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[Cortney Ruic]

WhenI started learning Kung Fu, I was hit with a bit of culture shock. The Karate culture, which is influenced by Japanese ideas of strictness and order, is heavily regimented. You wear clean, white uniforms. You bow. You follow etiquette.

Most mammals are faster than us in the short run, but not in the long run. Early human hunters were successful because they chased their prey for hours, until the animal literally dropped from exhaustion.

Kung Fu masters win not by sprinting, but by pacing themselves for the long run. And they succeed beautifully. More than any other martial art, masters of Kung Fu can be found practicing in their 90s and even into their 100s.

Very few martial artists are able to maintain such a long-term practice for so long. Most are sprinters. They may sprint and earn a black belt in 5 years, but a few years later, they stop practicing. They may pick it up again a few years later, keep at it for 10 years, and then stop again.

I can absolutely relate to everything that is here and thought of myself having a hard time being disciplined. I am a sprinter by nature and I work hard explosively only to have it die down immediately. I want to know how to be able to have consistent follow-through action and have a hard time doing so. I lack the patience and the discipline.

The more traditional styles are far more Chi-Gong oriented then your regular-known shotokan karate. Even the more combat and competition-oriented kyokushin style is actually cause its a goju-ryu spinoff. (Go-Ju = Jin-Jang)

It strikes a chord in me when you wrote that discipline is something that is to be nurtured slowly over time. That fits into what I understand of the virtues. Self-Discipline has been identified as a virtue by the Family Virtues Project.

My son is about to test for his purple belt after a year and a half. He just turned 8 years old. He wants to have his black belt tomorrow. I will have him read your article so he knows why it takes so long. Thank you for the information!

awesome article. no not just an article. but it speaks of life. thank you so much Sifu Anthony. i now know how i will be pursuing my life ? no not pursuing but living. quite applicable not only in kung fu, but also in relationships, in careers, in finances.

Great advice. Training really hard with my staffs and canes it is easy to end up muscling them instead of using the proper relaxed throw, injuring muscles and joints instead of building them up. Bruce Lee said that you should never train so hard that you could not train or fight the next day, another way of saying what you said.

An art is best learnt in its culture. One remarkable difference between the culture of the East and the West is the respect shown to a master. In this connection I have little complaint because my students, from both the East and the West, generally show much respect to me. But I have met many Eastern masters commenting on the lack of respect, sometimes utter disrespect, shown to them.

Often it is because of the Western students' ignorance of Eastern ways rather than their wilful discourtesy that their Eastern masters of chi kung or kungfu (including taijiquan) regard as disrespect. The following are some simple and helpful points both Eastern and Western students may follow to show the respect deservedly due to their masters.

First of all you must know how to address your master correctly, something which many Western students are ignorant of. Never, never, never call your master by his name, especially if he comes from a Eastern culture. In some Western societies it may be considered personal and desirable to call your senior or even your boss by his first name, but in chi kung or kungfu culture it is considered extremely rude.

When you stand or sit in front of or near him, hold yourself upright. You need not stand at attention like a private in front of his sergeant major, but you should not stand sloppily, with arms akimbo or hands in your pockets. When you sit do not cross your legs with a foot pointing at him, or expose your groins to him even though they are hidden by your pants.

It is only sensible that you should listen when your master speaks, especially if he is explaining some points. Yet, it is not uncommon to find some adult students (male as well as female) lying on the floor, sometimes with their hands folded at the back of their head, their eyes close and their legs open in an inviting position! This shows not so much a disrespect to the master, but an utter lack of good manners on the part of the students.

It is also bad manners to arrive at your class late. In the past in the East, late students would be asked to go home, or to leave permanently if they were late habitually. The logic is simple: the master has something invaluable to offer; if you come late you tacitly show that you do not value his teaching. But if there is a valid reason for your being late, you should first greet him from the door, walk quietly but briskly to him, respectfully wait if he is pre-occupied, then explain your reason and apologize.

Do not leave your class half-way. But if you have to leave early for some reason, explain that to your master before-hand and politely ask his permission. At the appointed time, ask his permission again, then bow and thank him before leaving. At the end of a class, the students should leave after the master, not before he does. However, if the master stays back for a considerable length of time, such as explaining some points to some students who stay behind to ask him, other students may leave first, after bowing to the master.

In the East, it is customary for the teacher to arrive last and leave first. Interestingly, it is often the reverse in the West. The teacher, Western in culture if not in race, often arrives the earliest, sweeps the floor and prepares cookies and drinks which he will serve during recess to his students, who will joke and laugh. At the end of the class, the teacher will stand at the door, shake the students' hands and thank them for their attendance. He will then throw away the garbage his students have left behind if he still has energy left, and check that everyone has gone home before he closes the door.

In Eastern culture it is always the students who offer drinks to the teacher. When you offer your master a cup of tea, it is preferable to do so with two hands. In Eastern societies, accepting a cup of tea and drinking it has deeper significance than merely quenching thirst.

In the past, even if someone had done you great wrong, if he or she offered you a cup of tea, usually while kneeling down and then knocking his or her head on the ground, and you, sitting down in front of other witnesses, accepted and drank it, it meant that you accepted his or her apology, were ready to forgive all the wrong, and would not take any action whatsoever in future.

The students should also offer a seat to the master, and the seat chosen is usually the best one available. If the master is not seated, the students should remain standing, unless the master asks them to sit down. If they dine together, the students would wait until the master has made his first move to eat or drink.

I recall some occasions when my masters taught me something that I already had learnt quite well. Thanks to my training in Eastern culture, I followed their instructions faithfully although they appeared very simple and below my level then. Only much later did I realize that had I not follow these apparently simple instructions I would not have acquired the foundation necessary foradvanced development.

Do not ever make the fatal mistake of telling a master what or how to teach you. This is not only unbecoming, it is also very foolish, for you will be denying yourself the very purpose why you need him. If he is a master, he knows best what and how to help you attain your best results; he is able to see your needs and development in ways far beyond your limited perspective.

Some westerners may find the above-described master-student relationship odd, just as those accustomed to Eastern culture would find the behaviour of some western students unbelievable. It may be more surprising, especially for those who think they are doing the master a favour by paying him a fee to learn, to know that all these customs of respect for the master are actually for the students', not the master's, interest.

Someone who teaches kungfu dance or gentle exercise for a living will probably care more for your fees than your respect, but a master whose art gives you good health, vitality, mental freshness and spiritual joy actually does not care whether you respect him more or your dog. But those students who have experienced the wonderful benefits of genuine kungfu and chi kung willunderstand that the respect given to the master is not only a sincere token of appreciation to the master for sharing his art, but also constitutes an ideal psychological state for the training to take place.

I have been lucky to travel the breadth of China and see lots of amazing places. China is a country filled with beauty, history and culture. One place filled with this history and culture is the Song Shan Shaolin Temple in Henan. The temple is a mecca for martial arts adventure travellers.

I have visited this temple twice now and still find it inspiring, even though tourism now features prominently as part of the overall experience. Despite this there are still experiences, places and people unaffected by the over commercialization of the temple. That is if you are lucky and know where to look.

On a trip to review a number of martial arts schools in China. I again caught up with Master Shi Yan Jia. A Shaolin Kung Fu Master from the Song Shan Shaolin Temple who runs his own international martial arts school in Qufu, Shandong.

In a recent discussion with Master Shi Yan Jia I asked him a few questions about Shaolin Kung Fu, the process of learning this martial art and the daily life of a shaolin monk. This article highlights the core of his response.

The Spirit of the Shaolin By Master Shi Yan Jia

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