Learn Kung Fu in Wudang Mountains, Hubei

Honest level: All levels; long-stay internal-arts immersion — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Masters & lineage

• You Xuande (14th-generation Wudang lineage master)

Schools in Wudang Mountains, Hubei

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Wudang Mountain Kung Fu Academy (China Wudang Wushu Academy)
  Residential one-month to one-year Wudang martial arts program (Tai Chi, Qigong, traditional forms and weapons)
  A live-in academy at Nanyan Temple inside the Wudang Mountain scenic zone in Hubei, where students train Wudang internal kung fu, Tai Chi and Qigong in groups capped at ten, six-plus hours a day for stays of one month up to a year with full room and board.
  https://www.wudangkungfu.net/
• Wudang Daoist Traditional Kung Fu Academy
  One-year and three-year structured Wudang San Feng lineage programs (Tai Chi, Wushu, Qigong, weapons)
  A residential academy founded in 2004 in Wudangshan, Hubei, run by 15th-generation Wudang San Feng disciple and ordained Daoist priest Master Yuan Xiu Gang, offering structured one-year and three-year programs covering Tai Chi, internal kung fu, Qigong and traditional weapon forms.
  https://www.wudangwushu.com/

The credential

Shaolin Duanwei grade conferred by Shaolin Temple-authorized masters, or formal lineage discipleship under a recognized grandmaster · Certifying body: Shaolin Duanwei (Duanpin) grading via the International Shaolin Wushu Federation; Chinese Wushu Association Duan grading; lineage discipleship for traditional styles

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Kung Fu

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.