Liability Waiver

Front Range Kung Fu

INTRODUCTION

Ving Tsun Kung Fu is a martial art and a contact sport. Martial art training involves physical blows, strikes, kicks, and other bodily contacts and, as a result, can be a hazardous activity from which an injury is a possibility. In order to appreciate the risk of potential injury, please read this document carefully. Please take as much time as you require to read and to consider the contents. The Front Range Kung Fu School has never had a student seriously injured and does not anticipate such an injury will occur. There are however, inherent risks associated with martial arts training that the school wants you to recognize and appreciate. After you finish reading this document, please sign it to acknowledge that you recognize the risk of training Ving Tsun Kung Fu and that you agree to participate in the training in the face of such danger.

PHYSICAL CONTACT

Ving Tsun Kung Fu is a martial art and a contact sport. Physical blows, strikes, kicks, and other bodily contacts are inherent in the study and training of Ving Tsun Kung Fu. As a Ving Tsun student, your first lessons will include the following drills: pak sao (slap block), pak dar (slap block and counter punch), lap sao (forearm punch and block), don chi sao (one-arm block punch), toi ma (pushing stance), chi sao (continuous blocking and punching), flex kicking, and the sao bow (punching sand bag). Each of these drills involves physical contact. The physical contacts include strikes to the forearms, chest, chin, face, hands, legs, and shins; and occasionally, strikes may be directed at any and all other parts of the body. Although physical strikes and other bodily contacts present certain dangers which may result in injury, Ving Tsun Kung Fu employs such strikes and bodily contacts as part of its training regime in order to teach and train a student in the martial arts. Accordingly, the strikes and other bodily contacts, while powerful, are not a deliberate attempt to injure a student.

TRAINING FACILITY

Ving Tsun Kung Fu is currently taught via Zoom during the winter months. The rest of the year we meet in person in Lafayette, CO at a private residence. (Students may avail themselves to training at one or more of the Moy Yat/ Moy Tung Ving Tsun Kung Fu schools located throughout the United States; the notification provided in this document applies equally to those facilities.) Ving Tsun Kung Fu does not cover the floors and walls with mats or other padding during training.

Part of the traditional Ving Tsun Kung Fu training and the instruction in this School includes physical strikes and other bodily contacts (describes in the “Physical Contact”), which may result in a student falling into, landing on, or being pushed into the floor, walls, other students, and or other objects or surfaces in or near the School which may result in physical injury.

TRAINING

Traditionally, a Ving Tsun Kung Fu student will train in the context of a series of exercises (2-man drills) with his Sitaigung (Great grand teacher), Sigung (grand teacher), Sifu (teacher), Senior Sihings (senior instructors), Sihings (older students), and Sidai (younger students), as well as visiting students from other Moy Yat/ Moy Tung Ving Tsun Kung Fu schools. The 2-man drills are physical workouts conducted at close range. Each 2-man drill involves physical contact. During any given class, students of all skills will train with each other. A student’s training is overseen by his Sifu as well as other Sihings present in the School during class hours.

CONCLUSION

This document is an attempt by Front Range Kung Fu School to present to a potential student (1) the existence of potential dangers and risks of training Ving Tsun Kung Fu, and (2) the possibility of an injury resulting from such dangers. By participating in Ving Tsun Kung Fu training, you deliberately expose yourself to the potential of injury as a result of such danger arising from a training a martial art and contact sport; moreover, you realize and appreciate the possibility of injury as a result of such danger.

Talk to your doctor before beginning any physical activity and let your sifu know of any injuries or limitations you may have.