Keefe's Martial Arts

RIF. (Reading Is Fundamental.)
Reading books from my martial arts collection.

One Vision. Fifty Years | Celebrating 50 Years of the Chinese Wushu Research Institute (Ep. 13) For fifty years, the Chinese Wushu Research Institute (CWRI) has pr...

MOVIE AT THE BRATTLE THEATER - CAMBRIDGE
FRIDAY, JULY 10 6PM
Live martial arts performances before the show!
Performed by students of Bow Sim Mark

https://brattlefilm.org/film-series/bow-sim-mark-50th-anniversary-screenings/

Pizza after class for this group! 🍕

CLOSED SATURDAY.
Have a great holiday weekend! Happy 4th! 🎆

Martial Arts Seminar at Lake Quannapowitt.
Around 2 dozen students from 2 schools got together at Lake Quannapowitt. Sifu John Keefe and Sifu Rick Wong taking turns teaching taichi aspects, drills and more.

Bow Sim Mark 50th Anniversary Screenings
Friday, July 10 – Saturday, July 11
BRATTLE THEATER-CAMBRIDGE

Did you know that one of the first tai chi schools in the United States was founded right here in Boston? Bow-sim Mark moved here from Hong Kong along with her family and founded the now legendary Chinese Wushu Research Institute in 1976.

Sifu Mark is credited with helping to popularize the term Wushu (literally ‘martial arts’) here in the United States and she was among the first to teach standardized Wushu to American audiences.

One of her first students was her son, action star Donnie Yen who cut his teeth working with the amazing action choreographer and director Yuen Woo-ping in the ‘80s and ‘90s and has gone on to international stardom in films like Rogue One and JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4.

Drunken Tai Chi With Special Live Martial Arts Performance! 35mm Screening • Double feature with JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

"The master's advice to "try softer" is a classic paradox in martial arts and philosophy. It means that forcing a result through brute strength, impatience, or intense effort usually creates resistance, making the goal take longer to achieve."

A young boy traveled across Japan to the school of a famous martial artist. When he arrived at the dojo, he was given an audience by the Sensei. "What do you wish from me", the master asked. The boy replied, "I wish to be your student and become the finest Karate practitioner in the land. How long must I study?" "Ten Years at least", the master answered.

The boy then said, "Wow...Ten years is a long time. What if I studied twice as hard as all your other students?" The master's reply... "Twenty Years".

Confused, the boy replied "Twenty???... what if I practice day and night with all my effort?" The master's reply... "Thirty Years"

Still confused, the boy asked the master "Why is it that each time I say I will work harder, you tell me that it will take longer?" Immediately, the master told him, "The answer is clear. When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way"

“It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts, it’s the work you put in the hours.”