Wu-Tan Denmark

Wu-Tan Denmark is partnering with MPHA!

We’re very happy to announce that Wu-Tan Denmark is joining MPHA — Mental & Physical Health Association Copenhagen.

We believe martial arts can play an important role in both physical and mental wellbeing, and we’re excited to become part of an association that shares this vision.

Through this new connection, we look forward to supporting our community, promoting a healthy and active lifestyle, and creating positive opportunities for people through martial arts.

More information on MPHA can be found on their website https://mphacopenhagen.dk

Stronger body. Stronger mind. Stronger community. 🤝

MPHA — Mental and Physical Health Association MPHA is a community association in Copenhagen bringing neighbours together through classes and training for mind and body. Open to all.

Blast from the past. This video was taken during the early days Shifu Paolo in Norway.

Oslo Wu-Tan Usages This vid was taken some years ago at our old senter. These are som...

I’m increasingly asked by people:

“I really want to go to China and train Kung Fu. I found this temple in the mountains…”“I saw this Shaolin school on social media…”

My answer is usually the same.

If you want to go to China, train hard for a few weeks, experience the culture, the mountains and the atmosphere of Chinese martial arts — go. You might have a fantastic experience.

But understand what you are buying.

Most of these places are martial-arts tourism. They are designed to give foreigners an accessible version of the Kung Fu experience they imagine: temples, mountains, monks and long days of training.

There’s nothing wrong with that. The problem is confusing the experience with access to serious traditional instruction.

Proper training is usually far less glamorous. It develops through a relationship with a good teacher, consistency over years, endless repetition, correction and gradually being taken deeper into a system.

So go to China. Train, explore, enjoy the experience. Just don’t confuse proximity to the birthplace of an art with proximity to its depth.

A mediocre teacher on a mountain in China is still a mediocre teacher.

Go to China for China. Go to a teacher for Kung Fu.

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Preserving the legacy of authentic Chinese martial arts in Denmark.

Wu-Tan Denmark provides deep, systematic instruction in Tanglangquan, Bajiquan, Piguazhang, Changquan, Chen style Taijiquan, and Baguazhang.

Our head coach, Shifu Paolo Castaneda, holds 30 years of experience and carries the direct lineage as a closed-door disciple of Grandmaster Kurt Wong.

Get in touch to join our next session.

My good friend G**o Glenn is teaching JKD and FMAs. Contact Progressive Institute of Martial Arts - JeetKuneDo & Filipino Martial Arts for more details.