Systems of Kung Fu

There are many Systems of Kung Fu

They had taken a consensus in China in the 80s, and it was found to have six hundred recognized styles and systems of Kung Fu. These six hundred styles and systems are split into a few different categories. These are Long Range, Short Range methods of movement, Hard and Soft Styles of movement. Of course there are many unique forms that do not fit into any categories and of course styles that fit into all of these. But we can also look at this in another way, we can take all of the Buddhist styles and systems, and all of the Taoist Styles and systems. If we look at the Buddhist styles and systems we look at all of the Hung Kuen Styles, and Hung Gar Styles, Wing Chun, Eagle and Mantis, Tiger and Crane, and so many more. When talking about the Taoist styles and systems, we are talking about Tai Chi Chuan, which cover all of the Tai Chi styles the five main systems of Tai Chi and the numerous styles of Tai Chi that are totally unique. There is, Ba Ji, Hsing i, Ba Gwa, Taoist Natural method, Tai Mantis, Luk Hup Bah Fah, and again many more. So as you can see the Chinese martial arts have many categories to place the styles ands systems belonging to it. At first it is very confusing, after a few years, it is all very organized and very exciting to learn the history, the philosophy, and the techniques that you learn from your teacher.

Crane Style

Crane Styles alone cover a number of styles, most are common, but some are dying as we speak. As most of us know, many of the older masters want their students to go threw something as they did, the hardships, the beatings, and the many tears of not being able to come up out of your horse stance because your legs feel like they are going to fall off. But they won't fall off as you have found on your own. Anyone that has said the hell with it, and stayed in the stance as long as they could found that it was only hard when they were thinking about it after. What were they thinking, they knew they could have done it longer, but they gave in, they gave up, and this is one of the main reasons a Grand Master will not pass on his art, not to a lazy person, not to an egotistical person, or a cruel person. Any Great Grand Master is going to want to pass on his art to the right type of person, and if that student does not come around, they die with that art they trained their whole lives. And this is one method of building our courage to do it, our courage to do anything tackle, nothing is impossible. This is what we learn from our horse stance Training. The horse stance will help you with many areas of your martial arts, trust us, do it and watch what happens.