Curriculum & Preparation
 

Standard Class Structure - Mon/Tues/Thurs/Friday.
 

 

7.00

8.00

9.30

12.00

14.30

17.00

 

Qi Gong, Nei Gong & Meditation.

Breakfast

Training Core Martial Arts with your preferred Master.

Lunch

Afternoon Training with preferred Master.

Dinner
 

 

Wednesday only.

Morning as above

 
 

14.30

15.45
  

17.00

Calligraphy or Chinese Painting class.

TCM lesson focussing on learning practical Tui Na (massage) skills.

Dinner
 

 

Saturdays and Sundays are free days but meals will still be provided for those who require.

 

The Special Elite Training Squad (SETS) programme is available to selected applicants based on experience, fitness and requirements of training. We have arranged this programme in order to ensure that the serious training requirements of certain visitors are catered for and their training is not effected by different levels of other guests. To be considered please Contact Us for further details (info@kunmingkungfu.com). Please be aware that due to it's intensive training and highly martial syllabus that this programme will only be suitable for a very small percentage of people.

We at Kunming South of the Clouds are here to serve the customer. Short & long term tailored programs are available to those who wish to learn or experience certain things during their stay. Please see the Contact Us page for our contact details and specify your requirements, we will be happy to help. Some examples would be a morning training and afternoon excursion or language study program.

Preparation

This is a centre offering mainly physical activities & as such you will be expected to be in good health & reasonably fit.  Students will be graded & taught according to their level & capabilities but will learn less if unable to cope with basic physical training and as such it is recommended that you undertake a physical fitness regime & check ups before you arrive.

Shaolin:       An external art, largely based on physical/muscular fitness, strength, stamina & flexibility but with elements of internal training.  The training will involve a lot of running, stretching and strength/stamina based exercise to maximise your physical abilities. 

Recommended training to prepare is running, weight training (medium/ light weights with medium/high reps), body weight floor exercises, stretching programs, circuits and reflex training for speed.  A good preparation will save you time in camp.

Tai Ji; Ba Gua; Xing Yi; Tong Bei:           These are part of the family of arts known often as ‘internal’ which focus on relaxed intrinsic power, but which still require fitness and well being as the core.  Some running, floor exercises and reflex training are all useful with an emphasis on relaxation in mind and movement the focus.  By training in these arts you will find your health is improved greatly as a ‘side effect’ of the practise.

To arrive here with a basic level of readiness gives the teachers the foundation to teach you the deeper aspects of the arts more quickly.

Diet:      Diet is an important part of an athletes diet and needs to be considered in detail by you as part of your preparation.  Obviously alcohol, drugs & cigarettes are a drain on your health and the effects can be seen on any ‘normal’ person anywhere in the world.  But other things to consider are your sugar, meat & fast food intake.

Shaolin monks live off a vegetarian diet and there is good reason for this; large meat intake is not only linked to major health problems in later life but the body uses a lot of energy to break down & process it.  Unlike the common conception in the West, meat/dairy products are not the only source of proteins and a diet high in fresh vegetables, fruit, nuts & pulses will provide more than enough protein even for a full time athlete.  The diet in the centre is not meat free but balanced towards vegetable based proteins.  Plenty of carbohydrates are required for the bodies fuel, sugar & starch based carbohydrates as discussed previously are not recommended in large quantities.