The Fox's Den Kung Fu

08/30/2026

🥋 BACK TO TRAINING! 🦊

Summer is wrapping up, and it’s time to get back on the floor.

Tuesday, September 15th at 6 PM, we’re kicking off our fall training with a special Back to Training class at Fox’s Den Kung Fu!

Whether you trained all summer or haven’t stepped through the doors in a while, this is your chance to reset, rebuild, and get moving again.

We’re going back to the fundamentals—stances, movement, conditioning, flexibility, and the techniques everything else is built on. From there, we’ll spend the rest of the month building those foundations into stronger, faster, more connected Kung Fu.

Don’t worry about how much you remember.
Don’t worry about how fit you feel.
Don’t worry about being “ready.”

Just come back and train.

📅 Tuesday, September 15th
⏰ 6:00 PM
🥋 Beginners & advanced students welcome

Show up. Work hard. Grow together.

🦊 Anyone Can Fight!

08/26/2026

Combative Blend from Tuesday's Class this Week 👊

We were working on a Bird Form this week, which primarily utilizes techniques to deal with a clench. Clenching is essentially when someone closes the distance enough to get their hand around your neck and hold your body in place.

We discussed how to get into this position in the first place (using a Xing Yi slide in this example), how to get out of it, and how to use a simple Tai Chi step to execute a high hip toss.

Join us and learn how to turn forms into function! Traditional training backed by modern exercise science and pedagogy 😊

08/23/2026

This week's schedule! 👊

Tuesday-
Location: The Fox's Den Kung Fu - 4208 Bainbridge Blvd, Chesapeake, VA 23324
6:00PM-7:00PM Kung Fu and Fitness Training
7:00PM-8:00PM Kung Fu Skills Training and Sparring

Thursday-
Location: The Fox's Den Kung Fu - 4208 Bainbridge Blvd, Chesapeake, VA 23324
6:00PM-7:00PM Kung Fu and Fitness Training
7:00PM-8:00PM Kung Fu Skills Training and Sparring

Sunday-
Location: The Fox's Den Kung Fu - 4208 Bainbridge Blvd, Chesapeake, VA 23324
10:00AM-11:00AM Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Yoga
11:00AM-11:45AM Kung Fu Skills Training

Try a free class by visiting www.kungfufox.com! Let's prove to the world that !

At the Fox's Den Kung Fu you'll be trained in Kung Fu, Tai Chi, and Yoga by a National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Personal Trainer with 20 years of martial arts experience.

08/16/2026

This week's schedule! 👊

Tuesday-
Location: The Fox's Den Kung Fu - 4208 Bainbridge Blvd, Chesapeake, VA 23324
6:00PM-7:00PM Kung Fu and Fitness Training
7:00PM-8:00PM Kung Fu Skills Training and Sparring

Thursday- Location: The Fox's Den Kung Fu - 4208 Bainbridge Blvd, Chesapeake, VA 23324
6:00PM-7:00PM Kung Fu and Fitness Training
7:00PM-8:00PM Kung Fu Skills Training and Sparring

Sunday-
Location: The Fox's Den Kung Fu - 4208 Bainbridge Blvd, Chesapeake, VA 23324
10:00AM-11:00AM Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Yoga
11:00AM-11:45AM Kung Fu Skills Training

Try a free class by visiting www.kungfufox.com! Let's prove to the world that !

At the Fox's Den Kung Fu you'll be trained in Kung Fu, Tai Chi, and Yoga by a National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Personal Trainer with 20 years of martial arts experience.

08/16/2026

Costa Rica, Day 7 - The Catamaran

This was our farewell photo Ingrid generated for us as a trip summary! It was great meeting folks from all walks of life with a pension for adventure 😊

After going out for a couple drinks the night before to celebrate Sydney's birthday, we woke up to hop on board a party boat at 8:15AM. I actually ran into Sydney early — around 6:30AM, and we went to find breakfast.
The streets of Manuel Antonio seemed the least touristy of the places we'd been, and honestly a little dirty, but the people were very friendly.
After breakfast, we headed to our catamaran tour.

The catamaran was a phenomenal ride w/ four free drinks, a water slide off the back, a short snorkeling trip, and an included lunch.

We ended up back around 2PM, which was excellent, because I was ready for a nap and some reflection on the days past.

Overall, it was a phenomenal trip. I'd highly recommend G-Adventures to anyone looking for adventure travel!

08/15/2026

Manuel Antonio/Quepos

We woke up at 5AM to get on a bus from the small town of Monteverde to arrive in Manuel Antonio/Quepos at around noon. Our guide says no one knows why the place is called Manuel Antonio – there is no known figure who established it by the name of Manuel or Antonio. Quepos came from the natives – now extinct – who used to live there.

On the way there we stopped at a station that reminded me of the ones they have along the turnpike in Florida. They even had crocodiles outside to match Florida's alligators!

We barely had time to drop our bags at the hotel before we caught a public bus to a nearby beach. There we saw a black spiny-iguana, howler monkeys, and dozens of hermit crabs along the beach as well as capuchin monkeys.

The water was warm, like a bath, and we all had a lovely swim. When we returned, my roommate, Chad, and I went out to get food with my roommate, I went out to get food with my roommate. We went out to get food at a restaurant called De La Finca, but I assumed too early and found ourselves in a quaint outdoor food court instead.

There I tried the pizza, because our guide, Ingrid, said it was phenomenal thanks to the Italian population living in Costa Rica since WWII. It was actually better than anything I had in Naples.

Spiny Black Iguana

Capuchin Monkey

Halloween Crab

08/13/2026

Costa Rica Day 5 – Monteverde

Yesterday was such a whirlwind I did not find the time or energy to journal about Monteverde until today (the 7th). It was yet another day that exceeded expectations. We started the day with a walk to a strangler fig that had grown all the way down to the river. These trees are known for using another tree to grow, and eventually strangling the life out of it. Beautiful and deadly...

After that, we went ziplining. At first I thought this was going to be a standard experience — something I'd already done before. After all, I had ziplined in the rainforest near Mazatlan, Mexico while drinking tequila, and going upside down. But the flight I got to take over the rainforest here on a mile-long line was its own experience.

Shot over the rainforest canopy...it was a mile long Zipline.

There was also a Tarzan swing, where you grabbed a line and just walked off a platform into the trees. It was the closest I've ever come to bungee jumping and felt absolutely insane. I was not expecting the adrenaline rush I experienced.

Finally, we ended the day w/ horse back riding — something I never tried before, but that I definitely should have. Feeling the horse's muscular shoulders beneath my hand, and having a sort of friendship-command of the horse was a whole vibe. As with all things here, it exceeded expectations, and was more adventurous than I anticipated.

It was hilly, forested, and raining hard w/ thunder and lightning overhead. I felt like Johnnie Bernstein riding Ridgeback in Beyond the Last War. It might have been one of my favorite experiences to date, not just on this trip, but in life.

When we got back, I was exhausted, but made it out for dinner w/ the others. It was like a Costa Rican cheesecake factory, and their cheese flan was delicious.

08/12/2026

Costa Rica Day 4 – Monte Verde
The beginning of yesterday was spent travelling. We left La Fortuna in the morning around 7:30AM. We travelled by bus for a while and then transferred to a boat.

The boat trip alone was an experience. There seemed to be no time of day or moment where the mysterious-looking fog left the treetops.

We saw our first tropical birds sharing a tree with a heron.

There was a pit stop along the way that was casually beautiful, and as usual, there was an adorable dog to pet as we drank coffee and looked out into the mountains. It wasn't long after that we reached Hotel Casa Madonna.

After eating lunch and incidentally running into our guide Ingrid's family, we rested for a bit to prepare for our hike over the hanging bridges in the rain forest. We didn't see much wildlife, but the views were incredible, and the trees themselves were as well.

From right to left: Myself, Caleb, Chad, Sydney, Kellie

The fact that we did not see any animals aside from a few of the miniature Costa Rican bees was quickly made up for on our nighttime nature walk.

We quickly encountered a 9-banded Armadillo, then the guide lured a massive tarantula out of its hiding place.

We saw bioluminescent scorpions, plus a few different kinds of frogs to boot.