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101. PRAYING MANTIS (NORTHERN) SEEKING LEG BRIGHT FOREST STYLE. KUNG FU WAH LUM TAM TUI TONG LONG CHUAN: This system is a hybrid of a number of kung fu systems that was founded by Master Lee Kwan Shan. It is a combination of Jut Sow: Wrestling Hands Praying Mantis and Tam Tui: Seeking Leg Kung fu. The system also has a lot of Southern kung fu influences from Choy Li Fut, and Mok Gar. The Wah Lum Leopard form is a Mok Gar Form. The system is large having over 40 hand forms.
The system however does not teach the core forms Bung bu: Crushing Step (Renamed Big Mantis), Ba Zhao: Eight Elbows, and Lan Jie: Intercepting and Deflecting fist until almost instructor level.

 

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102. Praying mantis northern :tai chi cck branch: Tai chi tang lang chuan, cck branch

 

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103. PRAYING MANTIS SOUTHERN : ROYAL FAMILY BRANCH: Chyu Ga: Royal Family. A Praying Mantis style that originated in the Fujian Shaolin Temple druing the late Ming dynasty by Chyu Fuhk tyuh and taught secretly only to the Haak Ga people. A branch of this style later developed in the Kwaang Sai province that later became known as Kwaang Sai Juhk Lahm. The characteristics of Chyu ga are the use of the Phoenix Eye Fist, the Bamboo Slicing Hand, the Three Finger Strike, and the Gnger Fist for attacking pressure points. All hand attacks are drawn from the elbow.

 

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104. PRAYING MANTIS SOUTHERN: (NAN TONG LONG KUEN): FAN ZHUANG QUAN: This is a Hakka ethnic style of kung fu that originated in the Southern Fukien Shaolin Temple. Trademarks of this style are tight hand movements that have quick whipping power.

 

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105. PURE YANG STYLE: CHUN-YANG
This style was developed by a Taoist monk named Long Xin from Wu Dang, Yu-Xu temple. It dates from the 1800's. It later left Taoist temples and spread to the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province where it is still taught. The style resembles a hybrid of Tai Chi and BaGua with very loose and relaxed motions. In some forms the practitioner is walking a general circle and moving hands in wave actions. It also has a number of health preserving forms. This fact is testified by Wang's own teacher, Liu Li-Hang, who died at the age of 101.

 

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106. QINGCHEN MOUNTAIN STYLE: QINGCHENPAI. This is a term referring to styles originated from the Qingchen Mountains. The known barehanded routines include

 

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107. RED FIST HONGQUAN: HONGQUAN, HUNG CHUAN. This is a Northern Style. It is one of the five mother styles of northern kung fu.

 

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108. RED GATE FIST: HONGMEN. There are two legends to the origin of this style. The fist legend believes that is was created by Emperor Zhao Taizu. His face was always hong or red. Therefore, the style was named Hongquan and later became known as Hongman.
The second legend believes that in the year 1661, the defeated Ming Dynasty general. Zhen Chengong, organized used the name Hongmen because the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty was known as Hongqu. It gradually evolved into two distinct, the Northern and the Southern Hongmen. There are over forty-five known barehanded routines, over seventeen weapon routines, and eight application training methods (Shou 402).

 

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109. REN FAMILY SYSTEM: RENJIAJIAO. It is also known as Rnmenquan. This style was passed down by Ren Sizhen, a Qing Dynasty officer of the Sichuan area. Ren utilized his uderstanding of Sunzi’s Art of War and the Yijing, and combined it with several martial styles, to create this style.
The known routines include:
Jinjiduli
Qiufengsaoluoye(Saber Routine) (Shou 433).

 

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110. RESPECT FIST: LONG ZUN QUAN. The movements of Long Zun Quan are quick and adaptable, emphasizing defensive techniques. Less jumping and kicking lend to a stronger foundation of stances. Foot techniques also tend to be more conservative. The few attacks tend to be from the side, as a crab moves. Students of Long Zun Quan pay close attention to facial expressions (Burr 62).

 

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111. RIVER STYLE: JIANGHEQUAN. It originated from Kaifeng in Henan Province. There are four known routines in this style (Shou 409).

 

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112. SECRET FLEXIBLE POWER: YAU KUNG MOON. This system was founded at the Shaolin Temple 1400 years ago, (618-907 A.D) The founder was a monk named Ding Yang. Ding was a humble man and did not name the system, the system was kept secret at the Shaolin Temple and was passed on only to one person per generation.
When the Temple was burned the monk Doe Sung passed the style on.
The first person to give the style a name was monk Teat Yun, he was also the first person to teach the style to the first lay person or non monk, Ha Han Hong.
The modern version of the style also incorporates forms from Bak Mei: White Eyebrow and Lung Ying Pai: Dragon Style. The Style has 13 hand forms and 28 weapon forms.

 

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113. SECTIONAL FIST: JIEQUAN. It utilizes Tantui as its foundation. It is a style developed during the Qing Dynasty (Shou 410).

 

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114. SEVEN WARRIORS FIST: CHI SHI QUAN. Seven Warriors Fist. Originally the name memorialized the Seven "Saints" of Islam but was altered to the "Seven Forms." Starting among Muslims in Henan it eventually reached ShanXi. The style, as the name implies, is based on seven essential postures from which sets are constructed.

 

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115. SHORT RANGE BOXING: DUAN QUAN. This is a centuries-old style of fist play. The Mianzhang style of short fighting and boxing was recorded in Tang Shunzhi’s on Martial Arts, Qi Jiguang’s A New Essay on Wushu Arts, and He Liangchen’s Chronicles of Chen, all of which are more than 400 years old. The major features of Duan Quan are its short and compact routines which usually consist of three to five steps and a dozen moves, and its use of low stances and small but quick movements. It is very popular in Baoding and Gaoying of Hebei province (Burr 38).

 

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116. SILK REELING STYLE: CAIQUAN. A southern style. Translated as . This style originated from Huang Yichuan of Jiangxi Province. Canbimen focuses on coiling and neuralizing. its movements are continuous like the reeling of silk, thus the tern can, meaning silk or silk worm. There are over seventy known barehanded routines, thirteen weapon routines, and thirteen Sanshou training methods(Shou 377).

 

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117. SIX ELBOWS SYSTEM: LOK ZHAO KUEN: This is a very rare southern style of kung fu with three schools and about 300 students. Two of these schools are in Asia one in Guangzhou, China and one in Hong Kong. The third school is in the United States in Kansas City.
This style origin is unclear it was kept within the Ng family until 1940 and it can be traced back to the 1850s.
The first sifu of this style was Ng Wing-cho. Wing-cho was a merchant that sold drugs and medicinal herbs in Canton. In the 1850s he healed a man who had a bad cough. The man was the uncle of the Qing emperor and was a master of Mee Chuan or Secret Fist style. The uncle of the emperor taught Wing-cho when he told him that he wanted to learn martial arts.
Wing-cho taught the art to his family but was unable to reveal anything about the arts’ history because his master did not teach anything about Mee Chuan history.
Grandmaster Ng Shui-bor was the first sifu to teach the style outside of the Ng family.
This style stresses a balance between internal and external training.

 

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118. SIX HARMONY FIST: LIUHEQUAN. Liuhe refers to the focus of the six directions: east, west, north, south, up, and down: the unity of hands and eyes; the unity of stepping and body movements; and the unity of strategy and power delivery (Shou 420).

 

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119. SIX HARMONY STYLE: HIUHEMEN. This style has been around for over 400 years. It was already noted in the book Jixiaoxinshu, The New Book of Effective Discipline by the Ming Dynasty General, Qi Jiguang. Liuhe refers to the six directions north, east, south, west, up, and down. It also refers to the unity of interal and exernal components. The Three internal unities are: the heart and mind uinte; yi and qi unite; and qi and shen unite. The three external unities are; uppper arms and waist unite; the elbows and knees unite; and the shoulders and thighs unite. There are over eleven known barehanded rountines, nineteen weapons routines, three sparring routines, and several hard Qigong methods for iron shirt training (Shou 420).

 

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120. SPARROW FIST: YAN ZI QUAN. Meaning Sparrow Fist. A northern style of Chinese martial arts.