Saskatoon Nine Dragon Baguazhang
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Albert Community Centre
610 Clarence Ave S.
Saskatoon, SK
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Martial Arts Classes at Saskatoon’s Xin Fu Gompa
Students take up a martial art for various reasons. Self-defence, prestige, close-quarter combat, sport, aesthetics, self-improvement, fitness, job requirements, and spiritual growth describe the motivational drives urging many students forward. Many martial arts schools purport to teach all of the above, in the same class, as if they were all part of a continuum. Some of them are not even in the same spectrum. Each goal requires different skill sets, even different mind sets.
Historically, “martial arts” is a term that indicated those training methods developed by warriors to survive military combat encounters. Ancient martial training was originally devoted to developing effective combat ability, not spiritual awareness or health and longevity. Students should reflect upon their own goals and choose a school that focuses on that skill set if they wish to be satisfied with their training.
Saskatoon’s Xin Fu Gompa orients itself toward effective, realistic self-defence and health. We do not train for trophies. We do not train for rank. We train students to prevent, survive, and escape the threat of personal violence. A martial arts teacher must, if they claim to teach a martial art, address the realities of violence in class. Students in the class have, after all, chosen a martial path; they have not chosen a dance school, a fitness gymnasium, or a chess club.
The vehicle we use to deliver uncompromising skill in self-defence is the extremely rare martial art of Jiulong Baguazhang (Nine Dragon Eight Trigram Palm). Jiulong Baguazhang is an unparalleled traditional Chinese martial system of close-quarter combat especially designed for defence against multiple attackers. In contrast to what some modern martial artists claim, the possibility of surviving an attack by multiple opponents exists. Jiulong Baguazhang is an art used by bodyguards to move their charges through violent group encounters without having to go to the ground.
While training with a focus on self-defence, we find students at Saskatoon’s Xin Fu Gompa gain improved posture, find a more relaxed and centered mind, become more graceful, develop emotional equanimity, recover from old injuries, increase physical stamina, and suffer fewer injuries in the course of life. If you do the work, these are unavoidable fringe benefits.
Saskatoon’s Xin Fu Gompa presently offers two Jiulong Baguazhang courses. Dragon Rolling the Pearl is our foundation course and introduces the fundamental principles upon which Jiulong Baguazhang is based. Beginners are welcomed into this class at any time of the year. Meeting the Dragons is our intermediate course and sequentially introduces each of the eight palms of Jiulong Baguazhang.