Free Online Kung Fu

We've decided to offer our beginning martial arts series online FOR FREE. Call us crazy. Many people have and we're pretty used to it by now. So really, it's OK.

So what's the catch?

There isn't one. This is totally free. We've put up this online martial arts training for a couple of reasons and we'll tell you why.

1. We want to bring back the fighting arts.

A lot has happened in the martial arts world over the last 30 years. Back in the 60's and early 70's the way martial arts were taught was very different than most schools teach it today. Martial arts schools back then were back alley holes in the wall, or somebodies garage, or back yard. Much like the boxing gyms of the era, martial arts schools did not have a commercial emphasis but more an emphasis on teaching the art in it's pure form. Everything else was secondary.

Martial arts were a male dominated world. Most of the students were men in their mid 20's to mid 30's. Tough guys who were already street fighters. They just wanted their street fighting skills to be better and faster. To take fewer punches and get the job done quicker.

Most of the time there was something we jokingly called practical application class. This was an after class ritual of going to the local bar and testing out what we had learned earlier in class.

What's happened since then is a double edged sword. Hollywood was the catalyst for change. The Karate Kid came out and all of a sudden the schools were flooded with kids. With kids come moms. This was to change the industry forever. All of a sudden teaching martial arts was a lucrative industry and anyone who could throw a kick wanted in.

The problem was that the new schools conformed to the new customers. Schools had to make changes in their curriculum. Belts and trophies became more important. Commercialism set in.

But a few schools held back. Throughout all of this there were a few schools that refused to change. The art was more important than the money. These schools were few and far between and some were lost altogether. These few instructors realized that they had to keep the fighting ways alive. To succumb to the newest thing would mean a loss of their many thousand year old art.

They realized that the only way to keep a fighting art alive was to keep the emphasis on teaching fighting. Not belts and not competitions.

These days it's really hard to find a school that teaches a pure fighting art

There are schools teaching various forms of competition arts all over. they are easy to find. But finding a school that teaches only the pure fighting art is nearly impossible in most cities. Competition arts are fine. If that's what you want. But if you want an art that is taught the way fighting arts were taught originally, your going to have a really hard time. Until Now!

Providing online classes to the masses will help us find the students we really want

Without a doubt it's going to take some discipline to follow along with an online class. No instructor is going to be breathing down your neck. Your going to have to have the discipline to listen intently to the instruction and try as hard as you can at all times. If your not capable of that then your not going to make it. Less than 1 in 100 people have the self discipline to make it to Shifu (black belt) inShou' Shu'. So if we provide these lessons online for free we're going to find those rare individuals who can develop the skills to learn the art. The ones that can take instruction and have the discipline to carry that instruction out.

The rest? Well they'll just kind of disappear. It's a website. The inactive accounts just get deleted. No big deal. We won't even have to listen to the excuses. What a relief.

We only want the students who have the desire to really learn. This will help us avoid wasting our time on those students who are not truly interested in learning. That's just better for everyone. Right?

We want to make our art known

In today's world the martial arts that are popular are the ones that are easy. If you can get a black belt in it quickly people stick around. If the belts come quickly everyone is happy.

But learning martial arts is not always feel good.

In business there's a saying "The customer is always right".

In martial arts that idea ruins everything. The customer is not always right and most of the time the customer is wrong. Our job as martial arts instructors is to make you a proficient fighter and doing so is not always comfortable. Tip toeing around on eggshells so as not to lose a "customer" isn't good for anybody.

So with us your a student first and a customer second. but if you think about it isn't that really giving you what you want as a customer? It just might not feel good at the time. Get through it and we guarantee it will feel good later.

So the only way to make our art known is to really get it out there and find the students who have the wherewithal to get it.

This art is not for everybody. We're not going to treat it like it is. We don't pass out belts to make our customers happy. We're not going to make everything comfortable.

But if your looking for a true fighting art that has been true to its roots. We've got that.

So How about it? You interested in giving it a shot?
Sign up for our online martial arts classes

We offer both tutorials and full length lessons Free

Tutorials are the techniques shown from all angles. With and without an opponent. Slow and fast. This gives you a lot of perspective to understand how the technique works. You can even use your cursor to move the technique forward and back frame by frame.

Full length lessons are videos of our regular classes. We're adding these on a regular basis so you'll always have plenty to study. Unfortunately it's difficult to get a camera crew into a real class without disrupting the class so we're not promising the best of video for these. But if you watch intently you'll be able to follow along. And hey, it is free right? Expect many more of these lessons to be added soon.

We recommend you do these lessons with at least one partner. More is better. You'll need someone to work out with. So get your friends together and have some fun.