Klaus
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I practiced Choy Lin Fut for about a year, at a Taoist temple here in Rio.
Basically (and this I heard from the chinese monk who ran the temple), Chinese Kung Fu is divided into two broad schools: northern Shao Lin and southern Choy Lin Fut.
The very first sequence (think "kata") I learned was the lin po, or Continuous Punch, which involved several movements that seemed disconnected at first (in a "Karate Kid" wax-the-floor kind of way). Then I asked my chi fu what those movements were. The lin po incorporates several movements that you use if you're in a fight with several assailants at the same time.
It included stuff like running your outstratched fingers hard on an opponet's brow, in order to cut the skin against the brow bone, blinding the opponent with his own blood, or grabbing hard at his... uh... "bag", and pulling it while punching hard against his stomach at the same time.
In a nutshell, Choy Lin Fut was the style that Bruce Lee practiced in Hong Kong when he was young.
Basically (and this I heard from the chinese monk who ran the temple), Chinese Kung Fu is divided into two broad schools: northern Shao Lin and southern Choy Lin Fut.
The very first sequence (think "kata") I learned was the lin po, or Continuous Punch, which involved several movements that seemed disconnected at first (in a "Karate Kid" wax-the-floor kind of way). Then I asked my chi fu what those movements were. The lin po incorporates several movements that you use if you're in a fight with several assailants at the same time.
It included stuff like running your outstratched fingers hard on an opponet's brow, in order to cut the skin against the brow bone, blinding the opponent with his own blood, or grabbing hard at his... uh... "bag", and pulling it while punching hard against his stomach at the same time.
In a nutshell, Choy Lin Fut was the style that Bruce Lee practiced in Hong Kong when he was young.
