Academy of Genuine Wudang Taoist KungFu - Taoist News

-------a program to pass on knowledge of both Kung Fu and Taoist philosophy
to cultivate qualified internaltional Wudang Kungfu desciples

 
The General
     At the request by Kungfu enthusiasts, Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy now initiates the long-term program for specifically cultivating international Wudang Kungfu disciples. We plan to recruit twenty overseas talented students who can endure the hardship to master the authentic Wudang Kungfu. Via a systematic and professional training program boasting teaching courses like martial arts, Taoism theory as well as Taoist health preservation approaches, foreign disciples can master authentic Wudang Martial Arts forms, the meditation approaches, Taoist thoughts and Taoism culture that have influenced China for thousands of years. Thereby, the Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Disciples can disseminate and carry forward what they have learnt to the world to fulfill the old saying, “let all mankind share 400 square kilometers Wudang culture together.”
 
The Requirements of Wudang Kung Fu Disciple:
1. Good conduct
2. Intelligent and kind-hearted 
3. Diligent

 

Charging Standards:
When you decide to participate, please pay 50% in advance, and pay for the other 50% (after admission) in Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy. All the expenses cover tuition, food and accommodation with 3-star hotel room accommodation
Two-year class: 85, 000. 00 CNY
Three-year class: 120, 000. 00 CNY
Four-year class: 150, 000. 00 CNY

 

Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy, which is the only Martial Arts school directly affiliated to Wudang Mountains Taoist Association, was founded in 1989. As a platform for dissemination, communication and learning of Taoist culture, its main teaching contents are Wudang Taoist Martial Arts and Taoist health preservation approaches. Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy is situated in the middle of the Wudang Mountains with the royal Purple Heaven Temple near in the east, Wudang road in the west, the Flying-Flag Peak behind and the peculiar Candle Peak in front. Surrounded by mountains, Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy boasts a beautiful environment and fresh air.  Depending upon traditional Taoist Martial Arts and culture resources, the Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy has cultivated thousands of Martial Arts talents from different countries and disseminated Wudang Martial Arts to the world in the past twenty years.
 
Faculty Resource
Wudang Taoist Kung Fu adopts the policy to pass on knowledge in all-out manner, for specifically cultivating capable international disciples. Therefore，all faculty are from the Taoist priests. Here we list them as follows:

1. Master Zhong Xueyong

 

 

 

2. Taoist Priest Guan Yongxing

 

 

3. Taoist Priest Pan Keming

 

 

4. Taoist Priest Yang Yulei

 

 

     The foreign students attending the program must accept 2 to 3 years' education(you can finish the study term continuously or discontinuously according to yourself ) in a closed environment. The biennium students who pass our examination will receive a standard course completion diploma. The trienniums students who pass the exam will receive an international disciple certificate which will be announced on our website. They can therefore officially teach Wudang Taoist Kung Fu in places around the world. Otherwise, our Academy won’t recognize their qualifications.

 

Training Location: The teaching course is mainly carried out in Purple Heaven Palace, Qiong Tai Temple and Five-dragon Palace on Wudang Mountains.
 
 

Purple Heaven Palace

 

Qiong Tai Temple

 

 

 

 

Five-dragon Palace

 

Class Tenure
Class begins on the 10th of October, 2009(yearly) 

Class Grades

1. Primary level— Great Infinity accomplishment or white uniform
2. Intermediate level—Two Emblematic Symbols Accomplishment or black uniform
3. Senior level—--Tai Chi accomplishment or white & black uniform (the upper uniform is white and the lower uniform is black)

Ceremony for Becoming Apprentice
Ceremony Procedure:
1. Wudang Taoist etiquette
2. Take an oath
3. Worship the superlative deity of Taoism
4. Tea-serving Rituals

The Curriculum for Primary Stage(one year)
 1. The ritual of Wudang Taoism
 2. Basic Skills of Wudang Kungfu

–Basic Skills:

Leg Pressing:
1) Stretch Leg from front         
2) Stretch Leg sideway  
3) Leg swing backward  
4) Tiptoes and feet upper surface stretch          
5) Shoulder stretch
6) Waist stretch  
7) legs splits   
8) Palm stretch 
9) Half lotus cross

Body Position
1) Waist turn over  
2) Swing arms in cycle
3) Movement combination  
4) Body positions adopted often in traditional form sets  
5) Carp Flip

Footwork:
1) Bow step  
2) Horse-riding step     
3) Crouch stance (crouch down on one leg and stretch the other leg sideways)
4) Empty step（Xu Bu）          
5)Sitting stance (Xie Bu)
6) T-shaped stance                
7) Sit-on-backward-leg step
8) Tai Chi step

3. The Content of Physical Training:
1) Spurts                     
2) High Leg Raising
3) Drop-hold Jumping          
4) Hop
5) Single Knee Lifting          
6) Push-ups
7) Push-up Jumping            
8) Squats and stands up 
9) Dorsal abdominal muscle training    
10) Backwards Running
11) Pull-ups               
12) Leg training with a heavy burden（squats、holding a person to spurt）
13) Change legs when lunge into jumping 
14) Leapfrogs
15) Upholding strength training (internal training)
16) Endurance Practice
17) Headstand

4. The Content of Standing Stake Work (Chuang Gong)
1) Tai Chi Hun Yuan Chuang     
2) Horse Stance Chuang  
3) Shing-I Chuang             
4) Meditation   
5) Eight-brocade Stretching Exercise

5. Kung Fu Teaching (regular curriculum)
Basic Boxing (in total of two routines, one-month duration)
Xuan Gong Boxing (in total of three routines, three-month duration)
Wudang SanFeng Tai Chi 18 Movements, 28 Movements, Shing-I Boxing (three-months duration)
 

6. Selective Curriculum (You can choose any two courses)
Xiang Long Fu Hu Boxing            
Xuan Zhen Boxing
Wudang San Feng Tai Chi Sword       
Xuan Gong Dao
Leg kicking 36 form sets (12 Routines)
Single slap kick, inside kick and draw kick, front and back kick with heel, inside crescent kick, lift foot, crescent kick, forward kick, twist kick, butterfly kick, flying kick with heel, kick with heel, side outer-edge kick

 

7. The Taoist Health Preservation（Regular Curriculum, 10 class hours）
Tai Chi Regimen               
Natural Regimen
The Six-character Formula (Liu Zi Jue)  

8. The Basic of Taoism Culture and Taoist Medicine
–  The history of Taoism development, the ritual of Taoism, the brief introduction of Taoism culture, and so on (5 class hours)
–  Zhou Yi (Book of Change), five elements theory, Eight-Diagram theory, the basics of Taoism medicine (30 class hours)
–  Classification, identification and application of common herbal medicine on Mt. Wudang, Wudang herbal medicine collection (30 class hours)
 
 The Curriculum for Intermediate Stage(two years)

    1.  Basic Routine Training (as same as with the corresponding part listed above in primary stage)
    2. Leg kicking of 36 Form Sets (12 Routines)
        Turn body kick, consecutive side snap kick, side kick, break rib kick, sweep rib kick, cross step and back kick, kick with  heel and break rib kick,            break chest kick, consecutive jumping side kick, high side kick, break knee kick
    3. The content of standing stake training  (Chuang Gong) 
        Imitating-Crane Standing Stake                  
        Five-Elements  Chuang
        Five-Form Qi Gong
    4.  Kung Fu (regular curriculum, half a year duration)
         San Feng Tai Chi 108 Movements         
         Eight Diagrams Palm
         Tai Yi Xuan Men Sword
    5.  Selective Curriculum (choose any among three courses)
          Ba Chi Boxing                  
          Tai He Boxing
          Tai Yi Wu Xing Boxing          
          Pu Dao (knife)
          Spike-tooth Rake               
          Nine-section Whip
     6.  The Taoism Classics (60 class hours)
          Taoist health preservation study, the Yellow Emperor's Book of Internal Medicine, Tao Te Ching (30 class hours), elementary courses of Taoist medicine, common disease diagnosis and how to make a prescription

The Curriculum for Senior Stage(three years)

     1. Leg Kicking, 36 Form Sets (12 Routines)
         Cross step and back kick, whirlwind kick, front kick with heel and back kick with tiptoe, side snap kick across face and   turn body kick, sweep kick, sideway kick, jump and break rib kick, break knee and rib kick, flying kick, inside kick and turn over kick, consecutive jump and side kick

     2. Kung Fu (Regular Curriculum, 8 months duration)
         Long Hua Boxing     
         Wudang Eight Immortals Stick      
         Wudang Eight Immortals Swordplay 
         Fang Bian Shovel (a kind of shovel)
     3. Selective Curriculum (choose two courses)
          Long-hilt scimitar                       
          Double hook
          Double sword                          
          Zi-Wu spear
          Drunken sword                                                                   
          Double whip
          Magic whip
      4.  The Taoism Philosophy ( 4 class hours every week)
            Lecture upon Tao Te Ching, Qing Jing Ching (20 class hours)
            Chuang Tzu, the Yellow Emperor's Book of Internal Medicine (60 class hours).

      5. Taoist medicine intermediate courses, the basic theory and practice of the four traditional methods of diagnosis:   observation, listening,  interrogation, and pulse-taking.
 
       6.  Selective Curriculum: please choose 4 new courses
            The Course of Taoist Health Preservation and Cultivate Morality (30 class hours):
             Taoist internal alchemy, discourse upon Understanding the Reality (Wu Zhen Pian), as well as Can Tong Qi.

 

Notes :

According to the practical learning of capacity, the international disciples are advised by their masters to take corresponding curriculum, to better develop all their learning potentials.

1. One class hour lasts 50 minutes.
2. There are 6 class hours of Kung Fu teaching everyday and every week there has one day off (subject to adjustment according to the summer and winter breaks).
3. The teaching of Taoist internal alchemy, Taoist medicine and Taoist classics can be carried out in a fixed period of each month (i.e. 1st – 10th of each month, for example).

4. If you are very interested in Chinese study, our academy can privide Chinese study as a supplementary course.   
 
The Registration via the following means:
Tel: 0086-719—5689185/5689011/5689022
Fax: 0086-719—5689033
Website: www.wudang.org   
E-mail: info@wudang.org 
Address: Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy, the Purple Heaven Palace, Mt. WuDang, Shi Yan City, Hubei Province, China.

Zip Code:442714