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A simple staff form for handling a long pole or spear. Due to the nature of the long weapon, the 6.5 Point Staff form is very different from typical Wing Chun body structures thus far, expanding the system into more traditionally Chinese deeply squatted structures and using the side body stance.
In Mandarin, "wuxing" is the pronunciation not only of "five animals", but also of "five elements", the core techniques of xing wu quan martial arts, which also features animal mimicry, but often with ten or twelve animals rather than five, and with its high narrow Santishi stance, these look nothing like a Fujianese Southern style found in the ...
Wing Chun or Yong Chun (traditional Chinese: 詠春; simplified Chinese: 咏春, lit. "singing spring") [7] is a concept-based martial art, a form of Southern Chinese kung fu, and a close-quarters system of self-defense.
The following list of Chinese martial arts is by no means exhaustive. Alphabetical listing ... Wing Chun [53] Wudangquan; Wujiquan [citation needed] Wu Xing Quan;
Infighting is the name given to certain martial art techniques used while near the opponent. ... Chi sao drills in Wing Chun; ... at a neutral stance, ...
Other styles include: Choy Li Fut, Fujian White Crane, Dog-style kung fu, Five Ancestors, Wing Chun, Southern Praying Mantis, Hak Fu Mun, Bak Mei and Dragon-style. There are sub-divisions to Southern styles due to their similar characteristics and common heritage. For example, the Fujian martial arts can be considered to be one such sub-division.
This lineage of Wing Chun originates from a unspecified Shaolin Temple. Following the destruction of the temple at the hands of the Qing Empire, the survivors swore to use their knowledge to destroy them. According to this lineage, the name Wing Chun is a shortened form of the revolutionary motto "Wing yun chi jee; Mo mong Hon Juk; Dai dei wu ...
In the light novel and anime Juuni Taisen, while fighting the younger Tatsumi Brother's reanimated corpse, Tora identifies a stance he takes as belonging to snake-style kung fu. In the manga Kengan Omega , Yuzaki Mumon is a master of snake-style kung fu, and uses it against Tokuno'o "Nitoku" Tokumichi in a Kengan fight.