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, martial artist friendly exchanges and meetups and more.
And as you may have guessed, for a variety of celebratory gatherings.
Since joining, and later taking over, PATHS Atlanta Kung Fu, Sifu Kiessling has continued the Demonstrations tradition.
Check out Video Time Machine! Back to CNY 2013.
Having fellow Kung Fu teacher friends, we were invited to join in CNY (Chinese New Year) celebrations at schools, by showcasing bits of our Kung Fu, via Demonstrations.
More often than not, these demonstrations consisted of Sifu giving a short explanatory speech, showing a Northern Shaolin Kung Fu form or two, and with the aid of a student, showing a few martial applications from those forms. This format is easy, needs no practice nor set up, however it’s not all that special.
And then we started getting more and more invitations for a variety of events. It quickly became obvious that our current format would have to change, become more organized and that we’d need to have some strategies and choreography.
So Sifu got together with some of the senior students and they came up the Demo Team concept, as a way of meeting some of our Goals.