1. Introduction
Chinese Kung Fu has a very long history and rich contents with
a wealth of different schools. In them the Wudang Martial Arts features
the uniqueness in adhering to the principle of overcoming the hard
with the soft. In ancient Taoism book Tao Te Ching carries the following messages:
Beneath heaven nothing is more soft and yielding
than water.
Yet for attacking the solid and strong,
Nothing can take its place.
Therefore the soft can overcome the hard,
The weak can overwhelm the strong,
Under heaven everyone knows this,
Yet no one puts it into practice.
Wudang Kung Fu is well known for its unfathomed fighting theory,
special internal strength training approaches and handling skills
when facing very unfavorable circumstances. The routine form sets
and the weapon manipulation system often convey to people the intangible
force which in many cases scare the enemy a lots before the start
of fight. Thus Wudang Kung Fu enjoys an unparalleled position in
Kung Fu circle in China's long history.
2. Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy
Wudang
Taoist Kung Fu Academy (WTKFA) was located high up in Mount Wudang, the famous
Taoism holy land and inner Kung Fu origination place. To take the public bus people have to spend more than one hour to go upward along the zigzag mountain road to WTKFA. The imposing layers upon layers of mountains and the water-color-Chinese paintings made of fascination scenery can be beheld everywhere. The birds are singing without intermission, the woods are roaring from here to there. The nature's life force presents itself in so wonderful way that you have to marvel at it. The broad quietude and stillness seems to always cherish the most dynamic initiatives for the potential development.
WTKFA is just located in the remote Mt. Wudang ranges, sitting against Zhanchii mountain and facing the Double-Pillar peaks. No cities dizzy noise and ostentation and free of any vanity, WTKFA brings with people the return-to-home happiness and peacefulness. To be retrospective of the ancient times and the disappeared personalities is easy for people to have sigh with different emotions.
Serving as
affiliation organization under Mt. Wudang Taoism Kung Fu Association and Wudang Taoism Association, WTKFA has been long getting involved in teaching authentic
Wudang Kung Fu arts, searching for old and secret Kung Fu forms,
encouraging more talented Kung Fu masters to pass on their treasure
experience and knowledge and compiling more books and notes to record
valuable materials. Now, Zhong Yunlong, the director of WTKFA, is one of the most famous inheritor of Wudang Five Elements Inner Kung Fu Arts and Wudang Primeval Tai Chi Boxing.
WTKFA
now owns a new inner-house training gymnasium, at around 870 square
meters wide. It successfully solves the problem that students cannot
train in rainy days. In sunny days, students can go outside in the
court to have their daily training. Besides such basic infrastructure,
dormitory and collective restaurant are available for receiving
Chinese and foreign practitioners.
WTKFA has successfully trained hundreds talented Wudang Kung Fu
practitioners. In the same time, WTKFA sponsors researching mission
to look for treasure Wudang Kung Fu Arts forms. Thus WTKFA
contributes a lot to the development of Wudang
Kung Fu arts and Taoism theory. Especially, the Wudang Pure-Yang Boxing, Tai Yee Five elements
Kung Fu, Simplified 29-form Wudang boxing, Five
Element Boxing of Dayie School, Wudang 7-Direction Bamboo Stick
are very famous in Kung Fu circle and have won the many certificates
of Excellent Traditional Kung Fu Arts From National Martial Arts Association.
The
great master of Primeval San Feng Tai Chi, now begins to transfer his skills which is regarded as the great treasure
by Kung Fu circle. Also the Youth-Retaining Qigong gained much
praise by president of National Kung Fu Association.
Now, more foreign practitioners are coming to learn Wudang Kung
Fu at WTKFA. We will always do our best to serve their practical
needs.
Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy now has eight competent Kung Fu coaches
-- who received special training for years with Liu Deyi and Liu
Lee Hang and other Wudang Kung Fu masters —teaching more than
30 kinds of Kung Fu forms sets and other subjects as follows:
3. Curriculum Table
We offer comprehensive studying course covering Kungfu form sets, Chi Kung and subjects typically featured by Chinese culture. For more information please click here
Weapon Play Routines include: 1) sabre 2) spear 3) sword 4) cudgel 5) halbert 6) axe 7) hook 8) fork 9) whip 10) mace 11) hammer 12) talon 13) trident-halberd 14) long-handled spear 15) sectioned stick 16) meteor hammer 17) lance 18) rake 19) pricks.
Please click here to read the curriculum introduction in details.
4. Class and Relevant Costs at Mountain School
Classes
for above-mentioned Kung Fu forms are taught every
month, each session lasting one week, one month, three months, six
months and one year or any duration as students demand. All tuition fee, accommodation and food costs
included, the monthly costs is CNY 6,000. For study less than 10 days the cost is CNY 350 per day (To know the currency exchange rate please visit http://coinmill.com/). Also, long term study are welcome
and the costs can be lowered accordingly to meet most students practical
conditions. Please feel free to contact us for information in detail.
The costs includes the lodging in the student dorm which is attached
to the training hall, all meals 3X a day, daily training with the
teacher in a private and group format 3 times a day in the arts
of students' choice, and use of the facilities such as weapons,
training gear, stone weights and sandbags. This also includes the
guided tours and outings to the surrounding mountain Taoist temple
areas by the teachers from time to time.
5. Six-Day Residing with Dao
Want to find a place where you can put down all afflictions while experiencing primitive Taoist life; where you can keep far away from the uproariousness derived from so-called civilization; where you can experience the religious life kept secret for thousands of years; where you can walk close to the realm envisioned by the great classic Tao The Ching and Chuang Tzu; where you can become a simple guy borne with no obligation except basic activity for keeping a simple life roaming freely between heaven and earth; where you can have a free excursion between layers of layers of green mountains and pure waters; where you can have in-depth perception towards the concept of being free of any conceptualization of good, bad, right, wrong, beauty, ugliness, advancement, withdrawal and so on; where you can well understand why the simplicity and serenity can make you embrace more of the universe while you gaining nothing in actuality.
Under the sponsorship by Wudang Taoism Association here we initiate the program six-day residing with Dao, aiming to bring attendants personal experience in terms of Taoist daily life, including early morning Taoist group chanting class, doing daily rituals, doing clearing of temples, reading Taoism classics, listening to lectures on Taoism and inner alchemy, making herbal medicine, catching water by carrying on shoulder with a pole, watering vegetable field, picking vegetables, cooking Taoist food, doing Tai Chi Chuan, doing simple Kungfu forms, doing noon sleep, picking tea leaves, going hiking, holding evening Taoist ritual class, chanting scriptures and so on...Fro more information please click here
6. Other Things Commanding Attention
- So, foreign students are welcome to contact us for details if they have interest in such arrangement. For one month long study please apply for a tourist visa; for more than one month of study please apply for visit visa (type F) with our invitation letter sent via mail or Email in PDF format. Visit visa is easy to be extended for one year long or more here in Wudang.
- Foreign students who plan to study less than 3 months can receive 1 day teaching and stay for free in school before deciding to continue with the study or return home or go to other places, which also means they have the option to decide to pay or refuse to pay after 1 day of training and stay in kungfu school. Food and accommodation are provided for free in standard during such trying period. For students who plan to study more than 3 months they are provided with 2 days of free training and stay in school.
- The Academy is open and run all year long with no long holiday.
Our service agents stationed in Beijing, Wuhan can help to pick up foreign practitioners from airports and arrange their travel to Mt. Wudang. For more information in detail, please feel free to contact Mr. Wang Tao Email: contact us
Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy
Purple Heaven Palace
Mount Wudang Scenery Zone
ShiYan City, Hubei Province, China 442714
Tel: 0086-152-4242-9365 (foreign)
Tel: (0)-152-4242-9365 (domestic)
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