28 Feb 2016 - 28 Feb 2016
Prague 3 – Vinohrady
PHK International HQ presents an exclusive cross-training seminar Hap Ga DNA: Building it and Using it taught by David Rogers Sifu.
David Rogers Sifu runs the ‘Rising Crane Centre’ which is a full time school of Chinese martial arts and a clinic of acupuncture. He has trained Kung Fu since 1984, and is a graduate of the ‘South China School of Martial Arts’ in Canton and the ‘College of Integrated Chinese Medicine’. He is a disciple of Deng Jan Gong, who is the 5th generation Kung Fu master in his family and a Chinese National Champion.
Part One: Building it
- Mobility
- Connectivity
- Strength
- Conditioning
Part Two: Using it
- Footwork
- Evasion
- Punching
- Kicking
- Bridging
- Combinations
Details
Part One: Building the DNA.
- Warm up: 8 Move Qigong.
- Swings (3 variations)
- Thrusting blows and swinging blows
- Thrusts: getting power from the ground – testing posture
- Elbows: The bridge position for transfer of force
- Swings: Che Ma, fundamental movement pattern for swings
- Pulling power vs. pushing power – connecting the rotational force to the fist
- “Squeeze point” – Faat Ging
- Straight arms against partners chest – “One inch punch”
- Holding stick to practise sharp pulls
- Warm up: 12 bridge exercise – core strength and forearm strength
- Cloth bag- plyometric exercise + grip strength
- Yi Paai: Paau Cheui exercise, Pok Yik exercise
- Bodyweight exercises: “Lohan Comes out of the Cave (Shoulder rotation, push and rotate)
- Conditioning (Tempering): 2 person conditioning drills – Che Ma, stationary and stepping
- 3 Stars
- Wings
- Daat Cheui
- Sin Cheui (“Slipping Punch”)
- Shoulder bump
- Padwork: Kap, Chaap, Gwa
Part 2: Usage
- Footwork drills
- Shuffling steps – distance drills: mirror exercise, pivot exercise
- “7 Star stepping” – triangle steps
- Drill: “Ear game”
- Use: Strike to exit safely
- Strike into takedown
- Punching
- Coordinate step with punches
- Outside slip – Pok Yik
- Inside slip – Chaap Cheui
- Strategic advantages of thrusts and swings
- 3 evasions: Sim, Dou, Bei
- Head movement drill
- Kicking
- Hip rotation, 2 person exercise
- Shin position
- Switch kick
- Static, advance, retreat
- Side kick – pendulum step, “Crane Tests the Water”
- Bridging: Concept of “brachiating”
- Importance of hand fight
- Entry through long range into clinch
- Combinations
- 1: Sidekick, 2/3/low kick
- 2: Triangle Kap to knee block takedown.
- 3: as 2, transition to double leg
- Cool down
- Shadow boxing (concepts for improving your shadow boxing)
- Stretch/Qigong
- When?: February 28th, 2016, 1-6 PM
- Where?: PHK Gym Prague, Korunní 109, Prague 3, Czech republic, Europe
- Fee?: 70 EUR
For registration please use the email form below!
