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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!mikel
- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Gung-Fu
- Message-ID: <76010@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 07:30:53 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.043007.22920@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> <1992Dec30.182218.8951@srg.srg.af.mil>
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- In article <1992Dec30.182218.8951@srg.srg.af.mil> schan@birch.srg.af.mil (Stephen Chan x4485) writes:
- >
- >>and an acquaintance of mine who trains at another branch of the school
- >>describes the Gung-Fu style as Five Animal Style......Can anyone tell
- >>me what the actual name of this style is?
-
- It's possible they are teaching the Wu Shing, the five 'classical'
- animals. These would be Tiger, Crane, Dragon, Leopard, and Snake.
- That would be my first guess since they are billed by a student
- as a 'five animals' school.
-
- >>i.e. does it emphasize in-close fighting? high kicking? grappling,
- >>etc.? Any help would be greatly appreciated.....Thanks!!
- >
- > Different animals have different emphasis - monkey is groundwork, horse
- >is kicking, tiger is powerful hand techniques (ripping, tearing, close range),
- >crane is long range hand and kicks, dragon emphasizes oblique angles and
- >getting around the opponent.
-
- In addition to the varying fighting strategies, the five classical
- animals, when taught together, are usually associated with five
- aspects of the body and health, each one corresponding to and
- developing a particular aspect. Specifically, Tiger is bone,
- Leopard is muscle, Crane is sinew, Dragon is spirit, and Snake is qi.
-