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Pavel Tsatsouline, Chief Instructor of the RKC System, promoted Dr. Mark Cheng to RKC Team Leader in December 2007! This ranking is the HIGHLY restricted level of kettlebell instructorship to which only about two dozen have been selected worldwide. This honor makes the KBLA (Kettlebells Los Angeles) training group one of very few to enjoy this high level of instruction and training. Expect 2008 to be a year of the finest quality kettlebell, martial arts, and health systems training ever offered! ________________________________ OK! We know that it's been a LONG, LONG time since the site's been properly updated & organized. Don't worry. That's all coming in the not too distant future. While Chung-Hua.com has been a great information source to many of you on the web, Dr. Cheng felt that it was getting cluttered lately with all sorts of stuff. So he's going to keep the old pages online as searchable, but then break the main components of the site down into different websites that focus with greater clarity on each aspect of what his original Chung-Hua concept is all about. - For the kettlebell training, we already have www.kettlebellslosangeles.com up & running - For Southern Shaolin (Sil Lum Fut Ga) Kung-Fu training, we already have www.futgakuen.com up & running - For Tui-Na academics & TCM orthopedic instruction, we have www.tui-na.net up & running - For rehabilitative exercises using the kettlebell, we have www.kettlebellrehab.com up & running - For the Saturday morning Tai-Chi group, we have www.santamonicataichi.com up & running HOWEVER, some of those sites are in need of serious overhaul, and there are other domains that we're going to be launching... hopefully by mid-2008. Among the sites that we'll have upcoming are..... - A website solely for Dr. Cheng's writings & articles from the martial arts media, including past installments of the Black Belt Magazine Legends of Kung-Fu column - A website solely for the quietly growing Los Angeles Combat Shuai-Chiao group The modifications to our existing sites will be as follows: - The SantaMonicaTaiChi.com site will have a "real" layout, rather than Sifu's amateurish text & pics thrown in randomly. There will be separate pages with information on each of the arts that are taught in the class - such as Yang style Tai-Chi long-form, Ba Duan Jin Qigong, Chinese power yoga, Tai-Chi swordsmanship, Hsing Jing, and Combat Tai-Chi. We'll have far more content, pics, and video clips embedded on most of these pages for your educational viewing pleasure! - This Chung-Hua.com site will be refocused solely on the Chinese orthopedics & structural medicine clinic and services available in the clinic, such as Tui-Na, acupuncture, and exercise rehab. Thanks for bearing with us during what will surely be a busy 2008 for us.
___________________________ Dr. Cheng's Beach Kettlebell training classes on Sunday mornings are a hit!!!
And little wonder.... Where else can you train with Level 2 RKCs, other RKCs and RKC candidates all around you, learn powerfully effective exercises from Pavel Tsatsouline's RKC System (including the highly acclaimed Naked Warrior, Relax Into Stretch, Martial Power, Enter the Kettlebell, Power to the People, Resilient, and From Russia with Tough Love programs), and enjoy the finest scenery in southern California? Come on out... Sundays at 7am at the Santa Monica beach, just next to Ocean Front Walk and Pacific Terrace. Click below for a map & directions!
![[ Yahoo! Maps ]](http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/mp/gr/mplogo.gif){kind=small} Map of Ocean Front Walk At Pacific Ter Santa Monica, CA 90401 If you want to join in, just join the kettlebellslosangeles Yahoo group and get all the info you'll need anyways, including any important schedule changes, workshop notices, and even monthly workout routines emailed to you at no cost! Better yet, join the group and then shoot Dr. Cheng an e-mail at kettlebellsla@yahoo.com to let him know that you're interested in training and then show up a little before 7am with or without your kettlebells. There, you can speak to Dr. Cheng in person! Need more convincing??? Go ahead... You know you want it. :)
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For 2007, there's only ONE other RKC scheduled, and that's the OCTOBER 2007 RKC.This, like all other RKCs, will sell out in very short order! Get in on it pronto for a
serious discount!!! Need reasons??? The RKC is your solution... plain, pure & simple. COME ALONG FOR SOME OF THE BEST TRAINING YOU WILL EVER EXPERIENCE! And if you sign up for the RKC through this website AND enroll in our Sunday beach kettlebell class or private training, we'll make sure you're more than ready to pass the grueling instructor certification tests! Dr. Courtney Mizuhara-Cheng, DO & Leonard Wu both passed the course in April 2007 with flying colors. These 2 new RKCs are now accepting new clients!
You can see more pictures of them at the RKC in the KettlebellsLosAngeles Yahoo group. Click on the pictures above or below to get started!!!
Sifu Mark Cheng demonstrating the Turkish Get-Up technique for instructor review at the April 2006 RKC ___________________________
We have a few new websites for you to check out! - www.santamonicataichi.com : Our Saturday outdoor Chi Kung & Tai-Chi class general information website - www.kettlebellslosangeles.com : Sifu's Westside LA Kettlebell group (Kettlebells Los Angeles) & information on classes and training sessions - kettlebellslosangeles.blogspot.com : Sifu's new BLOG as hosted by Google's Blogger! - www.futgakuen.com : The official website of Gee Yung - Los Angeles, where we have information on the Sil Lum Fut Ga Kuen system of southern Shaolin kung-fu. ---> - http://blog.360.yahoo.com/mjcsifu : Is Sifu's OLD Yahoo 360 Blog page We also have a couple new Yahoo! Groups for active students to join. You can find more info on those groups by applying for membership below.
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___________________________ Sifu Cheng is taking a few hard men & women to the sold-out April 2007 & September 2007 Russian Kettlebell Challenges in St. Paul, MN, and he might be taking a few more to the June 2007 RKC. For those of you who think that the RKC course is just another quickie "how-to" seminar, you're in for a wickedly rude surprise. The failure rate is proof-positive that the unprepared or the foolhardy can be quickly singled out through the kettlebell's Iron Darwinism. If you're not quite ready for the level of punishment that will be doled out at the Russian Kettlebell Challenge events, that doesn't mean that you can't partake of the physical enefits of kettlebell training. A Russian kettlebell quick-start kit might be exactly what the good Dr. Cheng would order for you.
And if you just want to try out some
kettlebell personal training
and experience firsthand the kind of all-in-one cardio, strength,
flexibility, and rehab benefits we have in store for you, please
feel free to drop Dr.
Cheng or Instructor
Leonard Wu an e-mail to schedule a training session. If any trainer will do, then call any trainer and DON'T waste time with us, but... If you want the expertise of an orthopedics specialist and martial arts master, as well as Pavel Tsatsouline's personal student guide you, then get moving and e-mail Dr. Cheng to schedule a training appointment!!! ___________________________
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"Please keep the US soldiers around the world in your thoughts and prayers. No matter what your position is on the administration's use of them, as Americans, you owe your freedom to each and every member of the US armed forces. Thank you." --- Sifu Mark Cheng, L.Ac. (9/25/05) "No evil surpasses that which preys on those who are unable to defend themselves. We have but one constant, unshakeable goal - to defend our world from those who would make it evil and fight them by any means necessary." --- Sifu Mark Cheng, L.Ac. (9/7/04)
"Humankind is made up of a majority of cowards. When times are good and there is plentiful wine and meat to enjoy in your house, everyone will be your friend and sing your praises in public. But when someone threatens your house, they will flee to the safety of their own homes and leave you to fend for yourself. Oftentimes these same cowards will condemn you, saying that you somehow brought this kind of threat onto yourself or that there's some way you could have avoided the evil that befell you..... Will you capitulate and make your actions fall in line with these cowards, or will you stand up and fight your aggressors with dignity, regardless of who does or does not stand by your side? Are you the kind of person who lives up to their words, or are you the kind of coward whose words of praise are only motivated when times are good and your belly is full?" --- Sifu Mark Cheng, L.Ac. (3/6/03)
"There is a HUGE difference between merely hoping that bad things don't happen to you, and actively working to minimize the chance that those bad things can even enter you world in any way, shape, or form. Looking the other way is an act of cowardice. Handling problems reactively is laziness. And allowing senseless suffering (for yourself or others) is simply evil. Now is the time for us to make our words and actions match!" --- Sifu Mark Cheng (Holidays '02)
"These are no ordinary times. And these times call for us to be more than ordinary people. The way of life you knew in the past few decades is gone. We are now called to be stronger, more diligent, more aware of how we conduct our lives for ourselves and others, and more willing to understand that each of us has a responsibility to live up to the ethics we were given as children with courage, dignity, and sacrifice." --- Sifu Mark Cheng (Summer '02) Last updated 12/27/07 |
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OLD NEWS The Chung-Hua Institute wishes you all a HAPPY, HEALTHY, & PROSPEROUS Year of the Golden Pig!!! Xin nian kuai le, gong xi fa cai! Sun nien fai lok, gung hei fat choi! ___________________________ Effective after May 26th, the on-going, regular kettlebell training class at the world-famous Inosanto Academy of Martial Arts will be shifted to a monthly special workshop. For more information on the workshop and kettlebell training, please visit Guro Dan Inosanto's personal website! We look forward to seeing you there! On Wednesday, June 6th, the Inosanto Academy will be holding a special "Legends pre-party" with a 2-hour kettlebell training workshop! For more information, or to get on the guest list, please call the Inosanto Academy at (310) 578-7773. ___________________________
And as one life leaves this world, another one enters!
The Cheng family and all members of the Chung-Hua Institute welcome John Allen Krivka into this world!!! John arrived on January 10th at 1:25pm Eastern. He is the second son of Sifu Mike Krivka, RKC Level II. May God watch over John, keeping him safe at all times. And may God help his parents, as they will have NO sleep for some time to come. :-) Sifus Krivka & Cheng are close friends as RKCs and students of Guro Daniel Inosanto. ___________________________ The Chung-Hua Institute and the Cheng family mourn the passing of Grandmaster Bong Soo Han, widely known as the Father of Hapkido in the USA. May God rest his soul and watch over his family and students. We ask that you please remember him and his followers in your prayers. Thank you.
___________________________ ALL Saturday Tai-Chi classes and practice sessions in Clover Park will now begin at 7 AM, regardless of whether or not Sifu will be teaching. Make note on your calendars. If you're interested in Tai-Chi, Taijiquan, Taiji, Taichi, T'ai-Chi or however you care to spell it, feel free to stop by, watch a class, and speak to a senior student (usually in the black shirts with the Chung-Hua logo) about joining practices. This class time will change to begin at 8am effective as of February 10, 2007. ___________________________
Pavel Tsatouline & Steve Maxwell tag-teamed for a rare Naked Warrior seminar in Los Angeles at the Inosanto Academy on the first weekend in November. The seminar was a blast for all who attended, including Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon co-star, John Saxon. A writeup will eventually be posted on the Inosanto Academy's website. ___________________________ Sifu Mark Cheng earned his RKC (Russian Kettlebell instructor Certification) at the April 2006 RKC in St. Paul, MN!!! Having trained directly under the guidance of Russian Kettlebell pioneer, Pavel Tsatsouline, Sifu Cheng went to earn the coveted rank of RKC to allow him to formally share the benefits of kettlebell training for spinal rehabilitation and joint injury rehabilitation in his clinic as a certified and recognized instructor.
Sifu Mark Cheng performing a double KB squat with a perfectly straight back At the RKC, Sifu Cheng had the opportunity to train under the guidance of Sifu Steve Cotter, Sr RKC. Sifu Cotter is a full-contact Kuoshu champion and one of very few Senior RKC instructors under Pavel Tsatsouline. Sifu Cheng also had the chance to pick the brains of experts such as Mark Reifkind, RKC (who did the strength and conditioning training for Frank Shamrock in his last fight with Cesar Gracie) and Steve Maxwell, Sr RKC (who did the strength and conditioning for Saulo Ribeiro, as well as many other Brazilian Jiu-jitsu fighters). If you're looking for some serious old-school, hardcore, highly functional weight training for elite athletes, you need look no further than to click on these kettlebells!
READ WHAT SOME OF THE INSTRUCTORS AT THE RKC HAD TO SAY ABOUT SIFU CHENG: “I had the opportunity to observe Mark Cheng in action. Mark was going through the Russian Kettlebell Instructor Course where he not only performed flawless techniques but had to teach these skills to several new students. I must say Mark has the rare ability to convey his skills in an effective, fresh, innovative style. Combined this with his extensive knowledge of the human body and you have an Instructor who will deliver extreme results. If you are looking to fast track your strength and conditioning, you MUST seek out Mark Cheng.” Jon Engum – RKC/ CAS 6th Dan
WTF Taekwondo ___________________________ Have a look at www.markcheng.us for some exciting news. Sifu & Simu thank you all for your incredible generosity. Such a warm response was truly unexpected. ___________________________ The Chung-Hua Institute and Sifu Mark Cheng mourn the passing of Grandmaster Carlson Gracie. May his soul rest in peace and his students carry on his name and his art. Our prayers are with his family, those he loved, and those who loved him.
________________________ CONGRATULATIONS to Sifu Mark Cheng on his annointment as a disciple of Gee Yung Sil Lum Fut Ga Kuen Grandmaster Arthur Y.S. Lee and instructor (Sifu) of the Los Angeles branch of the Gee Yung International Martial Arts, Dragon, and Lion Dance Association! He performed the bai-si discipleship ceremony along with Sifu Rick Der on September 20, 2005 with the executive editor of Black Belt Magazine as a witness. Look for a feature article on Fut Ga Kuen to hit the newsstands soon!
OUR PRICES & HOURS HAVE CHANGED!!! With the growing demand for our Tui-Na treatments and instruction, our prices and hours have changed. Check the Classes & Seminars page for new class times and the Clinic page for our new clinic hours. ________________________ THE CHUNG-HUA INSTITUTE proudly announces the wedding of Sifu Mark Cheng and Courtney Mizuhara! Sifu & Simu thank all of you who have sent well wishes since their June wedding. [Webmaster's note: This was back in 2005.] They both look forward to seeing you all in person sometime in the near future.
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