Traditional Martial Arts/Kung Fu program that is  practical in self defense and offers the deeper knowledge from the Shaolin Wisdoms usually not found anymore.

A complete fighting system...

So complete our Kung Fu fighters do Cage fighting and WIN!!

Ti-Kicking       Da-Striking       Shaui- Throwing/takedown skill       Na - submission       Weaponary - Short range and Long range

A true Chan/Zen philosophy link within the system.

Internal Energy of Qigung.(Chi-Gung)

Meng's Martial Arts of Houston-Katy TX is directly affiliated with the Ving Tsun Museum. It is the only Martial Arts research institute in the U.S. It is the cutting edge for research on Kung Fu and teaching methods. Modern Research into Ancient Methods

The Ving Tsun Museum's research reveals that the Southern Shaolin Temple trainees progressed through three "Halls" or stages of learning.

First Hall Pictures: Finger Tip Push Ups, Sitting Body Lifts, Squatting Body Lifts and Horse Stace Training

The first hall was Basic Exercise (Gei Bun Gung.) This stage of training covered six areas of focus: flexibility, strength, endurance, nutrition, hydration, and rest/recovery.

Beginners started here, to build the body and mind for more advanced training.

Second Hall Pictures:Basic movements with Stances and Hand Methods,Close Range Basic Punching and Footwork

The second hall taught Basic Movements (Gei Bun Dung Jok.) This stage of training encompassed six areas of focus: hand work, body work, leg work, stances, foot work, and fighting postures. These were taught through movement drills and forms. Forms link together the six components, while adding concepts to be further developed later during application training.

Basic Movement training teaches the body proper mechanics. A good foundation in Basic Movements speeds the learning process at the higher levels, so more complex moves can be quickly learned and executed naturally with correct alignment, without having to think about details of balance, stances and positioning.

Third Hall Pictures: Kicking, Striking, Throwing & Submission Skills  

Training in the Third Hall of the Southern Shaolin Temple advanced beyond Basic Movements and Forms practice to Heaven-Human-Earth Training. This is where Application Training began, based on four skill sets: Kicking (Ti), Striking/Pressure Point (Da), Throwing/Wrestling (Shuai), and Seizing/Submissions (Na).

Heaven techniques include  Long-range kicks and strikes.

Human skills included anything in the range of both hands on the opponent, such as bumps, traps, grabs, locks, clinches and breaks. Human distance is the most versatile because the maximum number of limbs can be employed simultaneously, creating the most options for use of techniques and tactics. 

 Earth skills included takedowns, throws, sweeps, submissions, and breaks with body contact.

Weapons and Wooden Dummy Training

  Butterfly Knives                      Long Pole                                                                            Woody Dummy

Beyond the Third Hall Curriculum: The Science of Efficiency, deeper understanding of energy and philosophy.(Chan/Zen Buddhism)

The focus of this higher-level training beyond the Third Hall was to move beyond technique and surface level of understanding. No more practicing styles. Here, it was all about the physics and science of efficiency, deeper understanding of energy and philosophy. (Chan/Zen Buddhism) The study of theory, concepts and principles which, when applied, lead to efficiency in fighting. Ultimately, efficiency is not a style, not uniforms you put on or take off - efficiency is a state of being, it's who you are as a human being and touches every facet of your life. These same concepts and principles could also be applied towards living a more efficient life; this was one of the key reasons the monks studied fighting in the first place - to live a better life, an enlightened life.

 Economy of Motion is "using the least amount of movement, in the shortest period of time, with the least amount of energy to accomplish a task."

In Harmony with Liveliness

Beyond the third Hall's objective of universal level was in harmony and in parallel with spiritual cultivation, because it is in spiritual cultivation where one tries to achieve perfection.

A Cohesive System

What we learn from the study of this ancient training program is the benefit of learning within a cohesive and comprehensive system, which supports each student's development spiritually and mentally, as well as physically.