Category: Inspiration

Basic Skill “PERSERVERANCE”

This is the ability to not give up and truly believe you will eventually get it. You just have to stick with it long enough to get it. Everyone started exactly where you are today, as a beginner. Even your Sifu was a beginner at...

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What’s in Your Rank

Shaolin Kung Fu Centers posted a very nice note regarding the way an ideal kung fu students looks at their training and their rank.  It’s worth taking a few moments to read this carefully and reflect on our own thoughts...

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Happy Pills

Our happy-ness is so conditional in our busy lives.  I would be happy if I only had more money, more free time, a person to share my life with, something to eat, some place to go, and so on.  Think to your own experiences and...

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Push Hands & Character

Here’s a two-for-one special bonus in this video.  Not only do we get an awesome display of push hands techniques & tai chi applications, but if we listen to the commentary, we get a wonderful lesson on character in...

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What’s In Your Rank

It is said that the greatest value one can attain in kung fu training is “The will to exert and strive hard without stopping at anything.” Through the conditioning of your body, you discipline your mind and gain a...

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The New Year is

Shaolin Kung Fu Centers, on Facebook, posted this insight about the New Year… The New Year is traditionally the time to reflect on ways to improve our lives in the coming year. As martial artists, we’re striving not...

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New Years Kung Fu Resolution?

In the New Year, many people will begin or resume their training with a new level of commitment.  The New Year is another occasion to try again. And it’s important to avoid putting too much stock in magical thinking.  Have...

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Kung Fu – What is it?

Kung Fu is the development of skill through hard practice.  This could be any skill.  Any skill at all.  It doesn’t have to be a martial art. Kung Fu in the “Western” world is generally recognized as meaning...

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