PHK Intro Kit: Beginner’s Guide to Chinese Martial Arts

Description

What if I had only few days to teach you the most important and fundamentals skills of Practical Hung Kyun?

The most fundamental exercises for acquiring good health, strength, and self-defense skills?

In the shortest time possible, but setting up an excellent foundation for future training?

PHK Intro Kit is the answer to all these questions.

– Pavel Macek Sifu, Practical Hung Kyun

Recommended to all beginning and intermediate practitoners of Chinese martial arts!

Objectives of the Ecourse:

To give a general layout of Gung Fu curriculum, basic, intermediate and advanced training
To present a real life example of Chinese martial arts basic training syllabus
To show simple, practical, but tremendously effective way to acquire good health, strength, stamina, as well as self-defense skills
To learn more about traditional Chinese culture and philosophy, as well as practical application of old wisdom in today’s world
To continue in the path of the old Masters

Multimedia Content

Each module contains an embedded as well as downloadable instructional video with accompanying training manual in .pdf
Each lesson contains a short quiz

PHK Intro Kit: The Plan

Overview of all PHK Intro Kit modules
In what order to learn? Option A and Option B.
PHK Intro Kit Program Minimum for extremely busy people and Program Maximum for future champions
Schedule for morning and afternoon/evening practice
A-B split to make sure you will practice all important skills, although not necessarily every day
How often? How long? What drills? Sets? Reps? And all other necessary information.
Difference between practice and workout
Form > Force > Usage progression
Form > Force > Speed progression
Easy – Medium – Hard concept of practice

Fundamental Training (Gei Bun Gung)

Introduction to “Shaolin Internal Arts” (Siu Lam Noi Gung) for health, good posture, and vitality
How to perform “morning recharge” – gentle stretching of the whole body as well as reseting of the breathing
4 main parts of (any) “Internal Art” exercise
What Shaolin Grandmasters think about “warm-up”
Stance training (Jaat Ma) – correct form and training method
“The Art of Loosening” (Fong Sung Gung), your key to speed, explosive power, stamina, and regeneration
“Sink to the ground and root, stable and steady as a Mount Taai” and how to achieve it
True aim of the “Stance Training” – and it is not (just) strengthening the legs
Why “Four Levels Stance”?
Read the old Chinese poem about Sei Ping Ma stance
How to achieve 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and 30 minutes – program!
3 secrets of “Stance Training”: 1. = …., 2. = …, 3. = ….
The key to speed, explosive power, and endurance
Crucial “Soft” aspects of the “Hard” style
How to achieve the ideal of Gong Yau Ping Jai, “Harmony of Hard and Soft”.

Boxing Techniques (Kyun Faat)

Stances and footwork – 3 pieces of the complete puzzle
“What is the secret of Gung Fu?” The old Grandmaster replies: ….
“Shooting Stance” (Biu Ma) – a key to aggressive (literally!) offense
Other – not commonly known – combat aspects of traditional stances
…and health benefits of the stance training for today’s PC generation!
20/80 of PHK stances – you use THESE 3 stances 80% of time, so focus on them!
3 stances explained in detail – names, drawings, structure, mechanics, principles, dos and don’ts
Basic footwork – simple and effective. The rules are simple for basically all types of footwork
Shadow boxing techniques – form the ideal structure to real usage, either in sparring or street self-defense
Similarities AND differences between martial arts and combat sports
Structure and mechanics of 3 basic PHK strikes
Variations that DON’t require any special fist conditioning, and are ready to be used immediately
Combations! All work, but some work much better than other.
“Two Stars” and “Three Stars” and what does it mean
Always winning combination of Grand Master Wong Fei Hung
“One Strike Must Kill“ (Yat Kyun Bit Saat), or how to develop a KO punch
Should you use boxing gloves, MMA gloves, or no gloves?
The absolutely necessary component of the “One Strike” KO – and its counterpart

Strength & Conditioning (Lin Gung)

If everything else is equal, what fighter wins? The stronger one, and with better cardio
The advantage of properly selected strength & conditioning exercise – the benefits are many
What “muscles” to train? Don’t care about muscles, care about…
No equipment? No time? No excuses! These fundamental bodyweight exercises can be done anytime, anywhere!
How to build a foundation for future (serious!) strength training
“The art of Taming the Tiger” (Fuk Fu Gung) – 3 progressions of Chinese pushups NOT ONLY for strength, as well as 2 different training methods
Strong and supple legs – “Three Levels to the Ground” (Saam Pun Lok Dei), and again 2 different training methods for different needs
One of the best full body exercises of the legendary Shaolin Monastery – “Shaolin Art of Crawling” (Siu Lam Pa Gung). Meet the standard of “easy-but-not-so-easy” Progression 1, and move to Progression 2. And than to hardcore progression 3.

Combatives (Jin Dau)

“Guard” (Baai Jong) for a reality-based self-defense – on one hand the one and same, on the other VERY different.
What to do if approached by a stranger – lifting your hands up is not enough, here is why
“Of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, the best is… “
Fundamental striking techniques + defense
Defensive techniques simplified – “Mirror” principle, and the “Inside” and “Outside” Gates
Combinations of the basic techniques – “Thousand Changes, Ten Thousand Variations” (Chin Bin Maan Fa)
Wong Fei Hung’s every victorious #1 combo of the “Ten Unique/Killing Techniques” (Sap Duk Sau) – Lam Sai Wing has learned it from him after many, many years!
“The Ever Victorious Strategy”
Free sparring (Saan Da) methodology, step by step
What if… defensive back up plan. If you would choose only ONE defensive technique against the most common type of street attack, choose this one
Situational “self-offense” and self protection scenarios