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Classic Shaolin Kung Fu Tai-Chi Chuan, Wooden Man And Qi-Kung Training

Authentic Shaolin Kung Fu Systems and Training at the Chinese Shaolin Centers for Martial Arts

My Life Changed for The Better Ever Since Joining Kung Fu

"One of the best things to ever happen to me in my life was starting classes at the Denver Chinese Shaolin Center Kung Fu School. I have always had an enourmous interest in Kung Fu ever since I was a young boy living in New York. Every Saturday at 3'Oclock in New York City, Fox Channel 5 would run their infamous KUNG FU THEATER and play classic Kung Fu movies like The 5 deadly Venoms, Shaolin Vs Ninja, Gordon Liu's 36th Chamber, Jacki Chan's Drunken Master , Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon , The ever entertaining Sh Nuff in the Last Dragon and many more. This of course peeked my interest, and apparently helped spark the entire breakdance movement as well with many of the moves inspired from movements in these classic movies and classic kung fu forms. Kung Fu Theater also influenced the New York Hip Hop Scene and many years later The Wutang Clan would sample many of these same movies to create their unique brand of underground Hip Hop.

Naturally as a kid I wanted to study Kung Fu. The expense of most Martial Arts Schools in New York and being a kid not really knowing what to look for made it difficult to know where to look for training as well. I guess if I had badgered my mom enough I could have started much earlier. She did place me in a Karate School at one point when one of her friends started teaching classes in a dance studio but I was only in there for a month (It was too expensive at the time) the blocks I learned did come in handy one time when another kid ended up breaking a stick over my forearm while trying to attack me in the park. In any case, I later discovered the Chinese Shaolin Center in Denver Colorado, I discovered it as part of my bus routte from my summer job at Elitches when I was 18 years old. I would pass the sign that read Kung Fu and would peek through the window as the bus passed by. I'm not even sure if I ever actually stopped in til much later, but I know when

I must have passed by the school at least 7-8 times after my first initial visit cause I collected 8-10 different information flyers over the years until one day I finally joined. I Joined in 1996 at the age of 22 and have enjoyed all these years of training immensly. My only question to myself now is... why did you wait so long dummy?

It must have been a huge combination of things that kept me from joining earlier, financial, time restraints, shyness and fear, and perhaps just plain silliness as I was looking specifically for Drunken Monkey and monkey forms and I didn't read the line on the brochure that read "this is only a partial list of the forms taught..." LOL. It would take a particular line from a movie to finally make me say... that's it I'm in! As I watched Return of the 18 Bronze Men and one man wispered "Master you can't beat him, the boy's from Shaolin" That made me grab the brochures I had collected over the years and look over them again to see their class times so I could go the next time they were open. I watched the movie and the training scenes then watched "Shaolin Mantis" and became entharlled with the mantis fighting system. I looked again on the brochure and sure enough Mantis was listed as one of the forms they taught, BOGO bonus points, now I definitely had to join! I signed up that Tuseday and they had a special festival on Sunday teaching Ying Jow Naw "the Eagle Claw form" I asked Master David if signing up for that form would even make sense since I was so new, he said sure anyone can learn, I took that class and was so glad I did as it helped speed up my learning ability as a lower belt and gave me some more advanced techniques to utilize in sparring as well. I practiced that form from White belt all the way through green belt before the other material started to overwhelm me and I gave it up while concentrating on all my other material. Then the Eagle Claw form was taught again when I was a brown belt and the refresher inspired me to practice it again. Over the years I've learned so many different styles and have had so many great experiances training with fellow Shaolin Students.

My life was ultimately changed for the better because of the one day that I finally decided to take action and join the school. If only they had offered me one of the coupons below when I walked into the school the first time... If I had a chance to try kung fu free for a month I would have been hooked the very first time. For me Shaolin Kung Fu is very much like my earlier favorite activities, Skateboarding , DJing and Playing Chess. In each of these activities you practice for hours, days, months and years to master certain movements and adapt them to work in various situations. In Chess and in Kung Fu Sparring you learn the art of deception and strategy, how to manuever your attacks to strike with precision and defend with deadly counter strikes, you also learn to plan ahead yet remain willing to modify your strategy as the situation calls. As a DJ or as a martial artist you learn to be creative and combine things in infinate variations to create a style that is uniquely your own. Both Skatboarding and Kung Fu require balance and understanding of the laws of nature and physics and both will increase your endurance, balance, stamina, lung capacity, leg strength and agility. - DJ Emir Santana 4th Degree Black Belt (Denver School)

Kung Fu Styles Taught At The Chinese Shaolin Kung Fu Schools:

The Kung Fu knowledge taught at the Chinese Shao-Lin Centers, which are under the direction of 9th Degree Elder Masters David & Sharon Soard , is comprised of various colorful styles of skill and training, making up the Shao-Lin system available today!

Some of the styles within the Shaolin Art include:

• Northern and Southern Fist (Pei Chuan / Nan Chuan)

• Drunken Fist (Pa Hsien-8 Immortals)

• Chin Na (Joint Locks, Holds & Their Counters)

Kung Fu Styles Derived from studing the animals, such as:

• Black Tiger (Hei Chuan)

• White Crane (Pai Hao)

• Monkey (Hou Chuan)

• Preying Mantis (Tang Lang)

• Eagle Claw (Ying Jow Naw) 

• Classical Kung Fu forms, such as:

• Tiger/Crane form (He/Hu Suang Hsing)

• Shao-Lin Original Five Animal form (Shao-Lin U Hsing Chuan)

• Hua Fist (Hua Fist Roads 1-4, 2person Set 1 &2, 9 Ring Broad Sword)

Also, within the Shaolin system are Classical Weapons, such as:

• the Monk's Staff (Pang)

• the Broadsword (Tao)

• the Kwan Tao

• the Spear (Chiang)

• the Double-edged Sword (Chien)

• the Tiger Hook Swords (Hu Tou Gou)

• the Butterfly Swords (Tie' Tao)

• the Iron Fan (San)

• the 3-Sectional Staff (San Chie Kuen)

• the 9- Sectional Steel Whip (Chou Chie San Pien)
  

• Note: This is only a brief listing and does not include many other areas of training that are also taught at each Chinese Shaolin Center.  For more info Click on web link Below:

• Shaolin Kung Fu www.shao-lin.com

• The Shao-Lin Art is also unique for it's depth of Internal fighting systems, meditation and Chi-Kung Training:

• Internal Fighting Styles:
  

• • Tai Chi Chuan (Grand Ultimate Fist)

  • Chen Style Original Old Frame 83 Posture Chen Tai Chi
  • 24 Posture Tai Chi
  • Yang Style Tai Chi
  • Tai Chi Broadword
  • Tai Chi Broadsword Vs Broadsword Two Person Fighting set
  • Chen Style Tai Chi Fan Form
  • Tai Chi Spear
  • Blindfold Tai Chi Push Hands Training
  • Tai Chi Straight Sword and more

• • Pa Kua Chang (Bagua Chang 8 Changes of the Palms)

  • Dragon Pakua
  • Original Classical pakua (Original180 Posture Form)
  • 8 Animal Pakua
  • Snake Bagau
  • Pakua Sun And Moon Forks
  • Pakua Staff
  • Pakua Spear
  • Pakua Applications and foot work training
  • Pakua 2 Person Fighting set and more

• • Hsing I Chuan (Mind/Form Fist)

  • Hsing I 5 Elements
  • Hsing-I Linkage Form
  • Hsing-I 12 Animals
  • Hsing-I 2 Person Fighting set

• • Fu Chia Chien( Buddha Family Fist)

• • Tien Sue (Pressure Point Fighting Sytem
    

    Liu Ching Chuan (Meteor Fist)
    

    again, to name a few styles taught at Shaolin

For more information about these and other styles of Kung Fu taught within the Shaolin Art, please come by and visit one of our Chinese Shao-Lin Centers, during class hours.

• Chi Kung Training & Meditation:

• Ta Mo's 49 I Chin Ching (Muscle-Tendon Change Classic)

• Hua To's Five Animal Play (Wu Hsing Chuan)

• Yueh Fei's 18 Continous Postures (Se Pa Kwan)

• Hsien Tien Chi

• Tai Chi Chuan

"Ah Ha You Lose- You fell for the oldest trick in the book"-Space Balls The movie

Technique Why It Matters: As Jedi Grandmaster Master Yoda would say "Too late the moment is, when you realize your technique is weak"

For a list of Possible Shaolin Kung Fu Schools in your area click below
www.shao-lin.com

Home Base Denver, CO
Head Instructors For Denver & Boulder:
David Soard and Sharon Soard
9th Degree Black Belt/ Red Belt Senior Elder Masters

Chinese Shaolin Center Denver Kung Fu School
7174 Washington St. Denver, CO. 80229
303-440-7609

These Days it's not as often that you are fighting off attackers, but more likely you are needing to fight off dibilitating diseases like Osteoperosis

Which can be fought off with Shaolin Iron Bone Training, Wooden Man and many of the various Shaolin Forms and Training exercises.