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Shaolin Lohan Kung-Fu

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This is a good book, for people who want to learn more about Southern Lohan. It has many training methods, and many techniques. It also contains one form of the style. It is informative in everyway, but not a great deal of detail on the style itself

This book gives you a very good description of this Kung Fu style from history trough basic hand signs and greetings to basic stances, punches and kicks with drills for footwork. The Lohan pattern is alsoe shown in what i belive to be gret detail with several picturesfirst as a solo form and then again with the aplications. Pictures are big and clear with easy to understand and god text. A brief chapter alsoe on the shaolin fist and hand conditioning exersices.

This volume should be a must for anyone interested in following the Shaolin path, I found it to be clear and it continually challenged me to increase my efforts to learn the techniques of the Shaolin masters. Well worth the money.

Superb. 90% of the martial arts books one reads are written by 'masters' who are either very unskilled and who write rubbish, but write it well; or who are moderately skilled but who write very badly. The combination of Mr Draeger and Master P'ng (whom I was lucky enough to train with) makes this a book worth devouring by anyone with an interest in matters martial. Couldn't recommend it highly enough.

One cannot hope really to learn Wushu (or any other martial art) through a book. The presence of a teacher is indispensable. In this aspect, I found the part of the book in which he teaches the basic drills and the form not so much valuable, unless you are learning that same style and wish to improve your details.
However, I found it interesting and useful the part that speaks of the Shaoling training methods and, specially, the part that shows applications for the movements of the form. In these I found some inspiration and good information to improve my art.

a great book it tells you about the background of shaolin,fundamentals of shaolin,handsign and salutation,stances,basic punching exercise,basic kinking excersice,forms,and more

This material covered in this book, for those that want the information is Not Chinese Shaolin Lohan form.
It is a Malaysian derivative from Shaolin.

If you think you can learn how to do this form from a book, especially this one, you are clearly delusional.
Get a real KF teacher.