EOI - Week-long martial arts training camp

[Spock]

Here is a rare opportunity to attend a Gashuku (a traditional week-long martial arts training camp). This would suit martial artists of all styles and grades (beginners welcome) or anyone wanting a physical, mental and emotional challenge. In particular I think it could be of interest to those PSBers who attended the Fight Club days last year.

The concept behind the camp is explained in the blurb below:

In order to develop the inner strength so prized by martial artists it is
important that the serious student seek out new experiences and challenges
that cannot be provided during normal weekly martial arts classes.

Gashuku not only exposes the student to concentrated training and covers
material that cannot be adequately addressed during the usual weekly
trainings but goes one step further, and provides the student with a unique
opportunity to 'get away from it all', experience new challenges and learn
invaluable survival skills in a wilderness environment.

There will be 8 hours of training every day beginning each day at dawn with Tai Chi and Chi
Kung, and finishing with an afternoon yoga session - with lots of training
in kicking, punching, striking, grappling, locks, holds, projections,
immobilizations, falls, rolls and weapons training - in between.

Time will also be set aside for martial arts related discussion and also for participants to
learn and practise practical bush survival skills - skills everyone should have.

Participants will take part in an overnight survival hike in the mountains
to give them a chance to test the survival skills that they will be taught
during the gashuku.

The intensive and concentrated nature of the training in combination with
the wilderness setting and the unpredictability of nature means that
participating students will be emotionally, physically and mentally
challenged by the Gashuku experience.

The 2008 Academy of Traditional Fighting Arts Gashuku will be held in the rugged and spectacular Stirling Range
National Park - camping at the Stirling Range Retreat from Monday 14 April
2008 - to Saturday 19 April 2008.

For more information and please contact the Academy of Traditional Fighting
Arts, www.traditionalfightingarts.com , Tel. 9370 2913

[Ben S]

hmmm.

Whats that number to report a terrorist act.

[Dubs]

I have just been researching a week at a thai boxing/MMA camp in Phuket.

I think these sort of focus sessions away from other distractions can be very helpful

Dubs

[XSorXpire]

So um what is the cost?
The web site has not been updated for a while.

[Spock]

So um what is the cost?
The web site has not been updated for a while.

Cost if payment/$50 deposit* made before or on:

13 March 2008 / Last minute

STUDENTS/UNEMPLOYED: $459.00 / $529.00

ADULTS: $503.00 / $553.00


What is included in the cost?
Food, camping fees, entry fees to National Parks, all meals, all group equipment (eg. cooking essentials, first aid kits), tuition and entertainment.

What’s not included?
Transport to and from the Stirling Ranges, your tent and personal kit.

[XSorXpire]

Thank you.
Will check roster.

[XSorXpire]

Can i bring my friend?
He wants to be a crime fighter.