CHANG CHUAN (Long Fist) BOXING page One

This is the biggest subdivision of traditional Chinese Kung Fu. It encompasses many fine Northern Styles including Cha Chuan, Mi Zong, Mei Hua and others. Here are representatives from many forms of boxing within the Long Fist category.

SC236 GuanZhong Hong Boxing
$18.95, 54 pages plus VCD, Simplified Chinese/English

A true long fist style. GuanZhong boxing goes back quite a ways to somewhere before the beginning of the first millennium. During the time of the First Emperor, Qin ShiHuang, there was continual development of military skills especially in the western region of Chinese civilization, known as GuanZhong. This was the area where the official military styles was GuanZhong boxing, later expanded into the strong and beautiful style, Hong Boxing. Extended strikes, high kicks, forearm blows; this constitutes a strong style with some unusual moves and others that might be from systems like Pigua, Shaolin,etc.

VCD#1744 Luo Men Gong Li Boxing
About 1 Hour, VCD pricing, Chinese/English

Luo Men style Flowing Strength Boxing.
This form is named Gong Li Quan like a very famous beginners set comparable to Tan Tui or Lien Bu Quan. This is also a small, tight form with a short series of moves. It comes from one of the “family” style of Emei. About twenty movements, this set has a surprising large range of actions with punches folding into elbows, open hand blocks, short and long move mixed, soft poses and hard strikes. An excellent set for beginners and performance in a small space, basically a square.

VCD#1742 Four Technique Hammering
About 1 Hour, VCD pricing, Chinese/English

Si Ba Chui. This is a popular form in North West China, among the five provinces. It inherits from a number of styles and blends them into an unusual form which seems to have a lot of inheritance from Xing Yi, Pigua and other styles. Truly an unusual form with some actions rarely found in other sets. Very quick, somewhat acrobatic, lower postures and a high level of shoulder flexibility.

VCD#1739 LongFist style Yue Bu Quan
About 1 Hour, VCD pricing, Chinese/English

LEAPING BOXING: This is said to be a form well loved in the five provinces of China. Sort of a super charged Lien Bu Quan this set lives up to its name in that almost every change of stance is accompanied by a small leaping action, and sometimes not so small. A relatively easy set to learn if you are up to it, this has the advantage of many varied postures, good Northern legs with some kicks, though not an excessive number. The performance by the zaftig Zhang Jie makes it evident that she's a top competitor. We're also glad to see someone who looks to be in excess of seventy pounds performing at a high skill level. Contemporary Wushu, a decade or so ago, had devolved to where the kids on the team were the ones who, when every one raise her hand, had the longest arms and the tallest bodies. Shades of ballet audition trauma!

VCD#739 LongFist style Basic Training
About 1 Hour, VCD pricing, Chinese/English

With Wang DeMing. We are talking about limber here. The Long Fist as a performance art with much training emphasizing tremendous flexibility, high kicks and low exaggerated stances. But teacher Wang is not just some light weight performer. Though pretty contemporary this Long Fist training is at least clean and pretty precise. There's no taking away for the athleticism and overall skills developed through hard work.

VCD#498 LongFist style MONKEY FIST
About 1 Hour, VCD pricing, Chinese/English

By Li Yu Zhong WuShu champion
One of the most expressive Monkey Fists we've seen. A champion performance whether or not you like animal styles. An acrobatic performance with everything from back flips and ground rolls to legs flower on the ground. From the performance standpoint the demonstrator is quite good with expressive, very fast motions in very simian actions right down to the eating of the fleas. A fast fist to say the least. Not only a demonstration and breakdown but basics of the peculiar monkey fist such as fist and leg actions shown separately.

VCD#499 LongFist style MONKEY STAFF
About 1 Hour, VCD pricing, Chinese/English

By Li Yu Zhong WuShu champion
Here is Monkey Fist in its glory with teacher Li Yu Zhong showing championship skill with the monkey's favorite weapon - the staff. What can we say? There is a tradition of "imitative" styles in martial arts which has become progressively more entertainment and theatrically oriented as time goes by. On the other hand you would need a heart of steel not to be charmed and entertained by this lively and beautifully performed set. If you like the agility, mischievousness and humor of the Monkey Fist this is one of the better representatives of the style and the possibilities of the art. Tumbling, rolling, balancing, falling, bumping along the ground. Agility required.

VCD#493 LongFist style SABER AGAINST SABER
About 1 Hour, VCD pricing, Chinese/English

Broadsword vs. broadsword is one of the rarer combinations. There are a number of weapons that are not generally matched against themselves. This saber fight is short but furious. The actions include wide slashing and tight grappling using the sabers with close cuts to one another and actual tie ups were the sabers are locked together. Learnable and a great crowd pleaser. Sharp sabers not recommended at first.