1 Year

Jonas Vilberg & Mads Wang-Svendsen

We left Norway with one goal in mind: to find the true roots of martial arts. One year later we left Kunyu Mountain  Shaolin Martial Arts Academy with stronger bodies, minds and a great deal more insight of Chinese culture, history, customs and way of life. 

Training (Wing Chun & Baji Quan)
The training is very varied since you study two styles that are quite distinct. While Wing Chun mainly focuses on the upper body, Baji will give your legs a proper workout with its low stances making up for Wing Chun’s high stances. Wing Chun and Baji is divided evenly out through the week, the class will usually start out with Wing Chun the first half and then Baji the second half. Apart from WC and Baji there is qigong, sanda and power training once a week. Guo, the current WC/Baji/Qigong/TaiChi master is simply amazing. With his relaxed and kind approach a stick is not required to make you want to work hard just to please this humble master which throughout our stay just continued to impress. Even when we were having a hard time with a new move he would not get angry, he would just calmly repeat the move in total perfection making us appear like re-animated zombies in our futile attempt at doing the same move with such grace only master Guo could do. Instead of physical punishment he would sometimes remind us of how weak our bodies were through telling a story about what he had to do under his master, or he would perform some physical feat grown men still dream about. Keep in mind that your stay at Kunyu Mountain Shaolin Martial Arts Academy will be greatly affected by the other people you’re staying with and the people you train with. It’s also important to sometimes remind yourself of why you came here.

Accommodation & facilities
When we first arrived the facilities here at the school were not that great, for example the showers were outside in a separate house, the washing machines had seen better days and the food wasn’t all that creative. The rooms had no proper flooring and the baths were quite old and moldy. But things have improved a lot since we came. The baths/washing rooms have been rebuilt with a couple of shower cubicles and proper sinks. The old washing machines are replaced with newer models and your room now has nice wooden tiles. They even had the concrete stairs tiled with marble tiles! Apart from a room with a wooden bench, desk and bed the school also provides some weightlifting equipment, basketball court and a ping pong table.

In my year here I’ve been able to learn 6 Baji forms (fist forms & weapon forms) , 6 Wing Chun forms (fist forms & dummy forms), Chen style Tai Chi 75 step, 5 elements XingYi forms & Linking form, Qigong (hard/soft Sun, Moon, Sky forms) – Jonas Vilberg
In my year here I’ve been able to learn 6 Baji forms (fist forms & weapon forms) , 6 Wing Chun forms (fist forms & dummy forms), Chen style Tai Chi 75 step, Chen style tai chi 43 steps form, Qigong (hard/soft Sun, Moon, Sky forms) – Mads Wang-Svendsen

Note:
All the different groups practice Qigong while TaiChi and XingYi can be trained in the morning and afternoon classes along with Qigong. But the masters are very flexible so you can cross classes if you want to learn something else.

　
Jonas Vilberg

   
Mads Wang-Svendsen

Jonas Vilberg & Mads Wang-Svendsen