WHY MARTIAL ARTS FOR KIDS?
Traditional Kung Fu supports the healthy development of a child in a holistic way. In children's training, fighting or self-defence is not always the first priority. The child-oriented training in Kung Fu also teaches essential skills and abilities that serve the development of a healthy, honest and responsible person.
This includes a physical, psychological and social level:
- Concentration and stamina,
- Coordination and body control,
- Self-confidence and self-esteem,
- Fairness and peacefulness,
- Serenity and humor,
- Dscipline and mindfulness as well as appreciation and respect.
Cultivation of body and mind
As the name martial art suggests, the focus of the methods and objectives used in Kung Fu is not the realisation of a "sporting career". Rather, traditional Kung Fu is - in short - an ancient Chinese skill that has been handed down and proven for centuries to cultivate body and mind in the best possible way.
In traditional martial arts, learning to fight in the original way plays a prominent role. If this were not the case, one would probably have to speak of a traditional art of movement.
Therefore, the children learn in our classes how to defend themselves effectively against attacks and how to realistically assess the threat of a situation. There are natural, physical limits to children's ability to defend themselves, which are constantly expanded with increasing age through regular training.
Concentration and body control thereby enable an equally continuous growth in self-awareness and self-confidence in one's own abilities as well as judgement.
In the children's training we also attach great importance to teaching mindfulness and appreciation in order to ensure a responsible approach to what is learned.
The Kids Kung Fu Team
The children's training in Salzburg is led by Dennis Spies and his assistants.
Dennis is the son of Sifu Jau Chi Hang, the master of the Academy.
From the age of 5, he studied directly with his father, who taught him Hung Sing Choy Lay Fut and the world-renowned Hung Kuen Kung Fu of the Lau family. Dennis also received exclusive access to “Inner Circle” seminars and trainings with Grandmaster Lau Kar Jung.
Dennis has been assisting and teaching in his father's Kung Fu schools since his early youth. In the meantime, he has been independently and successfully running a branch of Fu Pau Kung Fu Schools Germany in Traunstein for several years and is preparing to take over all of his father's Kung Fu schools by studying martial arts intensively.
free trial training
To arrange a free trial training for your child at our Kung Fu Academy, please write to us via the contact form or call us on
+43 (0)681 / 81 81 86 90
Alternatively, you can simply drop by without obligation on one of the two training days for Kung Fu Kids (Mondays or Thursdays) at the Academy on Mirabellplatz during the class times listed below.