Sports & Recreation: Kung Fu




Welcome to the Animal Kung Fu Page
Kung fu is famous for its many animal styles, from frog to tiger and from crane to snake, each with its own unique characterisics. They can be truly beautiful and fascinating to watch, and great fun to practice, as well as helping to develop particular skills and physical strengths and to give the practitoner techniques that are often unpredictable to defend against. This page is dedicated to all things related to any animal style of kung fu, featuring videos, links, products and more. Lear...




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Drunken Kung Fu is one of the most unusual and engaging styles of Chinese martial arts. Swaying and staggerring motions imitate the drunkard in a similar way that other styles imtate the movements of animals. The characteristic movements of drunken kung fu are used to generate power from the movement of the hips and the core abdominal strength, which is channelled into strikes. The style is also based upon deception, both in causing the opponent to underestimate you, and in striking when your...




GUIDE TO MARTIAL ARTS AND KUNG FU
Kung Fu is a type of martial arts, which originates in China and is centuries old. It was first practiced in order to survive and provide food; tactics were adopted from the way animals fought and that is one reason why many martial arts and Kung Fu styles will refer to animals such as the monkey style, and so on.




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Eagle claw syle is a popular form of kung fu, and is often used in wushu competition forms. As you would expect from a bird style it has a lot of jumping and 'flying' tehcniques, and as well as this there is a string emphasis on chin na joint locks.
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