Wen Hsiu Quan

Hi, everyone! This week's blog post is really late, isn't it?  The reason for that is quite good. For once I have spent a Saturday away from my computer with my best friend and the nicest kids I know. That was a Saturday well-spent.  Today's post might not make sense to a lot of modern day martial artists or martial arts fans as I see that training these days is all about plyomentrics, explosive power training, sparring and so forth. Well- I guess it gets the job done if the job is being a good athlete. To me, however, martial arts are about the improvement of the human condition. The fighting techniques we learn are not the only useful part there is to a martial art.  Shaolin Kungfu we know started at almost the same time as Zen Buddhism in China. Buddhist monks are known for staying away from violence. The monks of our favourite temple in the Songshan mountains in Northern China are no different. For them- the fighting and martial training that...