All 3 Foundation Weapon Courses

Tao Te Kung Fu is a complete system that incorporates the most efficient techniques with modern teaching methods and takes advantage of the most recent developments in the neuroscience of skill acquisition.

Nunchuck

The nunchaku is most widely used in martial arts as a training weapon, since it allows the development of quicker mind / body coordination and teaches 3 dimensional movements and patterns that also appear in unarmed kung fu combinations.

• The beginners or foundational nunchuck form performed with a single weapon
• How to bounce the nunchucks off your body for fast changes of direction
• Switching the weapon from one hand to the other with no pause in movements
• Spinning and figure-eight spinning in vertical and horizontal planes

Escrima Stick

While the Escrima stick has a particular heritage of techniques and has developed into a tournament style in itself.  Please note the techniques taught here are for real life scenarios and not for simple point scoring in a sport.  This difference will be evident to those with previous stick training as tournament techniques often involve delivering multiple fast, but light strikes that may not bring a real fight to a speedy resolution.

• The stick blocks, most often needed in real conflicts, used to create deflecting force
• The full set of strikes used in stick fighting and how to maximise their power
• How to step with the greatest speed and tactical effect
• The fastest single stick continuous striking techniques to overwhelm your opponent
• Use of the stick thrust for anatomically precise targeting and winning strategy

Tanto

As a complete system for real life combat it includes many weapons and Tanto is perhaps the most obviously relevant to most people’s lives because a knife is the weapon most likely available, we all tend to have a draw full of them in our kitchen.  It is also the weapon an assailant is most likely to have.

• The primary deflecting blocks, most often needed in real conflicts
• The primary sweeping cuts with an understanding of their relative tactical strengths
• How to step with the greatest speed and tactical effect
• How to deliver a counter stab that is aimed at ending a confrontation with the greatest speed
• Tactical use of attacking your opponent’s knife arm and how to utilise optimal timing and targeting

You will need:

Some space, most peoples’ living room will be sufficient

One practice Tanto, Nunchuck and stick but any similar object will suffice.  We recommend you DO NOT learn these forms with live bladed weapons.

The 8-part forms are short enough to be remembered easily (this is martial arts, not memory training), and practiced until they can be done without thinking.  The forms are put together in a way that if any part were used automatically, in a violent confrontation, it would deliver a conflict winning combination.

The program is set out for you to train every day using several short videos.  Adding to your skills in easy to follow steps, you will build superb combat skills that will become second nature to you.

Some videos are called Repeat Drills, these are of simple techniques that you need to learn so that you can do them without thinking.  Once you press play, they will simply repeat continuously until you hit stop.  This will enable you to practice each movement many times with a constant visual reference to help you get it right.  You don’t want to practice until you get it right, you want to practice until you can’t get it wrong.

It is tempting to rush ahead, but you will find that to learn these skills thoroughly, it is best that you master each part as you go even if that means repeating the same day several times.  Excellence takes patience and determination.  Remember “Kung Fu” means “mastery through discipline.”