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September & October 2018 Newsletter
Silver City International Festival Demonstration Saturday September 8 Noon to 2 p.m. We will be performing on stage for 45 down the street 34th and National at 1 p.m. We will do a rehearsal from 10- 11:30 at the school. Then students, parents and teachers can walk down to the ...
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New Blog Post – Have a Good Day One of the key ideas of Shaolin Kung Fu is to live in balance. Balance means not every day will be an easy day. There will be days of loss (losing jobs, friends, a family member) and days of growth (new rank, new ...
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Have a Good Day
The book of Ecclesiastes says ‘There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time ...
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July 2018 Newsletter
New Blog Post - Becoming a Master of What’s Important Mastery is the key word for Black level 4. It is the ranking we often bestow the title Sigung “Master.” The test, as Sigung Melodie just demonstrated, takes 6 days of about 12 hours each day to perform and display all ...
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Becoming a Master of What’s Important
Mastery is the key word for Black level 4. It is the ranking we often bestow the title Sigung “Master.” It is a high standard to reach in our Pai Lum school. In addition to having rank of Black level 4 in Kung Fu, Kenpo, Tai Chi or Kickboxing, ...
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June 2018 Newsletter
Creating a Warrior of the Soul Creativity is the key word for Black III. All the tools, skills, strategies of the Pai Lum marital arts are now honed internally and externally. Now it is time to experiment, to merge movements and ideas that may have not been thought of before. It ...
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Creating a Warrior of the Soul
Creativity is the key word for Black III. All the tools, skills, strategies of the Pai Lum marital arts are now honed internally and externally. Now it is time to experiment, to merge movements and ideas that may have not been thought of before. It is time to make the ...
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May 2018 Newsletter
It was a dark and stormy night, where’s the captain? People think leaders are “in charge” and “get their way.” But real leadership is steering the wheel of a ship so that it lands at a destination that is good for everyone on the ship. Leadership is a place of serving ...
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It was a dark and stormy night, where’s the captain?
We looked at the key ideals/words for the lower ranks (White-Grey 2). Now let’s look ahead a bit to the higher levels Black 1-Black 9. What happens after one reaches enlightenment of black 1? One is still a student and one still continues to learn. Remember the code "Always learn ...
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April 2018 Newsletter
What Does It Really Mean to Be a Black Belt? Does enlightenment mean one can perceive all the mysteries of the universe? Yes. I mean no. I mean yes there should be a perception of us in the right place in the universe – but there will always remain unfathomable mysteries ...
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