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1/17/22 - 1/22/22

Hello AMAI Family! In this blog series, we will post reminders of what the students worked on during the previous week. This gives you or your child ideas for how to practice at home between classes. If you need extra help on any movements or sections of the form, talk to your instructor about adding a Virtual Membership onto your current membership to unlock videos that break down every section of your form and every technique! Last week was Buddy Week! Lil' Dragons: Lil' Dragons students warmed up by running through the woods. They focused on the techniques Double Tiger Claw and Stranger Defense (Big Circle). To help with their stranger defense, parents can grab ....
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1/17/22 - 1/22/22

Hello AMAI Family! In this blog series, we will post reminders of what the students worked on during the previous week. This gives you or your child ideas for how to practice at home between classes. If you need extra help on any movements or sections of the form, talk to your instructor about adding a Virtual Membership onto your current membership to unlock videos that break down every section of your form and every technique! Last week was Buddy Week! Lil' Dragons: Lil' Dragons students warmed up by running through the woods. They focused on the techniques Double Tiger Claw and Stranger Defense (Big Circle). To help with their stranger defense, parents can grab ....
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01/10/22-01/15/22

Hello AMAI Family! In this blog series, we will post reminders of what the students worked on during the previous week. This gives you or your child ideas for how to practice at home between classes. If you need extra help on any movements or sections of the form, talk to your instructor about adding a Virtual Membership onto your current membership to unlock videos that break down every section of your form and every technique! Last week was the second week of Stripe Testing for the quarter! Lil' Dragons: Lil' Dragons students warmed up with the Tiger form to review for stripe testing. They focused on the techniques Hold Back the Wall and X Block. To help with ....
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01/03/22-01/08/22

Hello AMAI Family! In this blog series, we will post reminders of what the students worked on during the previous week. This gives you or your child ideas for how to practice at home between classes. If you need extra help on any movements or sections of the form, talk to your instructor about adding a Virtual Membership onto your current membership to unlock videos that break down every section of your form and every technique! Last week was the first week of classes in 2022 and the 7th week of the quarter! Lil' Dragons: The Lil’ Dragons warmed up with animal walks. The tiger techniques that they focused on were Rest Stance and Inside Crescent Kick. Rest ....
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The News Stand - January 2022

This month’s featured article from Kung Fu Magazine reviews Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, which recently had its theatrical release on December 17th. The article reviews several aspects of the film, including a discussion of Marvel’s multiverse concept and its implications for future films in the industry. The article also assesses No Way Home’s resolution of this particular Spider-man arc, and the way it brings the culmination of several Marvel and Sony superhero stories. Finally, the article takes a look into the film’s fight choreography. Even though many of the fight scenes in No Way Home are primarily CGI, they’re all ....
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January 2022 Events

Hey AMAI family! Happy New Year! We hope you had a great Holiday season and we are excited to get the ball rolling again with classes and events here. This blog post includes all of our January announcements for a very eventful month! To kick us off, we’re having a special Snow Day Day Camp tomorrow, January 4th , for $40/child. Dropoff begins at 8am and pickup is any time before 3pm. As usual, campers have the option to pack a lunch or to buy pizza for $8. Let us know ASAP if you would like to bring your child for camp tomorrow. For our Lil Dragons and Kids Basic/BBC program, stripe testing will run next week January 10th-15th. Come to class ready ....
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12/13/21-12/18/21

Hello AMAI Family! In this blog series, we will post reminders of what the students worked on during the previous week. This gives you or your child ideas for how to practice at home between classes. If you need extra help on any movements or sections of the form, talk to your instructor about adding a Virtual Membership onto your current membership to unlock videos that break down every section of your form and every technique! Last week was the fifth week of the Winter Quarter. Congrats to everyone who earned stripes last week! Lil' Dragons: The Lil’ Dragons warmed up with Running in the Woods. The tiger techniques that they focused on were Double Tiger Claw ....
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12/06/21-12/11/21

Hello AMAI Family! In this blog series, we will post reminders of what the students worked on during the previous week. This gives you or your child ideas for how to practice at home between classes. If you need extra help on any movements or sections of the form, talk to your instructor about adding a Virtual Membership onto your current membership to unlock videos that break down every section of your form and every technique! Last week was the fourth week of the Winter Quarter. Everyone did well with the first Stripe Test of the quarter! Lil' Dragons: The Lil’ Dragons started class with a review of their Tiger form! The techniques they focused on were ....
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11/29/21-12/4/21

Hello AMAI Family! In this blog series, we will post reminders of what the students worked on during the previous week. This gives you or your child ideas for how to practice at home between classes. If you need extra help on any movements or sections of the form, talk to your instructor about adding a Virtual Membership onto your current membership to unlock videos that break down every section of your form and every technique! Last week was the third week of the Winter Quarter. Everyone worked hard after coming off of our short Thanksgiving break! Lil' Dragons: The Lil’ Dragons worked on their Tiger Style form. They started class with animal walks to warm ....
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History of the Style: Nan Quan

What is Nan Quan? Contemporary Nan Quan is a modern combination of several southern styles. Contemporary Nan Quan features vigorous, athletic movements with very stable, low stances, extensive hand techniques and a vocal articulation called fasheng (“Release Shout”) which is the predecessor of the Japanese and Korean martial arts Kiai . Power is driven from sharp waist movements with special emphasis on fast stance transition to generate power and speed in the arms. Styles in Nan Quan: Hung Gar, Southern Animal Styles such as Fujian White Crane and Tiger, Lau Gar, Choy Gar, Li Gar, Fut Gar, Choy Li Fut, Mok Gar and Wing Chun. How was contemporary ....
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