Lots of old kung fu movies are so bad, they become amazingly entertaining to watch, full of supernatural villains and nonsensical plots.

For 50 years, kung fu master Li Liangui has been contorting his body into eye-watering positions while practicing one of the more unusual and less popular Chinese martial art forms.

Zhang Hexian wakes up every day at 5 a.m. to practice kung fu, like many who either have, or hope to, master the martial art.

Kung fu master Wong Yiu-Kau stands in a Hong Kong studio and waits as his black suit is covered head to toe in reflective markers to capture his every motion. The 56-year-old kung fu master is ...

Now the 31-year-old Shaolin kung fu master — one of only a few hundred such masters throughout the world — finds himself in a far different scenario: teaching at the Orange County Shaolin ...

Unlike most of those kids, Yanqing lived only 170 miles from the 1,519-year-old Shaolin Temple, where Buddhist monks have practiced a meditative version of kung fu for centuries.

Zhang Hexian wakes up every day at 5 a.m. to practice kung fu, like many who either have, or hope to, master the martial art. What makes Zhang different is that she’s made daily kung fu practice ...