Wellington Workshops – May 2012

The Kapiti Coast, just north of Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city, is also home to our NZ affiliate club run by Stu Dunn. The scenery there is beautiful, and the personalities of our kung fu brothers and sisters there is just as nice, and it’s always great to visit with them to share our Wing Chun vision.  This trip saw me working with many old friends, but also quite a few new faces who have joined their ranks since my visit in November last year.

This was the largest turnout so far in Wellington’s history, and I had to divide the participants into two distinct groups, so we could cover appropriate material in the clearest possible way. But as I bounced from one group to the other, everyone was kept engaged with concepts and drills to challenge both their minds and their bodies.

The end result was that a great time was had by all, with the momentum from the last two visits continuing to build and to yield good results. So much so, that there is talk of trying to organise a week-long Qian Li Dao Academy Summer Camp in New Zealand, in January 2013. If you are interested to find out more about the Camp, or wish to express your interest in attending, email me here or contact Stu in New Zealand as soon as possible, so we can see if we can make that a reality. Preliminary talks have us relaxing in the hot pools of Rotorua in the evenings, after some hard, fun-filled training days in the Land of the Long White Cloud… are you coming????   Click here for the workshop pix!

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School Holiday & Easter Weekend Schedule

School holidays are upon us again; hope all of our juniors enjoy a safe and happy school break. Classes for our Pee Wee Pandas and our Peaceful Warriors have finished for this term, and will resume as from Monday, 16th April.

Easter weekend is coming as well, and the Academy will be closed the entire Easter long weekend, with NO classes on Saturday, 7th April and also NO classes on Easter Monday, the 9th April. Adult classes will resume as from Tuesday, 10th April.

Please travel safely if you are going away, and may you all enjoy a Happy Easter and a wonderful holiday break!

See you back in training soon!

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Twins Plus Festival – March 2012

Australia’s largest multiple-birth festival, the TwinsPlus Festival,  celebrates those who are rare enough to be born a twin (or more). The event celebrates the joy of multiplicity. Every three years, twins and other multiples from around Australia and the world converge in one place to share their “uniqueness” and a fun day is had by one and all.

The Academy was asked to help out with the celebrations and activities for this year’s TwinsPlus Festival, held at the Caulfield Racecourse. We marched out Luigi, our Green Dragon, to help mark this special occasion. Our special thanks to the following for donating their time and efforts to bring some fun and happiness to John, or was it James; and to Minni… or was it Mimi… 🙂

Gratefully, none of these are twins so thanks to (in no special order): Steve Colebrook, Matilda Colebrook, Trevor Cook, Andrew Gurman, David James, Susie Roczo-Farkas, Matias Sandonato, Wesh Tobin, Simo La-Wren Wong, and Logan Wong.

We even got some of the twins to help us out with the dragon – click here!

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