The Kung-Fu is born from a combination of Indian PALLAVA KING DYNASTY boxing ancestral fight “imported” in ancient China by a Buddhist preacher from India, Bodhidharma was born around the year 440 in KANCHI, the capital of the southern Indian kingdom pallavas, Bodhidharma traveled in china around the year 475, traveled around for a few years and finally settled at SHAOLIN MONASTERY, where monks were in poor physical condition because of their contemplative state.He developed exercises that taught them to unite the spiritual harmony and physical strength. To allow the monks to defend against animals and brigands who roamed around the monastery, he taught them 18 basic movements.The Kung-Fu was partially born, and with years of practice and observation of nature and animals in particular, the SHAOLIN monks developed their fighting arts.
