Welcome To The “Wight Wushuguan The Isle Of Wight’s first full-time Martial Arts school where you will learn a very special and centuries-old Art-form not to be found anywhere outside Mainland China - and not even taught (since the passing of my Master, the late Master Guo Kong Xi) in China itself! The Art-form in question is “Sanshangong” – a collection of time-honoured Animal-based exercises that originate from faraway villages in Fujian – a south-eastern province of Mainland China. Founder/Chief Instructor |
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As China was, for centuries, a very poor nation where health was the responsibility of the individual, these martial and meditational exercises also served as the most purest form of what we now refer to in the West as tCm – traditional Chinese medicine. Pre-dating Acupuncture, pre-dating Tuina (Chinese massage), and pre-dating Reflexology, these animal-based exercises (usually refered to incorrectly as “kung fu”) were absorbed into the daily routine of the Chinese people for it permitted them to tap into one of the World’s most sought-after secrets – the secret of immortality (longevity). Sanshangong is a very deep practice – one that is essential if you are to conquer many of the 21st Century’s body-based and mind-based problems, as the World has long-since entered into what one may justifiably call “The Lazy Era” - where the West is now on an inevitable collision-course with self-destruction. Yet masked and hidden within the depths of “Sanshangong” are the answers to such problems. Regular and focussed practice will allow you to find them, uncover them, and reveal them for your own personal use. |
“Sanshangong” is a medium-speed practice that bring together under one roof Literally translated from the Mandarin Chinese language, “San” means “Three” whilst the character “Shan” means “mountain(s). The Chinese character “Gong” So, “Sanshangong” essentially refers to Traditional and Classical Chinese Martial Arts based upon the local and indigenous culture of Fuzhou – both the City and the outlying area which the locals call “Fuzhou Area”. Neither a style of Chinese wushu (traditional Chinese martial arts) not a system of Chinese gongfu, it is a collection of concepts and principals expressed by way of various Forms (taolu) and two-person training methodologies.
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“Sanshangong” revolves around three vital concepts: xing, ting, and ming. Xing The Chinese dictionary defines Xing as shape, form, and pattern. Personally, I prefer to go with ‘shape’ because it is my outlook upon “Sanshangong” training that as one becomes more and more familiar with a certain exercise/practice, one actually begins to add both worth and substance to one’s movements and is thus continually re-shaping that particular exercise/practice. Having a basic shape provides the perfect platform for future building, development, and understanding as one begins to realize that the seemingly empty bag of apparent nothingness soon begins to fill-out adding, in this way, more and more shape and value to the shapeless bag it was before. As one develops, as one matures, as one changes, and as one grows, one’s shape is also going to change…and how so naturally, too! Though many are averse to change, disliking it, distrusting it, and finding nothing within it but negativity, Change is actually natural, unstoppable, and necessary if advancement, maturity, and evolution are to take place. Ting Similar to Taiji’s “tuishou” (Taiji’s “pushing hands”) and similar to Wingchun’s chisao (Wingchun’s “sticky hands”), the practice of tingshou (to give this listening hands exercise its full title) permits exploration, experimentation, and discovery of the application of Xing which leads ultimately to Ming. Indeed, tingshou provides the very breeding-ground where new ideas and creations are born out of a practice which is meditative, creative, stimulating, and invigorating. Ming |