Wudang Dragongate Kungfu School
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Wudang Dragongate Kungfu School
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Wudang Dragongate
With 15 years experience since 1999 the Wudang Dragongate Kungfu School is an exceptional place for people of all kinds of interests in traditional wudang daoist martial arts. Wu dang kungfu is known for its diversity of skills. Everybody can start and learn it. Slow and fast, soft and hard, simple and complex is changing as fast as the natural changings of yin and yang. No matter if your are young or old, we have always the right exercises for everyone: Tough and hard workout, rehabilitating regimen, self-defense, weapons of all kinds, all main internal martial arts such as taiji, bagua, xingyi but also qigong and meditation in combination with lots of wudang daoist traditions. You will find external practice as well as internal cultivation. Master Wang has been teaching foreign students since more than 20 years. Our teachings are highly individual and the lessons will be adapted to the students abilities and interests. The fact that Master Wang was born in wu dang turns him into a very valuable source preserving traditions that are still very rare and once feared to be gone forever. He is openly teaching his profound knowledge to everyone who is really interested and dedicated. The Wudang Dragongate Kungfu School is unique because of its richness in lineages and traditions, that were handed down to Master Wang by two generations of the old and higly honored grandmasters of wudang. Master Wang is representing three important lineages, that are seldomly found elsewhere. He is sucessor of the 25th generation of the dragongate lineage (longmen pai), the 23rd generation of pure yang energy lineage (chunyang pai) and 13th generation of the flowing river lineage (songxi pai).
Training at the Wudang Dragongate Kungfu School is versatile:
Yes, it could be professional and serious training for 7 hours a day.
But just as well, it can be your health retreat
to balance your body, mind and soul.
Information about the school, its history, master wang, his kungfu and wu dang in general:
We explain traditions, history, changings, lineages and the different elements of wudang kungfu like tai ji, xingyi, bagua, qigong and meditation. In the category media you will find wudang kungfu videos, pictures of wudang kungfu and scenery, as well as awards, public media, articles and news concerning our school or Wudang.
Wudang Kungfu a term of wide comprehension -
Wu Dang Gong Fu means: "hard practice of wudang or wudang profession". Wudang Kungfu and its traditional internal daoist arts consist of much more than just their martial part and form a universe of self cultivation practices, which can, but mustn‘t, include martial abilities. With the following chapters, we try to give you an overviewing introduction of the nearly infinite wealth of wudang daoist arts. Wudang arts give you one difficult task of finding the right balance and the small path between a holistic way of cultivation and the perfection of certain styles and fields of research.
Wudang Boxing - Wudang Quan The authentic and unique boxing styles which can ONLY BE FOUND IN WUDANG
Wudang Kungfu is a term of very wide meaning, ranging through all of wudang martial arts to other physical, mental or professional skills related to wudang daoist culture. Wudang martial arts are more precisely described by the term wudang quan "wudang boxing" or even wudang wushu "wudang martial arts".
Wudang and its plenty boxing styles may be the most important source of internal martial arts in the world. The wudang mountains are a a place where an enormous amount of internal martial art styles have derived from and developed in. The daoist culture of wudang was eversince backing it with daoist sciences, knowledge, theorie and the practical research of the great nature. The polarity of yin and yang, the book of changes, the 8 trigrams, the five elements theorie, traditional chinese medicine and much more form the indispensable foundation of a huge wealth of wudang‘s holistic martial arts culture. In china there are many places where taiji, bagua or xingyi is well spread and traditionally teached with great wisdom. But more than anywhere else, in wudang, one can find much more profound daoist wisdom and background which is needed for a holistic cultivation through these arts. The result is a universe of conform ways to become a holistically skilled wudang disciple. To study wudang kungfu in our school, for a while, will doubtlessly bring a lot of knowledge about dao, yinyang, the laws and cycles of nature, the daoist genesis, medicine and philosophy with it. There is a lot of taiji, bagua and xingyi in wudang which are also considered or refered as wudang kungfu. But in the end wudangquan has it own character, which had fusioned with parts from the wudang styles of taiji, xingyi and bagua.
Master Wang who inherits the three lineages: 1. dragongate (longmen), 2. pure yang (chunyang) and 3. soft flow lineage (songxi pai) was born in wudang and studied from many great wudang masters. Therefore his kungfu all derived from original wudang traditions.
Available Wudang Boxing Styles: Dragongate Kungfu; Wudang Duanda (close combat fighting) and many other Songxi Boxing; Chunyang Quan (Pure Yang Boxing); Taihe Quan (Fist of the highest harmony); Taiyi Wuxing Quan (Taiyi Five Elements Boxing) Wudang Quan (Wudang Boxing, Wudang Fist) old forms simply counted as wudang quan without a background of any certain lineage, because of long lost traces.
Wudang Sword
Supreme discipline of wudang martial arts
The wudang sword is considered to be one of the three precious heritages of wudang kungfu: inner elixir, taijiquan and sword. Since the old times the fine arts of wudang sword are representative treasures of wudang‘s traditional martial abilities. Since ancient times, not only in daoist circumstances, in china the sword is known as the king of weapon. The character of its use has always been one very artfull and filigree. Traditionally the higly advanced art of the sword was one of the last arts that were teach to wudang disciples.
The tradition of the wudang sword is still alive at the Wudang Dragongate Kungfu School and will be teached to anyone who is willing to dedicated training. The art of using the sword as a weapon, as an extended arm and as a very important cultural symbol will be handed down with most possible care. For practitioners the sword training will improve concentration and develop a precise awareness to wield the filigree sword. The use of the sword will bring a much advanced ability in the delicate use of any sophisticated weapon.
Get a feeling about one of the most famous treasures of wudang,
try the ancient art of original wudang sword fighting.
Wudang Dragongate Kungfu School / Chuanzhen Wushu Yuan, Plum Val
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