About Us

About Our Teachings of Kung-Fu

Personal Training • Martial Arts Weapons • Kickboxing & Fitness

At Green Cloud Kung Fu, our facilities are a perfect place to train for our students. Everything is done for the comfort and convenience of our students. Green Cloud locations are located throughout Long Island, in the hearts of the communities it serves. Everything Green Cloud does is with safety in mind. It has spacious training floors with custom matting. It also has top-level professional equipment to help develop their students. Our school has rich history going back several hundred years.

The name Green Cloud in Chinese is Chin Whan Ji or sometimes called Lyk Whan Ji. Unlike other martial arts schools, we are just an extension of the Green Cloud Monastery, which is still in Toisan China. We are not a religious organization, but we still follow the same philosophy and traditions. The martial arts that are taught in our school are taught verbatim as the monks taught their disciples. The training involves stretching calisthenics and Iron Body conditioning that develops strength and stamina through rigorous internal and external such as isometric and breathing exercises that have been handed down from teacher to student for over two thousand years.

These exercises are not like the hundreds of fads that we see today. The training routines that are proven and time tested over a period of time that are designed to increase overall strength, focus and spirit. Unlike the Green Cloud Monastery in China, we are a family martial arts school. Our philosophy is that families that train together grow strong together. We place a strong emphasis on character development by developing student's confidence we see an increase in their discipline.

In today's highly technological society we are constantly trying to do things quicker and easier. However, quick and easy does not mix well with a true art form. There is nothing quick and easy about learning Kung-Fu. True Kung-Fu is based upon discipline and perseverance, a passion for excellence and dedicated training—both physical and mental. Most anyone can be introduced to Kung-Fu and take a few lessons but not everyone will continue to learn.

Our society, in an effort to make things quick and better, often brings about change. Change is what makes our quality of life better. Consider the uses of cell phones, microwaves, computers, and dishwasher. Many martial arts form have also been swept up in this wave of change so that they may make martial arts quick and easy to learn. At Green Cloud, we believe that this type of change is not what Kung-Fu represents. Kung-Fu is an exercise of commitment, passion, discipline, a quest for excellence, and physical and mental challenges.

About Our Art

Green Cloud Kung Fu is a system of Kung-Fu handed down to us from Grandmaster Chan Tai San, considered by China a national treasure of Kung-Fu knowledge. The main styles taught at Green Cloud Kung Fu are Choy Lei Fut, Lama Pai (also known as Lion's Roar) and Tai Chi Chuan. For the more dedicated students who comprise the inner circle of Green Cloud Kung Fu, there is available the vast martial arts knowledge of Si Gung Chan Tai-San passed down to Sifu Gus Kaparos.

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Kung Fu is not a vacation. Kung Fu is about Hard work. If it is anything less than that it is not real Kung-Fu. Kung-Fu is not simply about a succession of moves to be copied and mimicked by the general public. It is about a system of doing anything well by developing ones abilities. And if practiced honestly can bring invaluable benefits in health, mental acuity and longevity. Green Cloud schools strive to maintain the quality and integrity of our Kung-Fu - Kung-Fu that has been passed down from teacher to teacher for over 300 years as it originated from the Green Cloud monastery in Toisan, China.