On my way out the door to pick up Occupancy Permit for new gym space at Boston Planning/Zoning Dept.
So we are now Officially open for business!
Boston SanDa KungFu
80 Bedford Street, 2nd (top) Floor
Boston
Near S.Station and Downtown Crossing on edge of Chinatown & Financial District.
Offer SanDa , will also be starting traditional Tai Chi Chuan classes, some Wushu classes (mostly for kids) and Capeiroa (better learn to spell it soon..) classes in September.
it’s about time you guys got a new space open, I mean, it was way too weird having NO Boston fighters at San Da events, sort of like X-mas with no Catholics, or a Bar-B-Q with no meat
Contemporary wushu for now (not my personal favorite…) but we may add traditional down the road (we have a sort of eclectic mix of different traditional CMA backgrounds) once we get settled in and develop the program more.
The wushu class will be a beginner class to start off, taught by Ming Tung (one of Yao’s old instructors) . Ming has been talking to one of Nick Gracenin’s top guys about coming to Boston to take over that role, and he even spoke with Nick when he was in town last month about some kind of collaboration. We’re really still working out the details and schedule for the non-sanda programs and trying to figure out what will work and be successful. We’re open to imput too, any comments or suggestions from you guys would be helpful.
We’re open to imput too, any comments or suggestions from you guys would be helpful.
How are you guys w/ kids? If you don’t have much experience in dealing with them, I can send give you a whole messload of tips…I’m no power ranger, but I’m pretty good w/ them…what ages is the wushu open to?
Actually, none of us really have much experience dealing with them… I taught a weekend kids kungfu class for a while like 8 years ago, and i recall that it was kinda fun, kinda frustrating, and kinda pointless because there was only one kid that got anything at all out of it. I was doing it as a favor for someone and bailed as soon as I could.
Not sure about the exact ages yet, i guess whatever age the moms are willing to pay us to teach. Probably around 8-12??? It will be an afternoon class before the real stuff starts. I may help on the weekends, and my wife may help with some of the kids stuff sometime too. I think Marvin might actually teach the class for a while, at least to start off. Now that could be interesting, LOL!
We’ll also have lunchtime cardio-based class too, for the worker-bees downtown.
Yeah Akhilleus, any tips you could give me (us) would be great!
You could PM me if you don’t feel like describing all your diaper-kungfu tricks to the board
i recall that it was kinda fun, kinda frustrating, and kinda pointless because there was only one kid that got anything at all out of it.
LOL…tell me about it…but there are ways to make it less frustrating, and have them get more out of it…coincidentally, I had to type up a bunch of ideas for a kids’ program anyway for a meeting I have coming up for one of the school’s I teach at…I’ll send you a copy, hopefully this weekend…I’ve been teaching kids for years so I’ve learned a lot by trial and error, and by talking to some of the most succesful people in the business, but I still have a lot to learn…
I shouldnt get into personal stuff between them cause its not my business and i respect them both… but i suppose its no big deal saying it, because theres no problem between Jay and Yao at all from what i know, theyre still close friends and probably always will be. No beef there with those two. In fact, I’m quite sure your friend is wrong about that.
I think the schools get along good still. In fact, we’ll probably try to maintain some sort of working relationship or collaboration between schools for training, events, etc. A couple of our guys are still covering the sanshou classes there and we have a few students that go back and forth. When the lease ran out on the old place, we did look into getting a new space together, but we couldnt find a suitable space big enough for an affordable cost to maintain how it was (you know how expen$ive Boston real estate is..), we were going to have to comprimise time and space big-time… Yao’s new place is nice, but we could never all fit there, as we needed to grow and we were going to have to move to like half the time and space, and we just can’t train competitive fighters like that training 2 or 3 nights a week, we need a lot of space for the whole week at peak hours. We really couldnt comprimise and stay competitive. Now we can concentrate on the sanshou/sanda and fill in the other hours with the other stuff, not the other way around. So it was really just a matter of practicality arising from the cost of local real estate market. No bad blood though I’m sure.
I shouldnt get into personal stuff between them cause its not my business and i respect them both… but i suppose its no big deal saying it, because theres no problem between Jay and Yao at all from what i know, theyre still close friends and probably always will be. No beef there with those two. In fact, I’m quite sure your friend is wrong about that.
I think the schools get along good still. In fact, we’ll probably try to maintain some sort of working relationship or collaboration between schools for training, events, etc. A couple of our guys are still covering the sanshou classes there and we have a few students that go back and forth. When the lease ran out on the old place, we did look into getting a new space together, but we couldnt find a suitable space big enough for an affordable cost to maintain how it was (you know how expen$ive Boston real estate is..), we were going to have to comprimise time and space big-time… Yao’s new place is nice, but we could never all fit there, as we needed to grow and we were going to have to move to like half the time and space, and we just can’t train competitive fighters like that training 2 or 3 nights a week, we need a lot of space for the whole week at peak hours. We really couldnt comprimise and stay competitive. Now we can concentrate on the sanshou/sanda and fill in the other hours with the other stuff, not the other way around. So it was really just a matter of practicality arising from the cost of local real estate market. But it is fun having our own gym now
Congrats Mutant! Good locale. You got 2 great bars there:
Foley’s and the Good Life. Good Life’s pizza and Martini’s are
the ****.
Foley’s is the Ol’ Irish pint shack with a good lunch as well.
****, all I think about is booze and food in my old age.
Again good luck. Hopefully you’ll draw a lot of prospective students from
the surrounding Financial District. Great spot.
BTW - Do you know of anyone in Boston who leases gym space?
BTW # 2 - I found out a few days ago that Mr. Tao lives across the street and is friends with my Grandmother. Friggin’ strange. A guy like that right under my nose.
That’s cool. A buddy of mine was trainning there for a while, not sure if he still is. We did kung fu together for a long time so I was wondering if he was involved in that but he wouldn’t be teaching any contemporary stuff.
