Hi, all,

Just a brief post to apologise for the recent inactivity at the site. Due to a scripting problem, we were unable to access the control panel to even upload an old backup and were stuck in a “holding pattern” for the last couple of months.

But all seems to have been rectified, and we’ll be posting information on recent events and upcoming seminars and programs again soon. Thank you for your patience and for checking back during this recent problem. Look forward to sharing more again with you very soon!

Well, another year is almost finished; one filled with lots of good training, good people and good times. As we wind down toward the end of 2011 and look to 2012, all of us here at the Academy want to wish all of our students, friends, visitors and supporters hearty well wishes for a safe and happy holiday – may you travel safely and share happy times with good friends and family, wherever you are and whatever you celebrate.

Classes for both adults and children at our Werribee and Hoppers Crossing venues will finish on Thursday, 15th December; for our Caulfield students, on Wednesday,  14 December.

Adult classes in Werribee & Hoppers Crossing will resume as from Monday, 16 January 2012; Caulfield classes will begin as from Wednesday, 25 January 2012.

Children’s classes in Werribee will resume as from Monday, 6 February 2012.

Thank you again for your support and participation in 2011. Whatever you celebrate, wherever you are or may go, Happy Holidays from the Qian Li Dao Academy. Be safe, be happy and enjoy a well deserved break, but be ready for 2012, the next Year of the Dragon… it’s sure to be an exciting and fast-moving year!

Our colleagues across the Tasman had me back in Wellington to work with them again, to increase their skills and understanding of chi sao, as they move into two-arm training and more random applications. They also asked me to let them have a bit of a go with learning about Wing Chun’s butterfly swords.  All in all, a weekend of fun, trying to develop better coordination, with and without something in one’s hands!

To top it all off, some of them requested a grading, which we held right after the Sunday chi sao workshop. I’m sure those who did so, slept very, very well that evening! But to their credit, our Kiwi brothers and sisters stuck it out and made it another great weekend of good training and good times.

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