Shaolin Basic Skills assembles all the esoteric methods of practicing kung fu in Shaolin Temple. It consists of the exercise of techniques of hand, eye, body and foot and the combination of movements. Long-period practise of the Shaolin Basic Skills can provide you a firm base to further learning of the traditional Shaolin Boxing. In this program you can appreciate, understand, and learn from the wonderful Shaolin Basic Skills. unpredictable .

Brief Introduction: This boxing is created by the common efforts of Shaolin warrior monks of one generation after another. It uses the arms as the source of forces while keeping the palms, fists, elbows in quick movements. In barehanded combats, the player often sweeps his arms to attack the enemy. Foot movements often used are bow step, horse-riding step, crouch stance, push palms in bow steps, pat the feet and smash with the fists.

This is a practical routine in Shaolinquan. Movements such as plant, hammer and strike should be conducted forcefully and quickly as if he was fighting a tiger in a forest. While performing, you should move like the wind, stand like a nail with your eyes as bright as lightning, or flash your punches on the enemy. All of the movements are conducted almost in one breath.

Shaolin Mizong Quan is one of the most representative boxing in the Shaolin Wushu system. Being simplified and enriched by many generations of eminent monks, its content is more perfect and its structure is more compact. Shaolin Mizong Quan has its own unique characteristic: the movements are natural and extending; the forms are fierce, forceful, powerful, simple and unadorned; the hand techniques are unique; the foot techniques are changeable; it stresses on actual combat and is good at confusing the opponent by making a feint to one direction and attacking the other, then it can make the opponent at a loss. Practicing the Shaolin Mizong Quan frequently can have a special effect of improving your level of Kungfu and increasing your strength. 

Shaolin Eight Step Interlink Quan consists of two sections executed with eight steps, seven methods of fists, three methods of palm, four methods of leg and two methods of catching hold, one defensive posture and one ready posture and two repeat postures. This routine is short, quick, with clear attacking and defending and special change methods, has twenty-two changes in eight steps, and so we can see how strict its skill is.

This is a representative routine in the Shaolin Fist series. "Defending the heart," means keeping calm and peaceful, controlling your desires as if sitting still and meditating. The moves are preceded by complete stillness. The change from stillness to move takes place in the blink of an eye. One movement leads to another. Your attacks should be as heavy as Tai Mountain and your steps as light as a feather. Your energy and attention should be coordinates as one. The main techniques are forward lunge, horse stance, empty step, rest-stand step, crouching step, pushing palm, twisting hand, and pat the feet.

Brief Introduction: Fanzi Boxing is one of the Shaolin Boxing series. The player mainly uses the body movements such as side move, tumble and turn over, as if a dragon whirling in the cloud. The often used steps are horse-riding step and dragon step.

This form was created by Shaolin monks who adopted the essential movements of other schools, especially a hand form which is very popular in Northeastern China called Guangdong Quan (guandong refers to Northeastern China.) This form is very powerful. While performing, your fists and feet are used together with some blocking and some kicking. Each movement is made clearly. You quickly stretch, turn, advance, or withdraw while breathing in and out rhythmically. Frequently used techniques are twisting hand, pressing palm,rebounding fist, snatch, moving in forward lunge, horse stance, and crouching step.

Plum-blossom Quan is one of excellent routines of traditional Shaolin Wushu. Actions of this routine are decent, with integral structure and distinctive style. When performed or practiced, thrust in the front and strike at the back, jump from the left and fall to the right; the actions heave and set, being most changeful, and postures are interlinked. Because this routine looks like the shape of plum blossom, thus it is named plum-blossom quan, which is suitable for the person who has certain wushu base to perform or practise.

Qin Na is one of the four fight skill " kicking, hitting, throwing, (Na) catching" in Wushu. Its main way is to catch the tendon or twist joint, which let the adversary fold joints and hurt hardly, loosing his ability to resist. It contents thirty-two forms such as catching wrist, elbow, knee and head, etc. There are the fight skills that are particular for both catching and throwing.

Seven-star mantis quan is a kind of shape-simulating boxing, which was developed and compiled by Wang Lang, a boxer at early Qing Dynasty, applying the capturing and fighting skills of the two arms when he researched the scene of mantis capturing cicada. Later, Wang Lang stayed at Shaolin Temple for 3 years, and taught mantis boxing to the monks of this temple. White Ape Offering Fruit is one of the routines in seven-star mantis boxing, which uses the temper force with grace, both long and short actions, harmonious and consistent actions of the hands and feet, forthright rhythm, integral strength and complete force, the actions of hook, grad, twining and closing, being coherent, compact and most changeful.

Seven-star mantis quan is a kind of shape-simulating boxing, which was developed and compiled by Wang Lang, a boxer at early Qing Dynasty, applying the capturing and fighting skills of the two arms when he researched the scene of mantis capturing cicada. Later, Wang Lang stayed at Shaolin Temple for 3 years, and taught mantis boxing to the monks of this temple. White Ape Offering Fruit is one of the routines in seven-star mantis boxing, which uses the temper force with grace, both long and short actions, harmonious and consistent actions of the hands and feet, forthright rhythm, integral strength and complete force, the actions of hook, grad, twining and closing, being coherent, compact and most changeful.

Seven-star mantis quan is a kind of shape-simulating boxing, which was developed and compiled by Wang Lang, a boxer at early Qing Dynasty, applying the capturing and fighting skills of the two arms when he researched the scene of mantis capturing cicada. Later, Wang Lang stayed at Shaolin Temple for 3 years, and taught mantis boxing to the monks of this temple. White Ape Offering Fruit is one of the routines in seven-star mantis boxing, which uses the temper force with grace, both long and short actions, harmonious and consistent actions of the hands and feet, forthright rhythm, integral strength and complete force, the actions of hook, grad, twining and closing, being coherent, compact and most changeful.

Seven-star mantis quan is a kind of shape-simulating boxing, which was developed and compiled by Wang Lang, a boxer at early Qing Dynasty, applying the capturing and fighting skills of the two arms when he researched the scene of mantis capturing cicada. Later, Wang Lang stayed at Shaolin Temple for 3 years, and taught mantis boxing to the monks of this temple. White Ape Offering Fruit is one of the routines in seven-star mantis boxing, which uses the temper force with grace, both long and short actions, harmonious and consistent actions of the hands and feet, forthright rhythm, integral strength and complete force, the actions of hook, grad, twining and closing, being coherent, compact and most changeful.

Taizu Quan (Taizu Boxing) is one of the chief boxing styles in traditional Chinese Wushu and Taizu Changquan is one of the eighteen Shaolin styles. It is said that Taizu Quan is honored as No One boxing because it was created by Song Taizu (the first emperor of the Song dynasty).He created sixteen routines of Chang Quan .However six routines such as Hua Quan, Hua Quan -Routine I and Hua Quan-Routine II .This disc demonstrates some routines such as Taizu Chang Quan and Short Cudgel to the Kung fu players. Click picture for more info and to buy.

The Dragon Springs Sword is one of the excellent routine in traditional Shaolin wushu. It has long history and its movements are plain and simple, without any specious postures and with strong power. While practicing, it looks very elegant and nice. It requires outside and inside of the body to be coherent, and the thought goes along with the posture. The posture changes with the body moves. You should pay attention to the change of the sword-finger and sword technique, thus you can show the elegance of " sword like a flying phoenix". The posture would be more fluent, bold and unconstrained with hard and soft assisting each other.

Guaizi is the unique weapon belongs to Shaolin .It is divided into many routines for building up body mainly. ancestors of Shaolin develop it into a unique weapon which only exist in Shaolin to defeat the spear .The main motions are splitting ,turning ,hooking ,sweeping ,pressing etc.   Guaizi summarizes spear's characteristics and learns from spear's strong points to offset its own weaknesses.

Meteor hammer is one of soft weapon of Shaolin .It is convenient to be carried and difficult to find as a rope during the journey. But it is the weapon that most difficult to practice.Practicers should train diligently for a long time .It has great power as a big iron hammer when played to be a straight line like rod and spear ..

Shi Debiao, The 31st generation Disciple of Shaolin Temple, person we said that can throw thousands of darts in one time. He learned Wushu handed down from his ancestors when he was just a little boy, and then he treated Suxi master, the abbot of Shaolin Temple as his teacher, and began to learn the authentic Shaolin Kongfu, He joined this Kung fu with every kinds of weapons and make these weapons to raise to a new level, and he is praised by Wushu area people and audiences. It is good to practice this set for keeping body agile when exercising the hidden weapons.

Shi Debiao, The 31st generation Disciple of Shaolin Temple, person we said that can throw thousands of darts in one time. He learned Wushu handed down from his ancestors when he was just a little boy, and then he treated Suxi master, the abbot of Shaolin Temple as his teacher, and began to learn the authentic Shaolin Kongfu, He joined this Kung fu with every kinds of weapons and make these weapons to raise to a new level, and he is praised by Wushu area people and audiences. It is good to practice this set for keeping body agile when exercising the hidden weapons.

This sword play was created and passed on by Bodhidharma , the first India monk who came to the Shaolin Temple (Where he established and preached Zen Buddhism ). Zen means meditation. This sword is performed as if sitting in meditation. Attacks are hidden and produced in stillness. You should take every opportunity to attack suddenly. In real combat, you should repeat the use of chop or thrust, keep still, drive your force to the tip of the sword, and focus your attention as if you were in meditation. Often used techniques are swing in figure-eight pattern, thrust, cloud , and chop .

Shaolin Chunqiu (Spring-Autumn) Falchion is one of the traditional weapons of Shaolin which belongs to long weapon, the whole movement is compact with rational structure, its content is abundance, the movement is simple and smooth. The main methods of falchion are cutting, chopping, uppercutting, hanging, picking, clouding and sweeping, the whole movement shows the characteristic that the extending and quick movement and the grand power, suitable for exercisers who have a certain basic skill.

Shaolin Convenience Spade belongs to the traditional long weapons of Shaolin wushu. The shaolin spade was used by the Shaolin wushu monk when they went out. Since passed down, it is simple, plain and unsophisticated; its movements are of extensive postures and the structures are compact. Its style is particular with forceful vigor and power. Its footwork and foot technique are unique and wonderful which make you feel full of heroic spirit.

Shaolin Damo Sword is one of the excellent traditional routine of Shaolin wushu, its main skills are cutting, pointing, uppercut, smearing, twisting, blocking, tilting, hanging, piercing, chopping and sweeping and wrist shearing flourish. When demonstrating, it needs the linking up of inside and outside, the coordination of esprit and form, moving body when putting out the postures, changing forms when changing methods, pay attention to the coordination between sword-fingers and methods of sword, show the beauty that moving the sword like a flying phoenix, and the smooth, soft and firm power.

The double spears have peculiar features. Each spear has two heads, so the practitioners can attack in four directions. The two spears coordinate well, often with one attacking and the other defending. The spears are swung quickly enough to dazzle the enemy and attack at the first sigh of weakness. Often used techniques are cloud, thrust, swing with figure-8, and press. movements are sweep in a figure-8 form, chop, point, block and thrust.

Shaolin staff is an important part of Shaolin Wushu, after the thirteen monks with staff saved the king of dynasty Tang, it's more famous than before. Shaolin Five-tiger Fighting Sheep staff's method of staff is variety, and the main skills are sweeping, poking, clouding, supporting, uppercutting, jabbing, chopping, circling figures, picking and pointing, even the picking, pointing and jabbing have more methods of staff, it's a rare and precious routine.

Shaolin Five-tiger Killing Sheep Broadsword is a most common weapon in the Shaolin wushu weapons. Its movements are swift and fierce, powerful and forceful; every posture is hard to defend and every form has profound meaning. Its movements have strong function of attacking and defending with strong fighting skill. It is an excellent set that is easy to learn and understand.