When you drive up the road to Shaolin Temple you pass these schools and a whole lot more. Most of these schools carry the name shaolin in their schoolname because they are either runned by (ex) monks or people who used to train at or near Shaolin Temple and they teach shaolin style wushu.
Not so famous but just as good is the Zhengzhou Shaolin Cultural Middle Vocational School (少林 文化中等 专夜 学校).
The school is relatively small with a student body of approx. 200 students. Nevertheless students of this school have participated in shows in China and abroad. They have been to Kongo, Greece and The Netherlands.
Henan Chinese Kong-Fu Group
Students practise five to six hours a day, six days a week which is the same like most schools in Dengfeng. Apart from shaolin wushu you can also practise sanda and Taekwondo. One of the Shifu at this school is 赵飞师傅 (Shifu Zhao Fei). Zhao Shifu comes from a family of farmers. In his hometown his talent was immedaitely recognized and he was sent to Dengfeng to practise kungfu. After having trained at Shaolin for several years he finally ended up at this school near Zhengzhou City. His skills are remarkable. He is part of the group that will do a number of shows in the Neteherlands april this year. So if you don’t want to go where everyone goes and still get the best out of your kungfu trip, this is the place to be.
