Training Plan
Our training center accepts students whose age ranges from 10 to 60 years old. Students younger than 16 years old are accepted if they are accompanied with their parents or older relatives.
We teach not only traditional forms but also practical combat(fighting) techniques that originated and delivered from Chinese history. Please don’t worry about your pervious kungfu experience because many students are total beginners before they arrive. Our training is individually customized, our masters make training plan according to student’s own kungfu experience, physical conditions and his/her own training goals. What most needed are your dedication and positive attitude.
We are constantly engaged in providing unique opportunities in motivating character development during training. We are devoted to satisfy every student’s needs towards kungfu training.
Training plans are based on principles of kungfu practice levels in accordance with traditional training, in which training of the heart is the highest level that guides all. We offer training courses from one day to years.
1 WEEK - 2 MONTHS
This is a period to get ageneral idea of Shaolin Kungfu, and to feel about methods of kungfu practice.
- To improve flexibility, speed, strength, agility, coordination, and physical endurance, proper running, stretching of important body parts, kicks, punches, and stability training including horse stance, bowstance, crouching stance, one-leg standing, are the foundation of more advanced forms and techniques.
- Shaolin forms and applications: five-step fist, primary Shaolin fist, Xiaohong fist, Shaolin single broadsword, Shaolin Yinshou staff
- Wing Chun: primary form Xiao Nian Tou, primary wooden dummy moves, steps, punches, easy attack techniques
- Sanda (Chinese kick-boxing): basic exercise, throwing and wrestling moves
- Qin Na: catch and hold moves
- Shaolin health care Qigong: Ba Duan Jin
- Tai Chi: 24 Yang style Taichi fist
- Basic theory of Shaolin kungfu
3-6 MONTHS
After primary level of training, the difficulty and intensity of training will increase. In this period, you must continue training basics, and improve physical constitution.
- Shaolin forms: 5-8 Shaolin forms and applications, like Dahong fist, Tongbi fist, five-style fist, Pao fist, Damo straight sword, continuous straight sword, Taizu broadsword, palm-blossom broadsword, Shaolin straight sword, Yinyang staff, Fenghuo staff, Zhenshan staff, 12 routine Tantui(leg kicking)
- Wing Chun: intermediate form Xun Qiao, 36 SanShi, combination of hands and legs techniques of wooden dummy moves
- Shaolin health care Qigong: Yi Jin Jing
- Sanda: pair sparring, attack and defend techniques
- Tai Chi: 32 Yang style Taichi fist, 24 Chen style Taichi broadsword
- Theory of Shaolin kungfu: better understanding of kungfu
7-11 MONTHS
This level of training is based on the solid foundation of basics, which emphasizes more on the accuracy of every move, coordination of eyes, hands, body, and steps of the external,and spirit, energy, qi, and force of the internal.
- Shaolin forms: eagle fist, mantis fist, pair sparring fist, Jingang fist, nunchucks, three-section staff, Liuhe broadsword, Chunqiu big broadsword, long-hilt broadsword, nine-ring broadsword, Shaolin Qiankun straight sword, Pishan staff, Shaolin staff, Shaolin thirteen spear, Taizu long fist (Taizu Chang Quan), palm-blossom cane
- Wing Chun: advanced form Biao Zhi, Wing Chun pair sparring
- Sanda: pair sparring, combo of Sanda attack and defend moves and techniques
- Tai Chi: 42 Yang style Taichi fist, 24 Chen styleTaichi staff
- Qigong: static Qigong, meditation (using the mind to control breathing, making them a whole)
- Theory of Shaolin kungfu: more complete understanding of kungfu
1 YEAR
In this level, you will find out methods of kungfu practice that suits your advantages, with which, you can understand the essence and connotation of kungfu cultivation better.
- Shaolin forms: 20-30 forms and applications, like Shaolin Luohan fist, palm-blossom fist, seven star fist, Damo fist, three people sparring, double broadsword against spear, tiger fist, drunken fist, crane fist, drunken staff, monkey staff, Shaolin Luohan 18 hands, Longxing straight sword, chain whip, double hook, 48 Ming spear, Shaolin flying daggers, crescent shovel, Guangong big broadsword (guan dao), Pu dao
- Wing Chun: advanced wooden dummy techniques called Chan Zhuang, achieving an integration of the wooden dummy and the person. More attention to speed practice-finish a 116 style wooden dummy form within 40 seconds, three moves per second. It's also an internal cultivation.
- Sanda: pair sparring, obtaining the instinctive reaction of the body to attack
- Qigong: advanced health care Qigong Wu Qin Xi, hard Qigong “iron head",“iron hands",“silver throat", and Er Zhi Chan, which are of 72 Shaolin secret skills
- Tai Chi: 24Yang style Taichi straight sword, 73 Yangstyle Taichi fan, 32 Yang style Taichi staff
- Experience culture of Shaolin kungfu and customs
As the quintessence of Chinese culture, learning of Shaolin kungfu is endless. It deserves devotion of one’s lifetime. Only through hard work, can every student achieve his or her goals.
