The Parkour & Performing Arts Center (aka Free Flow Academy): The PPAC Class Description

Kung Fu is an excellent choice if you are looking for a fine balance of high impact and low impact workouts, while learning practical and useful skills. Kung Fu is a complete self defense system, as you will learn a broad range of defense for a variety of attacks and scenarios. You will learn stand up as well as ground fighting, and reasoning skills that will assist you in threat analysis and awareness, as well as conditioning the body for speed, proficiency, flexibility, balance, strength, acrobatics, and coordination. Kung Fu is also an excellent choice for practitioners who prefer to study disciplines that emphasize personal development and mindfulness.

Our Kung Fu system is rooted in Shaolin Kung Fu, which is based out of the Henan Province, in Song Shan, China. Shaolin Kung Fu has been developed and evolved over the course of 1500 years, and is considered the oldest, largest, and most famous styles of Chinese Martial Arts. Because it has had much time to evolve, as well as stood the test of time, the range of skills are vast and broad. The study of Kung Fu can be pursued over the course of multiple lifetimes, and can be studied and practiced well into a person's lifetime. Students young and old can practice Kung Fu, and experience it's physical, emotional, and metal health benefits.

Kung Fu can be observed in 3 categories:

Warrior Training (Self Defense, Conditioning, Strategy, and Threat Analysis)
Internal Development Training (Mindfulness, Deep Breathing, and Mental Prowess)
Performing Art (Acrobatics, Weapon & Animal Forms/Styles, Choreography)

Our Kung Fu program focuses on each of the 3 categories, and students are encouraged to "self-direct" their focus. For the most part, younger students prefer to develop their abilities in the warrior and performing art regions of their training. While older adults prefer to develop their internal training, as well as utilize Kung Fu as a form of physical and mental rehabilitation.