Wudang Kung Fu Study in Wudang Town

The town school of WTKFA is located in the Mount Wudang Town who is situated just at the foot of Mt. Wudang. Mt. Wudang Town boasts around 70,000 populace and most of them are local Chinese people. Just due to the fame of Mt. Wudang there are many tourist coming every year and the economy develops at a quick pace in comparison with nearby towns. It is under the direct jurisdiction by ShiYan city who is 40 kilometers away. ShiYan city is the second larget car manufacture base in China which dates back to the 1960's. Now Chinese people nickname ShiYan city as Detroit in China and from this people can understand the scale of the car production.

There is no much industrial trace here in Mt. Wudang Town except several car accessories companies located at the outer region of the town. Most local people prefer to do small business to earn their living. The agricultural environment is strong and the vegetable, daily living commodities and other products needed from the tourism are every where in the stores when you stroll along the clearn streets.

The town school is now to be administrated by Master Yhan who got apprenticed to Grand master Zhong Yunlong when he was as young as 9 years old. After more then 20 years of diligent study under master Zhong, Yhuan gradually developed his own style in understanding and applying Wudang Kung Fu. Besides the mastery of almost all traditional Wudang Kung Fu formsets (Ba Gua Chang, Ising-I, Tai Chi Chuan, Xuan Wu Chuan, Taking-Tiger-captive boxing, Ba Chi Chuan, etc.) he becomes especially eminent in mastering the hard-natured arts such as iron T-shirt, iron arms, iron head, iron legs, iron palm, etc. The following introduces the basics of Iron T-shirt and Iron Palm:

5-1: Iron T Shirt
The Kung Fu art of Steel Clothing is a hard-nature qigong practice. It is also nicknamed as Eagle-Claw Steel Clothing, Golden Bucket Kung Fu or None-Injury-By-Spear-And-Sword Kung Fu. It has been a long time dream of effectively abstaining from injury by spear, sword, gun and other sharp weapons widely used in ancient Chinese battle field or self-defense circumstances. And such Kung Fu form came into being many centuries ago perfectly satisfying warriors' practical needs and thus gaining a very mysterious halo around it. Yet, if some people boast of its enormous power to such extent that it even can avoid the bullet we think such persons are just telling a lie. For a persistent practitioner who can have the chance to receive proper systematic teaching of the whole set by a competent master he/she can effectively withstand almost all kinds of strikes such as kicks, punch, hits, piercing, etc. by hands, feet, spear, stick, etc. as same as like putting on a steel clothing. Furthermore, with such Kung Fu arts practitioners can crush all invasions in an instant and impose enormous overwhelming power on all enemies with its intangible force. Sometimes, it is widely used for Kung Fu demonstration. For instance:

1. Bounce stone monument into pieces with head
2. Hammer the brick stack uploaded upon the head and pounce them into pieces
3. Bear hits imposed by any people
4. Cut stone block into half with palm.

Besides its application in martial arts arena, Steel Clothing Kung Fu is an invaluable gem in health preservation and disease treatment and prevention. Practicing it for long, practitioners can harmonize the flowing of Qi and blood, open up channels and course vessels, balance Yin and Yang in a whole and nourish the healthy Yang Qi, So, patients can use it to enrich and empower his defense aspects gradually and later such reenforcement can leads to the final overwhelming over the pathogenic existence, resulting in a final cure of diseases as things develop. The abundance of Yang Qi and blood can ensure the energetic daily activities of practitioners and guarantee them free of most kinds of invasion of pathogen.

5-2. Iron Palm
The iron palm method is the hand conditioning regimen. Iron palm is the essence of the gung fu of legend, not the watered down version that so many modern practitioners bring to fights, only to be crushed. It trains the palm heart, or the flat of the palm. In manp people's opinion, the flat palm slap is the trademark strike of fighting gung fu

There is no mistaking an iron palm slap for boxing, karate, or mindless street brawling. As for its application in tameshiwari, the iron palm is unrivaled when it comes to breaking solid objects. Though you might be inclined to think otherwise, it is much easier to break a brick with the iron palm than it is with a punch, chop, hammerfist, or palm heel strike. Iron palm is also noted for its capability of breaking the bottom brick in a stack without spacers. Such a practice is known as selective breaking.

Ku Yu Cheong, one of the most famous masters of iron palm, reportedly could break bricks selectively in a stack. Iron palm falls short only when it comes to breaking flexible objects (wood, baseball bats) and objects with spacers. Some explain it to people with this example- the palm slap can move anything it strikes one half an inch. Since cement cannot flex, it breaks. If the object, such as wood, can flex farther than that, it will not break. This is only an exaggerated example, and only an example of personal theory at that. As for spacers, the palm has difficulty sending energy through "hollow" area.

There are many variations of the iron palm conditioning process and each usually has a set amount of time for the initial phase. During first phase, training must be done daily. After that, maintenance training varies. The first phase ranges anywhere from one month to three years or more. There are also advanced levels of the iron palm as well as internal and external conditioning.

To be honest, that 100 days is not enough time to produce an invincible palm, but it will create a hand that is dangerous enough for combat, as well as allow you to break red bricks. This regimen conditions the entire hand.

Both iron T-shirt and iron palm require the internal and external Chinese herbal medicine for assistance. Otherwise, it is easy to cause injury and damage to the bone, sinew, flesh, blood circulation. So, no herbal remedy in assistance no guarantee for the healthy training with these kung fu.

To study under master Yhuan, the monthly cost is Euro 544, including food, accommodation and food. For long time study, cost can be lowered accordingly. For more information please contact info@damo-qigong.net

The following pictures can demonstrate the general state of the town school.

The right picture shows the corridor in the new five-story foreign student dormitory building. Service staff responsible for the clearing up every day.
The left picture shows the inner state of standard room provided for foreign students. One foreign student one room, with two beds, electric fan or conditioner provided.
The right picture shows the separate clearn toilet in the standard room with shower available 24 hours
The left picture shows the view from inside the room towards the room door to which toilet door is close

The living and studying costs is lower because the living resources are close at hand. So, for those students who cannot afford the high costs Kung Fu learning the town school is the best selection. The Wudang mountain gate locates 100 meters away and you can go up to the mountain at any time you want.

The general studying costs is Euro 544 per month. Such costs include tuition fee, food, and accommodation. For more information please contact Wang Tao at wudang@damo-qigong.net