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Shao Lin In General Shao Lin, as an art, is a serious study. Those who regard Shao Lin as play are advised not to begin the study of this art. Shao Lin involves the individual trainee in a very vigorous kind of physical effort and an unending process of mental discipline that should be followed throughout the course of the trainee’s active lift. 
Anyone who approaches Shao Lin training on a day to day basis, that is, expecting to see rapid and sensational
results, is certainly headed for failure, and will probably lose all incentive for continuing training.
Hard training over a protracted period of time is the key to success.Since the earliest days of this art there has been no general rule by which to predict when a trainee will reach levels of progress that will enable him to display an effective technique in a way that is satisfying to him. Patience is perhaps the most important quality that must be developed by the trainee who engages in Shao Lin, for without this virtue little of lasting value can be achieved from training. In the process of developing a creditable technique, the trainee must repeat certain fundamental actions many times during each training session. This is laborious and boring, unless the trainee establishes the proper frame of mind. And, if the trainee expects that once these fundamentals have been mechanically mastered he will have an easier time of it as he participates in advanced training methods, he may be doomed to bitter disappointment when he is required by this instructor to apply these fundamentals in the form of prearranged pattern drill that must be repeated a countless number of times. The patterns mastered, the trainee must then learn the meaning of what he has up until now been practicing with blind acceptance and precision for several years. Finally, the trainee is faced with the most difficult of all tasks, the attainment of self-control. When he gains self-control, the trainee will never misuse his skill. This will signify mastery of both technique and himself and will b evidence of being fully trained in the art of Shao Lin.
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