Austin Kung Fu Academy

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MAN. I haven't been in this place since the pandemic!!
I'm still here. Austin Kung-Fu Academy is still doing it!

I hope y'all have been well.
So, for the last almost 2 years, I've been a Program Specialist for seniors at Montopolis Recreation & Community Center, and I've created a thriving Tai Chi program here! It's free and open to the public, MWF 10-11 AM.

My Kung-Fu classes are on Saturdays at Diva Dance HQ, and Wednesdays at Inishfree School of Irish Dance.

So guess what - this month marks
AUSTIN KUNG-FU ACADEMY'S 20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!

Holy cow! More to come.

Happy New Year!!
We are starting 2022 in our new location at Dharma Yoga! 3317 Manor Road, Austin, TX 78723.

5-6 Year Olds - 2 PM
7-8 Year Olds - 2:30 PM
9-12 Year Olds - 3:00 PM
Adults & Teens - 3:30 PM

OMICRON is on the rise, thus, same COVID protocols:
-masks required
-we dismiss a few minutes early to avoid congested traffic.
-parents, please wait outside during class, and be on time for pickup.

Thank you, and see you soon!

It's official! We'll be teaching our Kung-Fu classes out of Dharma Yoga in 2022!
We are sad to leave Fuerte Fitness, as they are closing their doors - they have been so good to us!!
We are excited and grateful to have our classes in Dharma Yoga! It's only about a mile away. We start classes there Jan 1, 2022, New Years Day!

KUNG-FU HOLIDAY SCHEDULE:
We will be closed from December 21 - 25.

But we'll be open on Jan 1.

Happy Holidays!

TESTING IS THIS WEEK, DEC 7 - 11.

-Kids Tests Will Be During Class Time
-Teens/Adults Test will be during Saturday’s class

PLEASE BE IN FULL UNIFORM FOR THE TEST!!

The Odd Couple
THE ODD COUPLE starring Sammo Hung and Lau Kar Wing. No, not the TV show with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, nor the American movie with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

This Kung-Fu classic has some amazing choreography in it, totally master class level! It's pretty cool, Sammo Hung and Lau Kar Wing play these rivaling masters, and as they get older, they want their students to carry on their rivalries. Sammo's student is played by Lau, and Lau's student is played by Sammo!

Old Sammo is a master of spear, and old Lau is a master of Broadsword. So young Sammo learns Broadsword, and young Lau learns Spear!

The opening duel between them is epic, and the rest of the fights in the film are awesome, too. But check out this opening fight scene:

Sammo Hung and Lau Kar Wing in Odd Couple (1979) Follow me: Facebook: http://facebook.com/CoolMartialVidsGoogle+: http://bit.ly/2DDXhp2

Lethal Weapon 4
LETHAL WEAPON 4 starring Jet Li! That's right, I said it!

Ok, fine! Starring Danny Glover, Chris Rock, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, and some other dude who was in Passion of the Christ and Braveheart.

But this was the first time American audiences got to see Jet Li on the big screen! I was so excited when it came out, I had to see it twice!

Typical Lethal Weapon stuff, Danny Glover I’m sure will tell us that he’s getting too old for this.

Here's I think the first time you see Jet Li in action in the film:

https://youtu.be/Whu8wkD7MtI

That look on his face at 1:45 is like him saying, "Your fight choreography is really some of the worst I've ever seen!"

Jet Li - Home Invasion Fight Scene (Lethal Weapon 4 - 1998) - HD Movie: Lethal Weapon 4Year: 1998Disclaimer: Kung Fu Fights does not own the rights to Lethal Weapon 4. Please support the filmmakers and purchase the movie. ...

Secret Rivals
SECRET RIVALS starring John Liu and Hwang Jang Lee

This film has pretty much nothing to do with Secret Rivals 2. I actually liked 2 better, but still, this first one was pretty awesome! Wong Tao is the "Southern Fighter" who does some Hung Ga Kuen. He also wields a really interesting looking pair of nunchucks!

This film was shot in Korea and was probably the first Hong Kong-Korea collaborative film production.

Lots of high intensity kicking action, as the two main stars (Liu and Lee) are both Taekwondo guys. And when you've got Ng See Yuen choreographing it (he choreographed Drunken Master and No Retreat No Surrender), it's gonna be fast paced, furious, and creative!

This was made in 1976, so Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon was still fresh in people's minds, so there's sort of a tournament part of the film, where there's a random Russian fighter, LOL!

Legends like Yuen Biao and Yuen Wah are in this for a brief moment. You can't really see them well, until in one fight scene, you see a couple of guys doing INSANE flips, and then you're like, "Ah, that's them!"

SYNOPSIS: (Do you really need it? Here's what the internet says) Two rivals (Don Wong, John Liu) join forces against a common foe.

Pretty much. There's a female love interest thing, almost a triangle situation, and a kid in there, too. So, yeah. There's also Hwang Jang Lee's unexplained motive for being evil, other than, he's just a greedy, evil, tough guy. Fair enough - plenty of those around!

Here’s a trailer:

Wu Tang Collection - Trailer - The Secret Rivals The watch the complete film click now on:https://youtu.be/UOrqCwKJYAADirector: Ng See YuenCast: Wong Tao, John Liu, Hwang Jang Lee, James Nam A classic kung ...

Kung-Fu Commandos
INCREDIBLE KUNG-FU MISSION aka KUNG-FU COMMANDOS starring John Liu

I'm turning into a huge Joh Liu fan! The other night, we livestreamed Secret Rivals, and he was awesome in it! So this one, INCREDIBLE KUNG-FU MISSION might need to be our next movie night showing, maybe!

The choreography is really cool - it's not undercranked much, so they're moving at a pace that is normal human speed. As a martial artist, I like this speed, because it gives me time to process the technicals of the choreography.

There's a fight scene where a dude fights 5 guys with spears with a ceramic vase, and wins, LOL!!

There's a blonde-haired with bangs mega-villain who's got a blue outfit and red cape, looking kind of like an elven superman!

INTERNET SYNOPSIS:

When a comrade is captured by a hostile warlord, five martial arts masters confront the villain's foot soldiers, valiantly battling through their resistance until they come face to face with the warlord himself.

Warlord - that's a cool word. Anyways, this film is directed by Chang Hsin Yi. He's not super well known, not like a Yuen Woo Ping, Jackie Chan, Chang Cheh, or Lau Kar Leung - he's not really at their status.

But he did do a lot of screenplays for the old films that came here and ended up in the $5.00 DVD bins...like Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin, Fist of Fury II, Exit Dragon Enter the Tiger, The Tattoo Connection, etc.

Check out this trailer, it claims that this film is "attractive" and has an "intricate story", LOL!! Word. I'm down!

"Incredible Kung Fu Mission" - Trailer A.k.a - "Deadly Mission" & "Kung Fu Commandos"