Learn Traditional Chinese Boxing and Kung Fu for Real Skill
Learn traditional Chinese boxing and kung fu skills, including close-quarters drills, rattan ring techniques, and traditional Duan Quan Men (短拳门) - Short Fist Gate fundamentals - all tailored for small spaces.
This site is dedicated to preserving and exploring traditional Chinese boxing training methods that focus on structure, efficiency, and real application. Whether training solo or in limited space, these methods emphasize practical development over performance.
You’ll find training ideas, explanations, and insights into older systems and conditioning methods that are often overlooked in modern practice.
What you’ll find here:
Close-range striking and footwork
Rattan ring training methods
Traditional conditioning drills
Practical training for small spaces
We are working on a Three Volume Set of instructional manuals to help you get more out of your training.
Simple yet profound, the rattan ring is a traditional Chinese Boxing training method used to bridge the gap between solo practice, controlled sparring, and live application, It remains a valuable tool in traditional Chinese Boxing and Kung Fu.
“For the traditional Chinese Boxer the mastery of Fu Wo Zhuang is not optional; it is essential”
Plum Blossom Posts are a traditional Chinese boxing training method, arranged in specific patterns rather than at random.
There are over fifteen distinct layouts, passed down through generations, each carrying practical, earthly, and cosmological meaning.
Smaller configurations were used to train select groups of students, while larger arrangements helped prepare soldiers, cavalry riders, and charioteers.
This article presents the different Plum Blossom Post arrangements, with images and video illustrating each of the fifteen shapes and their traditional structure.