Welcome to the Darwen School of Kung Fu.
Our School has been in the Lancashire Town of Darwen for over 40 Years.
Our Founding Instructors Ronny Cunliffe and Jim Taylor are credited for starting a trend and in some ways a tradition with students who came to learn with us. Students where not only nurtered in the founding styles of Hsing I, Bagua and Tai-Chi but also encouraged to visit other Schools to expand their knowledge and learn about other Martial Arts in an effort to challenge their thinking and to never be satisfied with what they know becuase there is always someone who knows more.
Our Style originated from the White Cloud System as taught by the Late Master Derek Gordon who learned respectively from his Chinese Instructors.
In 40 Years our School has developed and evolved and to those who visit from days long passed must seem to resemble nothing like it used to be. It is also admirable that Instructors have also spread the word by teaching in their time at Teeside University, by opening clubs at different venues and by also doing workshops and demonstrations across the UK. Unfortunately Instructors and students alike do have to carry on along their own paths of life so do have to sometimes leave us. We like to think that those people carry on our teachings and the lessons we have taught elswhere and also wish that they carry on learning new knowledge along their chosen paths.
Society changes and so does warfare. Once man had to know how to fight to be able to live. Now man has longer range weapons such as rifles and missiles which in some respects make hand to hand combat on the battlefield obsolete.
Unfortunately in a normal environment there is still a place for martial arts .Crime statistics prove this with the amount of street attacks, muggings and assualts that take place in our own Towns every day to say nothing of the upsurge in knife related crime.
In todays Society there will always be a place for martial arts even if all crime ceases, people will always want a way of exercising that which challenges and pushes a person to their limits while also instilling a sense of worth, respect and inner peace.
Our School is truly a place where we not only learn new skills or better ourselves but improve our local community along the way.Hopefully you will be able to see a small section of what we do within the pages of this site.
This site is dedicated to our Instructors without whose time and dedication they give for free our School would cease to be.
And also to our hard working students who strive to better themselves in their own individual ways to be the teachers of tommorrow.
Students and Instructors with Guru Dan Inosanto
