Throughout his martial arts career, Sifu Kiessling has given many Kung Fu demonstrations, by himself, with his Sifu, with his fellow students, with his students.
He’s given them at a variety of locations: local public and private high schools and colleges, for various news media, tournaments, local community fundraising events, martial art school openings, friendly exchanges with fellow martial artists, meetups, and more.
And as you may have guessed, for a variety of celebratory gatherings.
During his time with PATHS Atlanta Kung Fu, Sifu Kiessling has continued the Demonstrations tradition.
Check out Video Time Machine! Back to CNY 2013.
Friends who were also Kung Fu teachers invited us to join in CNY (Chinese New Year) celebrations at schools, by showcasing bits of our Kung Fu, via Demonstrations.
These demonstrations would consist of Sifu giving a short explanatory speech and demonstrating a form or two. And with the aid of a student, we would then show a few martial applications from those forms. This format is simple, as it needs no practice nor set up. However, it’s not all that special.
And then we started getting more and more invitations for many events. It was clear that our current format would have to adapt to become more organized and that we’d need to have some strategies and choreography.
Sifu met with the senior students and, together, they created a new Demo Team concept