Kung Fu San Soo Irvine is centrally located in Orange County, where the 55 fwy meets the 405 fwy in Irvine, CA .  The content we will cover in these sessions will include self defense strategies and the opportunity to learn the complete Kung Fu San Soo system.

Students learn the concepts of balance and proper use of the body in relationship with our many natural ranges of motion. Increased flexibility, coordination and circulation are also some of the health benefits. The most important aspect of this training will be the increased confidence the student will gain through learning how easy it can be to effectively defend yourself when presented with a potentially dangerous situation. This art was designed with the idea of "real life" situations where an aggressor is assaulting you or a loved one. Therefore, its movements are very practical and easily applied by any person ranging from the very petite to someone of much larger size. 

We study forms with hands and weapons, attack (Fut'Ga) and defense (Dap'Ga) lessons.  We occasionally take time to go through sets in the proper use of the staff and police baton, as well as defense against various knife attacks.  Usually I will show one or two lessens out of the San Soo books, looking at several options for the use of different levels of force desired.  From combinations of strikes, to a leverage, throw or a simple takedown.  In the execution of each lesson I stress the importance of contact on specific target points and accuracy in every strike.   Each night we use a different base lesson, (basing it out) into many options, which relate to the specific pattern of motion being used.    Typically we spend three to four months working on a form.  One or two weapons of choice are taught after perfecting the hand form.

This is an ongoing curriculum and includes over twenty years of information. If you continue, you will not see many repeated lessons for many years to come. In this way, one never has to stop growing within the art. There is always something new being presented.

Safety has and will always be most important in my class.  We all have families and jobs to go home to after a workout.  Besides, the idea is to injure our opponent and to preserve our own lives. 

Classes are open to the general public. I would encourage anyone who is interested to visit us during a scheduled class time. Classes are held upstairs through the double doors.

This school is for you whether you wish to gain confidence through self-defense training, or to explore the many areas of this unique traditional martial art we call San Soo.