These are usually practiced for 1–2 hours. At this session, the shaolin monks are trained with combat kung fu techniques. Usually, morning training takes 1 hour, but shaolin monks may train themselves by doing more basic exercises and other exercises such as practicing combat drills, kung fu techniques and routines, etc.Īfternoon training session usually begins at about 14:00-14:30, and may even begin at 15:00 at hot summer days. Flexibility training is done via stretching exercises, and balance training is done via keeping the body balanced in different childish skills postures for a while. Then the “child skills” such as flexibility and balance are practiced for about a half hour. Morning training begins with empty stomach, by warming up, which includes loosening up the body via rotating the joints and then by stamina training via endurance exercises such as various kinds of running, jumping, push-ups, etc., for 15–30 minutes. The typical daily training schedule is:ĥ:35–6:30: morning kung fu training: warm-up and basic skills.ĩ:00–11:30: doing temple affairs, like working at farms, chopping wood, commercial affairs elder and child monks attend Buddhist classes.ġ4:00–17:00: afternoon kung fu training: Martial arts exercises and learn combat kung fu techniques.Ģ1:00–23:00: 1 hour of night kung fu training, reviewing and every kind of exercise.Īt the morning training session, basic skills are practiced. Since the ancient times to the date, daily life of the monks at Shaolin temple have included to study and practice Chan Buddhism, to study and training kung fu, and doing the temple affairs, like cleaning the temple, working at the farms, guarding the area, etc. The Shaolin Kung Fu is one of the oldest and most famous style of martial arts, that form spiritual belief, physical and mental strength.

Basic kung fu moves