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 White Dragon, a school specializing in traditional martial arts.

Here students and teachers are committed and devoted to the practice of a true traditional martial art.

Students learn that martial arts are not just a sport, but a way of life.

White Dragon students are proud of their rank because they know they've truly earned it.

HONOR, DISCIPLINE and RESPECT still have meaning.


 

 

DRAGON

DRAGON

Explosive, Powerful
LEOPARD

LEOPARD

Quick, Efficient
TIGER

TIGER

Strong, Fierce
SNAKE

SNAKE

Deceptive, Agile
CRANE

CRANE

Evasive, Graceful
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MARTIAL ARTS STYLES

The family style known as Pai Lum comprises the kung fu taught at White Dragon. It is an old and internationally recognised system of Chinese martial arts in direct descent from the original monasteries. Great care is taken in passing on this ancient wisdom; we teach the same methods of physical structuring and mind-body coordination today as were taught over three hundred and fifty years ago when it was developed in China.

    White Dragon teaches both external and internal martial arts. External arts include White Dragon Fist Style Kung Fu and Five Animal Style Chinese Kempo. Internal arts include Tai Chi Young and Chi Kung.

   Through traditional instruction in both the external and internal martial arts, students of White Dragon draw on generations of knowledge as part of developing a strict code of ethics and conduct.

WISDOM, COURAGE, HONOR, STRENGTH, PURITY, ALL KNOWLEDGE

   Most importantly, students learn the value of a traditional style of training.

   One of our highly skilled teachers will develop a course of instruction to best suit your needs.  All it takes is a willingness and desire to learn on your part.

KUNG FU

  The martial art of kung fu emerged from China over fifteen hundred years ago, or perhaps even earlier. According to the vague history with which we are left it appears that a saint from India, by the name of Bodhidharma came to China in the fourth century to aid the Taoist monks at the Shaolin monastery. He produced for them a sequence of tensing and breathing exercises which the monks later developed into combat movements to defend themselves from bandits. In time the monks learned to copy the movements of wild animals to refine their combat and as a form of meditation for merging the mind with nature, learning natural law.
    These monks would travel all over China exchanging this knowledge with others. Over the next several centuries Chinese martial arts would change and grow and many different techniques would be created and perfected. During this period many different styles of kung fu were created.
    One of these styles was White Dragon Fist Style or as it is known in Chinese, Pai Te' Lung Ch'uan Shih Yang.
Today, kung fu has been made popular in the United States, Everyone knows a song or two, has seen more than one movie about kung fu and there are many schools. Much of this bears little resemblance to real kung fu and teaches nothing about the challenge to ones body, mind, and spirit that it offers.
Only in a traditional school can you learn the true value of this training. There are very few authentic traditional schools, White Dragon is one.

TAI CHI

   Tai Chi Young is translated as “Grand Ultimate Way” and is approximately as old as Kung Fu. In China there is a custom to wake up very early in the morning to begin the day by practicing Tai Chi, even for those who are over eighty! The purpose is to relax the body and invite vitality and peacefulness to pervade one’s being. In Tai Chi practice the body is moved in a slow, relaxed manner with grace and inward rhythm. The objective of the Tai Chi student is to maintain the attention to the “center”, an undefinable point where the mind, body, and essence of an individual meet. In order to center, a student must work "with" the environment such as: gravity, the elements, and other living things. Properly done, Tai Chi practice unifies the practitioner with nature and harmonizes his thought and action with the current of life energy which the Chinese call “chi”. In contrast to Kung Fu, Tai Chi is more outwardly passive while still embodying activity within the physical exercises.

KEMPO

   Five Animal Chinese Kempo is another very traditional style of martial art taught at any of our five locations of White Dragon schools. This system is based on the movements of the TIGER, LEOPARD, SNAKE, CRANE, and DRAGON. Each of these styles are unique and pose certain challenges to the practitioner. Students will learn the traditional forms and the application of self defense associated with these forms, and several traditional weapons.

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