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Key:
Only the main personal style or one of the main styles for each teacher is displayed.
This does not necessarily mean that the teacher will teach you this style, though...
太極拳 Taijiquan - Soft, receiving, empty style practiced slowly
八卦掌 Baguazhang - Long, circling, spiraling style practiced on a circle
形意拳 Xingyiquan - Short, simple, vigorous, but relaxed style with long standing practice
意拳 Yiquan/大成拳 Dachengquan - Formless style derived from Xingyiquan with even longer standing practice
自然門 Ziranmen - Formless style descended from Du Xinwu
鷹爪翻子拳 Yingzhaofanziquan - Long, grabbing, joint-locking 'Eagle Claw' style
蟷螂拳 Tanglangquan - Lightning-fast, quick-advancing, tricky 'Praying Mantis' style
竹林蟷螂門 Zhulintanglangmen - 'Jook Lum Southern Mantis', once secret soft and hard style unrelated to the northern mantis
白鶴拳 Baihequan - Graceful, vibrating 'White Crane' style originally from Tibet - karate was influenced by this style
孫臏拳 Sunbinquan - Long-arm style sometimes called 'Elephant nose style'
八極拳 Bajiquan - Vigorous, stamping, strong elbows, hard style using a relaxed 'rake' fist
攔手拳 Lanshouquan - Vigorous, easy-to-understand, but rare style specializing in 'horizontal power'
少林拳 Shaolinquan - Vigorous, powerful, vast Shaolin temple repertoire
査拳- Large, graceful, classical, long-range style with many weapons and jumps
心意六合拳 Xinyiliuhequan - Close-range, undulating, vicious style
摔跤 Shuaijiao - Throwing, tripping style with quick circling around the opponent
Buddhist Temple - A Buddhist temple (one for places that teach martial arts, two for those that usually do not ‡)
Modern Wushu - One cheese for modern wushu influence, two cheeses for mostly only modern wushu teachers (Nothing against wushu...†)
Student - A student of a teacher found elsewhere in this directory.
Magnifying Glass - Put mouse cursor over this to see style, lineage information in Chinese characters
Mirror - click for a link to a mirror server or another related site.
Excellent Gongfu - highly recommended teacher (i.e., I would definitely go there if I were near by). High accolades from many students.
Lineage Disciple/Descendant - blood-relative or chosen disciple of the lineage (not necessarily the best, however) that appears when pointed at.
Best Gongfu - probably the best skills in the world of the style that appears when you put your mouse cursor over the icon.
† What is the meaning of Wushu?!
Modern wushu is the result of mainland China's official reorganization and recreation of their traditional martial arts into a performance-based sport
that is judged and scored similar to gymnastics. Competitors dress up in flashy silk uniforms, and routines are performed with time limits and rules.
Although much martial content has disappeared from modern wushu, there are many practitioners who love their wushu - wushu clubs also seem to
have a strong camaraderie that is mostly absent in traditional kung fu schools, with lots of cheering and after-tournament parties. It is important,
however, to recognize modern wushu for what it is - a performance art - and not a combat-oriented martial art.
One consideration, however, is that mainland China suppressed traditional martial arts while supporting modern wushu, so wushu was for many people a way to continue martial arts training and teaching without being arrested. Many traditional masters were recruited by the government to teach modern versions of their traditional arts - thus, masters were able to make a living, while still secretly teaching the original teachings to a handful of personal disciples. Wushu, thus, was important in the preservation of traditional Chinese martial arts, but modern wushu's own characteristic movements strongly influenced those who practiced both modern and traditional arts, as you cannot teach your body to move naturally in two different ways. Thus, traditional arts are still best preserved by those who only practiced these arts, but there are many who were able to practice both and still retain much of the original traditional flavor.
‡ Buddhist Temples
Buddhist temples may not teach martial arts at all - however, the abbot does happen to be a martial arts master, and you may be able to get bits and
pieces from him (but probably only if you are a strong believer of his Buddhism sect).