Chi Wai Family Martial Arts Centre

8.6 / 10

opens at 16:00 today (in 39 min)

Martial arts school Gym Sport facility

Helping children and adults face their fears by achieving goals. Empowering mindset to help everyone build self confidence and self control. Making sure our community is safe by learning practical self defence skills. My name is Master Sifu Lee Kent and I run the Chi Wai Martial Arts & Fitness Centre in Cheltenham. I began my training back in 1984 when I starting my self defence journey in Boxing due to constant bullying that I was suffering in and around school. Read more Bullying I know firsthand is a saddening, self esteem crushing experience. It made me doubt myself, my self confidence dropped and I began to draw within myself. The boxing training helped me to find myself again, learning that I do matter and I can succeed in my goals. We were expected to enter the ring so without any choice I went in. Nervous would be an understatement. Terrified would be more of an accurate description. I wish I could say I won the bout and everything was fixed, but it wasn’t that simple. I didn’t win but my confidence grew, just that little bit each time. After a time in boxing and a total of 16 or so bouts I found myself much more confident and outgoing but not 100%. Then in January 1987 I was watching a movie on the TV... Enter the Dragon staring the legendary Bruce Lee. This captured my imagination and I quickly began to look for a Martial Arts School. I came across a local school teaching Martial Arts and joined. Back then the schools mainly consisted of young, fit guys with the odd female and older person training along side. This was a little daunting but I managed to find the courage to join in. After a short period of time I began to relax and enjoy the training. I was lucky and managed to find a welcoming club and this helped me relax quickly and progress with my training. I have continued with my Martial Arts training ever since. I found myself leaning towards the self defence element of Martial Arts instead of the sports side. I found it suited me and the direction I wished my training to go in. Being able to defend myself in today’s violent society, having the self respect to keep working hard and trying my best are values learned through Martial Arts and are what is instilled in my students today. Now I have been training in Martial Arts for 3 decades and have been developing my own system over the past 20 years known as Chi Wai Kung Fu (Self Defence Combative Skills). Training has been hard work with lots of ups and downs Update description

Address:

Unit T1, Kingsville Road, Kingsditch Trading Estate
Cheltenham

Telephone:

+447863339980

Web site:

chiwai.co.uk ⇒

Opening hours:

Monday: 16:00-21:00

Tuesday: 16:00-21:00

Wednesday: 16:00-21:00

Thursday: 16:00-21:00

Friday: 16:00-21:00

Saturday: 08:00-14:00

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Reviews Updates (4)

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2016-01-15

I started my daughter up here about 3 months ago now and she loves it.. a friendly happy environment that teaches everything I wanted my daughter to...

2017-11-03

Love this place my son has grown in confidence in only 4 month's ! It's like a big family! Everyone is friendly happy and helpful. Sifu is amazing!...

2017-10-30

My son loves this place. He has gained confidence and I couldn't be happier with the change in my son.

2017-07-27

Great atmosphere. I do a Filipino system called Eskrima. You have great teaching and mentoring, in a friendly but there to train environment. The...

2017-03-26

My kids has been a member of this academy for almost 8 years now. Highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn self defence .

2016-10-28

My son is now half way to his black belt . I wanted my son to join to expand his circle of friends in a positive way & being a single parent I wanted...

2016-04-19

my son spends time on trying to train ate home

2016-01-22

Brilliant club my two boys absolutely love it :-) can't recommend it enough.

2016-01-15

Friendly welcoming and a all-round fantastic place to take you child or yourself.

2016-01-15

My son spent 6 years with this club and I can't recommend it enough! I was always made to feel extremely welcome. My son has grown in to a very...

2015-10-24

My son genuinely looks forward to going to his tiny tigers class, and is really proud of his uniform and being part of the club, he has always been...

2015-10-19

Chi Wai Martial Arts & Fitness Centre has a great atmosphere of togetherness from the youngest to the oldest mixing and chatting encouragingly to each...

2015-10-18

I have been practicing chi wai for 7 years. I have seen children and adults blossom in confidence and skills. The disciplined environment is tempered...

2015-10-17

Fabulous academy, very welcoming and inclusive. The club and their teaching have been the making of our son

2015-10-17

Wonderful place to learn and a fantastic club to be part of. Friendly and professional staff and they are happy to adapt parts of the learning should...

2015-10-17

The academy is fantastic. It is the best thing I have done for my little boy. The instructors are friendly and easy to learn from and Marley always...

2015-10-17

Both of my children and I have been a part of the Chi Wai family for over 5 years now. My son has achieved Junior Black Belt, I have achieved Red Belt...

2015-10-17

Chi Wai is a great academy. My daughter has attended for over two years now and my son started this weekend, he was very shy and they were really...

2015-10-17

Such a happy environment and Sifu makes the class fun but children learn respect and discipline. It has helped my son gain confidence and meet new...

2015-07-30

Here we are enjoying a very warm evening at chi wai chatting to Lisa and Bethany on reception whilst the girls are doing chi wai and loving every...

Updates from Chi Wai Family Martial Arts Centre

2019-05-13
Leadership Class Saturday 18th May 2019

2019-05-12
We had a brilliant Competition this year! Here are some of the awards photos! More to follow throughout the week!

2019-05-12
Such a great competition today! Everyone has done so well we are proud of you all!

2019-05-12
Competition underway

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Social Media Popularity Score:

8.6 / 10

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Chi Wai Family Martial Arts Centre has a total of 1043 visitors (checkins) and 1473 likes.

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