Live Your Life Like a Kung-Fu Master

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Live Your Life Like a Kung Fu Master is simple and straightforward, presenting a total of twenty-five Kung Fu techniques. As such, Moy will examine the principles behind these physical movements and how you can transfer their effectiveness into your daily life and encounters with othersat home, school, work, business, and social encounters.

The term Kung Fu actually translates as "time and effort equals a skill." That's why you see establishments with names such as Kung Fu Bread and Kung Fu Tea. These proprietors are not trumpeting their ability to fight. Rather, they're saying, we put in the time to study and learn our craft, and the result is that we are masters in our own arenabaking bread or brewing tea. In Asian culture, people who are said to have "good Kung Fu" have a handle on their lives. They are honest, direct, kindly and self-assured. These are values more highly prized than the ability to fight.

What's the parallel between these prized qualities and the ability to physically defend yourself like a martial arts Kung Fu master Kung Fu, especially Wing Chun Kung Fu is based on a center-line theory of taking the shortest path, a straight line between two points, in defending yourself. It is also based on calmness and relaxation, enabling the practitioner to feel and quickly interpret incoming forcestherefore, bringing about a swifter and more focused reaction.

Cultivating these abilities will allow you to transfer these martial benefits onto daily situations in your personal, social, and business interactions. The art teaches you to see and maintain superior position and not to relinquish important ground. Maintaining these advantageous positions is something that easily translates from the parameters of a physical fight to almost every aspect of life.

A Kung Fu teacher is referred to as a "sifu," which translates as both teacher and parent. Like any parent, it is the sifu's job to set you on the best path possible to live your life with success and happiness.

William's view of the teacher/student relationship is a simple one: "Your sifu's role is to help you find your own Kung Fu." Hence, there are no cookie-cutter students in Kung Fu. Each student's journey will be inherently different depending on their physical attributes, personalities and goals. This is something that will naturally appeal and inspire a wide readership for a text such as this. Is this very patient art, there are no failures -- just students continuing on a path to their desired destination.

Equally as important, Kung Fu is a self-correcting martial art. After learning the basics, students begin to see their own flaws, and address those shortcomings themselves, eventually becoming their own sifu. That is the authors goal to help readers improve their life from these very teachings.

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William Moy has been a Kung Fu Sifu for over a quarter of a century to more than several thousand students. His lineage is of the highest martial pedigree. Williams father, Moy Yat, was an elite student and confidant of the famed Yip Man, the protagonist of four major film releases grossing over $240-miliion combined. Moy Yat was also a junior student to Bruce Lee during that period in China.William is currently the titular head of slightly over seventy schools. In the USNew York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Virginia, Washington DC, California, Texas, Nebraska, New Jersey, and Georgia. Internationally, there are several schools spanning the width of Canada, a pair in Brazil, one in Mexico and one in Spain.

Paul Volponi is the multi-award-winning author and journalist of nearly twentybooks. His work is read in countless schools (universities, high school and middle schools) and English classes across this country. He has been the recipient of a dozen American Library Association honors, and a sought after speaker at professional conferences. His novel Black and White is read alongside To Kill A Mockingbird in many classrooms, while his novel The Final Four is a perennial read by many institutions in conjunction with the Mens NCAA Basketball Tournament. Paul has held press credentials since 1996 and has written major pieces on luminaries ranging from Alfred G. Vanderbilt to George Steinbrenner to Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob). Paul has written alongside and shared the stories of Kentucky Derby-winning jockeys, adolescent inmates on Rikers Island (the worlds biggest jail), and people who sought shelter in the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina. He is recognized for his riveting narrative voice in both fiction and non-fiction.