The Art of Wing Chun
Wing Chun remains a personal defense system, even thought more than four centuries have passed since its creation. It is fast, explosive, and more importantly, effective with economic movents for street fighting. One of its most important features is the consecutive attacks directed at what is called “central line,” attacking the most vulnerable points in the human body.
The Shaolin Monastery
The Shaolin MonasteryThe Shaolin Monastery and Shaolin Boxing By Xin Yi and Xu Zhao Modernization sometimes takes strange paths. Right now, a movie is being filmed about the Shaolin Monastery of the Henan Province, the birthplace of Chan Buddhism. That is not completely preposterous, since the monastery is also the birthplace of Shaolin Boxing, a [...]
The Eightfold Path and the Wheel of Dharma
The Eightfold Path and the Wheel of DharmaPublished in Kung Fu Magazine Issue #2 The Eightfold PathAnd The Wheel of Dharma By Shi Heng Tue (Israel Villanueva) KungFuLegacy.org To talk about self-transcendence is to talk about spirituality. To talk about spirituality is to talk about diversity, and in the diversity there are endless possibilities [...]
The Story of Bodhidharma
The Story of Bodhidharma In 495 AD, the Indian monk Ba Tuo, or Buddhabhadra, came to China teaching a form of Buddhism known as Xiao Cheng Buddhism. He was given land at the foot of Shaoshi mountain by Emperor Shao Wen and founded the Shaolin Temple on this land. Around the time that Ba Tuo [...]
