Welcome to the Shaolin Mountain Gate website

Welcome to Mountain Gate Academy!

If you are new to this site or to martial arts, please read our introductory page and watch the welcome video to your left. Our full curriculum is also available.

Otherwise please browse to whatever you find interesting, whether it be our training information, news, articles on the martial, scholarly or health aspects of our training, or you can use the tag cloud below to jump straight to specific topics such as animal styles or self defence.

We hope you enjoy and benefit from the extensive content on this site, and consider becoming a student for access to additional instructional content and personalised assistance from our teachers.

Our senior instructior Shifu Jason Parks runs a school in Launceston, Tasmania. More information on that school is available at the Kung Fu Tasmania website.

Thank you for the opportunity to share Shaolin Mountain Gate Gong Fu with you.

 

Shan Men Shaolin Gong Fu Curriculum

Please see the full Curriculum Page for full details on each level, including information about level themes and everything that must be learnt to progress through the system.

Basics

Power fists
  • Metal Element fist
  • Earth Element Fist
  • Wood Element Fist
  • Fire Element Fist
  • Water Element Fist
Challenge/Solution Set Analogies
  • First Assail
  • Second Assail
  • Third Assail
  • Fourth Assail

Level 1 – White Sash – Foundations

Forms

Level 2 – Yellow Sash – Short Power Functionality

Forms

Level 3 – Orange Sash – Long Power Functionality

Forms Weapons
  • Qi Mei Gun

Level 4 – Green Sash – Foundation unification

Forms

Level 5 – Blue Sash – Expansion of form

Forms
  • Xiao Hong Quan (Small Red Boxing) – Tao Lu
  • Shaolin Dan Dao (Shaolin Single Broadsword) – Ji Ben Tao Lu

Level 6 – Purple Sash – Imitative (Animal) Boxing

Forms

Level 7 – Brown Sash – unification and step into advanced form

Forms
  • Da Mo Quan (Bodhidharma Boxing) – Tao Lu

Level 8 – Brown/Red Sash – unification and advanced function

Forms
  • Yi Lu Da Tong Bei Quan (First Road Greater Penetrating Boxing) – Tao Lu
Also the student chooses one form from the following list to demonstrate for their Black Sash examination.
  • Da Pao Quan (Great Cannon Boxing)
  • Yi Lu Jiao Yang Quan (First Road Greet the Sun Boxing)
  • Di Tang Mei Hua Quan (Close to the Ground Plum Blossom Boxing)
  • Yin Shou Gun (Yin Hand Pole) – Tao Lu

Level 9 – Black Sash

Power Fists
  • Eagle Claw
  • 2nd Fire Punching
  • Black Tiger
Forms
  • Yi Lu Da Hong Quan (1st Road Great Hong Boxing)
  • Er Lu Da Hong Quan (2nd Road Great Hong Boxing)
  • San Lu Da Hong Quan (3rd Road Great Hong Boxing)
In addition the student must demonstrate three elective boxing forms from the rest of the curriculum – there are many forms to choose from not just those listed above. The following is a list of the remaining core forms within the curriculum.
  • Shaolin Small Spring Legs
  • Praying Mantis Fist
  • Small Cannon Fist
  • Refined Lohan Fist
  • Old Style Hong Fist
  • Small Penetrating Fist
  • Seven Star Fist
  • Protecting the Heart Gate Fist
  • Emperor Tai Zu’s Long Fist
  • Plum Blossom Fist
  • Catching the Wind Palms
  • Buddha’s Warrior Attendant Fist
  • North Eastern Fist
  • Five Animal Fist
  • Eagle Claw Fist
  • Monkey Fist
  • Drunken Fist
  • Crossed Pattern Tiger Taming Southern Fist
  • White Eyebrow Southern Fist
  • White Crane Buddhist Fist
  • Eight Trigram Palms
  • Five Element Form and Will Fist
  • Wudang Supreme Ultimate Fist
  • White Ape Leaving the Cave Pole
  • Sleeping Dragon Broadsword
  • Fifth Patriarch Straight Sword
  • Yang Family Spear
  • Wolf Teeth Mace
  • Spring Autumn Great Sword
  • Bodhidharma Crescent Spade
  • Bandit Sword
  • Military Trident
  • Double Pegged Batons
  • Shaolin Double Broadswords
  • Shaolin Double Maces
  • Wind Fire Wheels
  • Ring Daggers
  • Double Hook Swords
  • Umbrella
  • Iron Fan
  • Three Sectional Staff
  • Shaolin Whistling Staff
  • Nine Section Steel Whip

Level 10 – Black Sash 2nd Degree and above

At these levels there is a greater emphasis on the cultivation of depth within the work as well as expanding the practitioner’s technical and functional base. Every technique, form or weapon is open for study to practitioners of Level 10 and above. Each level from Level 10 and above requires a grading demonstration of two forms that have been learnt at the current level. This is in addition to all of the other forms previously learnt from Level 9 and up.

Level 13 – Red Sash (Shifu)

This level is available to those students who have continued in their Black Sash studies and also demonstrated their ability to successfully teach.