Fu For You – Summer 2025
Editor: Sibok Lloyd Fridenburg
Produced by Waterloo Kung-Fu Academy
Print Version: Fu For You – Summer 2025 PDF

A Busy and Productive Spring Season
Although the feeling is perennial, this Spring was truly one of the busiest and most positive!

Embrace Cross-Training
Whether it’s lifting weights, practicing yoga, swimming, or even dancing. Exploring other disciplines will not take you away from Kung Fu, it will bring Kung Fu even closer.

5 Important Kung Fu Rules to Remember
In Kung Fu, we learn to be strong, focused, and respectful, but this also applies to how we take care of ourselves and others. Good hygiene helps keep everyone safe, healthy, and comfortable during training. Here are five important rules to follow.

It’s Summertime, Relax! But Not Really.
Giving your brain a break after nine months of learning is important for your mental growth and development. But relaxing doesn’t have to mean being unproductive, and summer is the perfect time to build new skills.

Alternate Training Strategies Enhance Kung Fu
Cross-training is a great way to improve your overall fitness and really allows you to target elements that may be missing from your Kung Fu training.

What Are We Teaching Your Child?
You might have had a specific reason for signing your child up for Kung Fu such as for exercise or to learn how to defend themselves. Perhaps it was your child’s idea to join. Whatever the reason, Kung Fu is so much more than kicking and punching.

Love Is Better Than Anger
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” ~Jack Layton