IN THIS ISSUE:
The War Of The Civilizations: Being The Record Of A Foreign Devil`s Experiences With The Allies In China
by George Lynch / On Active Service With The Chinese Regiment: A Record Of...
IN THIS ISSUE:
The War Of The Civilizations: Being The Record Of A Foreign Devil`s Experiences With The Allies In China
by George Lynch / On Active Service With The Chinese Regiment: A Record Of...
The book deals with the most popular and probably the most monumental form of the Hung Gar Kung Fu style. This form, known as "The Tiger and the Crane", was created in the late 19th century by Lam Sai Wing's teacher, an unrivalled master of Kung Fu Wong Fei Hung.
The Tiger's extremely tough, fierce and lightning-fast attack are balanced against and supplemented by the softer and smoother techniques of the Crane. The "tough" and the "soft" combin...
Provides a detailed description of the old Shaolin method of "Internal Training" - TIET SIN QI GONG.
A master of the "Iron Thread" can withstand, with no consequences, the strongest of blows, including ones with heavy objects or cold steel arms, bend thick iron rods with his hands, and his "rooting power" is so strong that he cannot be displaced by a group of strong people.
In addition, this wonderful method strengthens all internal organs, bone...
The book scrutinizes an old canonical form (the Tao) of the Southern Shaolin Kung Fu, the "Gung Gee Fook Fu".
According to the legend, the founder of the Hung Gar Kung Fu style, Hung Tziguan studied this form under the tutorship of Southern Shaolin's best fighter, a Master of the Tiger Style Chzi Shan.
The quintessence of Southern Shaolin Kung Fu School.
This TAO includes main basic techniques and fighting methods of Southern Shaolin Tiger Style,...
The book "Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin" by Jin Jing Zhong is devoted to the most enigmatic and little-known aspect of training of Shaolin monks. The book was written in 1934 with blessing and direct participation of the Head of the Shaolin Monastery Reverend Miao Xing nicknamed "The Golden Arhat", one of the best Shaolin fighters of all times.
Training methods described in the book allow to develop supernatural abilities, far beyond ab...
The book covers ?external? (WAI) and ?internal? (NEI) training methods practiced by traditional schools of the ?Shaolin family? (SHAOLIN PAI). The following proverb has been passed down from generation to generation of people who were occupied in martial arts: ?Strength can not overcome style, style can not overcome mastery.? There is one more saying: ?Style is the flesh of mastery, mastery (GONG FU) is the skeleton of style.? All this stresses p...
CHUAN NA QUAN, a kind of the pugilistic art, was developed by master Sha Da Chuan from the town of Nantong. All movements of this kind of the pugilistic art were taken from the style TAI JI YUAN GONG; the oldest and respected specialist in it was master Wang Yue Qun, a fellow-townsman of Sha Da Chuan. During several decades this style was formed through reflection, training and practical experience. It is complicated enough, sometimes sequences o...
The history of the creation of this book goes back to Master Fan Xu Dong (life time: 1841 ? 1925, according to another data - 1936). At the turn the 19-th and 20-th century Fan Xu Dong several times visited Shaolin Temple where he studied heritage of the monastery. That`s what Master Jon Funk writes about it:
?Fan made several trips to the Shaolin temple and spent time there researching with the monks. From these trips to the Shaolin temple, as ...
This book makes subject area of our web-site somewhat wider. However, the way of martial arts is extremely wide and sometimes it is useful to have a look from a new point of view at what you do and what you have achieved in the end. As the proverb says, ?The learner of WU SHU has three precious things: the breadth (of knowledge) is precious, the essence is precious, but the most precious is understanding.? But without first two precious things yo...
The book by Tang Ji Ren ?DA HONG QUAN? was issued in November of 1933 with assistance of the first martial art school in Hangzhou. The main part of the book contains the following sections: YI ZI BU ? ?Steps along hieroglyph ?one?, SHI ZI SHOU ? ?Arm blows along hieroglyph ?ten?, SHI ZI TUI ? ?Kicks along hieroglyph ?ten?, DA HONG QUAN ? ?Big Hong Fist?, XIAO HONG QUAN ? ?Small Hong Fist?, Tong Ren San Gu ? ?The copper man straightens his bones?,...
The book "CHIN NA FA" was written by Liu Jin Sheng in collaboration with Zhao Jiang. The first edition of the book was issued in July of 1936 as a manual for the Police Academy of Zhejiang province. The book was printed by the publishing house Shan Wu in Shanghai.Techniques of CHIN NA include a wide set of various movements: press and blows on vulnerable points, grappling, strangling, throws and so on. That set of movements (impacts on the enemy)...
Book are about methods of acting on acupoints and their practical application in Martial Arts. DIAN XUE SHU that is literally means "The Art of Touching Acupoints" is more known in the West as DIM MAK ("Blows at arteries" in Cantonese dialect) or "Death Touch". It should be noted that the last two names do not fully reflect the essence of this method. DIAN XUE SHU is a profound teaching which is closely connected to Chinese traditional medicine. ...
An old proverb says: ?If you exercise only the technique (style) but ignore special training you will be a nobody till your old days.? ?Special training? implies particular exercises for developing both WAI ZHUANG ? ?the External Power? and NEI ZHUANG ? ?the Internal Power?. Those exercises (training procedures) are collected under a common title ? LIAN GONG, literally ?Exercising to Acquire Mastery?.
In his preface the author writes: ?...It is...
