Santa Barbara Kung Fu & Tai Chi with Christophe Millner

About Christophe Millner

Christophe Millner (Chris) has been involved in Martial Arts for over 30 years. He started Judo lessons at age 9 and fell in love with Martial Arts. At age 15, when he was living in Barstow, California, a YMCA opened up and offered a class in Karate Kung Fu. The Instructor was Henry Gutierrez who became a mentor to Chris. The style of this type of martial arts is a mix of Kenpo Karate, Sil Lum, Choy li fut, Wing Chun & Hung Gar Kung Fu. Chris was hooked! He received his black belt 5 years later. Chris has been teaching ever since. He continues with his own studies with Master Instructor James Ibrao. James’ web site is JamesIbrao.com if you would like to read about Master Ibrao and some of the history of this art. Also learn about Grand Master James Wing Woo.

Martial arts are the best for youth sport training, for all sports. Chris teaches the art to help coordination, strength, power & self-esteem.

Chris now teaches at the Santa Barbara Rec Center and the Solvang Veterans Hall.

He also teaches private lessons.

Corporate Martial Arts in Santa Barbara: Chris also teaches Tai Chi and Martial Arts to employees in the Santa Barbara, Goleta, Ventura area, helping employers get better productivity from their employees.

History of Kung Fu

“Wu Shu (Martial Art) Kung Fu (Skills)” is not a style of the Chinese martial arts - It is a general term for the Chinese martial arts.

Within the styles or the systems of the Chinese martial arts, the major systems are the Southern and the Northern arts, and within theses systems there are the difference of the Internal and the External arts. Today, the separations of the Chinese martial art are the Family systems, the Shaolin systems and the Wu dang systems.

The family system is handed down from the past, and it was only taught to the relatives of the family. This system has already fall in with the modern systems of the Chinese martial arts.

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History of Tai Chi also know as T’ai chi ch’uan

The term “Tai Chi” is first found in the Chinese book of changes “I Ching”. It states; in the beginning of time, there was “Wu Chi” (the great void), and from this “Wu Chi”, comes the birth of two powers, the power of Yin and the power of Yang.
Yang is the representative of being positive, it is the male image, it is the light, it is the sunny side of the mountain. Yin is the opposite of Yang, it is negative, it is the female image, it is the shady side of the mountain. They compliment each other, they are not total opposites, they each have a minor part of each other, creating the feeling of being complete and harmonizing each other. This is “Tai Chi” the Chinese philosophy of duality of this world.

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The History of Kenpo Karate

Kenpo is a Japanese unarmed fighting art that was brought from China to Japan about 700 years ago by the Yoshida Clan and was quickly adopted by the Komatsu Clan. The word Kenpo means literally, “Fist Law,” and also refers to its Chinese origin. The Japanese adaptation of this Chinese style was well suited to defend against the various unarmed Japanese martial arts of the 12th century. Few modifications were required for Kenpo to overcome the new unarmed systems that developed over the next 7 centuries that came to be known as Karate (Japanese of “Empty Hand”).

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