physical arts classes - fitness through coordinated movement
don’t be a muscular robot. train movement technique with physical arts classes. using a blend of movement and training from gymnastics, martial arts, and dance, physical arts classes will help you create an agile coordinated body which you control.
group or private
Gary Lai has instructed martial arts at New York Martial Arts Academy, Revolution Studio, Physical Arts Center, and various academic schools and independent studios. He has studied Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do Concepts with Dan Inosanto, the primary instructor for Bruce Lee’s martial arts school, Burton Richardson, Chad Stahelski and with others in the same lineage. He has also performed as a martial arts stuntman in commercial and screen work.
Gary Lai has instructed adult gymnastics classes for Chelsea Piers, Physical Arts Center, LAVA, and also independently in various locations. In addition, he has taught company gymnastics class for the physical dance companies of Streb and LAVA, and has taught at Hunter College and elsewhere, conducting clinics for gymnastics instructors.
With a background of teaching physical education, gymnastics, martial arts, and climbing, Gary Lai was the owner-operator of Physical Arts Center- a multidisciplinary movement center in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He is involved in dance as a student, spectator, and performer- having worked with Luis Lara Malvacias, Wendy Osserman Dance Company, and in aerial dance with Elise Knudsen, and Noemi Lafrance’s Sensproduction, among others.
Gary Lai
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