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A martial arts school teaching tai chi and qigong alongside kung fu for more than twenty years, with academies in Balcatta and Fremantle. The tai chi and qigong streams sit at the wellness end of the practice — slow-form work for balance, breath and focus, for adults and children.
Sifu James Lui teaches Choy Lee Fut kung fu alongside Lohan qigong at three hall-and-oval venues across the river — South Perth, Brentwood and Myaree. The qigong is not a warm-up bolted onto the martial art but its own stream, which is rarer in Perth than the number of kung fu schools would suggest.
Brazilian jiu jitsu, capoeira and Muay Thai taught in Malaga, with a second room in Ellenbrook, by instructors the centre says are qualified at international level. Capoeira is the uncommon one here — the Brazilian art that sits between martial art, dance and music, and it runs for adults as well as children. A FIFO programme is scheduled around swings rather than weeks.
A Wangara academy running since 1987, with Zen Do Kai, Muay Thai, Brazilian jiu jitsu, boxing and MMA on one adult timetable from sixteen years up. The studio is unusually direct about what walking in cold feels like — its own wording is that beginners find structure, patience, and a community that remembers what it felt like to start from nothing. A two-week unlimited intro pass is $29.
The distinction that trips people up here is reformer versus mat. Reformer pilates uses the spring-loaded machine and almost every studio will put you through a foundation class or two before letting you into the general timetable — not upselling, just how the machine works. Mat classes need none of that and cost noticeably less.
Around them sits everything else that moves: barre borrowing from ballet, tai chi and qigong in halls and parks and often the cheapest thing on this page, assisted stretch studios selling 25 or 50-minute one-to-one sessions, and aqua classes at council leisure centres, where you pay per entry rather than per class.
Two notes on money. Private health funds stopped rebating pilates as a natural therapy in 2019 — the exception is when a physiotherapist delivers it as physiotherapy. And personal training is usually sold in blocks, so ask what happens to unused sessions before you buy ten.
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