OVERVIEW OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SERIES
January to June 2014

January February March April May June

January

January 2014 Part 1

Uncle Righteousness, Sifu Lai Chin Wah

"Wahnam" are taken from the name of my two teachers, "Wah" from Sifu Lai Chin Wah, and "Nam" from Sifu Ho Fatt Nam.

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January 2014 Part 2

Chuo Jiao Kungfu

Chuo Jiao Kungfu is a Northern Shaolin style and is very beautiful to watch. It is not widely known, but is famous for its kicks.

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January 2014 Part 3

Immortal Li

Modern wushu is a magnificent art, but it is different from traditional kungfu.

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February

February 2014 Part 1

chi kung, qigong

We start every course by entering into a chi kung state of mind. Why? It is because by doing so, we attain results faster and more by a very big margin, probably more than 10 times!

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February 2014 Part 2

Sukhavati, the Western Paradise

Indeed, all the great discoveries in science right from Galileo's discovery that the world we live in is not the centre of the universe to latest discoveries in relativity and quantum physics have been told by the Buddha in sutras, though the writings in the sutras are very concise and without annotation not many people can understand them.

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February 2014 Part 3

Marshal Yue Fei

Yue Fei invented three kungfu styles, namely Eagle Claw Kungfu, Xingyiquan or Hsing Yi Kungfu, and Yue Jia Kungfu.

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March

March 2014 Part 1

spiral force

Many people mention that the basics are important, which is very true, but they do not really know what the basics are. There are many stages of basics, depending on one's developmental level.

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March 2014 Part 2

thrust kick against sweeping kick

Breathing has a direct impact on our force, stamina and mental performance. We in Shaolin Wahnam pay great importance to breathing methods, using the best method for a particular purpose. We have more than a dozen breathing methods.

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March 2014 Part 3

Black Tiger and Single Tiger

Precisely because instructors already know the techniques well, they can focus on deepening skills. Hence they get more benefits than beginners who have to struggle with learning techniques.

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April

April 2014 Part 1

Pushing Mountain

Pushing Mountain is excellent for developing internal force. It is indeed amazing that even master spending many years chasing after internal force end up disappointed, but our relative beginners can feel internal force after just one session of Pushing Mountain.

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April 2014 Part 2

Sifu Anthony Spinicchia

I am proud that our Shaolin Wahnam instructors and students are first class versions of themselves. Many have declared that they aim to be the best persons they can be.

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April 2014 Part 3

Grandmaster Wong and Sifu Anthony Spinicchia

We know we are practicing an exercise correctly when we have the effects practicing that exercise will give. At a longer scale, we know we are practicing an art correctly when we have the results practicing that art is meant to give.

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May

May 2014 Part 1

chi flow

If a person does not forgive, the first person he harms is he himself.

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May 2014 Part 2

shaolin kung fu

It is better to learn from a good teacher of a mediocre style than a bad teacher of a good style.

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May 2014 Part 3

Reverse Hanging of Double Hooks

Learning them from an incompetent teacher who himself has no internal force will result in students practicing them as physical exercis and not as internal exercise.

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June

June 2014 Part 1

good thoughts

Chi flow was a top secret. It was not explicitly explained in the past, like the way we do in our school.

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June 2014 Part 2

green dragon test claw

for developing internal force the Horse-Riding Stance is the most cost-effective for Shaolin Kungfu, the Three-Circle Stance the most cost-effective for Taijiquan, and the Green Dragon Stance the most cost-effective for Baguzzhang.

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June 2014 Part 3

praying mantis kungfu

Wang Lang fought with many masters in friendly sparring and collected the best from sixteen other styles. He combined them with his own original Praying Mantis Style and the Monkey Style to form the Eighteen Collection.

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