World Of Swords

The wins students get from true Shaolin Kung Fu training are absolutely unbelievable. The key to these wins is to train correctly. After all, you could have the nicest cut of ribs in the world, but cook it incorrectly and you'll have a charcoal mess.

When one is studying Kung Fu one should always move the body as a single unit. Six Harmonies Boxing preaches that one should move the hand at the same time as the foot, the knee with the elbow, and the hips with the shoulders. This is a technical viewpoint, which tends to separate body parts even as it unifies them.

As for the hands and feet, one should step or twist into a stance in conjunction with the starting and stopping of the hand movement. For the knees and elbows, one should properly align the body when doing any movement. For the hips and shoulders, move them together and you will be putting all your body weight into whatever motion you are doing.

The second of the three secrets of Shaolin Kung Fu training is to use the waist when turning the body. This is something that people begin to learn naturally after understanding the points about moving the body as one unit. The advice here is to use the waist to make the body turn, don't turn the arms first and expect the body to follow.

If you move the arms to initiate an action the body weight is going to be trying to catch up, instead of projecting weight and energy, and this tends to take weight out of a movement. Taking weight out of motion will take real power out of a move. If one studies this principle they will end up building the true chi power inherent in Shaolin Kung Fu.

Last of the three advices has to do with proper breathing. There is a general rule that one should breath in when the body contracts, and out when the body expands, but there is more to it than just that. One must breath, and use that breath to guide awareness into the body part being used.

To make this occur one should 'swim with awareness' when doing the motions of kung fu forms. One should push the hands through the air as if they are moving great weights, this can give one the appearance of swimming through molasses. This tends to be truer in the internal forms and styles of Shaolin Kung Fu training, but that is fine.

In conclusion, these are three very important items that many people neglect, or simply just don't understand. Yet they are key to ones real progress in the martial arts disciplines. Harmonize the body parts, use the whole body, and put breath awareness into your movements, that is the simple and obvious secret of true Shaolin Kung Fu Training.

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Bagua Kung Fu training began for me four decades ago. I was involved in Chinese Kenpo Karate, fascinated by martial arts, and I found this little martial arts book, and...four decades later I still walk in circles. Circles, of course, are the secret of good bagua.

You walk in circles you rotate your arms you pivot and...breath. It really is the easiest martial art to learn, yet one of the most amazingly complex. In spite of these contradictions, it has the most wonderful and far reaching benefits of any Martial Art that I have ever seen.

Anyway, what this bit of writing is about is that back in the 90s I decided to construct a Bagua training hall. I didn't want a thing of wood and beams, however, I wanted an open air location where I could assimilate the purity of environment that the ancients had. So I looked out my back door and over to the top of a mountain.

Actually, it wasn't much of a mountain, more of a hill, but there was a charm to it. Prying eyes wouldn't be able to see me, and permeating everything was the sweet smell of giant sage plants, and this wilderness training hall would be open only to those who liked to do a little climbing. All in all, it looked like Paradise had found a home on earth.

I built the entry to my mountain kung fu training hall by selecting a path behind a large, bushy plant. I used a sharp edge shovel, and I chopped steps up the side of the mountain. When I reached what I deemed to be the perfect location, I began to scrape and level a twelve foot circle.

The first time I walked my bagua circle was heaven. I breathed deeply, felt space expand around me, and I could--I swear--feel the spiritual fires awakening, coursing through my frame, herding me along the path of the ancients. Unfortunately, heaven proved to be a quick trip.

Insects. Millions of swarming gnats, a herd of eternal bugs surrounded me, tried to fly into my mouth, actually tried to crawl up my nose. And bees, and wasps, and big, fat black monsters with stingers that made a noise like the exhaust of a racing motorcycle.

I tried masks, I tried citronella pots, I tried everything, but it was no use. My Bagua Kung Fu was no match for their 'bug-wah' communism. Over the years I have continued my practice, and have experienced profound abilities, revelations, benefits, and more...but I have done so from within the confines of one of those darned, infernal, man made contraptions called a house.

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Every once in a while somebody will make the statement that 'Isn't Wing Chun Kung Fu that art invented by a woman?' Inside that statement is a prejudice against ladies who can be pretty darned skilled. The statement also shows some basic ignorance.

Many years ago, the story goes, a certain warlord during the Qing dynasty was forcing his affections on a young peasant girl. The girl ran into the forest sobbing, where she was found by a Shaolin nun named Ng Mui. The nun taught the girl enough Kung Fu to fight off the warlord, and thus the pretty, little thing was able to marry the man of her dreams.

The man of her dreams, a fellow named Leung Bac-Chou, also knew some Gung Fu. During a little marital spat he decided to teach his bride a lesson, and wound up being taught a lesson of his own. Fortunately, wifey decided to share her style with hubbie, and the style was named after the wife: Wing Chun (beautiful springtime).

While one could find many plot inconsistencies with this myth, the fact remains that it is one of the more workable systems of the Chinese Martial Arts. This is because the martial system is concept based, but backed up by good, hard work. In other words, students of Wing Chun don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk.

The system concentrates on short range techniques. The main drill of the style is Chi Sau, or 'Sticky Hands,' a method by which practitioners circle arms and learn to be sensitive to a foe. People practicing the Sticky Hands Method for any length of time become able to 'read the mind' of an opponent fairly easily.

The system also has the incredible wooden dummy training device. This is a thick stand of wood with arms and legs. The student learns how to bash, guide and manipulate an opponent by working with this wood dummy.

Close range combat is not the only feature of Ving Tsun, however. For middle range work one learns to wield the Butterfly swords. For long range work there is the long spear.

Wing Chun has proven itself over the centuries, and the most famous student was Bruce Lee. Currently, Wing Chun Kung Fu is being practiced around the globe, and is renowned for its combat effectiveness. Not too shabby for a 'Girls Martial Art.'

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