MATTHEW HAS TAUGHT SHAOLIN WORLD WIDE

SHAOLIN LIFE

MARTIAL ARTS

PHILOSOPHY

Learn how the Shaolin Warriors live and even create a way to include the lifestyle within your own life. Matthew has built the Shaolin Temple Cheshunt with all features of the Shaolin Temple in China for you to experience.

Matthew is one of the most advanced practitioners of Shaolin Kung Fu outside of China. From Traditional forms, Qi Na, Animal Forms, Qi Gong and much more.

Matthew has taken the wisdom of a culture that is almost unheard of in the western world and applied it to western life for the better of anyone who wants to learn.  Matthew says ‘’All CAN learn so all SHOULD learn. There is no CAN'T at the Shaolin Temple Cheshunt’’.

Matthew has been studying Martial arts since the age of 6. His passion for learning Kung Fu grew bigger and bigger as he got older. At the age of 11 Matthew knew his goal was to one-day travel to China to the Shaolin Temple. When Matthew turned 16 he left school and shortly after moved to China where the Shaolin Temple Became Matthews second home. He lived there for more than 4 years. After 3 years of training and touring Matthew was selected as a "Jiao Lian" (coach) at one of Shaolin Temple’s most renowned Kung Fu training grounds, The Shaolin Temple Traditional Training Ground.

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Below are some of the key things you can take from training with Matthew:) 





BLANKA FROM CZECH REPUBLIC  

"I met Matthew and his students while they were on Tour in the UK May 2008 and from then I knew I wanted to visit them in China at the Shaolin Temple. A few months later I travelled to China to live and train in Shaolin. The trip was for just a few weeks but was amazing. We learnt Kung Fu from Matthew and Chinese from his wife, we had the opportunity to visit the Shaolin Temple and meet the Abbot and most incredibly we hiked mountains and even camped out at the big Statue of Damo above the Shaolin Monastery! Definitely something you will never forget!"

PACO FROM MEXICO

"I moved to China back in 2006 in the hope of learning Shaolin Kung Fu - It was a really hard experience and finding the right teacher was tricky! But in 2007 after already living in China for one year I found Matthew and began to train under him. He taught me some of the most traditional forms I ever learnt and showed me his Shifu’s Kung Fu manuscripts that are more than 700 years old! In 2008 Matthew was kind enough to invite me along to London to perform in some Shaolin demonstration including The Seni Show 2008 where we represented Shaolin Temple China."

SAMIR FROM CANADA

"During summer 2008 I found myself in China and wanted to visit the Shaolin Temple and train in Kung Fu! By luck I found Matthew and ended up at his Shifu’s school where he taught us Shaolin Kung Fu. It was pretty intense, I followed the whole lifestyle including cutting off my hair! Matthew taught me the Monkey pole and at the end of my trip Matthew took me to perform the Monkey pole at the Shaolin Temple and its surrounding areas. I saw the Shaolin Village, Damo Dong, Ta Lin and what was really cool is Matthew took me into the 1000 Buddha hall AKA the stamp room, which was a real amazing experience because most people only get to look from the door! But I was inside training!”

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After being selected as Jiao Lian (coach) at the Shaolin Temple, Matthew had a class of 30 but it was during this period when he began to teach on a 121 basis. His first student was a young Chinese boy, now his brother in law, who at the age of 11 is now a young Monk living at the temple and touring the world with the other Shaolin Monks. Teaching this young boy from the age of 6-8 Matthew found love and understanding of the importance of a close relationship with his students, in order to help them achieve highly in both Martial Arts and develop a strong mind for life’s challenges.



Matthew saw that many foreigners would travel to Shaolin in hope to find a good teacher but with most foreigners having just a couple days to a few weeks time, not speaking Chinese and not having a strong background in Shaolin Kung Fu it was no easy task. Matthew jumped at the opportunity and with the permission of his Shifu began to invite foreigners from all corners of the world to come and live and train with him.

During the period Matthew was teaching in the Shaolin Temple he had students from Mexico, Canada, USA, Germany, Czech Republic, Turkey, UK, Greece, India, Hong Kong, Australia not forgetting China itself. Matthew did not just offer them tuition in Shaolin Kung Fu but also the culture behind it. During this time at the training ground Matthew would teach both Martial Arts and Buddhist philosophy while Matthews’ wife would also offer Chinese lessons as part of the experience. Matthew would also take his students on day trips to parts of Shaolin that most never see - including taking part in Buddhist 4:30am prayers, camping in Damo Dong, high up on Song Shan mountains. Training in the famous 1000 Buddha’s hall which is closed to the public and meeting the Abbot and his Master, the honourable Shi Yong Xin.







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