We consider our in-house tournament an important part of our curriculum.

Regardless of belt level, we steadfastly train our Kung-Fu so that we can be our personal best. The tournament allows us as a Kung-Fu family to celebrate the effort we put in together by individually presenting our forms to the school and to the family and friends who join us.

While we do mark each student and award medals accordingly for those that place the highest, the real reward is knowing that you can perform your Kung-Fu individually and be recognized for the hard work you have put in.

Our sparring, horse and crane stance, and agile staff competitions offer another way that we can encourage each other to do well under pressure—a valuable lesson at any age!

We look forward to sharing this experience with you!

FULL DAYS: Instructional Kung-Fu Camp

Drop off: 8:30am–8:45am
Camp: 8:45am–3:00pm
Pick up: 3:00pm–3:15pm

Lunch & Snacks: Please bring your own healthy lunch, snacks, and water bottle.

FULL DAYS: Costs

Daily Cost: $75 +HST
Daily Family Discount: subsequent children of same family, $66 +HST

Weekly Cost: $375 +HST
Weekly Family Discount: subsequent children of same family, $330 +HST

Questions?

All sessions are conducted by Sifu Anne and Sifu Sarah, with the support of Leadership Team Members.

Please contact us: WKFA.camps@gmail.com

Junior Camp Costs:

FULL DAYS

Daily Cost: $70 +HST
Daily Family Discount: subsequent children of same family, $62 +HST

Weekly Cost: $350 +HST
Weekly Family Discount: subsequent children of same family, $310 +HST

Questions?

All sessions are conducted by Sifu Anne and Sifu Sarah, with the support of Leadership Team Members.

Please contact us: WKFA.camps@gmail.com

• Open to Junior & Adult Students.
• Track your progress in the spreadsheet provided by email!

Students will continue to be evaluated in class for eligibility to grade. If qualifying, a letter will be sent home with full details; please return your signed letter before grading day.

Need more guidance? See How to Understand your Kung-Fu Class Schedule, Program, and Rank >

Students will continue to be evaluated in class for eligibility to grade. If qualifying, a letter will be sent home with full details; please return your signed letter before grading day.

Need more guidance? See How to Understand your Kung-Fu Class Schedule, Program, and Rank >

Sigung’s Corner

by Sigung David Moylan
Fu For You Spring 2026

I was already complaining about shoveling in my last article (November). It’s February 23rd as I write this and the shoveling continues—but add in lion dancing and push-ups. Today, our team performed our fifth lion dance in support of the Year of the Fire Horse. We’ve taken on the February Push-Up Challenge, again setting an Academy goal of 100,000! My kids just counted out my 3,000th pushup of the month (although not near the mind-boggling tally of Alex, Lily and Owen who have already cleared 10,000!). I’ve spent parts of this winter skiing and biking through forests on top of the regular regime of weightlifting and teaching/training Kung Fu. All these strength and cardio-based pursuits start to take their toll; I find it essential to have a system of physical maintenance: Enter yoga.

For years, the culture of our style of Kung Fu was resistant to “softer” practices like yoga. Before Kung Fu, my teacher, Sigung Bob Schneider, came from a background of weightlifting and high cardio exercise, like running. Once he began his Kung Fu journey as an adult, Sigung stretched a lot more diligently and achieved a very inspiring degree of flexibility; he could touch the back wall with his foot in the front partner stretch!

His sister, Mary, was a well-loved yoga instructor in Waterloo. I was always curious as to whether any of her practices would influence our Kung Fu. Sigung was careful to keep the two disciplines separate, which was understandable at the time, given the culture of martial arts 20+ years ago.

In the years following, oddly enough, the world’s hardest martial artists were the catalysts for embracing the practice of yoga. At a mainstream sporting level, this millennium witnessed the rise of mixed martial arts.  As an important counterbalance to the intense wrestling and striking done by MMA athletes, they started training in yoga. In a way, it opened yoga to a larger and perhaps unexpected following.

I met Maureen, a local yoga instructor, over 12 years ago, as I taught her (now adult) children since Little Ninjas. We had occasional chats exploring the similarities between Kung Fu and yoga – mobility, core strength, proprioception. About eight years ago, acknowledging my need for a more concentrated form of stretching, I took a class with Maureen. I was amazed by how euphoric I felt! As something we could do together, my family and I started taking weekly classes with her and that energizing and grounding feeling continues after each class.

Yoga is a wonderful complement to the hard training I do. I’m meeting my initial goal of more flexibility training, but I’ve discovered many more benefits. I get sore less often and recover better from injuries. The focus on balance and breath work is invigorating and deepens my application for Kung Fu. We now proudly offer the option of taking yoga classes with Maureen at our Academy. If you or someone in your life might benefit from this practice—I’ll see you on the mats!

Editorial

by Sibok Lloyd Fridenburg
Fu For You Spring 2026

Sparring can be one of the most stressful elements of early Kung Fu training for children and adults alike. As kids, we may have had some schoolyard tussles but as adults, very few of us have ever been involved in a physical confrontation. The act of hitting someone else is completely unnatural and can, in the early stages of training, even be traumatizing for some. Most sparring skills can be taught through technique and drills. Footwork, punches, kicks, reaction time, evasion, blocking, identifying targets, positioning; these skills are inherent to sparring and can be taught, and mastered without sparring.

I regularly would put students in a basic stance and have a partner circle them and deliver various strikes, in a controlled manner. I would put students in a forward stance with arms up and have a partner deliver controlled roundhouse kicks to the abs. These drills teach how to get hit and how to breathe when you get hit, all in a very controlled manner. The person being struck can ask their partner to go harder, or not so hard. They are in control.

Enter sparring! I have often told students that the only thing that I can’t teach without sparring is how to get hit unexpectedly. When you are sparring you are face-to-face with a partner that not only doesn’t want to get hit but wants to hit you. There is an element of the unknown and unexpected introduced into your training. You think, move, strategize, react, and then boom, a kick comes out of nowhere and quickly reminds you that your partner is thinking and doing the same things. When you get hit, it is very often unexpected.

In time, thinking and strategizing disappear—sparring becomes effortless. You have reached the pinnacle of sparring when it becomes effortless effort; you act and react instinctively without thought or planning. This skill cannot be taught; it evolves by integrating sparring into your training on a regular basis. With practice, you learn to go with the flow in a non-thinking, mercurial manner.

Always spar with control and respect for your partner(s) but accept that getting hit unexpectedly is also part of the learning process. The ability to get hit and keep going often determines who will persevere in a true self-defense situation. Allowing your mind to be clear and act, without active thinking or planning, will give you the ability to switch from rules-based sparring to street style self-defense automatically, should the need arise.

So, is sparring really necessary? The answer is a definite YES! You can achieve a high degree of skill without ever sparring, but you will never reach the pinnacle of the Kung Fu experience without it.