Posted: 11/28/2007 6:43:52 AM EDT
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Looking to learn Shaolin Kung Fu, does anyone have a lead on a good school either in the Love Field area or east of the city? Happy_gopher |
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Not Love Field Area. However, I teach @ Shaolin Wu Yi Institute Its traditional Northern Long Fist. Its $125mo. No contracts. Includes all groups classes for your level and 4 .5hr private lessons a month. Curriculum is on the website. Also check out the following schools. GM Wong Chin Woo style Long Fist Sifu Lee Traditional Mizou Quan (AKA MyJhong Lawhorn) There is also a Wing Chun school and a Hung Gar school. I know you are looking for Shaolin, but I thought they are worth a mention. Not many traditional Shaolin School is DFW. Bunch of made up and "hybrid" kung fu schools out there though. One to definintely stay away from is Wujido. That is just just a load of crap. |
| OOps I forgot, there is also a Praying Mantis school in Ft Worth Area. Although there are rumors they closed. |
Wow Lordtrader! I didn't know you were the sifu at Wu Yi Institute. Another hung gar school i'd recommend. The sifu is Phillip Ng and teaches traditional Southern Shaolin Hung Gar. I've been under his wing for about 12yrs now. I heard alot about Wu Yi and can vouch for his school as well. |
No no no....I am not THE Sifu. I am one of the instructors. Aside from Sifu, we have 8 instructors. Me being one of the junior ones.  So do you know Sifu Stapleton? I believe he studied under Sifu Ng. |
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Oh I forgot, here's another one. Not really a structured school, but more like a rec center class/course. But they do teach Northern Shaolin. Ni's TaiChi and Kung Fu |
I think that Wujido school shut down, at least the location on Mockingbird did. I used to train with a SPEAR (Tony Blauer's system) group at the Wing Chun school you linked. I would NOT recommend this Wing Chun school to anyone seriously interested in self-defense training. I can't comment to the effectivenss of Wing Chun as a self defense system as I have never trained in it, but I will say that the staff/members of this school were definitely skittish when it came to "live" training. |
Having been in Kung Fu for a number of years. I found that Kung Fu practioners are some of the crowd that is hard to figure out. Kung Fu is so vast, in that you can train in it for a number of reason. Physical fitness, spirtual and internal training, forms, fighting, and even buddhism. I have visited schools that only specialize in forms and are big on them. Terrible without practical application and practice. Don't get me talking about modern wushu with its ballet moves and no fighting applications whatsoever. What a load of crap that is and is bringing shame to kung fu as far as I am concerned. There are also those schools that only train in fighting, fighitng, fighting. Which I also think is lacking and one sided with regards to martial arts. Then we have all the cardio kickboxing crap. Then there those TaiChi schools that only do TaiChi for internal health reasons and foregoing the martial application of TaiChi. I said all that to say this. I have only visited that Wing Chun school once and seen their student in competitions. Although never in san shou/san da(full contact fighting), they are quite good technically. School I go to does not really promote any one side of the martial aspect of kung fu. We teach it all and let the student decide as to wether or not he wants to be a fighter, forms dancer, internalist, etc. You can basically see their choice by intermediate level. The forms dancers are skittish of sparring and are always working on their forms. The fighters spar before and after class. The internalist just kinda sit back and talk history and such. Typically with the forms dancer group. We also have folks that just want to work on self defense and fitness(mainly women and older folks) So if anyone came to my school and asked if anyone wanted to have a go at sparring, you would probably have a myriad of answers from "no thanks" to "nah I'm too old" to "wait here and lemme get some gloves on" Same with our instructors.  I think its one of the reason why we have such a high female ratio compared to other schools be it kung fu, karate, etc.
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