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Testing
There are 9 Levels of Rank. Testing is approximately every 3-6 months.

Testing is at the sole discretion of Sifu Lyn. Sash levels are:
Yellow, Orange, Purple, Green, Blue, Brown, Red, Black.

Testing Fees - $75.

Benefits
• For men, women and children, regardless of age.
• Take advantage of a proven, centuries-old self-improvement system.
• Be taught by one of the worlds most respected trainers.
• Become stronger, safer and healthier.
• Pursue a program of self-defense, health, or both.
• Learn internal inner-peace arts, external fighting skills, or both.
• Meet people who share your interests and objectives.
• Help design your own individual training program.
• Develop the ability to deal with emotional stress.
• Achieve self-discipline and self-confidence.
• Attend seminars in martial art history and entertainment.
• Lose weight and improve your posture.
• Train in private or semi-private lessons.

Rules
1. Kung Fu is for self-defense only.
2. Bow upon entering and leaving premises.
3. Bow at the beginning and end of class.
4. Always remove street shoes upon entering Lyn Academy.
5. Uniform must be worn at all times when training.
6. Have faith in your style of martial arts.
7. Respect your chosen master, who has sincerely accepted you as his student.
8. Concentrate during training.
9. Cultivate patience during training.
10. Practise to the best of your ability.
11. Acquire confidence in yourself through the art.
12. Always respect your fellow classmates.

The Gung Fu Greeting System
In the Chinese martial arts society, the title or ranking system follows the traditional family system. Classification of a students level is not based on their skill or actual age. It is decided by who joins the school first. In other words, when you are born into the family. For example, your teacher (male or female) is your father within the system. You should greet him/her as "Si-Fu" (meaning teaching father) to show respect. Your older brother, regardless of age or skill level, would be addressed as "Si-Hing" to show respect. Just as within your own family, there are those whom call Uncle, Grandfather, Mother, Aunt, Brother, etc; you address them by these titles to show your respect for them and to show you recognize your place within the family. You may have more than one Si-Fu if you have learned, or are learning, more than one art. In each family lineage you will have one Si-Fu.

In your own family, your father will remain your father for the rest of your life. Even if you go to live with your grandfather or great grand father, you wouldn't start calling him father. The same is true in the Chinese martial arts title system. Your Si-Fu is forever your Si-Fu in the same family line. Even if you go to your Si-Gung (teaching grandfather) to learn, you must still address him as Si-Gung to show him respect and to show that you recognize your place within the system. An exception is if your Si-Fu is no longer active in the martial world, has passed away, or has left the family for any reason. Then you may call your Si-Gung as Si-Fu. It is perfectly acceptable to learn from different members of the Gung Fu family system, your Si-Gung or Si-Bak for example. But in order to remain respectful and to retain proper lineage, your original place within the system does not change.

The only exception to this rule would be if your Si-Fu kicks you out of his school, cutting you off from the family and you decide to go to a different martial system or to a different lineage of the same system to learn. In effect being reborn into another family. Then you would have a new Si-Fu. But if you leave your original Si-Fu for whatever reason, and go to another school that is within the same family lineage, you still retain your original place within the family. For example, if your father kicks you out of his house and you go to live with your uncle, you wouldn't start calling your uncle, father.

A student should think of himself as a small branch of a tree. The bigger branch that you're connected to is your Si-Fu. The branch above that is your Si-Gung, and so forth, until you reach the trunk of the tree which represents the founder of the system. If you try to remove your small branch from where it is growing and stick it into the tree in a different place, it will stop growing. But if you leave it where it is, it will grow and flourish, and develop small branches of its own.

The following are some terms that explain the Chinese Gung Fu title system
Si-Jou
An ancestor within the system (deceased)
Si Tai Gung
Your teacher's teacher's teacher, as your great grandfather
Si-Gung
Your teacher's teacher, as your grandfather
Si-Bak
Your teacher's Si-Hing, as your uncle
Si-Sook
Your teacher's Si-Dai, as your uncle
Si-Fu
Your teacher (male or female), as your father
Si-Mo
Your teacher's wife, as your mother
Si-Hing
A male classmate who joined the school before you, as your older brother
Si-Je
A female classmate who joined the school before you, as your older sister
Si-Dai
A male classmate who joined the school after you, as your younger brother
Si-Mui
A female classmate who joined the school after you, as your younger sister


Additional Important Information
All students should have a clearly defined understanding of Kung-Fu training.
The following are the 7 requirements for becoming a proficient practitioner of a Martial Art:

1. Have faith in your style of Martial Arts. Without a steady belief in your system, interest will diminish and mastery will not be achieved.

2. Respect your chosen master, who has sincerely accepted you as his student. Recognize his knowledge and ability as being most worthy of emulation.

3. Concentrate during training. A strong discipline will result along with a more rapid mastery of the Art. A close mental concentration will intensify physical strength.

4. Cultivate patience during training. Your goal will be reached in good time with proper application. A calm endurance and self possession will also aid in the resistance of any potential provocation.

5. Practice Co-Ordination during training. The ability to move with a more harmonious and instantaneous adjustment to any situation will provide a more immediate mastery of the art.

6. Practice as much as possible, not only in the training hall but at home. Every hour of practice will deepen and solidify your basic foundation to prepare for a higher level of training consistent practical performance or application of knowledge leads to certain proficiency.

7. Acquire confidence in yourself through your art. This state of mind implies a cool self-reliance under any circumstances. It offers the assurance of poise and imperturbability in the face of any danger.


1. Stances
• Horse (front/siding/riding)
• Bow (fighting/neutral)
• Bow and Arrow
• Scissors (cross behind/over/twist)
• Leaning Back
• Crane, stork and unicorn
• Cat and T stance
• Low Horse and Frog

2. Closed Fist Strikes
• Reverse punch (front two knuckles)
• Vertical/Sun
• Back-fist (angular/circular)
• Hammerfist (downward/inward/reverse/circular)
• Uppercuts (single/double) hook, overhand, shovel

3. Open Hand Strikes
• Spear-hand poke/thrusting fingers
• Palm Heel
• Back Palm
• Knife-Hand (inward/reverse/downward)
• Spade-hand

4. Animal Strikes
• Tiger (raking/straight, double/mouth)
• Leopard (vertical/horizontal)
• Dragon whip (rising/overhand), double, twin
• Snake - fist
• Crane - wrist/beak

5. Elbow Strikes
• Side,round,hook,rising,downward
• Reverse (low/high), spinning

6. Kicks
• Front snap, front ball/heel, butterfly
• Back Thrust (rear/lead)
• Side Thrust (lead/rear/slide/shuffle)
• Roundhouse, hook, leg sweeps
• Crescent (inward/outward)
• Jumping front snap or ball (rear)
• Spinning side thrust, wheel, crescent
• Jart, scoop, axe
• Jumping, flying side-kick

7. Knee Strikes
• Rising, front
• Round, lunging, jumping

8. Six Steps of a Technique
1. Initial Movement: To surprise and break the rhythm or offset the opponents timing. Having no fixed position. Simplicity.
2. Combination: Hand or foot attacks.
3. Immobilization: Jamming, trapping, misbalancing the opponent.
4. Disabling: Tearing, dislocation,breaking. Applying joint locks (Chin Na).
5. Take-down: Sweeping, throwing, reaping.
6. Ground Fighting Principals: Chin Na, Jiu Jitsu, Wrestling.


Wing Chun Glossary of Terms
Mun Sau - Asking hand, initial motion used to set up a second motion.
Sai Boang Sau - Low level "wing arm" deflection.
Tan Sau - Palm up outward/forward block with inside of hand; first family of blocks.
Jut Sau - Pressing block, jerking hand.
Loy Jut Sau - Inside jerking hand, inward/downward snapping wrist block.
Jun Sau or Jau Sau - Running hand.
Fook Sau - Block using middle of hand; third family of blocks.
Woo Sau - Protective hand, guarding hand.
Pock Sau - Outward/forward slap block.
Boang Sau - Wing arm 135 degree elbow up deflection; second family of blocks.
Gahng Sau - Low outward/forward sweeping block.
Chee Sau - Sticking Hands.
Lop Sau - Grabbing hand, controlling hand.
Leen Lop Sau - Cross grab.
Biu Sau - Palm down, forward/thrusting hand.
Lai Sau - Double grab/pull.
Biu Joang Sau - Thumb up thrusting hand. High line conversion of Tan Sau.
Fon Sau - To turn hands over, trapping hands.
Gwot Sau - Carrying the opponent's from one line to another past center.
Kum La Sau - Joint locking, grabbing or seizing techniques.
Biu Jee - Thrusting fingers, loose spearhand poke.
Choong Kuen - Straight punch.
Chen Kuen - Straight punch executed while retracting opposite hand.
Duen Kuen - Short Punch.
Chau Kuen - Drilling punch, palm up.
Chuo Kuen - Hammer Fist.
Chahng Jyeung - Vertical palm strike.
Joong Seen - The centerline.
Woon Ging - Wrist snap.
Aahn Ging - Elastic energy.
Jut Ging - Jerk or shock power.
Ging - Energy of motion.
Bock Gai Bock Jeet - For every attack there is a counteraction.
Geen Ying Da Ying - See a movement, react towards it; react to a fake as it were real.


Kung Fu Review
Kung Fu, which means hard work, originated in China between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago. It is the oldest Martial Art. In ancient China it was considered one of the five arts that an educated person was supposed to master. The other four are: medicine, painting, poetry (philosophy) and calligraphy (brush writing). The two major branches are Northern and Southern. Northern styles developed in open, rural areas, while the Southern styles, Ling Gar* among them, evolved in more closed in, urban locales. The Northern styles are characterized by the use of high kicks, leg sweeps, and acrobatic movements and are often referred to as "long fist". The Southern styles, also called "Southern Shaolin, feature "in close" techniques, low stances and are about 70% hand techniques to 30% legs. Both schools incorporated animal movements from the very beginning. Traditionally there are five Southern animals: Tiger Leopard, Dragon, Snake and Crane. Each of the five animals has characteristics that are very important to understand.

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