Posted by jason on Jan 31, 2012 in
Uncategorized Welcome to the Year of the Dragon!
Already this is shaping up to be an exciting year for the Academy.
We kicked off classes 9/1/12 and began a series of lessons aimed at reviewing the entire grading curriculum at the rate of a level per week which will continue until early March.
Shifu and Karen welcomed a baby girl into the world mid January, Melody Parks, and would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes and support.
We have set the grading/event timetable for 2012 and it is as follows:
15/2/12 - Practice grading 1
29/2/12 - Grading 1
April TBA - Full Day Workshop
25/4/12 - Practice Grading 2
30/5/12 - Grading 2
July TBA - Guest Workshop - at this time it looks like an intensive intro to MMA
25/7/12 - Practice Grading 3
29/8/12 - Grading 3
October TBA - MGA Tournament - Forms, weapons, sparring under MGA rules
24/10/12 - Practice Grading 4
28/11/12 - Grading 4
December/Jan 2013 - Canberra workshops
MGA has a regular training group that has been growing steadily since 2011 and is looking to make a transition from training group to official branch in December this year. Grading syllabus is already running through our distance education program and there will be more updates on this throughout the year.
Launceston branch will be trialling a new venue starting 1/2/12 and will be instead of Wednesday nights at UTAS for the month of February 2012.
During February 2012 classes will be
Monday Nights 7:00pm-9:00pm - KAOS Dojo, Wellington St Launceston above Domino’s Pizza
Wednesday Nights 7:00pm-9:00pm - Windsor Precinct, Community Hall, Windsor Drive, Riverside.
Windsor Drive is only new and may not appear on maps but coming from the city turn right at the Eccleston Rd intersection.
Here is the link to the West Tamar Council website which discusses the Facility in detail
http://www.wtc.tas.gov.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=156&catid=1&Itemid=1
We will be in Area “P”.
There will be a lot more content going up on the website this year and in addition to more articles and clips there will be a big step forward in content for subscribers and in our distance learning program so stay tuned.
Thank you to everyone for making 2011 such an enjoyable year and we look forward to even more in 2012 - the year of the Dragon.
Posted by jason on Jan 8, 2012 in
Uncategorized Welcome to 2012 and welcome back to the training year.
Classes resume tonight 7:00pm on Wellington St as per usual.
if you would like further details please phone Jason on 0409 046 135.
Posted by jason on Aug 27, 2011 in
Uncategorized Hi everyone
just a reminder that there is no class on Monday 29/8/11 due to travel but Classes resume as normal on this Wednesday.
See you all then.
Posted by jason on Aug 8, 2011 in
Uncategorized Hi everyone
The Broadswords that I have in stock are $76 so please let Maureen know if you would like to order one.
Posted by jason on Apr 24, 2011 in
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Hi everyone
Just a reminder that there are no classes on today, Anzac Day, and that classes will resume as normal on Wednesday.
Congratulations, once again to those who graded last week and the presentation of sashes and learning of new material begins Wednesday.
Posted by jason on Apr 3, 2011 in
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Congratulations to everyone on there success in the last grading and the next grading is Wednesday night 20/3/11.
Prep is going well so just keep on doing what you’re doing.
Just a quick note about current classes.
Sorry but there is no class on this Wednesday due to personal commitments, but after this business as usual.
Also I wanted to say that we are really pleased with how everyone is going and that the energy in the class is awesome so keep up the good work.
Posted by jason on Jan 25, 2011 in
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Hi everyone
Just to let you know that training is on tonight at UTAS as per usual.
We will be covering more advanced forms and set analogy work as well as some foundation work for our new starters.
See you there
Shifu
Posted by jason on Jan 10, 2011 in
Uncategorized Welcome back for the new year.
Coming straight back from the break the class was a little more relaxed than usual.
Starting with joint mobility work into spiralling exercises, pliability, Metal Element Fist, review of forms, seated meditation and then into a break.
After the break, into partner work and into progressions.
There will be a short clip of progressions posted on www.mountaingateacademy.com by the end of the week.
Thank you to everyone for sharing the Gong Fu.
Posted by jason on Jan 2, 2011 in
Uncategorized We hope that you all had a great time over the holiday period.
Classes will resume on Monday 10th of January at the Kaos Dojo on Wellington Street Launceston.
Class to start at 7:00pm and run through until 9:00pm.
Wednesday 12th January will be in the usual venue of UTAS Dance Studio from 7:00pm until 9:00pm.
We look forward to seeing everyone there.
Posted by jason on Nov 10, 2010 in
Uncategorized Class started with with an informal bow in.
Ba Duan Jin - movements 1-3
Joint mobility, hip releases
Tiger Presses, Abdominal Hundreds, Power Squats
Face Palms, Six Harmony Drill 1
Spiraling exercises through to arrow fist
Jiben Gong - straight, side, outside, inside, diagonal
Single front Jump step, toe kick, heel kick, turning kick, step up side kick, back kick
Partner work on kicking principles
Wu Bu Quan, Lien Huan Quan
Pliability foundation exercise
Thank you all for coming and sharing the Gong Fu.