Chinese Martial Arts and Health Centre Australia

📢 New Research Publication!

We're excited to share the latest paper by our very own Martial Arts Research and Testing Laboratory published in peer-reviewed journal Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology !

This study is the first to directly demonstrate that internal mechanisms used by trained martial artists to produce force and stabilise the body can be rapidly modified in untrained individuals through a novel martial arts-derived training approach using real-time feedback and specialised instruction (Neuropotency Training).
After just one training session, participants showed changes in internal respiratory pressures and abdominal muscle activation, even before measurable improvements in external force were observed. These findings provide new insight into how Neuropotency Training may influence the physiological mechanisms underpinning stability, force transmission, and physical performance.

📄 Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resp.2026.104635

Workshop tonight! Last minute bookings here -

Introduction to Chang Chuan and Hong Chuan Kung Fu | Chinese Martial Arts Join us for a beginner-friendly introduction to traditional Kung Fu. This one-hour workshop is for adults with no previous martial arts experience. You don’t need to be fit, flexible, or confident to attend. Meet the instructors, try simple exercises, and get a feel for the training.

We're looking forward to our introductory workshop at the Toowoomba Library tomorrow night. If you haven't already done so, please make sure that you book your place asap via https://www.cmahc.com.au/intro
Booking required - places limited.

Introduction to Chang Chuan and Hong Chuan Kung Fu | Chinese Martial Arts Join us for a beginner-friendly introduction to traditional Kung Fu. This one-hour workshop is for adults with no previous martial arts experience. You don’t need to be fit, flexible, or confident to attend. Meet the instructors, try simple exercises, and get a feel for the training.

Why is the ADF interested in research into traditional martial arts?

Because modern training has a limit that ancient martial arts principles can teach us how to go past.

In this interactive workshop, we’ll introduce some of the underlying physiological principles of traditional Kung Fu, share our pioneering research, and show how these relate to enhancing strength, stability, and performance under pressure.

This isn’t about learning martial arts.
It’s about understanding how your body and mind function, and beginning to access latent capabilities that require specialised training to unlock.

📍 Toowoomba Library
📅 14 May, 6:00–7:45pm
💲 $50

👉 Scan the QR code on the flyer to book your place or visit https://www.martialartsresearchandtestinglaboratory.com.au/service-page/the-secret-sciences-of-ancient-kung-fu

We would like to wish our school family and friends a very Happy Chinese New Year. We wish you all a successful, healthy, and fulfilling year of the Fire Horse, and the discipline and perseverance to keep moving forward.

2026 is the year of the Fire Horse. What a fitting year for the Chinese Martial Arts and Health Centre Australia to be celebrating its 20th anniversary. That’s right, 20 years ago, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, we made the commitment to open an Australian branch of the Chinese Martial Arts and Health Centre here in Toowoomba, teaching the venerable and powerful Chang Hong system of traditional Chinese martial arts. Over these past 20 years we have faced many hardships, setbacks and challenges. Personal challenges, injuries and setbacks aside, small-town regional Australia is not a very forgiving environment in which to open a traditional martial arts school. The people here are salt-of-the-earth and have many great qualities, but open-mindedness is not one of them. Luxury big-city perspectives are far more accepting of new things. Martial arts schools open and shut down frequently around here on the doorstep of the Outback. The bush is unforgiving. The hardships that we faced over the years have run the entire gamut. From the occasional egotistical clown walking into a class to challenge our fighting abilities (confident in the “fact” that traditional martial arts are no good) only to get themselves knocked around or sent to ground in confused disgrace, all the way up to people in positions of power who attempted to abuse their authority to discredit and malign us only to be brutally overturned and embarrassed on the battleground of open public discourse. We’ve been fighting all this time. We’ve been in the trenches. And sometimes it’s hard to see the results of your efforts when the hardships loom so large in your field of view. But this is a year to celebrate the undeniable fact that WE’RE STILL HERE! All those detractors who tried to kick us when we were down can stick that bitter w**d into their pipes and collectively smoke it, LOL. But, in a very fundamental way, we have made a difference beyond just existing. Our research is slowly making waves and changing perspectives. The relevance and hidden power of traditional Chang Hong is now a scientifically irrefutable fact. It is as irrefutable as the continued existence of the CMAHCA in the face of the nay-sayers, quiet backstabbers and smiling assassins. This screenshot shows how the scientific research that we have been conducting is slowly changing what is revealed by performing an AI search on the role of intra-abdominal pressure in martial arts. When we embarked on this research journey, the sports-science textbooks were literally at odds with what I said I could physically do. I even remember in the early days telling Sherri’s supervisor what I knew I could do and how it was at odds with the texts. I remember him responding dismissively with something like: “Well, we’ll just have to see what the results show.” To his credit, he became a true believer after seeing the results first-hand. It’s been a fight. Indeed, it has. But that’s what we do here. We fight. Time to pick up our new weapons, freshly hardened and tempered in the furnace of peer-reviewed scientific journals, and charge into the future with renewed vigour.