What is Shaolin Kung Fu?

Many people are confused about Kung Fu. They think it is like Karate -- hard, external, and aggressive. The opposite is true. The Kung Fu that I teach is soft, internal, and non-aggressive.

No uniforms. No belts. No aggression. No nonsense. My classes might just make you think differently about the martial arts. Many of my students never imagined themselves practicing a martial art. Now they love it. Others say they have always dreamed of a martial art like this. Some of my students are fresh beginners, and others are black belts in other styles, but they all love Shaolin Kung Fu.

I hope you enjoy.

Anthony Korahais
http://www.FlowingZen.com

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[UchihaItachi8989]

Yes ur right, during the revolution, many ancient Shaolin martial art documents that contained techniques of shaolin are now gone, burnt away...destroyed. I want to learn Shaolin so bad, but theres no point. :( I sometimes pity the chinese.

[FlowingZen]

Don't worry. The important secrets have been preserved. You just have to know where to find them.

[MiyMiyMiyMiyMiyMiyMi]

Do you really think that this is Shaolin Kung Fu? This kinda art was only passed down among Shaolin Monks, and the art and the practitioners were pretty much destroyed during the cultural revolution. Sure, some of the monks probably hid or something, but you think they would openly teach it to non-shaolin monks, especially when they're of a different race? Even the people who now teach kungfu near the Shaolin temple are mostly frauds, no offense but, I highly doubt this is truly shaolin kung fu

[FlowingZen]

Yes, I sincerely believe that what I teach this is genuine Shaolin Kung Fu. Surprisingly, I agree with much of what you said. Thankfully, my lineage came nowhere near the Cultural Revolution. You can read more about my linage on my website, particularly an article called "The Legacy of Shaolin": flowingzen(dot)com/articles.ht­m

[FlowingZen]

To sum up the article, a monk named Jiang Nan escaped the burning of the southern Shaolin Temple in the 19th Century. He fled south towards Thailand with the Qing army in pursuit. Near the border of modern day Malaysia, he found a young man named Yang Fatt Khun, who would become the sole successor to his art.

[FlowingZen]

Yang Fatt Khun passed on his art to Ho Fatt Nam, who passed it on to Wong Kiew Kit, who passed it to me. Our school is unusual in that there are only 4 teachers between me and the temple. That makes me 5th generation. The famous Wong Fei Hong himself was 5th generation from another monk named Chee Seen. My teacher also holds a lineage that traces back to Chee Seen. So we have 2 lineages tracing back to the temple, and both of them completely avoided the Cultural Revolution.

[drchango2010]

kung fu should be both internal and external, hard and soft, and many styles of kung fu are very aggressive (like Hung Gar and most of the northern Mantis Boxing systems)

of the so-called internal arts (which is a misnomer, better to refer to them as Taoist systems) Hsing Yi and Chen-style Taiji are also very aggressive.

I do agree that applying Japanese style belt ranks to kung fu is a bit...odd

[sawingeagle]

all kung fu originated with shoalin

[34thshaolinstudent]

Thats not true @ sawingeagle - its rather the way round. Many styles of Kung Fu existed & had been known by generation of Chinese warriors way before the 1st Zhen Buddhist temple was established - see 'Damo, (an Indian monk) and Batuo etc... hence the birth of the Shaolin temple which seeked & since unified the "fist" Kung Fu & Buddhism through "Dhyana" theory etc... as the sutras go.

[sign989]

ive always wanted to learn kung fu but my parents don't think its important so ive had to teach myself i do well in sparing but i really wish i had a teacher

[martialartsforlife]

Love to hear that some American kids are so fancinated with Kung Fu. Be sure to bring more cash n take some more pictures with the monks there (US $2 per photo). Im sure they'll teach you the most secret techniques that they won't even teach me (I'm Chinese from HK also). It's like in the US, you can earn a degree online in one year! What's the English word to describe someone who believes everything they read from martial arts books? I don't know. But in Chinese: Gullible. Nice Trip!

[MiyMiyMiyMiyMiyMiyMi]

Anyway, I guess I'm just going tohave to accept that our viewpoints are different. But you telling me I'm wrong got me kind of pissed, because you look at this from the outside, you have no idea what's going on inside, and you just flat out tell me I'm wrong? pshhh have fun with your 'traditional' shaolin kung fu

[JowGaFuRy]

Thanks Yah Quan

[MiyMiyMiyMiyMiyMiyMi]

Don't you understand the Mainland China mindset? Make money off of you, the means is unimportant. They make fake toys, fake clothes, fake foods, and even fake medicines, don't trust them easily. I myself come from Hong Kong, and have visited China frequently (due to my father's factory), and after researching this topic, I have come up with this conclusion.

[MiyMiyMiyMiyMiyMiyMi]

You are wrong, do you really think they would tell you that what they teach is not traditional, if they're trying to make money off of you? They can say whatever master/father they learnt their kung fu from, but history suggests that more often than not, these teachers are frauds.

[YahQuan]

Music - Halcyon by Orbital

Peace,

-Yah