Chin Woo Kung Fu school and the Shaolin monastery
Shaolin is the birth place of the combat arts. Today the monks still train and teach Gong Fu. Because of the good relationship between Master Chow Kok Yeng and the abbot of the shaolin monastery there was and will be held training journeys to the Shaolin monastery. Through the years a genuine friendships resulted to the monks. Because of this friendships some of the monks were teaching in our China Hall. Most of the time Shaolin monk Liu came to visit and teach us. [more of Shaolin history...]

Liu occurred with eight years to the Shaolin monastery. In the first years he had besides the school and the Shaolin Kung Fu training to help with the daily work. Most of the time Liu had to work in the kitchen. That’s why today Liu is not only an excellent Kung Fu fighter, but also a good vegetarian cook.

This days Liu trains the new generation of the Shaolin monastery. His day begins already at five o'clock in the morning; before sunrise he runs with his pupils up to the cave of Bodhi Dharma – and this means over a thousand stairway steps. Afterwards there is breakfast, which consists of nutritious rice porridge. After that, three hours of Kung Fu training. After lunch, whose main part consists of rice, the children go to school and Liu practices his personal exercises. After dinner, which consists again of rice, there are another three hours training. Night rest is subsequently.

Liu is specialized in the nine whip chain, with which he also wants to participate at the Olympic games in 2008. A speciality of Liu is to break a bar made of steel; by striking it against his head.

Shaolin monk Liu stayed already several times in Switzerland and found some friends at the Chin Woo Kung Fu school Uster. Thus the pupils of the school like to go around with him in the city. To entertain the monk is however not simple; that’s not only because most pupils do not speak Chinese. No, the monk does not have any possession and hi is not interested in any things, which are offered in our department stores. The more interesting it is to sit with Liu in a restaurant and to talk about the philosophy of life with him of course with the help of an interpreter and with our hands and feets.