Little Nine Heaven Internal Kung Fu and Tai Chi School Chicago |
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Welcome to Little Nine Heaven Internal Kung fu and Tai Chi School Chicago. We teach the Way and its power, by offering training in authentic Taoist and Shaolin systems of Chinese martial arts and Chinese healing with an emphasis on health, practical self defense, and teaching experienced professional warriors, serious martial artists, as well as beginners how to develop their abilities to their fullest potential. At Little Nine Heaven we teach executive solutions for conflict management, and problems solving for all situations that require dynamic action. The Kung fu systems instructed at Little Nine Heaven have been passed on from generation to generation. These arts are the real thing, not a hybrid, not a sport, and not a non lineage, non traditional system. Each of Little Nine Heaven’s systems of martial arts and Chinese healing is instructed with the purpose of enhancing student’s lives as well as helping students improve their health and fighting abilities. Everything instructed is carefully explained and easily learned. Each technique, meditation, form, and chi gong exercise, fighting application, and sparring session has value either for its health benefits, its use in combat, or its use to help condition students for combat. The systems that are taught are useful, practical, and have been tested by many previous generations of masters. Little Nine Heaven is accepting beginners to martial arts as students, but we specialized in training already experienced martial artists, to both learn something new as well as learn to improve their past skills in their previous arts. Many students both beginners and experienced martial artists have expressed that they feel like are learning martial arts at the graduate level. Old age is not generally a factor in these arts, and the best practitioners are generally the ones that have studied the longest, even into very old age. Internal styles of martial arts are famous for their ability to keep their practitioners’ healthy both from out side threat as well as internally as they age. These arts work to preserve the body, not to cause it further injury. The internal martial arts such as Hsing-I (Xing-I), Ba Kua ( Pa Kua), Tai Chi Chuan, and Hsiao Chui Tien (Little Nine Heaven or Nine Chamber Fist), focus on strengthening the internal organs to help them retain or enhance functionality, and to help prevent many of the effects of aging, such as the onset of chronic diseases. These arts were created by the ancient Taoists and have been an important part of Eastern medicine that has been practiced for many centuries. They are more recently becoming popularized as a form of alternative medicine, with an increasing role in preventative modern western medicine. In a recent school survey from November 2006 the Chicago branch has found that the median age of an average student at the school is 36 years old. Students surveyed had an average of 2.5 black belts per student from previous martial arts training. Students are very devoted, and the average students commute is 45 minutes. The school’s student body at the time of the survey was around 30 active students, taking private lessons, or attending weekly classes, or coming annual school events. A large section of our students at the school are from many of the following types of life styles such as, currently or preciously instructors’ of other styles of martial arts, veterans, law enforcement officers, government agents, active duty military or reservists, as well as many extremely successful professionals among students. Class sizes average around four to ten people per class, and students receive large amounts of one on one of attention from the instructor. Students are friendly and regularly meet outside of class to practice. Students are expected to individually practice outside of class. Classes and private lessons are for people age 16+. Students under eighteen must have parent’s permission. |
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Sifu Richard Baron 2120 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035, USA Tel: 847-702-7581 email: Sifu Richard Baron - warriorofheaven1@aol.com |