CLOSINGS and SPECIAL EVENTS
Tien Shan Pai Legacy Tournament- June 6, 2021 at the Delta Hotel in Hunt Valley MD
Kuoshu International Championships- July 23-25, at the Delta Hotel in Hunt Valley MD
COVID -19 Update
County guidelines will permit fitness studios to operate at 50% capacity.
However, there is currently insufficient interest in returning to in-person training at the Dance Exchange. Hopefully we can look toward returning to classes at the DX in July. Please contact Paul at longmen987@gmail.com to say whether you feel ready to get back to class or not.
We continue to offer Zoom classes in form, theory, history, principles and in Qigong/ meditation. There are also students who come to Gaithersburg to do private outdoor or indoors instruction in or outside of the Clear Circle location. Contact Paul via email or phone (301-651-3617) to discuss options. Since warm weather is here outdoor classes have become more fun and popular so if you’d like to schedule your outdoor lesson do so quickly because available time slots are disappearing rapidly!
TIEN SHAN PAI LEGACY / KUOSHU CHAMPIONSHIPS TOURNAMENT
The Legacy event (June 6- register online), is one of only two currently known Kung Fu tournaments scheduled to take place in the area at this time. Paul Ramos will be judging there and is seeking competitors to participate in this event. It would be be a good warm up for the Kuoshu International Championships taking place at the same venue the July 23-25th weekend. Contact Paul if you’d like to compete or feel free to view the event as a spectator. Contact Paul at longmen987@gmail.com for all questions or concerns.
The Kuoshu Championships (July 23-25, 2021), this year will include Qualifying divisions for the World Championships which are to take place next year. Our own Terance Nicholson and Stephen Genus, are current World Champions in Xing-I Chuan and Bagua Zhang respectively and we’d like to keep those championships (as well as in Tai Chi), within the family. Empty hand and weapons divisions are included as qualifying events. Registration for the qualifyers and other divisions in July, is available online now. Those interested in competing this year should contact Paul so that we can clean details and progress skills so that we may be competitive with competitors from other schools.
Info on July event may be obtained at www.usksf.org while registration for the June 6 Legacy event is available at www. tienshanpai.org/ legacy-tournament.
QUOTES of the Month
A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn’t mean that they have to be consistent.
-James Calahan
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be oovercome.
- Samuel Johnson
