How to Train at Shaolin.com

In addition to the technique on this website, there are also the books we recommend, and the CD-ROMs we offer to assist in your training. 

BEGINNING STUDENTS - There are two types of basic techniques on this website. There are basic Shaolin techniques which are common to most Shaolin styles, and there are the basic techniques of each style.

Let us make this clear - the material on this site cannot supplant a qualified instructor. 

LEARNING SHAOLIN BASICS - Instructors of most Chinese kung fu styles will be able to assist the beginner in correct execution of the basic techniques described here, as should instructors of most martial arts. Once the Shaolin basics are performed to the specifications of a qualified instructor, the student can proceed to the basic techniques of a specific Shaolin kung fu style. 

LEARNING STYLE-SPECIFIC BASICS - The basic techniques of the individual Shaolin styles, e.g. Northern Praying Mantis or Southern Tiger, are best taught and perfected by a qualified instructor of that specific style. 

 

ADVANCED STUDENTS - As with any martial art, each of the Shaolin kung fu styles has both basic and advanced techniques and applications. Shaolin.com will eventually offer most basic and many advanced techniques for each of the kung fu styles described here. If you are already a student of one of the Shaolin styles described here, you will likely find either new forms here, or at least new applications for the forms you already know. 

Advanced martial arts practitioners seeking to learn a new style will still need to start with the basic Shaolin and specific style techniques until they become familiar. Forms and applications can then be learned with the more advanced applications, but again, qualified instruction is needed to approach true proficiency in any style. 

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