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REVIEWS FROM MINSK (Belarus)I have been practicing Hong-Gia for a year. The first class was very difficult for me. On the first class I could faint. Why? I tried to be like the others but I wasn’t ready. I would like to thank the coach (Bezrukavii Eugenie Vladimirovich) who explained me to do everything I could. He said: “Do what you can and as much as you can. Soon you will be able to do everything”. These words have become a rule for me. The process of my development has started. I am amazed by this school because of its democracy. I mean, if you can’t cope with the task nobody forces you. That’s fine! For example, what the use of asking a pupil to do 100 exercise if he can only do 20? You may damage pupil’s physical or mental health. Moreover, I like our group and the relations between pupils. Everyone is good and friendly. I recall the time when I was ill, so I didn’t attend our classes. I missed it greatly and looked forward to entering the gym without paying attention to my wife who didn’t aloud me attends classes because of my illness. And now some facts: In January 2004 my weight was 120 kg, growth – 180, pressure – 145/110. The size of my clothes was 56-58. I started practicing Hong-Gia in February 2004. I tried to do everything I was told to do by my coach. At the same time reduced the amount of daily meals. In June I weighted 90 kg, pressure – 120/80, clothes size – 52. Now I am satisfied with the results. I have become stronger and more flexible. Now I easily do 20 exercises but not 1-2 like it was at the very beginning. Thanks, the coach! 6.01.2005 My name is Eugenie. I have been studying the ballroom dances since 15. I am the master of sports in sports dances. I’ve got the higher education in choreography. I attend the school Hong-Gia led by Bezrukavii Eugenie Vladimirovich. I'd like to thank the coach. As my main kind of activity is sports dances, I noticed the speeding-up of my development in masterly performance in biomechanics, expressiveness and energy of sporting dances – mainly after practicing Hong-Gia. I think that Hong-Gia and sporting dances have common essence. Best regards, Eugenie Maiorov. 24.01.2005 My name is Ugnevyonok Andrey. I go to school. I like kung fu very much. Before I held kung fu to be just a sort of fighting, but then I discovered a completely different side of this beautiful martial art. Especially I’m fond of doing Chi kong exercises. After completing Chi kong, I feel some kind of chill in my arms, in the backbone and sometimes on my head. Our trainings are over at 22.00 and usually as I come home I feel sleepy, but if trainings have included Chi kong exercises, I feel myself full of strength and go to bed hardly at 00.00 and even later. I feel burst of energy, I want to move and work. My sensations are similar in some way to ones after Noi kong exercises, but Chi kong sensations are much stronger. Apart Chi kong rehabilitate muscles and state of body after hard physical trainings in an amazing way. Tiredness disappears and I don’t feel muscular pain any more. I just wanted to share my impressions with those, who don’t know about kung fu. 10.01.2005 I have started with my trainings since 2000, and I came to the first work-out just to satisfy my interests. I was always fond of movies with Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, and suddenly an enigmatic kung fu appeared in our school… Since my first work-out I have really fallen in love for kung fu. Trainings have given and give now not just a feeling setting free from the ties of the everyday life, but an additional energy as well. After work-outs one feels the mind more clear and fresh, and the flatness of the body and thoughts is away, as if it wasn’t there. By dwelling in the good mood and feelings of self-satisfaction all chills and flues are going away. And by looking into the mirror, one notices that regular trainings have come to the good both for the physical background and for the shape as well. Eugenia P.S. I’m 18 now and I’m not going to give up kung fu. 4.02.2005 My name is Nastya and I’m engaged in kung fu just for a year and a half, but during this time many things in my life have turned for the better, and I believe it has happened because of kung fu. When I came to the first work-out, I even didn’t know, what it was – kung fu. I even didn’t know what has attracted me, I just liked it. But what surprised me most of all, what I even didn’t expected, my health has become better. According my diagnosis doctors have forbidden me to be engaged in many activities, saying nothing of the gym lessons, at best groups of medical physical culture. The most serious thing, what I was concerned about, was my gastritis, which has transformed later into the erosive one (about 10 erosions on a basis of many tests). Doctors, hospitals, pills, another survey in a half-year, as result 30 erosions. About that time I came to the kung fu school under direction of Bezrukavy E.V. I couldn’t understand why, but my body has refused flatly to take any pills, procedures and diets. I has eaten everything I wanted. And the last survey didn’t registered any erosions. My second problem was the reflux of the bladder in a third degree. When I was a child, I was proposed an operation, but my mother refused. Since the time I’ve started my kung-fu work-outs, I’ve felt sensible changes for the better, and this summer surveys have revealed the absence of this disease. What else? I was diagnosed to have a scoliosis, but after half-year of my trainings this disease was away as well. As I’ve said already, at the work-outs, I hadn’t waited for anything, I had just done what our teacher had told us, furthermore, I had liked it, it hadn’t been too difficult and it hadn’t demanded any physical background, but my feelings of the exercises and trainings had been amazing. I had been nearly flying, and what is more, I had got an enormous improving effect, which had surprised my relatives and doctors. 07.07.05. Hello, my name is Ivanova Ekaterina. I couldn’t even imagine before, that I would be engaged in kung fu trainings. I haven’t put before physical culture at the first place and it has been told significantly on my figure. And as it comes, I didn’t like myself any more. As a result I have charged myself physically, have lost weight, but as I took troubles too close, my kilos came back. By accident I got to know from my friends about kung-fu, I decided to look what will get out. Practically after some work-outs my appetite has taken off, I have started to lose weight, what is more I haven’t restricted myself to any diet, and these exercises, I was making, they didn’t look like conventional reducing exercises. The most interesting thing is that, when I have started with kung fu, I haven’t concerned any more about my weight, I took a fancy of these trainings, so that this school has become a part of my life and now I can’t imagine my life without it. In April 2005 I came to school, and in September proving myself on the balance, I stated, that I had lost 20 kilos. And here goes a confirmation (just look at my photo). My way My name is Kiril Lapshin. From little up I adored as many boys of my age watching movies with Bruce Lee and Jacky Chan, stories about Shaolin monks, Chinese legends about martial arts. "Khon Gil Don" I watched about 8-9 times. But there was always something, what prevented me from joining any school of martial arts. Possibly I was too fancy of other children’s activities. On the other hand, taking in account my susceptibility in the childhood to chills, bronchitis and inflammations, I was quickly in leaving first dancing groups, then football, hand-to-hand fighting sections and even body-building for adolescents. However, in 1994, when I was about 14, I came by lucky chance with some my classmates in the Kung Fu school “Hong-Gia” under the direction of Eugene Bezrukavy. It was a very hard Kung Fu style, oriented on strength and endurance. 100 times - push up, 100 times – press, 100 times - squats, stretching, bending back, strengthing of hands and legs, sport complexes – for speed training, complexes of internal energy – for power training. Practically until 1998 I’d been engaged seriously in these trainings. For this time I really grew stronger and as it seemed to me I mastered nuts and bolts of the Hong-Gia art. 1997-98 I was taking part at Minsk championship in Wushu, ranking first, second and third in different sections. Clear, it couldn’t go without injuries. But I forgot about pneumonia. Once a half-year I’ve got a sprain of ankle- or knee-ligaments (though during trainings only once or twice, the rest – in some outdoor activities, like football or basketball). So, four years are over. And as it usually goes, at 3-5th years of trainings pupils face with some kind of crisis. Many of them are leaving, you and maybe some senior pupils continue to work. But then the time comes when you feel you are cute enough and you can perfect yourself in kung-fu and even teach. But it is a wrong feeling. It is just the first bar you should to let down. Besides it seems to you that something lacks, lacks for information, that master doesn’t give you enough attention. And that is the very cause, which moves you to leave the school. But it is another mistake. The teaching can assume different forms: you aren’t always being taught, but you constantly have to learn. Coach-mentor keeps an eye on you, your progress and mistakes, and he’ll propose you the new technique as soon as you will be ready for it. But despite of my present views, I left then this school. About a year I’ve been trained by other teacher (Hong-Gia as well), and have got two ligamentous injuries, this as a result became the last straw for me. Physical activities below the belt were unbearable for me. Then I had to choose. Two long years I have been forgotten those things I fanatically had worked through and perfected every day before. But there were some moments (days, weeks), when I went out to the stadium or just stayed at home and made some exercises or complexes which brought me physical and moral pleasure. But it lasted not so long, till first uncomfortable feelings, or plainly said – pain came back. At the 4 th year of my studies I met by a fluke my old friend, who kept studying by Bezrukavy E.V. So, he told me, that it was then a totally different kung-fu school, based on other principals. “Inside school” of kung-fu, combining of the hard (Noi) and soft (Chi). Its aim was to achieve speed and strength by minimal physical costs, to learn generate and direct energy of the own body (Chi), to explore tendons instead of muscles, to discover latent possibilities of the own organism. So, I came to my former teacher expecting of him some kind of advice. (“Maybe, he would propose me an individual way of training”, thought I.) It was a surprise, but I was accepted pretty well, even better than well, I was anew accepted in this school (as it turned out, I wasn’t the only one “prodigal son”). Despite of my experience of kung-fu, in the summer 2002 I realized me as a beginner and entered upon elements of this martial art, but now as a kung-fu Hong-Gia La Phu Son. I needed less than two years to pass an examination for blue belt. Actually main goals don’t imply getting of the next one string but it has a stimulating effect as well. Sometimes my friends and fellows ask me: “Why are you taking exercises?” or “Are you still taking exercises? But why?” And I can’t answer at once. Just because over the time I have learned kung-fu (almost 10 years), it has become for me as natural as eating or sleeping. Wherever I am, I practice kung-fu everyday. Kung-fu is a book, and its letters are these exercises, forms, which you read every day and every day you discover something new, useful for yourself, and sometimes you discover incredible things, which you haven’t understand before. Every work-out I look toward new information from my teacher or from myself. For example, by multiple practicing of some exercises, you understand its gist, by hearing your own body, you find the right position for hands, legs, body, start to feel the motion of energy. That is the very growth, development, progress in mastery. And this progress comes out not only in kung-fu but in some other areas of my life (job, study, family and so on). Especially you feel the absence of vital tone, of advanced efficiency, when you stop to go to trainings for any reasons (long-term business trip, lack of money). It seems sometimes that because of other troubles you don’t have enough time even for training. But as soon as you include it into your schedule, it harmonically complements and accomplishes your life, becomes its integral part. Sometimes I’m being asked: “Are you practicing kung-fu to stay healthy?” Concerning about own health is a cruel disease. Sure, I don’t forget about it, because I have to be fit on the Way I had chosen. “The martial art, as other arts, starts with a U-chi-condition, when Chi hasn’t still divided, when the thought hasn’t appeared yet, and there aren’t any forms or images. The martial art ends with the same condition, but Chi is anew brought together. The thought doesn’t appear already, and forms as images exist any more. The inner qualities, which are needed, to make this Way through, are in effect the aim of this Way”. 31.01.2005
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