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5228 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
Miyamoto Musashi
In the ancient lineage of Shaolin martial arts, Fut Sao Wing Chun, formerly known as Buddha Hand, stands as a timeless beacon of adaptability and principle-based excellence.
Embracing its roots as one of the oldest Shaolin disciplines, this art transcends mere combat, inviting practitioners to engage in a profound internal battle of self-mastery.
By integrating principles from both soft and hard styles of Chinese martial arts, Fut Sao Wing Chun offers a unique path where individual strengths and weaknesses are honored, guiding practitioners towards holistic development in mind, body, and spirit. Through the practice of WuDe, the Shaolin principles of integrity and ethics, students of Fut Sao Wing Chun embark on a transformative journey that not only hones combative efficiency but also nurtures personal growth and self-discovery.
By focusing on high concepts and principles, this versatile martial art empowers a diverse community of practitioners to navigate life’s challenges with grace and fortitude, embodying the essence of a warrior both on the battlefield and within themselves.
This set is the foundation of the system. It holds the essence of all three forms. Emphasis is on the softness of the style as well as the importance of structural alignment. Here you will begin to discover how to move parts of your body independently and learn how to isolate parts of the body from each other.
More advanced hand, arm, and elbow techniques are taught. Helps with the development of torque, grappling, locking, various footworks and body mechanics. More footwork is introduced. Here you discover how to begin to move and direct lines of force in two opposite directions at simultaneously and independently.
This is an advanced form that has been called the poison snake hand. Develops the skill of loose hands, internal-ging, more advanced torque and absorption/expulsion energies.
Considered the nerve center of the system, this form develops an eight-directional evasiveness that deals with angling, circling and spinning. It combines the training from the previous 3 forms.
Develops cutting power, incredibly fast slicing techniques and short ging that can be used with empty-hand techniques as well.
This form contains forms such as “sticky- sticks”, as well as offensive and defensive techniques. It develops long range fa-jing and pointing.
Each form is accompanied by a two-man fighting form that helps students to synthesize the principles and techniques of each form. The two-man sets are done in a live manner to allow fighting development.
Fut Sao Wing Chun also has internal sets that are practiced in order for the student to attain the development of Light Skills, Ging, inch power, Heavy Horse, and Dim Mak. This is a very rare Shaolin set taught out of small villages in Canton.
Fut Sao incorporates many different types of stimulus response drills to help develop action without thought. In a self-defense situation one needs to act and not think about acting.
The Fut Sao 108 Summation of all the techniques of the 4 preceding forms. The base form is done with a sliding dummy. Various types of wooden dummy sets exist. Stake, low-horse and weapons sets are all performed on the wooden dummy.
A journey of self discovery through Shaolin Kung Fu, Fut Sao Wing Chun, and Meditation