I finally found a Kungfu school in Port Elizabeth that offers both Tai Chi and Kungfu as seperate but integrated teachings. Most Kungfu styles do incorporate a bit of Chi management, but I’ve always felt both needs to be treated as seperate, but they need to be integrated as well.
The style is called Wudang Wushu, and Sifu Jurgens Lamprecht founded the South African Wudang Wushu Institute. The website is available on http://www.wudangwushu.org/. Dr Margo de Kooker is in charge of the Port Elizabeth school. We went there last Tuesday to go and have a look how it is in joined in on the first class.
It’s very different to the way our previous Kungfu school use to teach, and it’s something to get used to. One main difference is that they tend to concentrate on the forms (a set of various moves performed one after the other) a lot. So within 2 lessons we were taught about 4 different forms. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with it though, because you get use to all the techniques in these forms and you learn them a lot quicker. In the previous school we went through a lot of self defence grabs first before we started with the technical side of Kungfu techniques.
The people there seem very excited about the lessons, so it’s a nice group of people.
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