Kung Fu Animal Styles

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Kung fu is famous for its many animal styles, from frog to tiger and from crane to snake, each with its own unique characterisics. They can be truly beautiful and fascinating to watch, and great fun to practice, as well as helping to develop particular skills and physical strengths and to give the practitoner techniques that are often unpredictable to defend against.

This page is dedicated to all things related to any animal style of kung fu, featuring videos, links, products and more.

Learn Five Animal Style Kung Fu

Shaolin Frog 

Some kung fu animal style are highly effective and are obviously based on wanting to emulate characteristics that would be useful to a fighter, such as strength, flexibility, speed, ferocity and so on. Other styles were created primarily for display purposes, for putting on professional shows or to attract new students to a school by offering a unique style. the Frog, or Toad, is one of the wackier 'display styles', and it certainly fulfills its brief because it is very entertaining to watch.

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shaolin form demo, Frog Form!

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Tiger Kung Fu 

Tiger kung fu is a very powerful and attacking style. Once the tiger attacks, it does not back away until the fight is over. The tiger claw hand form is used in this style to grab and strike as well as to rake and claw, particulalry to the face

Top 3 Tiger Style Kung Fu Videos 

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Kung Fu for Self Defense & Protection : Tiger Claw and Kick Combo : Tiger Style Kung Fu 2 points

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Tiger Kung Fu Links 

Tiger Claw / Tiger Kung Fu Store
Tiger style and Tiger claw kung fu store. DVDs, books, e-books
Tiger Claw Kung Fu
Tiger Claw kung Fu page, with information and products for sale
Tiger Style Kung Fu
Links Directory page for all Kung fu Tiger styles

Scorpion Kung Fu 

Another rare and unusual animal style, only practiced by a group of monks at the Shaolin Temple as far as I am aware. It's quite showy but does have some good practical techniques in it too. This video demonstration gives you a good glimpse of what it is like.

Scorpion Kung Fu

I believe this is the only video of scorpion kung fu on The Net. Uploaded with the kind permission of www.shaolin-wushu.de

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Snake Kung Fu 

You must have very good flexibility to effectively use the snake style. Very low stances are common, strikes are very fast. The hands are kept open, and it is common to strike with the fingers or with the knife hand form to the neck and other soft areas.

Top 3 Snake Style Kung Fu Videos 

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Snake Style Kung Fu Blog Posts 

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Chinese Kung Fu Styles: Shaolin Kungfu Forms - kungfu.iflove.com
Chinese Kung Fu Styles: here it includes Shaolin Kung Fu forms, Taichi Chuan Dragon Style White Crane Chuan Wing Chun Hung Gar Style Praying Mantis Style Monkey Style Choy Lee Fut Style Snake Style and more others.
Wing Chun Kung Fu Introduction: Origin Quotes History and ...
One story is that Wing Chun Kung Fu was originally developed by a woman. It is also said that the originator (said to be a Buddhist nun named Ng Mui) observed a battle between a cobra snake and a crane bird. ... Wing Chun Kung Fu Movies: This is a great showcase for Michelle Yeoh, playing the legendary first practitioner of the Wing Chun Kung Fu style, Yim Wing-Chun. Trouble is, there's not much of the Wing Chun Kung Fu style shown in the film. The problem is that though ...
Snake Style Kung Fu – 1994
The snake rarely seen in style, as taught by Sifu Chen Ronde, who had a school in New Jersey. See Also : FitnessSportStore Fitness DVD Fitness Together Muay Thai Boxing.
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We offer training equipment for tae kwon do, judo, karate, kung fu and mixed martial arts. Be sure to check out our large selection of martial arts shoes, matial arts clothing ,martial arts dvds and karate party items, all at wholesale prices. ... Each fighting style offers a different approach to the common problems of self-defense, health, and self-cultivation from a Chinese perspective. The White Crane defense forms and attacks are zilch short of incredible, ...
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Duck Style 

Here is another wierd one. This wushu (modern demnstration kung fu) video is a great example of Duck Boxing.

Wushu - Ya Quan

Wushu - Ya Quan (Duck Boxing) www.kungfufever.com

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Dragon Kung Fu 

Dragon kung fu is a 'soft' and flowing style which emphaises the use of internal chi energy heavily. There are many counters in the dragon style, and practitioners learn how to sense and redirect their opponents force

Top 3 Dragon Style Kung Fu Videos 

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Monkey Kung Fu 

Monkey style kung fu uses fast movements and very unpredictable combinations that are very difficult to defend against.

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Monkey Kung Fu Links 

Monkey Style Kung Fu Links
Monkey Kung Fu links page in Kung Fu Search custom web search and directory

Crane Style Kung Fu 

The crane style is a very graceful and elegant style. It uses both a crane beak, typical for techniques such as a hoking block, and crane wing handform, typically for chopping strikes.
It is said that Okinawa Karate descends from the Shaolin White Crane style.

Crane Kung Fu Videos 

The crane is often considered to be the most graceful of the animal styles

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Praying Mantis Kung Fu Videos 

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Praying Mantis Links 

Praying Mantis Kung Fu Links
Praying Mantis Kung Fu links page in Kung Fu Search custom web search and directory

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