Kung Fu Chiang Mai - Chiangmai Martial Arts Academy (Private Studio downtown)

I am at the beginning of the Journey, having spent 30 hours with Master Jade studying his Kung Fu and Qi Gong. Exceptional teacher and human being. Pays attention to nuance, healing and every movement has a reason. If you want depth. A combination of the Martial and Art and how it all ties into living a good grounded life. This is a special space. Mind, Body, Heart, Chi, and Soul. (Or wisdom) This is the potential that can be discovered and studied here. Grateful for the Sharing Master Jade. Thank you. 🫸 🤛

3 weeks ago

Kung Fu Chiang Mai is fantastic, especially if you are lucky to be taught by Master Jade. He teaches everybody according to their needs, and he can somehow do this even in group class. And he builds you up no matter if you need self defense skills or just more balance in your otherwise busy work life, or anything in between. This is a boutique school and very different from the typical commercial places.

a year ago

I've had the privilege of attending 60 classes with Master Jade, primarily focusing on Kung Fu with a dash of Qigong. Each session has been incredibly rewarding. Thanks to Kung Fu, my reaction times have improved significantly, and I no longer freeze up in challenging situations. It's given me a sense of inner composure and confidence that I deeply appreciate. Additionally, the Qigong practices have helped me regulate myself more effectively, especially during intense work calls. Ironically, Master Jade taught me more about self-love than my previous therapists. I'm eagerly looking forward to returning to Chiang Mai to dive back into the practice. Master Jade is not only a skilled teacher but also has a wonderfully funny and cheerful spirit that adds joy to each class. I genuinely appreciate his guidance and highly recommend trying classes with him.

a year ago

Master Jade has a vast knowledge of Kung Fu and related martial art skills. He has tailored a program for our son over the last year. He is patient and encouraging. It has been an awesome experience!! We highly recommend this school!

3 years ago

Short version: I enrolled for classes with Jade and even after a year, 11 (online) classes are pending out of a total of 40 classes. He has, since, made several excuses not to take classes and in the end when I asked for a refund, has stopped receiving my calls and answering my messages. I would ask everyone to beware of this school especially when enrolling for online classes as there is no way to hold them accountable. Long version: I decided to write this review after giving it a lot of thought and finally concluded that it would be important for others to know about my experience so as not to make similar mistakes but also because of the unfairness and a total lack of professionalism and principles I witnessed. I also want to add that these are just my experiences and that I don’t want to disregard the positive experiences other students have written about. I joined the school in early 2023 as I was visiting Chiang Mai for 5 weeks with my family. I enrolled in Jade’s classes and paid for 16 hours of private classes split between him and his sister, Julie. During the Kung fu classes he sold me the idea that I need to take a few more hours to really get the basics (intensive). So I paid for 24 more hours. After a few more classes, he started to talk about a teacher’s program and said how he was impressed by me and wants to invite me. He then went on to tell me that this meant that I could enrol for 150 hours with him. After giving it some thought, I told him honestly that I did not think I could afford to pay 150,000 baht as I was on parental leave and could not take this out of my savings. It seemed like a big commitment to make given I didn’t even live in Thailand. I still said I’d think about it and talk to my partner. After discussions with my partner, we both agreed that it did not make sense to pay such a large sum for a practice I had just started and to a school that wasn’t even in our home country. So I told Jade that I wasn’t going to enrol in the teacher’s program for now. If, after the end of our classes, I still felt that this was the practice I really wanted to go with, I’d consider it. After this, everything went downhill. Jade started to cancel classes frequently and I felt as though he stopped taking interest in teaching me. He reduced the time we were spending over the weeks (the initial extension he had asked me to make was so we could spend more hours during my time in Chiang Mai). But now he wanted to shift most of those hours to online. Fast forward to now: February 2024. We still have 11 classes remaining and he has stopped answering my calls. I have spent a year trying to complete these classes with him. He had a new excuse to not have the class every other week: from a friend’s funeral, to family members being sick, to having corona twice, to neighbours being loud and the wall at home being constructed and so on. I asked to have the classes transferred to his sister, Julie, because of his unprofessional behaviour and because he said there is a no return policy at his school. Now his sister comes up with similar excuses from having no electricity at home to her son being sick and so on. So, no return policy and also not available to take classes basically means that there is no way to get my money back. At this point I would just like my money back as I don’t want to associate with this school or its teachers anymore. I understand that money is important in the world, but to have it be the main incentive and then to treat one’s students with such unfairness and disinterest after they have paid for the classes is just unacceptable. Which is why I decided to share this. One would think that a school that teaches ancient practices such as Kung Fu would adhere to its values of respect, discipline, and compassion but from my experience, Jade has not followed any of these, at least not in our interactions.

2 years ago