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This is a good supplementary stretching program to your existing workout for your off days. Download High Quality version Stretching Tips Always warm up for 5-15 minutes prior to stretching. Move slowly when stretching. Take this time to relax and focus on your breathing. Depending on what you choose, music can help energize or relax you. When lying on your back, move your legs one at a time. Sudden movements with both legs can strain the muscles of the lower back. Stretch to the point of gentle tension. If something hurts, stop immediately. Stretching should feel good. Try to stretch at least twice a week. This workout can take as little as 7-10 minutes, or as long as you'd like. A few minutes every week can improve your performance, and prevent injuries, and help you relax. |
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Martial Arts Made Simple. Moscow Times interview. |
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Moscow Times, Autumn 2006
By Gregory Klemm.
Photo by Vladimir Filonov. Valery Prosvirov, head instructor, Zolotoi Drakon
Discipline: Kung-Fu
How does kung-fu differ from other martial arts?
Traditional Chinese kung fu is a very complex martial art. There are throwing and hitting techniques, and pressure points and different types of self-regulation like breathing, health practices, and many methods of developing your body.
Why did you start learning kung-fu?
I loved fighting. I was 12 years old, and I loved to fight.
Have you ever had to use kung-fu in real life?
Yes, I have. In the Soviet Union, fighting was very common. No one went to the courts or to the police. If there were any misunderstandings, you settled them the old-fashioned way. But you shouldn’t look at kung-fu only as a way to fight. Using kung-fu is not just a way to defend yourself from troublemakers, it’s an effective way to find strength in yourself and to live in harmony with the world. |
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School of martial arts “Golden Dragon” is announcing the forming of the groups for carrying a seminar aiming for deep study of traditional form of Chinese martial arts.
The program of the seminar includes the key moments of Internal and External styles to form the understanding of seminar participants of unity of these two schools. |
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The ancients used to say: possibility of choice is the worst illness of mind. Forgetting that modern people spend precious time in life looking for ones personal self, choosing clothes, things, which are supposed to define the invented image. They dash between “what to do” and “how to act”. Thinking that argument invokes the truth, they follow the path of “try and mistake” and eventually end up like Pushkin’s old woman: the wash-tub’s broken, tons of mistakes, and the truth’s still nowhere around. Certainly no-one in the world can avoid mistakes, but if one succeeds in stopping to think in clichés (like everybody) and pay more attention to oneself, but not from the position “I want”, but from the position “who am I”, “what am I capable of”(unbiased, not in dreams) and only after “what do I deserve”, then the number of mistakes will recede by numbers. And if you add on it the understanding that life is action, theorising and reasoning about the truth will disappear because you will see it instead. It’s easy. Try it. |
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The Chinese Tradition (in Kung Fu and not only) |
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Chinese tradition is the special way of taking in the world, practically seeing the world through the eyes of Chinese. It might seem an impossible task for people who were not born in China. The Chinese think like that (not all of them though). But it is far from truth. |
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Internal and External are not two familys. There is no most important part of a whole, and by dividing a whole in parts we forever exclude the possibility of stepping on the path of wisdom and self-perfection. It can be compared to standing in front of a pile of bricks trying to imagine what kind of house they made. Difficult isn’t it? Division of Internal and External does formally exist, but only within the limits of one tendency. Here the External work is aimed at developing the outer strength (Li), flexibility, coordination, stamina etc. Internal work is developing of effort (Jing) and all that, covered by Chinese meaning Neigong (inner work): developing strength of thought, spirit and mind, power of chi etc. But it is important to remember that one without the other is nothing. Ing and Yang don’t exist without one another – those are the basics. And if you want to achieve something worthwhile those cannot be neglected. |
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