue would be helpful. The conversations I’m referring to, all started with a student saying something like “One of the reasons I wanted to learn Kung Fu was […]
15 November 2019
I grew up at a time of international anxiety. When I left school in 79 the principal topic of conversation among my peers was, what would we do when the 4 minute warning came? Notice, not, ‘if’ but ‘when.’ We totally expected that at some point we would be in a nuclear war with the […]
15 November 2019
What actually is STRESS? And how to reduce it. We hear so much talk about stress that you’d think we all knew what it was. The reality is that we use the word so much that it has no clear meaning. In engineering stress is a definable effect on a a material or a joint […]
15 November 2019
It is typical to understand many Zen masters as teaching that we should aim to be above such things as emotions. Taking everything in one’s stride, finding the balanced path between extremes. Neither getting over excited or happy, nor angry and frustrated. No, no and a hundred times no. Have them all, emotions are literally […]
15 November 2019
The key to self discipline – How to supercharge your resolutions. Its a new year and we’re all keen to re-animate our earlier failed goals. Can we conjure up the illusive motivation and self discipline to do it this time? Here’s the thing. If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what […]
15 November 2019
This is very much the continuation of last week’s blog, so be sure to read it in conjunction with that. This week I’m moving way from brain function and into eastern mysticism. For those unfamiliar with how we use these ideas, let me quickly explain. Whether you are looking at the Kabbalah tree of life, […]