All Shaolin Wahnam Kung Fu Sets (English, Chinese Characters, Mandarin Romanization)

Unarmed Sets

Baguazhang 八卦掌 bā guà zhǎng

Elemental Fist of Xingyiquan 形意五行連環拳 xíng yì wǔ háng

8 Mother Palms of Baguazhang (Circle Walking) 八卦母掌 bā guà mǔ zhǎng

12 Animal-Form Continuous Fist of Xingyiquan 形意十二形連環拳 xíng yì shí èr xíng lián huán quán

12 Fists of Choy-Li-Fatt 蔡李佛十二拳 cài lǐ fú shí èr quán

12 Sequences of Tantui 少林十二路彈腿 shàolín shí èr lù dàn tuǐ

Combat Application Set 1: Second Brother Asks the Way 二郎問路 èr láng wèn lù

Combat Application Set 2: Lift Lantern Lead Way 挑燈帶路 tiǎo dēng dài lù

Combat Application Set 3: Actor-Warrior Appears on Stage 演戰現臺 yǎn zhàn xiàn tái

Combat Application Set 4: Second Brother Lifts Caldron 二郎舉甑對練 èrláng jǔ zèng duì liàn

18 Collection of Praying Mantis 螳螂十八叟 táng láng shíbā sǒu

18 Lohan Set 十八羅漢拳 shí bā luó hàn quán

24-Pattern Taijiquan 二十四式太極拳 èr shí sì shì tài jí quán

36 Leg Techniques 少林三十六腿法 shào lín sān shí liù tuǐ fǎ

36 Specific Techniques Set 三十六式拳 sān shí liù shì quán

48-Pattern Taijiquan 四十八式太極拳 sì shí bā shì tàijí quán

72 Chin-Na Techniques 少林七十二把擒拿手 shào lín qī shí èr bǎ qín ná shǒu

108-Pattern Yang Style Taijiquan 楊氏太極拳 yáng shì tàijí quán

Abridged San Feng Wudang Set 武當太極三豐拳(簡略) wǔdāng tài jí sān fēng quán (jiǎn lüè)

Big Bell Lohan 大鐘羅漢拳 dà zhōng luó hàn quán

Black Bear Sinks Hips 黑熊沉腰拳 hēi xióng chén yāo quán

Black Tiger Steals Heart 黑虎偷心拳 hēi hǔ tōu xīn quán

Carry Tiger Back to Mountain 抱虎歸山拳 bào hǔ guī shān quán

Cham Kiew of Wing Choon Kungfu 詠春拳的尋橋 yǒng chūn quán de xún qiáo

Cloud Hands 雲手拳 yún shǒu quán

Cloud Hands Grasp Sparrow 雲手揽雀攬拳 yún shǒu lǎn què lǎn quán

Choy-Li-Fatt Twelve-Fist Set 蔡李佛十二拳 cài lǐ fú shí èr quán

Cosmos Palm 混元掌 hùn yuán zhǎng

Cotton Palm of Wudang Kungfu 武當棉花掌 wǔ dāng mián huā zhǎng

Crushing Fist of Praying Mantis Kungfu 螳螂崩步拳 táng láng bēng bù quán

Dragon Form 龍形拳 lóng xíng quán

Dragon in Zen 龍拳 lóng quán

Dragon-Tiger 少林龍虎拳 shào lín lónghǔ quán

Drunken Eight Immortals 醉八仙 zuì bā xiān

Dragon Strength 龍力運氣拳 lóng lì yùn qì quán

Eagle Claw 50-Sequence Linked Fist 鷹爪五十路連拳 yīng zhǎo wǔ shí lù lián quán

Eighteen Collection 螳螂十八叟 táng láng shí bā sǒu

Eighteen-Lohan Fist 十八羅漢拳 shí bā luó hàn quán

Enter Sea to Catch Serpent 入海擒蛟 rù hǎi qín jiāo

Er Shi Quan (Twenty Punches) 二十拳 èr shí quán

Essence of Shaolin 拳術精華 quán shù jīng huá

Fell Tree with Roots 倒樹盤根拳 dào shù pán gēn quán

Fierce Tiger Descends Mountain 猛虎下山拳 měn ghǔ xià shān quán

Fierce Tiger Speeds through Valley 猛虎過嶺拳 měng hǔ guò lǐng quán

Five Animals 五形拳 wǔ xíng quán

Five Element Continuous Fist of Xingyiquan 形意五行連環拳 xíng yì wǔ háng lián huán quán

Flower Set 少林花拳 shàolín huā quán

Flowing Water Floating Clouds 流水行雲拳 liú shuǐ xíng yún quán

Four Gates 十字四門拳 shí zì sì mén quán

Golden Finch Brushes Eyebrow 金鷥攀眉 jīn sī pān méi

Grand Lord Catches Fish 太公釣魚 tài gōng diào yú

Great Majestic Set 大雄拳 dà xióng quán

Green Dragon Shoots Pearl 青龍吐珠拳 tǔ zhū quán

Happy Bird Hops up Branch 喜雀登枝拳 xǐ què dēng zhī quán

Hungry Tiger Catches Goat 餓虎擒羊 è hǔ qín yáng

Hungry Tiger Returns to Den 餓虎退巢 è hǔ tuì cháo

Little Lohan Fist 小羅漢拳 xiǎo luó hàn quán

Lohan Asks the Way 羅漢問路拳 luó hàn wèn lù quán

Lohan Kung Fu Set 少林羅漢拳 shào lín luó hàn quán

Lohan Tames Tiger 羅漢伏虎拳 luó hàn fú hǔ quán

Lohan Walks in Garden of Timelessness 羅漢步行無時園 luó hàn bù xíng wú shí yuán

Iron Wire 鐵線拳 tiě xiàn quán

Monkey Set 少林猴拳 shào lín hóu quán

Old Eagle Catches Snake 老鷹擒蛇拳 lǎo yīng qín shé quán

Pakua Set 少林八褂拳 shào lín bā guà quán

Phew Chee of Wing Choon Kungfu 詠春拳鏢指 yǒng chūn quán biāo zhǐ

Wudang Taijiquan 武當太極拳 wǔ dāng tài jí quán

San Feng Wudang Set 武當三豐拳 wǔ dāng sān fēng quán

San Zhan of Wuzuquan 五祖三戰拳 wǔ zǔ sān zhàn quán

Sap Luk Sau 十六手 shí liù shǒu

Sap Ye Thiak 十二踢 shí èr tī

Seven-Star Set 七星拳 qī xīng quán

Shaolin Four-Sequence Four-Attack Set 少林四路四擊拳 shào lín sì lù sì jī quán

Shi Zhan of Wuzuquan 五祖實戰拳 wǔ zǔ shí zhàn quán

Shui Ta of Wing Choon Kungfu 詠春碎打拳 yǒng chūn suì dǎ quán

Siu Lin Tou of Wing Choon Kungfu 詠春小練頭拳 yǒng chūn xiǎo liàn tóu quán

Single Tiger Emerges from Cave 單虎出洞拳 dān hǔ chū dòng quán

Snake-Cat-Crane Set 蛇貓鶴形拳 shé māo hè xíng quán

Squatting to Pluck Flowers 伏地採花拳 fú dì cǎi huā quán

Swimming Dragon of Baguazhang 遊龍八卦掌 yóu lóng bāguà zhǎng

Sun Style Taijiquan 孫氏太極拳 sūn shì tàijí quán

Taijiquan Four-Sequence Four-Attack Set 太極四路四擊拳 tài jí sì lù sì jī quán

Taming Tiger 工字伏虎拳 gōng zì fú hǔ quán

Taming Tiger Double Rods 伏虎雙鐧 fú hǔ shuāng jiān

Thiet Chiet Na 跌膝拿 diē xī ná

Three-Harmony Set of Wudang Kungfu 武當三合拳 wǔ dāng sān hé quán

Ti Jiao (Kicking Leg) 踢腳 tī jiǎo

Tiger-Crane 36 虎鶴雙形拳 hǔ hè shuāng xíng quán

Tiger-Crane 72-Pattern Set 七十二式虎鶴雙形拳 qī shí èr shì hǔ hè shuāng xíng quán

Tiger-Crane 108 虎鶴雙形拳(黃飛鴻) hǔ hè shuāng xíng quán (huáng fēi hóng)

Triple Stretch 三展拳 sān zhǎn quán

White Crane Flaps Wings 白鶴亮翅拳 bái hè liàng chì quán

White Snake Shoots Venom 白蛇吐信拳 bái shé tǔ xìn quán

White Tiger Presents Claw 白虎獻爪 bái hǔ xiàn zhǎo

Wu Chuan You Style Taijiquan 吴全佑氏太極拳 wú quán yòu shì tài jí quán

Wu Yu Xiang Style Taijiquan 武禹襄氏太極拳 wǔ yǔ xiāng shì tài jí quán

Wudang Taijiquan 武當太極拳 wǔ dāng tàijí quán

Yellow Bee Sucks Pollen 黄蜂貫蕊拳 huáng fēng guàn ruǐ quán

Combination Sets

Five Flower Cannon 五花砲對練 wǔ huā pào duì liàn

Practical Fighting 實戰對練 shí zhàn duì liàn

Safe Body Cannon 安身砲對練 ān shēn pào duì liàn

Four Gates Combination Set 十字四門對練 shí zì sì mén duì liàn

Taming Tiger Combination Set 工字伏虎對練 gōng zì fú hǔ duì liàn

Five Animal Combination Set 五形對練 wǔ xíng duì liàn

Weapon Sets

Three-Sectional Soft Whip 三節鞭 sān jié biān

6-and-Half-Point Staff 六點半棍 liù diǎn bàn gùn

13-Technique Spear 游龍十三槍 yóu lóng shí sān qiāng

108-Point Staff 一百零八點棍 yī bǎi líng bā diǎn gùn

Battle Axe 戰斧 zhàn fǔ

Butterfly Knives 人字雙南刀 rén zì shuāng nán dāo

Chin Wah Staff 振華棍 zhèn huá gùn

Continuous Double Daggers 連環雙匕首 lián huán shuāng bǐ shǒu

Damo Subduing-Monsters Crescent Moon Spade 達摩伏魔月牙鏟 dá mó fú mó yuè yá chǎn

Double Sabres 雙刀 shuāng dāo

Fifth Brother Octagonal Staff 五郎八卦棍 wǔ láng bā guà gùn

Flag-Waving Big Staff 搖旗大棍 yáo qí dà gùn

Flowing Water Staff 何家流水棍 hé jiā liú shuǐ gùn

Green Dragon Crescent Moon Guan Dao 青龍偃月刀 qīng lóng yǎn yuè dāo

Golden-Legume Hammers 金瓜銅錘 jīn guā tóng chuí

Human-Character Double Southern Knives (Butterfly Knives) 人字雙南刀 rén zì shuāng nán dāo

Lu Pu Crescent Moon Spear 呂布畫戟 lǚ bù huà jǐ

Plum Flower Sabre 梅花單刀 méi huā dān dāo

Six-Harmony Staff 六合棍 liù hé gùn

Snake-Headed Lance 蛇矛 shé máo

Throat-Seeking Spear 鎖喉槍 suǒ hóu qiāng

Taiji Staff 太極棍 tàijí gùn

Taiji Sabre 太極刀 tài jí dāo

Taiji Traveling Dragon Spear 太極游龍槍 tài jí yóu lóng qiāng

Taming-Tiger Trident 伏虎大耙 fú hǔ dà bà

Through-Cloud Umbrella 少林穿雲傘 shào lín chuān yún sǎn

Traveling Dragon Crescent Moon Spear 游龍畫戟 yóu lóng huà jǐ

Traveling Dragon Sword 少林龍行劍 shào lín lóng xíng jiàn

Wudang Sword 武當劍 wǔ dāng jiàn

武當棉花掌

Wudang Cotton Palm 2016 from Wong Kiew Kit on Vimeo.

There is only one God and many gods

There is only one God and many gods

How can someone believe in the existence of one God and many gods? The two words "God" and "god" while sounding identical in the English language have very different meanings. 

The word "God" represents the all powerful supreme being. The word "god" represents something certainly lesser than God yet more powerful and majestic than humans. Angels in Western religions also fit this category of glorified beings that exist somewhere between humans and God Almighty.

Let's reconsider the belief that modern Western religions(Judaism, Christianity and Islam) are basically monotheistic(belief in one God) while Eastern religions are polytheistic(belief in many gods). Do Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Taoists, Buddhists and others believe in the one Supreme Being commonly referred to in English as "God"? Of course they do.

Mahatma Gandhi notes:

God is certainly One. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind. He is everywhere. He sees without eyes and hears without ears. He is form­less and indivisible. He is uncreate, has no father, mother or child; and yet He allows Himself to be worshipped as father, mother, wife and child. He allows Himself even to be worshipped as stock and stone, although He is none of these things. He is the most elusive. He is the nearest to us, if we would but know the fact. But He is farthest from us when we do not want to realize His omnipresence.

I dispute the description that Hindus believe in many Gods and are idolaters. They do say that there are many gods, but they also declare unmistakably that there is one God, the God of gods. It is, not therefore, proper to suggest that Hindus believe in many gods. They certainly believe in many worlds. Just as there is a world inhabited by men and another by beast, so also, is there one inhabited by superior beings called gods, whom we do not see but who nevertheless exist. The whole mischief is created by the English rendering of the word देव or देवता(deva or devata) for which you have not found a better term than "god". But God is Ishwara, Devadhideva, God of gods. So you see it is the word "God" used to describe differ­ent divine beings that has given rise to such confusion. I believe that I am a thorough Hindu but I never believe in many gods. Never even in my childhood did I hold that belief and no one ever taught me to do so.

Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit writes:

This will remind us that "God" is just a word, and the word itself is not the omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotent, and that the omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotent can be represented by other words like "Dios", "Gott", "Tathagata" and "Ju Lai". If people can realize the difference between the words themselves and what the words represent, they may be less emotive or fanatical. And if they realize that words are often interpreted in different ways, much mis-understanding and antagonism can be avoided.

Interestingly, while there may be enigma in European languages to say "There is only one God and many gods", there is no enigma in Sanskrit and Chinese because different words are used for the two different concepts: "There is only one Tathagata and many dewas" in Sanskrit, "There is only one Ju Lai and many shens" in Chinese.

Devout Christians would agree with the following phrases: "There is only one God and many angels" and "there are superior beings called angels, whom we do not see but who nevertheless exist."

Grandmaster Wong reminds us that "God" is only a word. Similarly, the word "water" is not water. We know how to go beyond the word "water" and experience water. But water is easily accessible to us. How do we go beyond the word "God" and experience God? That is a good question.

Lohan Asks the Way 2000

Lohan Asks the Way 2000 from Wong Kiew Kit on Vimeo.

Little Lohan Fist 小羅漢拳

The Lohan Fist was evolved from the Eighteen Lohan Hands by retired generals at the Shaolin Temple, and became the prototype of Shaolin Kungfu. This evolution was not directed or intentional, but spontaneous and haphazard. As there were many martial monks modifying the chi kung exercises of the Eighteen Lohan Hands for their individual martial needs over a long history of time, there were many different versions of the Lohan Fist.

It was recorded in Shaolin classics that originally there were 18 patterns in the initial versions of the Eighteen-Lohan Fist, modified from the 18 patterns of the Eighteen Lohan Hands. But by the time of the Tang Dynasty in the 7th century, many versions of the Lohan Fist had 108 patterns. The original and shorter versions were called Little Lohan Fist, or Xiao Luohanquan" in Chinsee, and the longer versions Great Lohan Fist, or Da Luohanquan".

The Lohan Fist developed into a style by itself, with 10 different sets, conveniently named First Set Lohan Fist, Second Set Lohan Fist, etc. On the other hand, there were also Lohan Fist with special features or from different kungfu styles, like Subduing Dragon Lohan Fist, Taming Tiger Lohan Fist, Big Bell Lohan Fist, White Crane Lohan Fist and Drunken Lohan Fist.

The Little Lohan Fist shown here is created by Grandmaster Wong from his wide and deep understanding and practice of Shaolin Kungfu. Can you tell from which chi kung patterns of the Eighteen Lohan Hands are these Lohan Fist patterns evolved?

http://www.shaolin.org/shaolin/kungfu-sets/lohan-fist/little-lohan.html

Bodhidharma 菩提達摩

Dragon-Strength Chi-Circulation Set 龍力運氣拳