Not a style of violence but of health and fitness!
Shaolin Kung Fu, developed around 1500 years ago in the Legendary Temple of Shaolin, was focused on Health & Well Being exercise. Based on Yoga, this exercise was essential to the Monks survival as health care was rare and many areas lawless. What the main difference is between Shaolin Kung Fu and other martial arts is that the Exercises was developed to improve the health of the practitioners and be safe now and for the future. The added benefit of using martial art movements and strategies, it that it could also be used for self defence and conflict management. Owing to it's long development, all movements, practices and techniques that were unsafe in the long and short term were modified or removed leaving only that which is proven to be health, safe and effective.
5 Great Reason for trying Shaolin Academy Kung Fu!
Aside from the Excellent Instructors, Fantastic Students, many Social Activities we are Professional not Commercial! And then there are the 5 FREE reasons!
Your training is FREE
The First three classes are absolutely FREE; so that you can make sure you like what you are doing! Click on the picture to the right for a free voucher with address, time and map details.
Your training is PAIN FREE
No pain during training, no pain after training and no pain the next day. Pain = No Brain!
Your training is BULLY FREE
No Bullies, Yahoo's, Bogens, Hot Heads, Agros or such. We have students aged 12 training happily with students aged 70 and everywhere in between. Parent with Children, siblings and even young and not so young couples. The Shaolin Academy is for mature persons who like health, fitness and self-defence training in a fun and professional atmosphere!
Your training PROBLEM FREE
You can train in any of our locations, in any of our classes anytime. You are not locked in to a specific attendance. If one week you have more time, train a bit more and if you miss a class, no problem, catch-up anytime you want.
Your training is INJURY FREE
In 17 year of operation, we have not had a person-to-person accident requiring more than a salve for bruising and a band-aid. New students and beginner students are 'untouchables' and have never ever been hurt or injured!
Accredited, Experienced, Professional but not Commercial!
We are a professional Martial Art Academy operating since 1992 without interruptions. The style that we teach, Shaolin 5 Animal Kung Fu; a style that is considered one of the best martial arts in the world as it allowing a high degree of adaptations for you to be able to find what best works for you.
The Academy is managed and classes are mainly taught by Master Robert Z and Senior Instructor Di Sifu John. Together have over 70 years martial art and teaching experience ensuring a high quality of martial art, in a safe, friendly and pleasant environment. You will enjoy a high level of professionalism, well trained and educated instructors, friendly and helpful fellow students and you will learn a 1000 year old art of self defence whilst becoming fit and healthy.
Just below is an introduction by Master Robert Z. There is also a short video for our students about one of our recent classes.
Would you like some more information? Give us a call Toll Free on 1800 SHAOLIN that is 1800 742 654! Or e-mail us at Shaolin Academy e-Info.
What we do Saturdays in Mordialloc and Where we are!
Play me, please play me.
You can choose from three easy Melbourne Southern Region locations, where you can try out with us for free, in Mordialloc, Caulfield and Camberwell. with no further obligations. If you want we can send you an 11 minute DVD which will show you us, our location and how we train (This is also free). Or you can print out the Three FREE Training session voucher and come in for three free classes; we will even give you a little gift when you do this!
The Video to the left changes every so often. Currently it is a compellation of Saturday classes in July and August! Every-so-often it will change, when we have something new or something old.
Just below we have a YouTube recording of our training, locations, students, everything. That on the front of the Video is our Chief Instructor and Manager Sijo Robert Z. If you like, you can call him for free by entering your phone number (with area code) into our Free Call facility (and we will not keep your phone number for advertising or such; we don't do that) or you can use our 1800 SHAOLIN, that is 1800 742 654 anytime between 11am and 5pm Tuesday to Saturday!
Academy Background
The Shaolin Academy was established and has been in uninterrupted operation in Victoria since 1992. The Academy is a recognized Martial Art Teaching Center and accredited by several national and international organizations including but not limited to; the Martial Art Industry Association, International Kung Fu Wushu Federation, Australian Government, Chinese Kung Fu & Tai Chi Association.
All our instructors are exceedingly well trained and qualified in Martial Arts & Self Defence, Teaching, First Aid, Presentation, Safety, Venue Management, Emergency Procedures and of in their Duty of Care.
The style of kung Fu the Shaolin Academy teaches and uses was developed in 539 CE (that is almost 1500 years ago) in China and is considered one of the most effective and safe of martial art styles in the world. It has been featured in many martial art Movies and Serials (including the 70's TV series Kung Fu with the late David Carradine) and martial art stars such as Jacky Chan and Jet Li have represented the style in movies such as "The Shaolin Temple".
The Shaolin Academy welcomes students of all ages, all ages, all professions, all ethnicities, all religions and all colours. Currently training with us are students between the age of 12 and 68 years fit from 17 different countries.
So Come on in
All our early 6.30pm classes are beginner classes for new students. Just come in 30 minutes earlier so that we can go through the safety introduction and then introduce you to the other participants.
Mordialloc
cnr Albert & Lewis St
in the Alen McLean Hall
by the Mordi Police Station
Novice Classes at 6.30pm
Tuesday & Thursday
Caulfield
end of Dudley St
in the Caulfield Sports Reserve
The Green Hall
Novice Classes at 6.30pm
Monday & Wednesday
Camberwell
314 Camberwell Rd
Uniting Church Hall
by the Police Station
Novice Classes at 6.30pm
Monday
So come on in an try out a 1471 year old style that is fun and interesting, we guarantee it!
Grading Presentations and
End of Year & Grading
PARTY Simba'r
Sat 30 - 5pm
KIiT Training @ 1085
7pm Instructors @ Simba'r
Sat 27 - 5pm
KIiT Training @ 1085
7pm Instructors @ Simba'r
Smart Self Defence
With Police Numbers being very limited, much violence is starting to flourish in Melbourne. Recently, Ron Barrasi, our football great and great gentleman, was bashed and now, someone had tried to rob Dawn Fraser (see article to the left) our once boisterous Olympic Champion!
With Police numbers constantly being fiddled with and focusing them in areas that have already become disreputable (rather than focusing on stopping areas declining in the first place) police have become the pawn of public media. They are only being sent to places and areas that have made news headlines and not into the local suburb where ordinary people live and need their protection. There needs to be someone hurt and bashed and this needs to end up on News or TV before the police can focus on an area. Until then, the older and younger, the foreign and different will find themselves easy targets, even in their own front yards!
Then, after being robbed and bashed you need to survived your stay in a hospital. Once that is over the life long trauma that such a violent incident causes will be with you changing your life in ways you could not have imagined. Should you on the other hand been successful in defending yourself, you may end up at the loosing end of another type of bashing. Many career criminals are well versed with using our legal system and even making us pay for it! They know how to make the most of legal aid and criminal support groups. If they could not get your money in one way, they may try the other way; using our great legal system to sue us for defending ourselves excessively!
With violence being condoned on TV in the form of 'friendly' footy games, where elbows to the head, 'accidental' punches to the neck, unfortunate knees to a downed opponent and stomping on limbs are very prominent for 6 an more months on TV, this attitude is spilling into the audience, to parents of young football players and especially after footy games. Should you be the unfortunate person to run into such a drunk hooligan or even be the victim of our great football hero's, you may end up in the news as the aggressor. Or how else can you explain that three fit and large football hulks are claiming that a street cleaner attacked them, all three of them and that they needed to bash him so hard that he now has permanent brain damage. Well that is the footy way isn't it?.
Intelligent Martial Arts
Some of the smarter martial art teachers have recognised this dual danger posed by professional criminals and football players. They have adapted by teaching their students the right way to defend themselves; a way that allows a good chance of success without causing undue damage to the attacker, than could be turned against you in a court of law. Unfortunately though, there are still many self defence and martial art schools and teachers that still advocate raw violence, and seek to make their students almost as bad a violent criminals.
Shaolin Academy, Professional not Commercial
The Shaolin Kung Fu & Self Defence Academy has been teaching 'Smart' and conscionable self defence to it's students since it was founded in 1992. The style is based on the legendary Shaolin Temple Kung Fu, developed by Buddhist Monks. The Shaolin Kung Fu Self Defence is an Art that highly values intelligent self protection and conscionable self defence which focus on causing minimal harm even to person seeking to cause you great harm. With 1500 years of development, Shaolin Kung Fu has the ways and means of achieving this high degree of self defence whilst maintaining your own personal safety. Taes a bit longer to learn but is leaves you with a clear conscience if you ever need to use it!
1500 Year Advantage
Shaolin 5 Animal Kung Fu teaches you to overcome an attacked based on who you are and what you have as your natural abilities. It not seek to make you violent or aggressive but gives you the skills and confidence to 'Manage' a violent situation, based on that which suits your nature, size, demeanour and life outlook. By identifying different human behavioral styles using Animal Metaphors you learn to maintain your dignity and conscience even in the face of a physical, mental or other threat. Learning this skill and being more in control of your life is an asset in itself and especially important to teenagers and young adults future life. Considering that it is also a superior way of maintaining health, flexibility, fitness and strength, it comes to being a very valuable way of achieving many wins through just one activity.
Free Trial, no traps
We do not expect you to take our word for it; there is a lot of clever advertising and marketing out there. That is why we have three easy safeguards for you to ensure that you have total freedom. Fist we offer you Three FREE Classes, any venue, any class; Secondly, once you have joined the Shaolin Academy you have a 14 day 'Cool Down Period' where you can cancel your membership without reason and without any cost to you. Thirdly, we do not have contracts. This means you can stop training any time without penalties, or problems. You just call up and cancel you membership, and it is cancelled. No tricks, no contracts and no problems.
Best suitable for persons aged 11 years and older (although we do have special children's classes). At this time our student age range is between 10y and 68y with most of our student being between 15y and 38y.
Give us a call on 1800 SHAOLIN that is 1800 742 654 and talk to us between 10am and 5pm; we are happy to answer any questions. You can even call us FREE of Charge by using our Internet FREE CALL FACILITY. Just click on the underlined text and try this out. Also free, also no problems!
