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Bac Fu Do
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Bac Fu Do Kung FuBy Mark Papak
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Never try to fight a group if there is a chance to escape. ( If you have no option but to fight, don't go for inner group members (unless it is absolutely unavoidable) |
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Do go for people on the outside of the group. |
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Don't spend to much time on any one individual. |
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Use your environment to the maximum (chairs, bins, etc.) |
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Avoid stepping inside blows, as you can easily grabbed and held for other group members to hit. |
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Do fight to the outside. |
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Do try to be aware of the positioning of all group members. |
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Don't stop moving - a stationary object is easier to hit. |
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Don't try anything too fancy. (NO flying kicks! Knees elbows, headbutts, groin gouges, eye jobs are in.) |
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Bagwork (Piggy in the middle ) is a very good way to practice fighting against multiple opponents. |
The following are things needed to succeed in the martial arts:
Patience (Jen), Perseverance (Wai), Kindness (Shan), Understanding (Tung), Humility
(Chien).
Some other types of Kung Fu:
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Drunken Style - An extremely popular, versatile, adaptable style which calls for astonishing ability, strength, and control because it seems to involve no strength or control. A student of the Drunken style wobbles, weaves and just generally imitates the actions of a drunkard. This student may even fall down, but watch it - it is just a ruse to draw an opponent into a lightning foot or hand. This style's popularity also rests on its adaptability to other styles; there can be a drunken version of almost any martial art. |
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Eagle Claw - A vicious but graceful art derived from the
movements of the eagle. The emphasis here is on quick eyes and fingers twisted into a claw
position to strike an opponents pressure points. |
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The five animal styles of the Shaolin Temple - 1) Crane : The hands become beaks, and one legged stance are standard. The crane fighter goes for the nerves and pressure points. 2) Dragon - The most esoteric of the five animal styles; it needs the most power to perform. The object here is not to slash or break but to crush. 3) Leopard - The fore-knuckles of the hands are the primary striking area of this style. 4) Snake - A sneaky style in which the arms and fingers turn into a snake, with all the dangerous "snake bites" that it suggests. 5) Tiger -Ripping and tearing. A slashing, scratching style. |
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Hsing - I - One of the three " internal" systems.
The other two are Pa-kua and Tai Chi. The visible clues to these techniques involve soft,
circular motions and regulated breathing patterns. But these three are actually methods of
concentrating power. When a fighter pauses to do a strange sort of breathing, you can bet
he's utilizing one of the three internal systems of China. |
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Hung Gar - One of the most popular Southern styles because
of it combines the best from several other styles. The development of this style took
place in the eighteenth century, with the combination of the Shaolin Tiger and Shaolin
Crane styles. |
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Monkey - Although a strange technique, it is most often
unmistakably pictured as a mincing style with the proponent screwing up his face in a
monkey impression and making monkey sounds. The style has five main forms - "Lost
Monkey," which utilizes surprise attacks; "Tall Monkey" which uses swinging
arms from distance; "Stone Monkey," which is the powerful attack; "Wood
Monkey," which is used to deceive the opponent; and "Drunken Monkey," the
monkey version of the aforementioned art. |
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Phoenix Eye : This style uses the single or double
fore-knuckle. |
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Praying Mantis : A great-sounding martial art which has a
Southern style. Both forms (Northern and Southern) are referred to in three ways, as
"Seven Star," "Eight Steps," or "Six Harmonies." It has a
hook-like hand and grasping, clawing and sudden punches. |
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Shuai Chiao : An unusual form of wrestling which grabs the
opponents arms, legs and shoulders, or other limbs to throw them, while using indefinable
kicks, blocks and blows. |
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Tan Tui : An exhausting form characterised bow low kicking
techniques. A sure sign of Tan Tui is the swift transition of high and low stances. |
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White Crane : Not from the Shaolin Temple, but from Tibet,
this is a style based on the movements not just of cranes, but of apes as well. It is
tough to distinguish regular Crane styles unless they are openly labeled White Crane,
Tibetan White Crane, and even sometimes by White Lama Crane, or Lama Crane. |
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Tai Chi Chuan : This type of Kung Fu is called the
"Hard style". There is also a softer side, which has evolved far beyond the
fighting form and concerns itself with psychological and physical development. It is
called Tai Chi Chuan or the "Grand Ultimate Fist". Tai Chi Chuan is a highly
sophisticated system of self defence, bringing together a number of skills into one form
to establish a series of set principles and methods. It pays particular attention to
internal strength. All movements of the Tai Chi Chuan form are linked together in a
smooth, flowing sequence. Each movement must be precisely executed. Even the smallest
deviation can, as the Chinese say, 'lose you a thousand miles.' To define the movements of the Tai Chi form in a short assignment is impossible. Suffice it to say that in any extended study of the martial arts it warrants closer examination. |
In China alone there are about 250 million practitioners of the art; in the West Tai Chi Chuan has become an aspect of medicine. On Madison Avenue in New York the home of the great advertising agencies, company directors and top executives have found such relief from tension by practicing the Tai Chi form, that a permanent school has been established in the area and reports of Tai Chi's beneficial effects on senior citizens in San Francisco brought this ancient art nation-wide acclaim. Because the form embodies on so much, by doing so little, the world's senior martial artists are making a serious study of it.
Theories abound concerning the origins of Kung Fu and scholars have noted its
appearance over the last 5,000 years. Amongst the important datings are the following:
1) Kung Fu began with the peasant practice of simulated combat wearing a head-dress of
horns, which dates from about 2,600 BC
2) It made an appearance in the later Chou Dynasty, 1066 - 403 BC, where there are
references to wrestling, archery, fencing and other tactics.
3) A mild form of Kung Fu, which took into account the internal side of a man's
involvement in life, began during the time Lao Tzu in the Sixth Century BC.
4) In the Han dynasty, Hua To, a famous medical man, introduced physical exercises based
on animal movements: on the bird, deer, tiger, bear and the monkey.
5) Long before the Mongol invasions of China 1205 and 1227, boxing was well known and
recorded. After the Mongols, may types of Wu Shu were developed to principally because of
the defeats inflicted upon the Chinese armies of the time. During the subsequent Mongolian
invasions of Europe, Chinese/ Mongolian styles of wrestling were taken with the invading
armies. Lee Ying Yang, a modern Kung Fu Sifu, or teacher considers that early Chinese /
Mongolian combat methods influenced Graeco-Roman empty-hand fighting. Chinese Kung Fu also
spread to Japan, Korea, and many other Far Eastern Countries.
6) It is to Bhodidharma or Damo, the bringer of Cha-an meditation or Zen to China in AD
540, that Kung Fu students like to attribute the founding of their multi-faceted art.
Popular Legend has it that Bhodidharma found his monks too weak to maintain his regime of
work and meditation and founded a system of leg, arm and trunk exercises at one of the
chain of Shaolin Monasteries.
In this assignment I have talked about Bac Fu Do and Kung Fu in general.
