Notes on Practise — with Shkar Sharif

Shkar Sharif
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Notes on Practise is about the long road of training, cultivation, and trying to become someone worth being. Some episodes explore movement, power, and the disciplined training of the body. Others turn inward — towards attention, effort, surrender, and meaning. Some are simply reflections on being human while trying to live with integrity. These are spoken notes from practise. An ongoing record of work, change, and understanding over time. Online Training with Shkar: https://www.shaolintaichi.online/

Episodes

  1. #4 - How to Learn Kung Fu | Body, Combat, and the Long Game

    2D AGO

    #4 - How to Learn Kung Fu | Body, Combat, and the Long Game

    In this episode of Notes on Practise, I explore how traditional Kung Fu systems were actually taught — particularly in Southern China — and why training often begins with conditioning and forms rather than immediate fighting techniques.Historically, these arts were designed to develop a resilient body, structural power, and reliable skill over decades, not just short-term combat ability. Sparring and practical application were important, but they existed alongside body transformation, health cultivation, and long-term development.This episode looks at who these systems were originally for, why they evolved the way they did, and what that means for modern students trying to learn Kung Fu today.

    53 min
  2. #3 - Drifting | A Meditation on Place

    FEB 1

    #3 - Drifting | A Meditation on Place

    In this episode of Notes on Practise, I reflect on walking without destination and what begins to change when attention is no longer shaped by efficiency. Drawing on decades of living in central London — and the stillness of the lockdowns — this is a meditation on drifting through a place, on memory layered into streets and buildings, and on the quiet reciprocity that can emerge when we slow down enough to listen. This isn’t a guide or a theory. It’s an invitation to move differently through the places you inhabit, and to notice what becomes available when a place is met without demand.

    25 min
  3. #2 - Notes on White Crane | Foundations, Flavours, and Methods

    JAN 28

    #2 - Notes on White Crane | Foundations, Flavours, and Methods

    White Crane Kung Fu is often treated as a single, unified system. In practice, there are several distinct flavours, each emphasising different qualities — technical precision, softer internal work, or clearer links to earlier ancestor arts. In this episode, I look at White Crane as a final layer of refinement built on Taizuquan, and at San Zhan as the method that runs through both. The aim is not to define White Crane, but to clarify how its different expressions emerge from a shared foundation. These are reflections from my own training and lineage.

    44 min
  4. #1 - Kristina Shopova Sharif - How to Build a Martial Arts School

    JAN 28

    #1 - Kristina Shopova Sharif - How to Build a Martial Arts School

    For the first episode, who better to sit down with than Kristina — the person who’s been in the middle of all of it with me. We talk about what it really takes to build a martial arts school. The version with empty rooms, long days, bad months, doubt, pressure, and the slow work of turning an idea into a place where people actually belong. We talk about: – how this all started – what nearly broke it – what kept it alive – the mistakes you only learn by making – why community matters more than image If you train, teach, build, or carry something you care about — this is for you.

    1 hr
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Notes on Practise is about the long road of training, cultivation, and trying to become someone worth being. Some episodes explore movement, power, and the disciplined training of the body. Others turn inward — towards attention, effort, surrender, and meaning. Some are simply reflections on being human while trying to live with integrity. These are spoken notes from practise. An ongoing record of work, change, and understanding over time. Online Training with Shkar: https://www.shaolintaichi.online/

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