Shaolin quan (少林拳）

Shaolin basics theory and practice including customs, body posture, warm-up, fist forms, stances, stands, combination techniques, hands, and eye training, waist training, pelvic training, footwork, and isometric training.

Jumps and rolls allows a practitioner to master the basic skills of Wushu but also to enhance the flexibility and tenacity of joints of the lumbar vertebrae, ankles and wrists, improve the ability of ascertaining position in the air, vestibular balance, coordination and muscle flexibility.

Flexibility through stretching and power stretching, balance, and stability training. Stretching exercises keep the muscles, tendons, and ligaments flexible and supple. Increased balance and muscle coordination will increase the body’s control, agility, reaction times and overall body performance. The balance is crucial as we age because a fall can be sometimes fatal.

Power is developed using proper breathing, body strength, and posture. The body’s power is the muscle workout and a combination of breathing with an appropriate technique. Speed is crucial for self-defense—the routines and movements combined with breathing increase the speed. Body relaxation is a must to maximize speed as stiffness delays movement. Endurance represents the physical capacity to successfully use techniques after physical exertion. The work combined with Qi is the target for the advanced students.

Hard Qigong functions to tighten the muscles to release the strength and aims to reach the goal of abdominal breathing for Kung Fu training.
Hard Qigong combined with abdominal breathing and physical self-defense training increase the conditioned body’s pain tolerance capacity and cell density intensity.

The Shaolin Temple records registered 708 routines, out of which 552 are empty hand routines, 156 routines with weapons, and 72 unique skills, as well as controlling, combating, bone dislocating, hitting vital points, Qigong, and other Kung Fu exercises and practices.

Shaolin weapons include a standard ax, cudgel, spear, halberd, sword and broadsword, 3-section staff, dart, dagger, black tiger hammer, plum blossom broadsword, Bodhidharma staff, tiger hooks, and many others. These weapons are equally divided between short and long.

Shaolin Duawei Professional Training and Examination

Shaolin Health Care through Qigong, Meditation, Acupuncture and Meridian Theory.

Shaolin movements and routines include:

• Movement with stillness.
• The balance between Yin and Yang.
• Hardness and softness.
• The integration of mind and body. 

The routines tap deeply into the man’s body’s potential energy, such as Da Buanjin, Yi Jin Jing, and Xi Sui Jing.