Welcome to The Grove! "The martial forest is one family”. My hope is that together we can shape the culture and curriculum of this community so that The Grove will come to represent a level of quality and skill of which we can all be proud. I am still building out the space, but there will be free content for Shuai Jiao, Ba Gua, basic gong fu and more. There will also be focused training cohorts starting soon with options including -Liang & Cheng style Bagua Zhang -Beijing Shuai Jiao -Chen Style Tai Ji Quan & Da Bei Quan -Gong Fu basics and Praying Mantis Kung fu -Qi Gong As someone who has either trained with me in the past or expressed interest in learning one of the arts I teach you are here as one of the founding members of the community. You have probably heard me say before that I don’t take myself that seriously, but it take the arts I teach very seriously indeed. In this space I am a teacher, a coach and a fellow martial artist studying as diligently as I can. Reach out with any questions and I look forward to sharing this space with you all. If you don’t mind, please take a moment to leave a comment and let us know a few things about yourself. -name and location -age and previous/current martial arts experience -what you are interested in learning Feel free to add anything else you would like to share. This is your space!

During Thursday's live class we went over the Liang style 64 Palms line one. Here is a YouTube clip going over the first few moves.

If you haven't checked it out yet, we have a full video course up on YouTube you can check out to start learning the basics of Beijing style Shuai Jiao! Shuai Jiao is one of those arts that ends up making everything else better if you train it the right way. Like they say, "One year of shuai jiao is worth 10 years of other styles". An aspect of this to understand is "which" year of shuai jiao is worth so much? It's the first year where you learn all the fundamentals and basics. Understanding these fundamentals and their usage will be important in how we integrate them into other parts of our practice. Also, if shuai jiao is one of the main reasons why you are here, drop a comment and let me know more about your goals and what you are hoping to learn!