DRAGON STRENGTH IS NOT FOR AVERAGE STUDENTS
Intensive Shaolin Kungfu Course
Question
As Dragon Strength is Sifu’s pinnacle, would it be right to say that it is not for the average student, even of Shaolin Wahnam? What should a student have attained before attempting to learn and practice Dragon Strength? Should there be a minimum level of internal force, or familiarity with other type of kungfu forms? As Sifu has explained, to execute Dragon patterns, one’s 6 harmonies must be perfect.
Sifu Zhang Wuji
Answer
The Dragon Strength course in Penang in December is not for any students, not even any Shaolin Wahnam students. In any art a student has to be ready to receive the teaching and the benefits of the art.
Even at a basic level, when a student is not ready, like not following instructions, often due to his not paying attention or thinking he knows more than the teacher, he will not benefit from the teaching.
The same principle applies to chi kung healing. An example will illustrate this clearly. In my early years teaching in Barcelona, a woman who could not move her arm, despite having seen many doctors and paying expensive medical fees, came to me for help. She was not a course participant. She just came during a short break to have some free consultation.
To me hers was a simple case like dim mark. Energy was blocked from flowing to her hand to let it move. I opened her blocked vital points and soon she could move her arm on her own accord – all done within 15 minutes!
However, on her way out, she replaced her bandage on her arm, though earlier I told her to throw away the bandage. I knew she would not be able to move her arm again, as limiting her arm movement with the bandage would restore the energy blockage. Had she paid me an expensive fee, which was marginal compared to the benefit she got, she would regain the normal movement of her arm. Because it was free, she could not believe that the simple treatment work, despite personally moving her arm during the treatment!
This is one important reason why we charge high fees for our teaching and healing. It is an important point for our instructors and healers. Don’t waste your time on undeserving students and patients.
As very high-level skills are taught at the coming Dragon Strength course in just a few days, course participants must be ready to receive the teaching and benefits. A student should be able to generate energy flow and consolidate energy, and perform kungfu patterns with six harmonies. Being familiar with other types of force training is a great advantage. A minimum level is to have attended an Intensive Shaolin Kungfu Course or an Intensive Taijiquan Course, or to have attained equivalent abilities. I have rejected some applications that I believe do not fulfill these requirements.
On the other hand, if a student is ready to learn for a long time and a teacher is willing to teach him, the student can start from stratch. He will have to learn all the preliminary skills, like entering into a chi kung state of mind, basic stances and footwork, waist-rotation and body-movement, six harmonies, generating energy flow and consolidating force, before he can embark on the special skills incorporated in Dragon Strength.
If everything is perfect, including a perfect student and a perfect teacher, the students may acquire the special skills and their benefits in five years. But most things are not perfect. He should be considered lucky if he could acquired the special skills in twenty years. 90% of kungfu practitioners all over the world will not have a chance to learn Dragon Strength the way it will be taught at the coming course. And of the 10% who have a chance, 90% of them will not acquire the special skills and benefits regardless of how long they practice.
It is just incredible that many of those who attend the course will acquire the special skills and benefits in just five days. This is because all course participants already have preliminary skills, and conditions are perfect.
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The questions and answers are reproduced from the thread 10 Questions on Dragon Strength in the Shaolin Wahnam Discussion Forum.
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