Due to Adult Testing, there will be no regularly scheduled classes held this Saturday Feb 25th. Testing is open to the public and visitors are welcome! This will be a high ranking testing, so come in and see where the Art takes a student.

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Sometimes I’ll hear from students that they think we don’t do enough stretching. Here’s my take on stretching within our classes. Stretching is very important. Flexibility is key to health and full range of movement. That said, we are a martial arts school where the curriculum goes beyond just flexibility. To spend the appropriate amount of time to get the body opened up using just traditional stretching methods within an hour long class does not leave much time for practicing other self defense movements. So. We typically start classes with martial art drills (not traditional stretching poses) done at slow speed. The idea is to use movement to warm the body up, increase the range of motion, and do it at a speed that is least likely to injure the participant – all the movements being martial techniques. We are killing 2 birds with one stone! If a student hurries through this process or doesn’t work to go through a wide range of movement, they will miss the benefit of going slow at the start.

So last night, we stretched – the traditional way. Splits, bridges, poses. A Yogi would have been happy with what they saw! Was it so wrong that they were doing chi sao while in these stretches?