Welcome to Wu Ji Quan International

Dear visitors and interested parties of this website, students and Wu Ji friends,

I am extraordinarily pleased to present to you here, on behalf of -Chee Kim Thong, Wu Ji Quan International- , worldwide, in addition to social media, collected and compact information and a new overview of the internal and gentle martial art Wu Ji Quan, the 12 Steps Qi Gong, and other treasures from the precious heritage of the Southern Shaolin tradition and the teachings of our teacher, Grandmaster Chee Kim Thong.

Wu Ji Quan and the internal arts, as we have been fortunate to learn them, embody a joyful, almost magical energy through the transmission received from our Grandmaster. This energy, in my view, shapes the internal values for personal development in the internal arts.

Wu Ji Quan, although a very effective form of self-defense, is an art of peace, an art in which the highest form of development is described as Wu Wei, the highest Dao. It is a healing, fully awake, clear, physically relaxed, and yet always ready state of pure energy and mind that does not allow a conflict to arise in the first place or quickly extinguishes it.

Whether you are simply interested, a beginner or advanced, or come via the Wu Ji Quan online course on the –The Martialman – platform, or have even already participated in one or another seminar, camp, or retreat, I warmly invite you to begin or continue your own journey and participate in further current developments that I would like to teach you here.   Feel invited to participate in a unique art, a human achievement that has developed over thousands of years, which is unparalleled and fortunately could be cultivated and further developed in the monastic seclusion of the Shaolin monastery. It is the gentle, internal martial art Wu Ji Quan, an original martial art that comes from the folk tradition of Central Asia and ancient China and has survived to this day because Shaolin Grandmaster Chee Kim Thong, the last lineage holder of this art, knowing that this precious treasure of knowledge would otherwise die out, began in the early 1970s to also accept and teach Western students.

In the last decade of his life, a smaller group of students from the German- and French-speaking regions was personally instructed by him in Wu Ji Quan and a unique Qi Gong system, the 12 Steps to Wu Ji Qi Gong, which unite the fundamental essence of Bodhidharma’s (Da-Mo) teachings and the Shaolin tradition, up to one year before his passing in 2001.

From this group and Master Chee’s close students, there is still an active, practising core today, as well as two associations: one Swiss and one German association, of which Dr. Ortwin Lüers, a German physician, psychiatrist, and psychotherapist, is the second chairman of the German association and also teaches students and interested people internationally.

Ortwin is very interested in his teaching in didactically reorienting the sometimes complex traditional teaching forms, so that even people without any prior experience in martial arts, internal martial arts, or Qi Gong can quickly come into a direct experience, a tangible, sensory experience with the cultivation of vital energy. He developed the Wu Chi Dao teaching concept, in which his knowledge of group processes and modern neuroscientific insights are incorporated to facilitate learning.       Last modified: March 21, 2026