Shun Shifu Weaver's blog

Wouldn't it be fantastic if Shou' Shu' was available everywhere. I mean it's just such an incredible art it's a shame it's unavailable in most places.

One of our missions is to make quality Shou' Shu' instruction available in as many places as possible and one of the ways we do that is popularizing Shou' Shu'

Right now our fitness at your desk application Break Pal has just been accepted into a major national competition put on by the First Lady Michelle Obama and the USDA.

The exercises in this application are Shou' Shu' based. So if the application wins it will receive a huge amount of national press and will be promoted by none other than the US government. So Shou' Shu' will get promoted right along with it.

Want to help? It will just take you about 1 minute. All you have to do is vote. You have to create an account at the site to vote but it's easy.

Here's the link to vote
http://www.appsforhealthykids.com/application-gallery/break-pal

after you've voted make sure to let us know by leaving a comment here

Aren't they cute little killers

Sorry everyone. We had a hosting issue that caused some problems

About three weeks ago I switched the site to a new fancy VPS (faster server)

Unfortunately there was a DNS (where the domain was actually pointing to) issue.

It seems that some people were seeing the old version of the site and some the new. When we got it straightened out we realized we had lost a lot of data.

So basically if you posted something, created an account, messaged somebody in the last three weeks there's a chance it got deleted.

Sorry about the issue. We just didn't catch it in time to save it completely.

However on the positive side, this site should run a whole lot faster now

Well with enough first degrees floating around here I guess it's time to start a Tiger group.
So here's the deal. We've got brown belts that need attention on Tuesdays too. You first degrees make sure the brown belts get some killer lessons and I'll make sure you get some great tiger lessons.

the brown belts start showing at 5:30 so anyone who can be here grab them and get them taught. Several are black preps and others close to it. Let's get a push on and get them to black belt. That way about the time your getting that tiger down you'll have someone to practice on. :-)

So what do you say. One pride of tigers coming up.

Announcing a new site from the ISSA http://www.shoushushifus.com

We'll be using this site to record our Shou Shu lineage. It's a work in progress and always will be.

Please help me out by letting me know who taught who (Especially Da' Shifu Clark). Just post a comment to this blog entry and I'll add the info to the site.

Same rules as the ISSA if a Shifu was tested under Da' Shifu Al Moore Sr. for his rank we respect that rank. All others will have to be certified under the ISSA.

The site is built in flash and will stay organized even with hundreds or thousands of entries.

Enjoy!

http://www.shoushushifus.com

Unfortunately I've had to change the new user sign up process. The spammers found us and the site has been hit with multiple spammers trying to post their junk.
So from here on out I will have to authorize all new user sign ups. I'll try to get to them as quickly as possible.

Ok so for days I've been wondering why in the heck we're getting so much traffic at www.shengchikungfu.com for the term "Kung Fu Bear"
We rank #1 in google for the term and have for a long time. But all of a sudden we're getting huge spikes in traffic on the term.

Well I finally figured it out. Evidently this bear in Japan has made quite a hit of himself.

Looks like Wu Shu to me though. Shou' Shu' staff doesn't spin much

Oh yeah, and some spammer stole all the content from my bear kung fu page and put it on their site. Makes me angry but I guess I should be used to it by now. Happens all the time.

We've got another big announcement coming soon. Stay tuned to this station
OOOOOOh the excitement

I think this is the coolest video ever. Just posted it to youtube.
I'm going to see if I can track down the original and maybe the missing pieces are available. I was pretty bummed it cut out early.

It's funny to think, I was probably in grade school when this was filmed.

I can name three people in this video. How many can you name?

Da' Shifu always talked about how camps really accelerated the learning process. Getting out and working Shou' Shu' with a group of like minded people with some intensity and duration works wonders.
Camps are great and we plan on seeing them in the near future. But you can get the benefits of camps without all the preparation. Introducing flash workouts.

With the power of the web we now have the power to communicate quickly. It's an amazing tool. We'd like to use it in an amazing way.

Flash workouts are informal training sessions that can be put on at anytime by instructors qualified by the ISSA. An instructor simply posts when and where, what will be covered, and what ranks are welcome to come. The instructor may suggest a donation to the ISSA if desired.

You see a workout you want to go to on the site. Just follow the instructions and go. How easy is that?

I've posted the first one. You can find it on the front page of the site. I tend to like to do mine out in the wilderness. Anyone who's attended my workout sessions knows I love to use whatever is out there for training tools. Rocks, trees, hills, whatever. It's fun. It gets you out in a real world environment and off of the perfectly flat floor of the studio. But that's just me. A flash workout can be done anywhere.

So I hope to see you there. And if you are an instructor who is interested in putting these on yourself contact me and we'll get the process moving.

SSW