Bay Shaolin Kung Fu and Holistic Health Academy

04/06/2023

A painting of Dayi Daoxin (580 - 651 CE) I came across a passage while researching Dayi Daoxin, the fourth "patriarch" of the Zen tradition, and found it interesting, considering that it appears to be a refutation of Daoist metaphysics according to the Buddhist view. I've seen it claimed in a number...

10/03/2022

In Chinese philosophy and medicine there exists the concept of 'chi', a vital force that animates the body. One of the avowed aims of Tai Chi is to foster the circulation o

05/04/2021

03/18/2021

For 1,500 years, Shaolin Kung Fu has been the most famous of the Chinese martial arts. Learn all about it in our documentary series, The Kung Fu Shaolin. Sub...

02/11/2021

ジャッキー・チェンの必殺鉄指拳 OP 劇場未公開 刁手怪招 Master With Crack Fingers Jackie Chan 成龍制作年1978年日本未公開

12/13/2020

It's all here: Iron Palm Training plans and Herbal recipes. Stories of Mantis masters heading up to Russia to brawl with Western fighters (wait, really?). Strategies for fighting multiple opponents, weapon maxims, martial history.

Another one of the manuals from our Archive translated and shared freely with all. Hopefully this brings a greater historical understanding to the art we still practice here at Ravenswood. A huge thanks to Paul Brennan. Go read his translation!

Link: https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2020/08/31/secrets-of-the-mantis-boxing-art/

12/03/2020

Suite à la rédaction de mes deux premiers articles consacrés aux moines guerriers et au cas de Shaolin, l’envie de me replonger un pe...

10/27/2020

Mantis Kung Fu is something that most people have heard of, but it's also something that most people's perception of is completely wrong. In this video I tal...

03/31/2020

01/18/2020

Traditional forms from the 1920's

12/26/2019

So how did "traditional martial arts" come to be regarded as that? What does it really mean? In a series of articles about perhaps...

12/19/2019

In this episode we look at the meaning and nature of Tai Chi Chuan in relationship to Qigong and classical combat oriented Gung Fu like Northern Shaolin, Lan Shou Quan, Ba Gua Zhang, and Hung Gar.I also discuss the reality of learning Tai Chi Chuan as a martial art and what it takes to become skillf...

11/03/2019

Kam Yuen was the second martial arts coordinator for the ground breaking TV series, Kung Fu . He was a master of Tai Mantis , a style in ...

10/27/2019

09/28/2019

A look at the Cloud Hands movement of Tai Chi, and what it’s really all about Cloud hands, or ‘wave hands like clouds’ as it’s also known, is one of those classic Tai Chi mo…

09/18/2019

07/29/2019

Self defense demonstration by William Fong and Arthur Chin during the 28th memorial dinner for the grand master CCK : short stick vs short stick with some ca...

07/16/2019

Numerous studies have indicated the many physiological benefits of meditation, and the latest one comes from Harvard University. An eight week study conducted by Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) determined that meditation literally rebuilds the brains grey matter in just e...