Live Your Life Like a Kung-Fu Master

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 others--at 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 arena--baking 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 forces--therefore, 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 author's goal to help readers improve their life from these very teachings.