BENEFITS OF DRAGON STRENGTH IN DAILY LIFE AND BUSINESS
Grandmaster Wong demonstrating a pattern from the Dragon Strength Set
Question
Can you please tell me how one can apply the skill of Dragon Strength to daily life and business and the benefits that it will bring?
Dominic
Answer
Applying the skills we learn in our kungfu classes to our daily life and business is unique in our school. As far as I know, it is not done in other schools, and is unprecedented in kungfu history.
Some kungfu masters and advanced practitioners in the past could perform better in their daily life and business as a result of their training. This, however, was different from consciously applying their kungfu skills to enrich their daily life, like what we do.
In other words, their training gave these masters and high-level practitioners good health and vitality. Their good health and vitality, which they might not have if they had not trained in kungfu, enabled them to have better performance in their daily life and business. Their better performance was a by-product of their training.
This is different from directly applying our kungfu skills, as well as philosophy and strategies, to our daily life and business. In combat training, for example, we learn good spacing and good timing. If you are a computer expert, you don’t market your service to street hawkers, but to companies that can afford to pay high fees and are in need of your service. This is applying good spacing and good timing in business.
In internal force training, we learn to be relaxed and focused. We apply this skill of being relaxed and focused in our daily life, and as a result have better performance in whatever we do. Our benefits in our daily life and business are a direct result of our applying what we have learned in our kungfu training.
Even deriving benefits as a by-product now and in the past in other schools, which is different from our school where deriving benefits is a direct result of our training, happen to only some practitioners. For other practitioners, which unfortunately constitute the majority, their practice of kungfu or other martial arts becomes a liability to them, often without their realizing. They tense their muscles, sustain injuries which are routinely left unattended, and become angry and stressful, which will adversely affect their daily life and business.
Indeed in the past many families did not want their children to practice kungfu for fear that they would be injured or even killed. Many women would not like to marry kungfu practitioners for fear that they would spend more time in their daily life on kungfu than on their business or their wives.
This is an interesting contrast in our school. Honestly I believe women who marry our kungfu students are lucky. Their husbands are healthy, full of vitality and zest for living, and have high moral values, which are invaluable benefits derived from directly applying kungfu skills and practice to their daily life.
These wonderful benefits are derived from applying kungfu skills of any kungfu set in their daily life and business. The Dragon Strength Set has two special skills not normally found in other sets, and these two special skills further enrich daily life and business performance. These two special skills are Dragon force and lighting speed.
Dragon force is tremendous internal force that can be manifested in any part of the body. Lighting speed is the ability of executing kungfu movements at the speed of thought.
Although it is very powerful, Dragon force is soft and flowing, but can be manifested as hard and consolidated at will. It can be applied to all aspects of daily life and business.
In daily life, when you need to carry out a series of tasks, for example, you can apply Dragon force to accomplish the tasks effectively and without feeling tired. You can complete your company report, drive home from work, pick up a bouquet of flowers on the way, enjoyed a shower, put on your evening dress, pick up your girlfriend from her house, kiss her as you hand her the flowers, and take her to dinner -- all accomplish smoothly and happily with Dragon force.
If you have other types of force, like consolidated force from Iron Wire or muscular force from weight-lifting, you may not accomplish the tasks so smoothly and pleasantly. You may be stressful when you write your company report, hesitant when you want to kiss your girlfriend, and tensed when you take her to dinner. The benefits are obvious. You accomplish your tasks harmoniously, and the other person or persons involved enjoy your accomplishment.
Applying Dragon force in business will produce favorable result. If you are a salesman, for example, you can apply Dragon force to explain flowingly the benefits your client will have when he uses your product, and happily conclude the sale. With the transfer of the scholar-warrior concept in combat from your kungfu class to your business, you meet your client to conclude the sale, not in the hope of selling him a product.
But if you use consolidated force from Iron Wire or muscular force from weight-lifting, your explanation may be demanding and rigid, instead of pleasant and flowing. He may not buy your product even when you have earlier accessed him with your scholar-warrior concept of salesmanship, not because he does not like the product nor cannot afford to pay for it, but because he does not like the way you apply your force.
Lighting speed derived from Dragon Strength training will ensure that you accomplish your tasks pleasantly within a relatively short time. Instead of spending a long time in a florist shop thinking of what flowers to buy, you purchase the flowers wisely and fast. Instead of ransacking your wardrobe thinking of what to wear, you put on a smart dress that makes you and your girlfriend happy.
If your time management is so effective that your girlfriend is not ready when you arrive to pick her up, you can let your Dragon force flow. You may, amusingly, tell her that waiting for her to be prettily dressed is part of the fun in taking her out. You and your girlfriend are unlikely to have such amusement if you are trained in consolidated force or muscular force.
Applying lighting speed derived from Dragon Strength training in business is like turning your tasks into a lady’s skirt, which is short enough to be interesting but long enough to cover the important parts.
So, instead of spending hours to explain to your client how to use your product, as a Dragon Strength trained salesman you apply lighting speed in your explanation, which is short but cover all important parts. You give him a call card to contact you if he needs help, which not only provides customers’ service but keeps customers’ contact which is useful for further and other sales. Two obvious benefits, besides others, are that your client has time to enjoy the new product, and you have time to contact other clients.
Hence, Dragon Strength not only brings our kungfu to higher levels, but make our lives happier too.
Course participants practicing the Dragon Strength Set during the Dragon Strength Course of 6th to 12th December 2014 in Penang
Dragon Strength in Video
Old Version of Dragon Strength
Treasure House of Kungfu Sets
Treasure House of Combat Application
The questions and answers are reproduced from the thread 10 Questions on Dragon Strength in the Shaolin Wahnam Discussion Forum.
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