Croydon & Crawley's Black Belt Kids Give Martial Arts Demo in London

3rd October 2009

It takes a fair share of courage to get up and perform on stage so to do it in London at Westminster Hall alongside the Wushu experts from China was a massive event and fantastic experience for Junior students at Crawley's Kung Fu School.

An early start, a mini-bus to London and three demonstrations during a busy day to the many spectators that included the Mayor of Lambeth, members of the Chinese Embassy, the Confucius Institute and London South Bank University.

The show started with traditional Chinese dancing, Lion Dancing and Wushu performers warming up the stage before the eleven Kung Fu students took to the stage. 

Starting with with a demonstration of traditional martial arts forms the children moved on to show a variety of self-defence techniques and pad work that makes up their normal grading curriculum. 

Defending punches, throwing techniques and rapid hand strikes were expertly demonstrated by the group of 8 - 12 year olds who did the school and their instructors very proud. 

A special thanks goes out to all the students for their enthusiastic performance, hard work in lessons and the parents who helped make this a special day for the children.

Well done and keep scrolling down for more photos....

Wing Chun pad work demonstration on stage.

Two students pay respect to members of the audience (left) while two Black Belt students demonstrate a throw (right)

Sitting in the front row of Westminster Hall and lining up at the end after numerous requests for photos!  Standing alongside the students are the Mayor of Lambet, members of the Chinese emabassy and the Confucius Institute based at London South Bank University.

Our Kung Fu students shared the stage with Wushu experts flown all the way from China to perform.

To promote Chinese Well Being week there were Chinese dancers demonstration a variety of traditional dances in costume.  Something that was great to watch and that we'd never seen before.

Croydon Kung Fu students on stage

Instructors and students of our Croydon Kung Fu School were also on hand to demonstrate Wing Chun kung fu.  Performing the Siu Nim Tau form and showing applications on pads and against partners, the Croyon Black Belt class did a great job.

On stage to perform the Siu Nim Tau form

Croydon Kung Fu SChools Instructor, Sifu Alan Paterson on stage to thank the audience and talk about Wing Chun Kung Fu and it's benefits to the health and well being for everyone.