Completion Certificate, Master Certificate and Ranking Certificate are available according to the length of your training and your kung fu level.

Our academy accepts students whose age ranges from 10 to 65 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. In order to ensure the teaching quality, every master is supposed to teach five to ten students in his group. We are devoted to satisfy every student's needs towards kungfu training.

Training equipments and methods

1.    Training equipments are provided to all the students:

Wooden dummy, stretching lanes, carpet, mats, Sanda pads, gloves and guards, weapons, dumbbells, stone dumbbells, sand bags.

2.    Training methods

The most original Shaolin Temple training methods are telling ancient Shaolin culture, letting every student feel the atmosphere of real traditional Shaolin kungfu.

Some of our training methods are as follows:

w   Dao Gua Jin Gou-a training method with feet up on horizontal bars to train strength of abdomen and legs muscles.

w   Single movetraining, group moves training, and a complete set of training.

w   Training with demonstration, interchange of ideas.

w   Psychological training, sense of distance training, antagonistic training.

w   Training of coordination, swiftness, strength, physical endurance, balance, speed, and jumping.

Above are just parts of training methods at our academy, all of which follow scientific and effective principles.

 Timetable

Below is an outline of the main daily training under master's instructions. Class times change slightly with the seasons.

Training lessons include Shaolin basics, Shaolin forms & applications, sparring, acrobatics jumps and rolls, Wing Chun, San Da, Qin Na, Tai Chi,  Qigong, conditioning, power training, Ba Ji Quan, power stretching, etc. Culture classes include Chinese Medical Acupuncture and Massage, Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese Tea Ceremony, etc. You can choose to do Meditation with monks in the Magnificent Hall as optional courses in the evening. There are also various Buddhist ceremonies during festivals.

                                                 Single Broadsword                                       Chen Style Tai Chi Fist                                                           Fire Staff

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.

üShaolin 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)

üWing Chun: intermediate form Xun Qiao, 36 SanShi, combination of hands and legs techniques of wooden dummy moves

üShaolin health care Qigong: Yi Jin Jing

üSanda: pair sparring, attack and defend techniques

üTai Chi: 32 Yang style Taichi fist, 24 Chen style Taichi broadsword

üTheory of Shaolin kungfu: better understanding of kungfu

                           Guan Dao                                             Power Training                                           Kungfu Fan

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.

üShaolin 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

üWing Chun: advanced form Biao Zhi, Wing Chun pair sparring

üSanda: pair sparring, combo of Sanda attack and defend moves and techniques

üTai Chi: 42 Yang style Taichi fist, 24 Chen styleTaichi staff

ü   Qigong: static Qigong, meditation (using the mind to control breathing,   making them a whole)

üTheory of Shaolin kungfu: more complete understanding of kungfu

Conditioning                           Forms and Applications                            Qin Na