Class Tenure
Class begins on the 10th of October, 2009

Class Grades

1. Primary level— Great Infinity accomplishment or white uniform
2. Intermediate level—Two Emblematic Symbols Accomplishment or black uniform
3. Senior level—--Tai Chi accomplishment or white & black uniform (the upper uniform is white and the lower uniform is black)

Ceremony for Becoming Apprentice
Ceremony Procedure:
1. Wudang Taoist etiquette
2. Take an oath
3. Worship the superlative deity of Taoism
4. Tea-serving Rituals

The Curriculum for Primary Stage(one year)
1. The ritual of Wudang Taoism
2. Basic Skills of Wudang Kungfu
–Basic Skills:

Leg Pressing:
1) Stretch Leg from front
2) Stretch Leg sideway
3) Leg swing backward
4) Tiptoes and feet upper surface stretch
5) Shoulder stretch
6) Waist stretch
7) legs splits
8) Palm stretch
9) Half lotus cross

Body Position
1) Waist turn over
2) Swing arms in cycle
3) Movement combination
4) Body positions adopted often in traditional form sets
5) Carp Flip

Footwork:
1) Bow step
2) Horse-riding step
3) Crouch stance (crouch down on one leg and stretch the other leg sideways)
4) Empty step（Xu Bu）
5)Sitting stance (Xie Bu)
6) T-shaped stance
7) Sit-on-backward-leg step
8) Tai Chi step

3. The Content of Physical Training:
1) Spurts
2) High Leg Raising
3) Drop-hold Jumping
4) Hop
5) Single Knee Lifting
6) Push-ups
7) Push-up Jumping
8) Squats and stands up
9) Dorsal abdominal muscle training
10) Backwards Running
11) Pull-ups
12) Leg training with a heavy burden（squats、holding a person to spurt）
13) Change legs when lunge into jumping
14) Leapfrogs
15) Upholding strength training (internal training)
16) Endurance Practice
17) Headstand

4. The Content of Standing Stake Work (Chuang Gong)
1) Tai Chi Hun Yuan Chuang
2) Horse Stance Chuang
3) Shing-I Chuang
4) Meditation
5) Eight-brocade Stretching Exercise

5. Kung Fu Teaching (regular curriculum)
Basic Boxing (in total of two routines, one-month duration)
Xuan Gong Boxing (in total of three routines, three-month duration)
Wudang SanFeng Tai Chi 18 Movements, 28 Movements, Shing-I Boxing (three-months duration)

6. Selective Curriculum (You can choose any two courses)
Xiang Long Fu Hu Boxing
Xuan Zhen Boxing
Wudang San Feng Tai Chi Sword
Xuan Gong Dao
Leg kicking 36 form sets (12 Routines)
Single slap kick, inside kick and draw kick, front and back kick with heel, inside crescent kick, lift foot, crescent kick, forward kick, twist kick, butterfly kick, flying kick with heel, kick with heel, side outer-edge kick

7. The Taoist Health Preservation（Regular Curriculum, 10 class hours）
Tai Chi Regimen
Natural Regimen
The Six-character Formula (Liu Zi Jue)

8. The Basic of Taoism Culture and Taoist Medicine
– The history of Taoism development, the ritual of Taoism, the brief introduction of Taoism culture, and so on (5 class hours)
– Zhou Yi (Book of Change), five elements theory, Eight-Diagram theory, the basics of Taoism medicine (30 class hours)
– Classification, identification and application of common herbal medicine on Mt. Wudang, Wudang herbal medicine collection (30 class hours)

The Curriculum for Intermediate Stage(two years)

1. Basic Routine Training (as same as with the corresponding part listed above in primary stage)
2. Leg kicking of 36 Form Sets (12 Routines)
Turn body kick, consecutive side snap kick, side kick, break rib kick, sweep rib kick, cross step and back kick, kick with heel and break rib kick, break chest kick, consecutive jumping side kick, high side kick, break knee kick
3. The content of standing stake training (Chuang Gong)
Imitating-Crane Standing Stake
Five-Elements Chuang
Five-Form Qi Gong
4. Kung Fu (regular curriculum, half a year duration)
San Feng Tai Chi 108 Movements
Eight Diagrams Palm
Tai Yi Xuan Men Sword
5. Selective Curriculum (choose any among three courses)
Ba Chi Boxing
Tai He Boxing
Tai Yi Wu Xing Boxing
Pu Dao (knife)
Spike-tooth Rake
Nine-section Whip
6. The Taoism Classics (60 class hours)
Taoist health preservation study, the Yellow Emperor's Book of Internal Medicine, Tao Te Ching (30 class hours), elementary courses of Taoist medicine, common disease diagnosis and how to make a prescription

The Curriculum for Senior Stage(three years)

1. Leg Kicking, 36 Form Sets (12 Routines)
Cross step and back kick, whirlwind kick, front kick with heel and back kick with tiptoe, side snap kick across face and turn body kick, sweep kick, sideway kick, jump and break rib kick, break knee and rib kick, flying kick, inside kick and turn over kick, consecutive jump and side kick

2. Kung Fu (Regular Curriculum, 8 months duration)
Long Hua Boxing
Wudang Eight Immortals Stick
Wudang Eight Immortals Swordplay
Fang Bian Shovel (a kind of shovel)
3. Selective Curriculum (choose two courses)
Long-hilt scimitar
Double hook
Double sword
Zi-Wu spear
Drunken sword
Double whip
Magic whip
4. The Taoism Philosophy ( 4 class hours every week)
Lecture upon Tao Te Ching, Qing Jing Ching (20 class hours)
Chuang Tzu, the Yellow Emperor's Book of Internal Medicine (60 class hours).

5. Taoist medicine intermediate courses, the basic theory and practice of the four traditional methods of diagnosis: observation, listening, interrogation, and pulse-taking.

6. Selective Curriculum: please choose 4 new courses
The Course of Taoist Health Preservation and Cultivate Morality (30 class hours):
Taoist internal alchemy, discourse upon Understanding the Reality (Wu Zhen Pian), as well as Can Tong Qi.


Notes :
According to the practical learning of capacity, the international disciples are advised by their masters to take corresponding curriculum, to better develop all their learning potentials.

1. One class hour lasts 50 minutes.
2. There are 6 class hours of Kung Fu teaching everyday and every week there has one day off (subject to adjustment according to the summer and winter breaks).
3. The teaching of Taoist internal alchemy, Taoist medicine and Taoist classics can be carried out in a fixed period of each month (i.e. 1st – 10th of each month, for example)

The Registration via the following means:
Tel: [phone]—5689185/5689011/5689022
Fax: [phone]—5689033
Website: www.wudang.org
E-mail: [e-mail]
Address: Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy, the Purple Heaven Palace, Mt. WuDang, Shi Yan City, Hubei Province, China.
Zip Code:442714