I’m originally from Italy and I came to America in 1969, I was four years old. At the age of 6, I started my Martial Arts training. I’m 54 years old now and I love training every day, to me it's a way of life now after all these years. I studied Wah Lum Northern Praying Mantis Kung Fu and Shaolin Kempo Karate at Fred Villari’s in Waltham, Massachusetts in the 1980’s. I loved it and I'm grateful that I had a great Sensei and learning a complete system. I hold a 7th Degree Black Belt and I am also currently studying Kenpo Karate.
In fact the "dragon" is but a kind of imaginary animal that exists only in the mind of the Chinese people. It is imagines to have the body of a snake, the claws of an eagle, and the horns of a deer. The techniques of the Dragon Form are movements simulating those of this animal.
Can swim in water though without fins. It can retract and dart forward for a distance of more than ten feet solely because it has a lenghthy and elastic body supported by flexible joints inside.
The leopard is a fierce, cruel animal. Once having begun it's attacks, it never stops until it's eneny becomes fatally wounded or disabled. This characteristic of the leopard is incorporated in the techniques of the leopard
Like a hermit keeping himself away from other people. The crane is sharp-sighted. It walks leisurely and it takes advantage of it's enemy's loss of concenration to launch a quick beak-dart at the weakness of it's enemy.
The mantis can catch in trap their prey within seconds using there speed and quick reflexes once caught with there grasping deadly Raptorial front legs the victim doesn’t have the slightest chance of escaping.
