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Chinese Kung Fu has a very long history and rich contents with
a wealth of different schools. In them the Wudang Martial Arts features
the uniqueness in adhering to the principle of overcoming the hard
with the soft. In ancient Taoism book Tao Te Ching carries the following messages:
Beneath heaven nothing is more soft and yielding
than water. Wudang Kung Fu is well known for its unfathomed fighting theory, special internal strength training approaches and handling skills when facing very unfavorable circumstances. The routine form sets and the weapon manipulation system often convey to people the intangible force which in many cases scare the enemy a lots before the start of fight. Thus Wudang Kung Fu enjoys an unparalleled position in Kung Fu circle in China's long history. 2. Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy (WTKFA) was located high up in Mount Wudang, the famous Taoism holy land and inner Kung Fu origination place. To take the public bus people have to spend more than one hour to go upward along the zigzag mountain road to WTKFA. The imposing layers upon layers of mountains and the water-color-Chinese paintings made of fascination scenery can be beheld everywhere. The birds are singing without intermission, the woods are roaring from here to there. The nature's life force presents itsself in so wonderful way that you have to marvel at it. The broad quietude and stillness seems to always cherish the most dynamic initiatives for the potential development. WTKFA is just located in the remote Mt. Wudang ranges, sitting against Zhanchii mountain and facing the Double-Pillar peaks. No cities dizzy noise and ostentation and free of any vanity, WTKFA brings with people the return-to-home happiness and peacefulness. To be retrospective of the ancient times and the disappeared personalities is easy for people to have sigh with different emotions.
WTKFA has successfully trained hundreds talented Wudang Kung Fu practitioners. In the same time, WTKFA sponsors researching mission to look for treasure Wudang Kung Fu Arts forms. Thus WTKFA contributes a lot to the development of Wudang Kung Fu arts and Taoism theory. Especially, the Wudang Pure-Yang Boxing, Tai Yee Five elements Kung Fu, Simplified 29-form Wudang boxing, Five Element Boxing of Dayie School, Wudang 7-Direction Bamboo Stick are very famous in Kung Fu circle and have won the many certificates of Excellent Traditional Kung Fu Arts From National Martial Arts Association.
Now, more foreign practitioners are coming to learn Wudang Kung Fu at WTKFA. We will always do our best to serve their practical needs. Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy now has eight competent Kung Fu coaches -- who received special training for years with Liu Deyi and Liu Lee Hang and other Wudang Kung Fu masters —teaching more than 30 kinds of Kung Fu forms as follows:
Weapon Play Routines include: 1) sabre 2) spear 3) sword 4) cudgel 5) halbert 6) axe 7) hook 8) fork 9) whip 10) mace 11) hammer 12) talon 13) trident-halberd 14) long-handled spear 15) sectioned stick 16) meteor hammer 17) lance 18) rake 19) pricks. Please click the links to read the introduction for each individual Kung Fu form. 3. Stay in Wudang Taoist Temples and Experience Taoist Living Style
It is heard that JingLe prince once came to Mount Wudang to practice
inner alchemy after conquering so many difficulties and experiencing
unexpected hardship. Yet, when he found that the progress he gained
was so little after one year of unswerving efforts he began to regret
something and wandered around and planned to return to JingLe State
and stop the practice. When he came to a mountain range he noticed
an old woman was holding a very coarse steel cudge and grinded it
on a stone. He felt curious and came near to ask the old woman: 4. Class and Relevant Costs in Our Mountain School The costs includes the lodging in the student dorm which is attached to the training hall, all meals 3X a day, daily training with the teacher in a private and group format 3 times a day in the arts of students' choice, and use of the facilities such as weapons, training gear, stone weights and sandbags. This also includes the guided tours and outings to the surrounding mountain Taoist temple areas by the teachers from time to time. 5. Study Traditional Wudang Hard-natured Kung Fu (Ying Gong) with Master Yhuan in Wudang Town School
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 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.
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.
NOTES: For students studying less than 10 days, the cost is Euro 40 /day, including tuition and board everyday. 6. Other Things Commanding Attention
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Serving as
affiliation organization under Mt. Wudang Taoism Kung Fu Association and Wudang Taoism Association, WTKFA has been long getting involved in teaching authentic
Wudang Kung Fu arts, searching for old and secret Kung Fu forms,
encouraging more talented Kung Fu masters to pass on their treasure
experience and knowledge and compiling more books and notes to record
valuable materials. Now, Zhong Yunlong, the director of WTKFA, is one of the most famous inheritor of Wudang Five Elements Inner Kung Fu Arts and Wudang Primeval Tai Chi Boxing. 
WTKFA
now owns a new inner-house training gymnasium, at around 870 square
meters wide. It successfully solves the problem that students cannot
train in rainy days. In sunny days, students can go outside in the
court to have their daily training. Besides such basic infrastructure,
dormitory and collective restaurant are available for receiving
Chinese and foreign practitioners. 
The
great master of Primeval San Feng Tai Chi, now begins to transfer his skills which is regarded as the great treasure
by Kung Fu circle. Also the Youth-Retaining Qigong gained much
praise by president of National Kung Fu Asssociation.
For poor students, please consider the special program introduced below. Also, long term study are welcome
and the costs can be lowered accordingly to meet most students practical
conditions. Please feel free to contact us for information in detail. 
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: 
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. 
