Kung Fu in Denver

[QUOTE=PlumDragon;683801]
… All the Shaolin Do stuff…[/QUOTE]

Kent, simply do a search on the board about shaolin do on this board and make a decision to go check them out for yourself, there are a few schools around the Denver area.

Welcome to Denver! Some info: There are two White Dragon (Pai Lum) schools in the immediate area, both under Long shr Galiano. One is in Arvada, the other in Thornton. Cost is $20 per week. And yes, both are indeed affiliated with the Ft. Collins school as well as the one in Longmont.

The times I was in the area and watched a little of the classes @ Becca’s school, it looked pretty good, but a bit different from what you’ve learned so far style wise I’d assume.

Well you’ve certainly got my curiousity up. I’ve done a lot of searching on this board before posting, but yet I still have no idea what you’re alluding to.

Not alluding to much as far as scandle type stuff. Just some observations, haven’t really posted much in the last year or two, as I discontinued my training about a year and a half ago now.

I studied Northern Long Fist (a little of a conglomeration of a few different Northern Forms) for a few years with Christophe (his school is off of Mississippi between Fed. and Bway).
He’s one hell of a forms teacher, and has produced some very good fighters (I didn’t do much on that end with him). Christophe’s main thing is Yang taiji, but is certainly a very compitent teacher in regards to the NLF. MK has seen me do my forms that I learned from Christophe and is fairly respected around these parts (for what I don’t know :stuck_out_tongue: ) for his opinion.
I learned a bunch of long fist forms, tan tui, a few northern staff forms, a few northern broadsword forms, etc… we did a decent amount of two person drills as well.

Starchaser107’s (who also hasn’t been around these parts in a while) wife studied a little hung gar about 3 or 4 years ago from the school on or near Federal and I seem to remember him thinking it was pretty good. Shoot him a PM and see if he responds.
There is the Wah Lum school, but you said you’ve already visited that school so I won’t go into that.

Internal wise, The Taoist people as described by one of my older kung fu and taiji sisters after seeing some of their taiji, “They do old people taiji.”

I’ve heard a few things about the Tang Shou Tao people, but don’t know too much about what their doing so I’ll refrain from comment. I’d recommend going to their school and checking them out. Go check out Christophe’s school too, there are a few different things going on their taiji wise now from what I understand. There is a good bagua guy I saw, no idea if he’s still teaching or not. I’m going down to Denver sometime this week and will find out who is still teaching and where when I’m down there and will comment more.

I doubt you’ll want to drive up to Boulder, I’ll skip that stuff too.

I agree with ~ 90% of Plumdragon’s evaluations of the schools he talks about but mostly from comments from others (which have been respectable sources).

Hey NP! What’s up man? What are you up to these days?

[QUOTE=Chief Fox;722420]Hey NP! What’s up man? What are you up to these days?[/QUOTE]
Moving to Aspen in a few weeks.

[QUOTE=norther practitioner;722465]Moving to Aspen in a few weeks.[/QUOTE]

lucky man!

[QUOTE=norther practitioner;722465]Moving to Aspen in a few weeks.[/QUOTE]

I used to live in Aspen. What a great place. You going to be a ski bum or do you have real work there?

When I was there in 1993 (13 years ago!:eek: ) I worked at the Breeze ski rentals right at the base of the Gondola. Man I had some good times there.

Ajax Mtn. is a great mountain but for me Highlands and Snowmass were my favorites.

I recommend the ski bum life to any and everyone for at least a year.

Typical Aspen day:

  1. Wake up hung over.
  2. Ride your bike or take the bus to work.
  3. Hang out with your friends all day (aka work)
  4. On your breaks go skiing or snowboarding.
  5. After work go grab a 12 pack and hang out with your buds.
  6. Go to Su Casa for Margaritas
  7. Let the night happen. Sometimes we would go to a club called the Tippler right at the base of Ajax. It’s not there anymore but there were so many fights in that place we used to call it the Crippler. I actually saw a guy get smashed in the head with one of those thick glass beer mugs. Crazy fun.

Have fun man.

I know the mountains fairly well, I figure it’ll take me a few years to get to know them like I know the Vail resorts. I actually have real work there. I’ll be the new P. County Engineer. Office will be in and around ABC, across from the airport. I got a place to live in Snowmass for the time being.

That sounds like a fantastic position! Good luck!:slight_smile:

[QUOTE=htowndragon;683955]about the hung gar school

they used to get whipped with a stick on their legs if their stance wasnt right.

but a lot of people quit due to the training so the teeacher became a lot more laid back[/QUOTE]

haha, yeah - that sounds like Sifu Ha :slight_smile: I don’t know that I would call him laid back these days, but moreso yeah :slight_smile:

about the white dragonschool in arvada what do the teach exactly?

also dont bother with sd lol unless you wanna learn to fight like this

http://www.vidoemo.com/yvideo.php?i=UEdxaWxGcWuRpSlIyUWM&glove-sparring-chinese-shaolin-center-denver-part-1

http://www.vidoemo.com/yvideo.php?i=MmJzYzlacWuRpTUFUZE0&glove-sparring-chinese-shaolin-center-denver-part-2

Wow, this is an old thread…

[QUOTE=goju;977892]about the white dragonschool in arvada what do the teach exactly?[/QUOTE]Well, they teach White Dragon Kung Fu. Alot of the beginner material is kempo-ish but they train hard and build a good foundation–good group of guys. Once you get to the soft-fist form about 6 months in to training, it becomes more Kung fu-ey. I spent a lot of time conditioning when I was there (limb knocking, wooden dummy, iron hand).

In the last year or 2, theres a new place in Evergreen teaching several different arts…

PlumDragon

I noticed way back in this thread you mentioned the Denver AMA school. Did you ever go and train there? If so, how was it?

I’m trying to get back in the MA game this year and that school looked interesting (and really close to my house) so spoke w/ the Guru over the phone before Christmas time, and I’m supposed to contact them back in a week or so to set up a intro class the begining of Feb.

Since I don’t know anyone who has gone there, and you mentioned it in this thread, I just wanted to hear what your thoughts on it were.

Thanks.

Hi snowdog,

If youre looking for FMA in that exact area, then Guro Mondee is probably your only choice.

Coincidentally, I was not able to go back and visit the AMA due to time constraints, so I cannot tell you any real additional info about the school. The reason I mentioned the AMA in the thread though, was because Guro Mondees teachers are also the teachers of one of my past teachers, so she was in a way my “cousin” in arms…Sorry I couldnt be more help on the matter.

Thanks for responding,

Too bad you weren’t able to make it back and train there, I would have loved to have a 1st hand account.

I have been wanting to try FMA/ JKDC stuff for a while now and that’s why that one caught my eye. I’m glad to hear you know of Guru Mondee. When I first found them the other schools/ instructors they have linked to their website are pretty well known and legit so that was a good sign, and having someone else in the MA community know of her is even a better sign. Can’t wait to try it out.

Thanks Again