Potential

I have been building a class in Warren and so far it only has two students. Yes those two students are my sons, but someone did inquire about a Kung Fu class and did visit. And although they did not sign up, it leads me to beleieve that what i am doing is not a crazy thing. And preparing my sons for a bigger class is not crazy. Noah will be 16 soon and I think he could potentially teach that class once he can drive etc. It seems like he couldn't at the moment, but with consistent prcatice and some self motivation I think they could suddenly turn themselves around. It's not that they aren't doing well at Kung fu. I mean compared to what and what are the goals? It's just that they have a different mentality right now than I did. And I guess it doesn't matter. What matters is that I do my best and continue on despite the obstacles that are being thrown in my way. And yes there are obstacles but there appear to be much more opportunities coming, just not as I thought. They are sometimes better than I thought and sometimes the obstacles are let's just say surprising. But it really doesn't matter. You just do what you do. You continue on, you strive through. That's what I need to do. I am in pain from my hip and I think that it may have to do with having stopped doing a ton of basics and walking and that sort of thing. Yes there are specific stretches that I can do from Instagram or physyical therapy and all that. But To train new things, I neglected the old and boring stuff, which I think I actually just NEED to do, whether it gets me better at this or that. It doesn't matter. I am going to start focusing on doing more traditional kicks again as well. What I mean by traditional kicks is the kicks from the forms that are not fancy or as heavy hitting as muay thai kicks and not necessarily going to be used for fighting but I think I need to do them just for the mobility and strength training. I also have to understand that I can't just go from what i am doing now to doing 100 of those kicks. i need to do 10 and then rest and to sets and take breaks etc. I was talking to on eof the guys who does BJJ and he said he played soccer professionally until recently and he said anytime he steps back onto the field he is likely to get injured because in his mind he is in his prime. Whereas he won't do that with BJJ because he knows he is learning these movements. There is something to be said for that. And basically I have to learn that I cannot just jump into Kung Fu, even though that is what I am teaching. And even though I have been maintaining it to some degree, still I have to slowly slowly build it back up and have patience with myself. And similarly I cannot just expect my kids to know everything or be able to do everything because yes for a while I was outsourcing their training and so they need to build their way back to Kung Fu as well. When I had them spar though it did look very good. Noah was very fast with his hands and they transitioned into ground grappling very seamlessly. The only thing I was worried about was going too hard on the submissions and Jonah not really tapping quickly enough. And Jonah was somewhat upset when I called out tap and ended and reset it and he wanted to argue that he didn't tap, which is asimilar argument I often have with new kids in the MMA class (which i am only helping with) and maybe I call tap too early sometimes but I feel there is plenty of time to slowly learn their limits under proper suprervision. And since I am a beginner in that art, I err on the side of extreme caution. Plus since we were sparring in a Kung Fu class I feel it's ok to not focus on the details of a submission and just reset. After sparring we had many more forms and other drills to go through. In fact we skipped lion head practice. But I think it's still important to have the lion head on the mat so that if someone were to walk in on this class they would understand that what we were doing was Kung Fu centric and not an MMA class. For Monday through Wednesday I don't teach any Kung fu but instead I help out at a youth MMA class and hopefully get to train as well depending on the day and the schedule. I train basically because it helps my teaching at this point and gives me another perspective rather than just doing Kung Fu. But if my class was full... maybe I wouldn't even be attempting to learn anything and after all I would likely be very busy with teaching the class and woul be stuck in my own world of thinking. I guess i would be just as stuck if I was overtly and obviously succcessful as I am now, being stuck in the potential for success stage for the moment. But thinking back... it could be that suddenly people really start signing up and coming to my class. Other avenues of life can also open up for success as well. There is potential in many directions. I should stay positive and not be afraid of change.

Asian Food Market Piscataway

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Performance at Somerset Hills YMCA (Photo Credit: Michelle Man)

Cheung Family Kung Fu

Cheung Family Kung Fu is now in a teaching Partner ship with

Murray Hill Chinese School

and 

Shaolin Kung Fu and Tai Chi

Chinese New Year Performance at Cora Hartshorn Arboretum in Short Hills (Photo Credit: Regina Truitt)

Performance at the Cora Hartshorn Arboretum

(Photo Credit: Regina Truitt)

Cheung Family Kung Fu is now in a teaching Partner ship with

Murray Hill Chinese School

and 

Shaolin Kung Fu and Tai Chi

Adam Cheung: Performance for Outside the Box on Thursday July 1...

Adam Cheung: Performance for Outside the Box on Thursday July 1...: I'm pretty excited about our Performance coming up On Thursday. I'm not going to say Lion Dance because what I have been working on ...

Return to Castle Square

Today I went door to door in my old neighborhood to get out the vote. It felt much different than canvassing in someone else's neighborhood. It was enjoyable and a return. This place had meaning to me. I got to see a lot of people from my childhood and it is true that there were a lot of new people too than did not know who I was. But I am going to get at least one person registered to vote who wasn't going to, and a ton of people did not know about the April 12 election. Of course I was pushing Diana Hwang but I also let people know about Lydia Edwards.. and then I explained while even though she was good, why I thought Diana would be more effective etc. But it felt good, EMPOWERING to let people know about an election who didn't and who were like "Yeah I can do that! I'm registered and yeah I didn't even know about that election. Okay some people didn't want to talk to me. These were the super voters that already got all the literature from all the candidates. But other people were like "Right On! Power to the people!" in Chinese and in English.

One guy totally dissed and ignored me.. and the funny thing is... I grew up with him. Not sure if he recognized me or not. I didn't bother to mention who I was because we had had our ups and downs.

I'm going back tomorrow. I only did two courts. Castle and Emerald. And even though I might get some people who might register too late... well at least they will be registered so they can vote in the Presidential Election right?

For that election. I don't care who they vote for at all. I won't be pushing for anyone. Of course I have who I am voting for. In fact.. that vote won't really matter much. Massachusetts will definitely be Democrat. But it is important that a majority of the projects vote because when you vote you are valued by the people who seek those votes.

Star Ships, written by Noah and Jonah Cheung

Title:  Star Ships

By:  Noah and Jonah Cheung

One day a little boy named Noah was making different kinds of star ships.like x-wing star ships.

He wanted to make 100 star ships.x-wing shoot torpedoes and TNT star fighters.

Jonah was excited to fly one of the ships.  A star ship came to attack.

Then the good-guy x-wings battled the bad guy book shooters.

Noah and Jonah defeated the bad guys.

But the new Death Star was still attacking other planets.

It was all up to Noah and Jonah.

They flew into the canyon of the exhaust-port.

Instead of shooting, they crashed into the exhaust-port.

Luckily the ships were not destroyed and they flew away from the Death Star.  It was destroyed.

The world was safe again; all because of Noah and Jonah.

THE END

Basic Kung Fu

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Here are some basic moves that I teach in my intro to Kung Fu class.



I will be starting up a new three month course at the Josiah Quincy School weight room.



The fee for the class is $60 for three months. The start date is March 12, end date May 28



Tell all you friends.



You have to become a JQS member to join the classes but that means you get access to their pool and gym too. The member ship is practically free for youth, and is $75 a year for adults. Still a pretty good deal. Tell all you friends.

Kung Fu in the park

Although I work out everyday at Jamaica Pond, any lessons or classes will now be by appointment.
Please contact e-mail me

cheungfamilykungfu@gmail.com

Kung Fu Dad: 5:30am Practice vs. 7:00am vs. 8:30am

Kung Fu Dad: 5:30am Practice vs. 7:00am vs. 8:30am: Today I was up at 5:00am I had an idea about Chinatown's festival so I sent off an e-mail instead of going back to sleep, but then I was...

Quincy Mai Mo

Schedule update

All morning practices at the Jamaica Pond Soft Ball field will now start at 7:00am
Mon-Friday (Hand forms) and basics

Saturday (Sword "do"  but we use short stick "Pahng")
and Tiger Crane fighting form.

Sunday (Long Stick "gwun" and also some polearm techniques. Kwan Gung Do, Cherng, etc.

These morning classes will be by donation.

They are practices, in that I will not be giving detailed instruction (maybe a little bit after get get my routines done.)

For detailed instruction, we can schedule a private lesson.

Or

You can still hop in on the 1st Baptist Church  class on Tuesdays 8-9. Cost is a one time payment of $60.00 Classes will run through March.

Sifu Noah teaches some drumming

The opening part 2

Shun yiu jun sun

Mein Lei jum technique #3

Early morning warm up

Modifying your meditation