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Spiritual Tiger – Chinese Grappling and Ground Fighting
Check out another interesting video – Spirit Tiger Art (She Hu Shu; in Cantonese San Fu Seut). Forget for a while those Bruce Lee like sound effects (i know, sounds more like a monkey then a tiger) and carefully watch – standing grappling techniques, takedowns, takedowns defense and reversals, sacrifice throws, heel hooks… it is […]
Shaw Bros Stars Performing Some Choy Li Fut Applications
Digging through my archives, i have found an interesting old magazine devoted solely the art of Choy Li Fut (Choi Lei Fat). Late Alexander Fu Sheng and Chi Kuan-Chun – legendary duo of Shaw Brothers Studios – on the cover and few applications inside: “Covering Hand, Tiger Claw vs. Bail the Moon from the Bottom […]
White Crane, Wing Chun, Hung Ga and Karate
2004 was one of my best training visits of Hong Kong and China. I have been living in my Sifu’s house in Shenzhen for couple of months and we have been really busy, training very hard. Every morning we woke up at 6 o’clock AM and went to the park to practice the precious “Iron […]
Wu Sifu and Chan Sifu: Old Master’s “Sticky Hands (Chi Sau) Demo
I am currently extremely busy with organising and editing the videos my archive; before I will finally publish them and accompany them with some interesting stories, i am going to comment the few well known videos i have already uploaded. I started to share rare Wing Chun videos at YouTube in 2006 – at that […]
Chinese Kung Fu Ground Fighting Footlocks
Takedowns, locks, chokes and other submissions seem to be with the rise of MMA indespensable part of the arsenal of the modern all-round fighter. There is a saying in Chinese martial arts: Tek, Da, Seut, Na – Kicking, Striking, Wrestling and Locking. Chinese-Mongolian wrestling has very profound throws and takedowns, many other Kung Fu styles have […]
Paau Fa Lin Wing Chun – Gwok So sifu
Note: Following article is the first one of oncomming series of articles written by my good friend Ivan Rzounek sifu (Wing Chun Kuen Research), dedicated to survey of various Wing Chun schools, families and branches. In 2000 i have been living with Martina for 3 months in Wong Nim Yi sifu’s home in Canton, studying […]
Short Kung-Fu Demo of Our New Branch School
Short Chinese martial arts demo, Trutnov branch of our association: warm-up and breathing exercises stances, basic exercises, focus mitts/kicking shileds drills sets and sparring sets strength and conditioning self-defense, full contact fighting weapons Best wishes to the student of the new branch, work hard guys! Practical Hung Kyun!
Grandmaster Tang Kwok-Wah (1924-2011)
Sad News for Lam Family Hung Kuen – Grandmaster Tang Kwok-Wah (Dang Gwokwa), one of the best students and adopted son of Grandmaster Lam Jou, has passed away. Dang sifu was born in 1924. He has started to learn gungfu under the guidance of Grandmaster Lam Jou when he was 8 years old. He was […]
Gwok Fu sifu (Yip Man Wing Chun) Has Passed Away
I just received a bad news from my good friend Ivan Rzounek sifu (www.wing-chun.cz), who is currently in China, training hard the art of Opera Boats Wing Chun (Baan Jung Wing Cheun) and researching various systems and lineages of Southern martial art: Gwok Fu sifu has passed away. Gwok Fu sifu was one of the […]
Fujian Shaolin Five Ancestors Application Drills
Ngo Cho Kune (Ng Jou Kyun) – Five Ancestors Kung-Fu – is famous Fujian martial arts system. Maybe not so known in the West as the other southern styles, but definitelly a big name in the Southern China. It is one the “MMA” systems of old China, consisting of techniques of 5 (6?) styles: Bodhidharma […]