Introduction

The name of our System is Shaolin Nam Pai Chuan (North South Fist), one of the many styles in the rich panoply of Chinese martial arts. It is a very broad style, incorporating all elements of the martial arts. Students of Nam Pai Chuan learn a variety of techniques, including blocking, kicking, punching, locking, throwing and nerve-point strikes. Students of Nam Pai Chuan also learn forms - continuous, flowing sequences used to teach the essence of movement and fighting. Through learning a wide variety of techniques you will be provided with a firm grounding in the general broad-based theory of the martial arts before you begin to specialise in any particular area.

Nam Pai Chuan teaches many techniques which could be seen as 'styles' in their own right. This leads to a varied martial arts education where basic techniques such as kicking and punching are taught alongside the eighteen traditional Shaolin weapons and the forms of the tiger, snake, monkey, eagle and leopard. Nam Pai Chuan is a holistic martial art, and as such teaches Chi-Gung, a Chinese system of stationary and moving breathing exercises. These exercises are practised to strengthen internal organs and to teach you how to channel your body's own energy, its chi, into a movement or part of your body.