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Kleonri

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Posted: July 12, 2007 - 05:37 PM
Post subject: Different Chinese Tradition Material Arts

Can anyone tell me about different styles and how they differs?

What is what?

What are the most popular schools?

We need something like Tai Chi for relaxing after work

And for me something moe dinamic (acrobatic part is important).

Thanks!

horsemandk

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Posted: July 13, 2007 - 01:30 PM

China has many styles of martial arts ranging from Tai Chi, Kung Fu(功夫) over Wu Shu(武术) to Bagua and each one has different styles and levels. As an example; Tai Chi - the most famous style is Wudan Style.

Here are some of the styles:

Long Fist - Styles Zha, Wa, Wha, Pao, Hun, Fangzi
Taiji [T'ai Chi Ch'uan] - Chen style, Yang style, Wu style, Wu [or Hao] style, Sun style, Kun Lun, Qigong, Bagua Taiji
Southern Fist - Hong Jia [Hung Gar], Cai Li Fo [Choi Li Fat], Mo, Tiger & Crane, Southern Branch, Wing Chun [Yongchun], Wing Tsun, Diou Family, Ermei Southern, Tai-I Five Elements, Hard Entrance Southern, Nine Temple, Eighteen Kicks, Zi-men Southern, Hun-Men, Yu-Men, Gun-Men, Yui-Men, Wudang Southern, White Eyebrow, White Crane, Crane Ha-Gar, Five Elders, Grand Elder, Lo-Han, Yue-Chia, Kun-Men, Five Plum Flowers, Ermei Shaolin, Wudang Shaolin
Xingyi [Hsing-I] - Five Elements and Twelve Animals, Linking Five Elements, Four-Grasps Punches, Eight Postures, Ba-tze Kung, Twelve Crosses, Tsu-Ru Ton, Mixed Form, Rin-Yan Jior
Bagua - Basic Ba-Gua, Innate Ba-Gua, Latent Ba-Gua, Ba-Gua Consecutive Palm, Close-body Ba-Gua, Ba-Gua Dragon Form
Imitating Styles - Preying Mantis, Eagle Claw, Monkey, Tiger, Leopard, Drunken-Style, Drunken Eight Fairies, Duck, Snake
Other Styles - Ba-ji, Ton-Bei, Ton-Bae, Six Harmonies/Eight Methods, Wu-Ji Chuan, Liang-I, Ssu-hsiang, Gung-Li

These are only to mention a few not including the weapon styles.

Try and read this article: http://en.{WeeKeePeeDeeYa DOT org}/wiki/Kung-fu

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Kleonri

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Posted: July 13, 2007 - 05:59 PM

thanks you, horsemandk!

flifox

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Posted: July 13, 2007 - 08:14 PM
Post subject: Re: Different Chinese Tradition Material Arts

Horse, am interested too....however having read your extensive reply I still don't know the different. Eg, which one would I choose for relaxation?

missing
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Posted: July 15, 2007 - 08:53 AM

many good gym have taichi lesson

chaos

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Posted: July 17, 2007 - 09:05 PM

flifox, you'll want an internal style, so taiji.

Anyone know of any teachers which teach traditional styles. Everywhere in shanghai seems to be teaching wushu, but no traditional styles. Ideally I'd like a southern fist style, because I've already been studying hap gar.

I know the best place to look is in the parks in the morning, but since I only just arrived in shanghai, and am here to learn mandarin, my verbal skills aren't quite enough to convince anyone to teach me!

any schools, teachers any one knows of? please or I'll die without my fix.