What is a class like?
A regular class will typically include:
Warm Ups - simple joint mobility, strength and flexibility exercises not only to prevent injury but also to improve your overall athletic performance.
Basics - basic training working on the proper use of body alignment, basic stances, footwork, offensive and defensive skills. Training the basics will help you develop your technique and your cardiovascular system, reinforcing offensive and defensive skills practiced in a structured manner.
Skill Development - this goes beyond the basics where we begin to introduce power training, sensitivity and energy drills, reactionary training drills and principles of movement and strategy. cultivating natural power and speed, and its application to fighting as a whole and use principles that allow you to move from one range to the next. All of the drills and principles you will learn will teach you to "absorb what is useful"... with the idea that there are no 'systems' - only people moving in a relationship to one another.
Progressive Resistance Training - In the Jeet Kuen classes we focus on self-defense. Every training session includes sparring games to ingrain and reinforce the techniques taught in prior classes, starting with simple isolation sparring drills. We are always careful not to let things get too intense and always strive to keep things playful and non-competitive.
Is this class for beginners?
These lessons are great for all levels who are interested in learning basic martial arts skills, self-defense and increase their level of fitness.
I welcome anyone to come try out the class. Even if you know nothing about martial arts or just want to learn some basic self protection skills. This class offers a fun active workout, and our class is built off the framework of performance and positive psychology. This means you can train in a healthy and safe environment.
While we work hard to learn the techniques and principles, it is equally important to be able to take the lessons learned into life so you can perform at your best in life and career.
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"The purpose of the class is to preserve and promote Bruce Lee’s art of Jeet Kune Do, to help define and teach the core curriculum, not to confine us but to liberate us, and to discover our personal expression of Bruce’s art."
~ Sifu Tim Tackett
