OVERVIEW OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SERIES
January to June 2014
| January | February | March | April | May | June |
January
January 2014 Part 1
"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 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
Modern wushu is a magnificent art, but it is different from traditional kungfu.
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February
February 2014 Part 1
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
May 2014 Part 2
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
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
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
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
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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