INFLUENCE OF DRAGON STRENGTH ON VARIOUS STYLES OF KUNGFU AND CHI KUNG
Dragon Strength has made Grandmaster Wong's Shaolin Kungfu flowing
Question
Sifu has said a number of times and most recently in this thread that your Dragon Strength training has helped in your teaching of qigong and kungfu.
As Sifu has been so generous from the very start of our learning journey, giving us the best from Day 1 -- training qigong and kungfu at the mind level -- what greater things should we expect from the Dragon Strength course? Would the course bring about an enhancement of what we as Shaolin Wahnam students have been practising so far, a break-through, or even a sea change (that is, something vastly different) from our current and usual practice?
Sifu Zhang Wuji
Answer
One important reason why we in Shaolin Wahnam can attain such good results in short times is because of my training in Dragon Strength. Directly or indirectly my Dragon Strength training has influenced both my teaching methodology as well as the resultant benefits students obtain. In other words, in some cases I purposely employ Dragon Strength methods in my teaching, in other cases, there is no conscious effort to use Dragon Strength training methods, yet the beneficial influence is present.
In the Shaolin group of kungfu, my Dragon Strength training has made Shaolin styles flowing. In the Taijiquan group, it has made Taijiquan styles powerful. In both groups, the flow and the force aspects have also contributed much to the good health, vitality, longevity, mental clarity, peak performance and spiritual joys of the students. If I had not been trained in Dragon Strength, I believe their benefits would be less.
You have summed up the beneficial influence of my Dragon Strength training neatly. It has enabled me to teach and students to practice at the mind level. The highest level of kungfu, or any art, is the mind. Working at the mind level gives us unbelievable results in unbelievable short time.
Although our students already have unbelievable results, those attending the Dragon Strength course will have even greater unbelievable results! Three very special skills will be taught at the course, namely Dragon force, lighting speed and dim mark.
Please take note that dim mark may be considered a technique or a skill depending on context. Unlike Dragon force and lighting speed which do not have a definite form, i.e. Dragon force and lighting speed may operate any form, dim mark has definite forms, i.e. it operates specific forms, and not on any forms.
For example, you can employ Dragon force or lighting speed with a finger or a level fist, but you do not employ dim mark with a level fist, but with a finger. In this aspect, dim mark is considered a technique. On the other hand, without the appropriate force or skills, you cannot operate dim mark even when you employed its correct form. In this aspect we may consider it a skill.
These special skills will bring about an enhancement not only in our kungfu understanding and performance but also more importantly in our daily life.
Dragon force will not only enhance all types of force we train in our kungfu but also enable us to have zest in whatever we do. Lighting speed will not only enable our kungfu performance to be very fast, but also ensure that our actions as well as thoughts will be implemented without delay. Dim mark will not only give us the privilege to preserve a nearly lost art, but also develop our sense of responsibility and compassion.
The coming Dragon Strength course will certainly bring about an enhancement of what we have been practicing, but also a break-through or even a sea change in our practice as well as daily life. No matter what arts or styles we may currently practice in our chi kung or kungfu, like generating energy flow or Sinew Metamorphosis, Wing Choon or Xingyiquan, it will certainly be enhanced after attending the Dragon Strength course.
Learning the skills at the course may lead to a break-through or sea change in your chi kung and kungfu training, or in your daily life. You may, for example, be anxious when sparring with opponents of other martial arts, but acquiring lighting speed may enable you to apply any planned combat sequences on your opponents so fast you have a break-through of confidence in defeating them in any combat. You may be thinking of improvement in your daily life but have not implemented it, but acquiring Dragon force in the course may give you the energy and mental clarity for its immediate implementation that brings about a sea change in your life.
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The questions and answers are reproduced from the thread 10 Questions on Dragon Strength in the Shaolin Wahnam Discussion Forum.
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