Sifu Shi Sugang's Shaolin Temple Wushu School
Below you will find the contents of the original leaflet containing the training program as available from sifu Shi Sugang's school in Hedan, China - courtesy of Shaolin Roermond.
Giel Puts, sifu of traditional Shaolin kung fu school "Shaolin Roermond" in the Netherlands, has visited China on two occasions and trained under sifu Shi Sugang during both visits.
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Shaolin Temple Sugang Wushu School Training Program
Content of Courses
1. Shaolin different forms and weapons
2. Skills of Shaolin: kicking, beating, tumbling, catching
3. Shaolin Qigong skills
4. Forms and weapons provided by the state
5. Taiji Boxing and Taiji weapons
6. "Thirteen Postures" as Taiji ancestor
Characteristiscs and demands of different forms and weapons
1. Shaolin Boxing
The main characteristic is that the practitioner keeps a good spirit to practice the internal and external three joins and combine them into one. The internal three joins mean: mind and heart, mind and breath, breath and force are joined together. The external three joins means that hands and feet, elbows and knees, shoulders and hips are joined together. Another outstanding characteristic is to keep the internal quiet and the external fierce, combine hardness with softness, simple and unadorned. The practitioner works on a straight line. This means that his movements of advancing, retreating, turning, sideways or jumping are restrained to one line. His arms are kept slightly bent, so that he can stretch out to attack or withdraw for self defence freely. He should know how to make feint strikes and when striking, hit the vital parts of the opponent. Hi movements should be as dexterous as a cat, his striking as lightning, using his hands like canonballs, shaking his body like a tiger, moving like a dragon and his yelling like thunder.
2. Shaolin skills
The movements of kicking, beating, tumbling and catching are required to be dexterous, quick, fierce and stable. The practitioner should know how to grasp the chance to attack the opponent. He should be able to free (uncatch) himself when catched. That is to say: Catching is having uncatching.
3. Shaolin Mozhou Bafa (8 movements of using elbows)
1. Sneak-attack elbows
2. Elbows piercing into the heart
3. Elbows turning around
4. Shears elbows
5. Elbows enclosing the body
6. Shears elbows facing the sky
7. Face-to-face elbows
8. Elbows taking ones life
4. Shaolin break soul palm
1. Lion Opening the mouth
2. Children worshipping Buddha
3. Broadsword lifted horizontally cutting the neck
4. Wood chopper cutting firewood
5. Wusong bumping against handcuffs
6. Pursuing snake into the cave
7. Little devil knocking on the door
8. Celestial picking melon
9. Iron Fan near the door
10. Palm of cleaving hills
11. Buddha's warrior patting the top of the head
12. Rolling back the enemy
5. Shaolin pursuit-soul legs
1. Overload sneak attack
2. Wild horse turning back the head
3. Arhat Falling down the mountain
4. Buddha's warrior sweeping the floor
5. Buddha's warrior defeated for attack
6. Buddha's warrior being regardless of the opponents attack
7. White horse galloping the feet
8. Black whirlwind
9. Devils knees
10. Buddha's warrior sweeping outside
11. Buddha's warrior putting down the robber
12. Snake going out of the cave top
Forms provided by the state
According to the match's rules, the movents are required to be of a high skilled, flexible and beautiful standard.
Taiji Boxing
At first you learn to know "Yin and "yang" The demands for Taiji Boxing: Relax the chest and raise the back, enclose the crotch and relax the hip; sink the shoulders and drop the elbows, use the waist as an axle to promote the body movements to be slick. no letting go and no releasing; stick, connect, adhere and follow; alternate bending and extending Seek the straight in the curved; yin and yang clearly demarcated knowing the energy is coming, changing and going back. Thirteen Postures as Taiji's ancestor is the technique of three teachings into one. I can reache the acme of perfection and miracle in the art of attack and defence, and resist disease, dipsle sickness, baptize marrow and bring longevity in health. Practising Taiji Boxing directed by the master can increase the speed of learning moves and other skills.
The Teaching Plan of Shaolin Temple Sugang Kungfu School
Course Content
Shaolin Boxing. National Compulsory Forms, Taiji Boxing. Other forms or weapons
- 200 Yuan RMB per person per day
Sanda, Wrestling, Freestyle, Hard Qigong, Qigong for Health, Shaolin Dali Skill, Baduanjin, Yijingjing
- 300 Yuan RMB per person per day
13 Shi, regtarded as "Ancestor of Taiji", is a special skill for marrow bone washing increasing life and actual combat
- 600 Yuan RMB per person per day
Catch, Uncatch, Shaolin Soulbroken Palm, Shaolin Soulpursued leg. Mosibafa
- learning a movement pay 800 yuan RMB per person
Notes
1. Training 4 hours every day, that is 2 hours in the morning,
2 hours in the afternoon.
2. The costs include food, lodging and training.
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As far as we are aware it is not possible to contact sifu Shi Sugang or a respresentative by email for questions regarding training at his wushu school.
If you do have any questions, please feel free to contact Giel Puts from Shaolin Roermond and he will do his best to help you out and answer any questions you may have:
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