SELECTONS FROM SHAOLIN WAHNAM VIRTUAL KWOON AND DISCUSSION FORUM
Sifu Wong explaining spiritual joy during a discussion at an intensive course
There are many interesting and informative posts in our Shaolin Wahnam Virtual Kwoon and Discussion Forum. Some selected writings are reproduced in this section.
- Scattered Sakura Petals
- The Miraculous Made Manifest in Minutes
- Satori and Solitude in Silent Standing
- Discovery During Dinner Time Dialogue
- An Amazing Course Ranging from Beginners' to Masters' Levels
- Non-Resistance and Moving in Stance
- What a Wonderful Course
- Five Factors for Consideration when Moving in Stances
- Capturing the Feeling of the Course
- An Undescribtable Deep Connection with All Human Beings and Life
- Good Thoughts, Words and Deeds in our Daily Lives
- Good Deeds
- When you Give, your Open your Heart and your Spirit Expands
- Good Words
- Good Thoughts
- Don't Drive with the Brakes On
- Living Everyday to Open Your Heart
- Opening Your Heart to Cosmic Reality
- Evolution: the Monkey Perspective
- Bringing Inspiration and Hope to Those who Suffer from So-Called Incurable Diseases
- Can Cancer be Cured?
- Is Biotic Telling the Truth or Telling Lies?
- Why do I Choose to Train with Grandmaster Wong?
- Part 1: Can the Tiger Claw be used against any Grappling Attacks?
- Part 2: Tiger Claw and Chin-Na
- Part 3: The Formidable Tiger Claw
- Part 4: A Master?s Advice on Ground-Fighting
- Part 5: Kungfu is not just Combat, it is also Spiritual
- Part 6: Secrets of the Tiger-Claw
- Part 7: Tiger-Claws and Counters against Pin-Downs
- Part 8: True Kungfu Masters are Not Interested in Fighting Competitions
- Part 1: What is Genuine, Traditional Taijiquan?
- Part 2: And Now You Back Down
- Part 3: Shen-Fa or Body-Movement and Other Principles of Genuine, Traditional Taijiquan
- Part 4: Calling a Cow a Horse
- Part 5: The Reality of Chi and Internal Force
- Part 6: Could Yang Lu Chan Defeat Modern Ultimate Fighting Arts Fighters
- Part 7: Chi and Internal Force in Genuine, Traditional Taijiquan
- Part 8: It is Amazing some Instructors would Miss an Opportunity than Learn from another Master
- Part 9: On Principles, Stances, Force and Age in Taijiquan
- Part 10: In Genuine Kungfu, Size, Weight, Age and Sex are Not Decisive Factors in Combat
- Part 11: How to Improve your Mental Clarity
- Part 12: Boxing is Boxing, Taijiquan is Taijiquan
- Part 13: The Benefits Students Get from Kaitan?s Taijiquan and from Wahnam Taijiquan
- Part 14: Harmonious Chi has a place Everywhere, and Internal Force is Real
- Part 15: Some Interesting Questions on Internal Force
- Part 16: Internal Force is an Essential Part of Genuine, Traditional Taijiquan
- Part 17: Is Kaitain?s Taijiquan or Wahnam Taijiquan genuine, traditional Taijiquan
- Part 18: Cloud Hands, Silk Reeling and Grasping Sparrow's Tail
- Part 1: Bruce Lee and Chinese Martial Arts
- Part 2: Ignorance Concerning Internal Force and Combat Application
- Part 3: Are Stances Important, and Is Chi an Out-Dated Term?
- Part 4: Duty to Point Out Mis-Information for Benefit of Students
- Part 5: Chinese Martial Arts and Spiritual Cultivation
- Part 6: Stance Training and Mental Clarity
- Part 7: A Lesson on Mental Clarity and Coherent Presentation
- Part 8: Principles and Practice, Insight and Integrity
- Part 9: Restoring the Former Glory of Kungfu
- Part 10: Chi is Real
- Part 11: Modernized Wushu is Different from Traditional Kungfu
- Part 12: Don't Throw Away your Legacy
- Part 1: Covering Six Months' Material in Just Six Hours
- Part 2: Some Special Advantages of Wahnam Training
- Part 3: The Previous Days are All Starting to Emerge into One
- Part 4: Practicing Shaolin Kungfu as Taijiquan
- Part 5: Your Defeat you Hand to your Opponent, Your Victory you Create Yourself
- Part 6: The Frying Point
- Part 7: Amazing Experiences of Internal Force
- Part 8: I Couldn?t Have Asked for a More Wonderful Experience
- Part 1: Make Every Movement a Masterpiece
- Part 2: The Secret lies not in the Form but in the Application
- Part 3: The Three Secrets
- Part 4: An Inexplicable Sence of Humbleness and Inspiration
- Part 5: Relaxing at the Horse-Riding Stance
- Part 6: The Secrets are found in the Basics
- Part 1: The Concept and Technique of Yielding
- Part 2: Following the Opponent's Momentum
- Part 3: Kungfu Sets and their Movements
- Part 4: Yielding, Deflecting and Countering in One Continuous Process
- Part 5: Yielding in Shaolin Kungfu and Wahnam Taijiquan
- Part 6: Meaningful Flow of Energy in Shaolin Kungfu and Wahnam Taijiquan
- Part 7: The Mark of a Master
- Part 8: Throwing an Opponent within Three Seconds
- Part 9: Counter against the Pull
- Part 10: Can One Yield and Counter in Three Seconds or Less?
- Part 11: Is the Technique in the Video Similar to that in the Pictures?
- Part 12: Being Tolerant and Courageous
- Part 13: Counters against Boxers' Fast Jabs
- Part 14: Punch Below Sleeves and Jade Girl Threads Shuttle
- Part 15: Is there a Missing Step?
- Part 16: From the Ridiculous to the Absurd
- Part 17: Different Benefits and the Intriguing Missing Step
- Part 18: One-Second Throws and Big-Movement Releases
- Part 19: A Taijiquan Pattern to Counter All Kicks
- Part 20: Whips and Tigers
- Part 21: Mistaking Pressing for Yielding
- Part 22: A Discussion on Felling Techniques and their Counters
- Part 23: Some Examples of Yielding in Shaolin Kungfu
- Part 24: In Search of Kungfu Secrets
- Part 25: Golden Star, Yellow Bee and Being Insubstantial
- Part 26: Not Difference in Techniques but Difference in Skills
- Special Shaolin Kungfu Course — Experiences
- Taijiquan — Class of 2006
- The Student as Part of the Perfect Equation — Sifu Andrew Barnett
- Does it Matter What Style of Taijiquan You Do? — Sifu Michael Durkin
- A Discussion of Shaolin Kung Fu Combat Philosophy — Sifu Andrew Barnett
- Personal Experiences of Internal Force — Sifu Anthony Korahais
- Step by Step to Happiness — Chris Holms
- Seeing the Diamond and Not the Rough — Michael Chow
- Why I Train with Sifu — Sifu Mark Appleford
- The Shaolin Arts are Not merely for Cultivating Martial Arts — Sifu Emiko Hsuen
- How could CFQ people say that practicing kungfu brings bad karma? - Sifu Rama
- Belittling and Betraying Sifu Wong and Shaolin Wahnam - Sifu Darryl Collett
- My Own Experience of CFQ ? Cymon
- Inadequacy of an Un-inherited System — Sifu Andrew Barnett
- CFQ: The Facts — Sifu Joan Browne
- Helping Others to Avoid What Happened to Me — Sifu Anthony Korahais
- Running — Jamie, Charles, Hubert, Drunken Boxer
- Internal Force: How Can You be Sure? — Anthony Korahais
- Kungfu: a Karmic Burden? — Andrew and Darryl
- Sifu Wong's Skill, Teaching Method and Personality — Franciskus
- Chi Kung and Academic Excellence — Alex
- Good Training — Eddy Carr
- Expanded Awareness in Germany — Tim Franklin
- Amazing Benefits from Intensive Taijiquan Course in Toronto — Brendan O'Toole
- Wahnam Taijiquan and Noodle Making — Emiko Hsuen
- Tai Chi Chuan is a Wonderful, Complete Martial Art — Javier Galve
- Sparring and Internal Force — Jeffrey Segal
- Taijiquan Sparring — Daniel
- Sparring Without Protective Gear — Anthony Korahais
- The Tremendous Force of Sinew Metamorphosis — Fleur
- Chi Channeling — Andrew Barnett
- Different Ways of Moving Into an Opponent
- Flowingly Still — Darryl Collette
- Great Benefits — Joan Browne
- Bullshit in Chinese Martial Art? — Grandmaster Kai Uwe Jettkandt
- Non-Thought — Dan Hartwright
- Using Taijiquan Against Western Boxing — Jeffrey Segal
- Sparring Methodology ? Anthony Korahais