Wujiquan (pronounced Woo Gee Chuan, also known as Wu Yi, pronounced as Woo Yee) is the Oldest Extant Martial Art of China. It is the Great-Great Ancestor of Xingyi Quan, the only other Chinese Wushu with legitimate Battlefield Lineage. All other forms of Wushu or Kung Fu are relatively modern by comparison and are not ancient battlefield arts, i.e., practiced by Chinese soldiers in standing armies of the past.

Although modern Wushu has its roots in the traditional Chinese martial arts, it is admittedly a modification of those arts with today's China and the demands of international sport competition and physical education in mind. Our view is that this is entirely legitimate, and is not meant to be a criticism of modern Wushu.

WujiQuan is not a modern Wushu art form. WujiQuan is a Battlefield Kung Fu dating back to the Former Han Dynasty. The system is very rare and its techniques are known to a small handful of masters. Cheng Shiju the late grandmaster of International Suai Jiao was also a practioner of WujiQuan and did not disclose its techniques freely as he did TaijiQuan and Suai Jiao of which he was famous.

Harkins Shiju learned the basics of this art in 1973 with a set of 8 Linear Styles and methods along with a set of 27 Chi Gong methods. From that time on, with his appetite thoroughly wetted for WujiQuan, there was an ambition to learn more and more about this rare art form, so he sought out various teachers who possessed portions of the system based on the fragments he already posessed. Over a 25 year period, he was able to assemble the old linear methods and set routines systematically into the 48 linear Styles, the 4-corners cloud-hands method, the 52 linked form, the 188 long boxing routine which epitomizes the WujiQuan philosophy of body movement.

Harkins Shiju says, "The real secret of WujiQuan is not so much in the physical movement itself, although that is important, but in the underlying principles of the internal shape of its form, the form of strategy, and principles of articulation. These in themselves constitute an incredible potential of variations. WujiQuan therefore represents a kind of wondrous and infinitely interesting possibility, so much so that I am at a loss to even describe it adequately."

In part, WujiQuan possesses a kind of "root" idea that has permeated most Chinese Wushu to various degrees, depending on the art. Elements of it can be seen in XingyiQuan whuich can legitimately be considered a kind of great-great grand nephew of WujiQuan. However, XingyiQuan is not it.

The training program includes other systems as well, to expand the technical variations of the system, so various subsystems are taught. Among them are XingyiQuan, of course, BaGuaZhang, Eagle Claw (for Chin-na), Monkey, I-Quan, Snake, Sun TaijiQuan, Staff, Spear, Sword, and Saber.

Also taught are combat applications against multiple attackers, ground-fighting, weapons disarming techniques, and so forth, and the Meditation System of Maha-Yoga-Cara category of techniques.