US Kung Fu Temple

My son has been going to Sifu Xing for the past 4 years. He loves the class and Sifu is a true monk from the Shaolin Temple in China.
He is very patient with the kids and pushes them to learn and grow.

I have been learning Northern Shaolin Kung Fu from Shifu Yan Xing for almost three years now and I am very satisfied with my lessons. Not only have I learned a great deal, I am stronger, faster, and have even lost a little weight without dieting. Shifu Xing is an authentic Shaolin Monk from the SongShan Shaolin Temple in China. He is an excellent teacher; patient but always giving constructive criticism and helping me to improve. I would highly reccomend his classes to anyone. The only complaints I really have are that I wish I could learn more and that Shifu is very busy with running the whole school all by himself so he has no time to give belt tests for the adult classes. I highly encourage anyone interested in taking martial arts classes to give my teacher a try!

I just started Tai Chi training with Sifu Xing and he is the «John Wooden» of martial arts. He is incredibly patient and his coaching techniques are those that bring out the best in your abilities. The way he teaches Tai Chi allows me to see how I can improve upon my own thoughts and beliefs to help me move through each practice, and these are wonderful tools that I have been able to apply to my daily life. I am learning more than I ever imagined, I highly recommend Sifu Xing.

My kids have been training with Sifu Xing for two years now, and we’re really happy with the results. The kids love that their Sifu is a «real actual monk from Shaolin!»
Not only that, but Sifu Xing is incredibly patient, and really seems to enjoy working with all the kids. He teaches adult Kungfu and Taichi classes too.
Class hours are convenient, and the location is ok. It’s in an office park close to the Dublin library. It’s pretty bare bones, but the kids have all they need to learn. What I love about this place is that it’s old-​school — you do need to sign a waiver, but it’s not going to be like one of those money churning studios that make the kids say a daily mantra on how they’re going to only use their martial arts for self defense and not to evil purposes at the beginning of every class. The kids learn some self discipline, but to be frank, your kid is going to have to have some kind of desire to want to learn, or they won’t succeed here. There are less belt levels, and belt testing probably occurs less frequently than at other schools, which in my humble opinion is better, because I think it makes the kids who really want to learn to soldier on and continue to focus on their forms because they want to learn them, not because it gives them another notch on their belts.
The kids can learn sparring, but truth be told, it’s not really that exciting — just a lot of ineffectual but comical shoving while wearing hilariously bulky padding. What’s really awesome are the Shaolin forms that the kids learn first — and that includes broadsword, and staff or stick fighting. At higher levels, there’s whip and three-​sectioned nunchucks. (). And yup, the kids sometimes do get dinged, scraped and bruised. It’s kungfu, not basket weaving. Keep your expectations realistic.
So yup. We love this place, and hope that we’ll be able to learn more from Sifu Xing!