The Secret of Butterfly Gung Fu!

I’m totally addicted to Gung Fu. I’ve studied Wing Chun and Tai Chi, Pa Kua and Northern Shaolin, Southern Shaolin and…there is no way I can stop this addiction. This is not a bad thing, of course, for the clarity of mind and the health benefits are absolutely fantastic. There is one problem, however, that has always confounded me concerning the martial arts.

It can take three or four years to become proficient in a system of Kung Fu. It can take a dozen years to master a martial art. The problem is that this is just too long.

My solution to this problem was to isolate the main concept–and motion–behind a system of kung fu, and concentrate upon just that concept. I didn’t want to train by memorizing tricks, you see, I wanted to go for the gold. I wanted to find out what secret was behind any system I studied.

Every system I studied, however, was based on a different concept. Wing Chun slipped and angled , and the Mantis pulled with a hook. Pa kua made circles and deflected, and Tai Chi guided by absorbing.

None of the systems seemed related! But, I reasoned, fighting is, at heart, fighting! There had to be a simple concept that tied them all together.

There had to be some simple concept that was common to every system of Gung Fu, no matter how different the system seemed to be! There had to be an underlying principle or concept that I wasn’t seeing. Eventually, I found the concept.

No matter what type of Gung Fu you are studying, you have to have a body. Gung Fu, flower arranging, taking a walk, dance…you need a body. And the body is constructed, for the most part, the same from person to person.

Thus, I dissected and analyzed all the arts, and found that there is a principle of body motion, relating to and coming from the body, that is the same for virtually all arts. And the arts I was studying suddenly made sense, and I could see the connections. I had found the source of it all!

Eventually, I formed my own system, and it is based on this common principle of body structure, and the only potentials of motion that a body is capable of. I call this system the Shaolin Butterfly, and the true glory of it is that is includes virtually all potentials of motion from all other systems of Kung Fu. Oh, and one other thing about this system that is great–it can be learned in a couple of months.

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