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The Dragon fighting style is used at times by the police officer Lei Wulong in Tekken. Southern Dragon kung fu inspired some firebending techniques on the 2005–2008 Nickelodeon Animation Studio TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender , M. Night Shyamalan 's 2010 film counterpart , its 2024 Netflix counterpart , and its sequel series The Legend ...
In Chinese martial arts, there are fighting styles that are modeled after animals. In Southern styles, especially those associated with Guangdong and Fujian provinces, there are five traditional animal styles known as Ng Ying Kung Fu (Chinese: 五形功夫) Chinese: 五形; pinyin: wǔ xíng; lit.
The various movements in kung fu, most of which are imitations of the fighting styles of animals, are initiated from one to five basic foot positions: normal upright posture and the four stances called dragon, frog, horse riding, and snake. The concept of martial arts styles appeared from around the Ming dynasty.
Hyohō Niten Ichi-ryū (兵法 二天 一流), which can be loosely translated as "the school of the strategy of two heavens as one", is a koryū (ancient school), transmitting a style of classical Japanese swordsmanship conceived by Miyamoto Musashi.
He retired from MMA in 2022. Nicknamed "The Dragon", he was known for his unorthodox style in MMA that mainly combined Shotokan karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Outside his competitive fighting career, Machida has served as a league ambassador for Karate Combat (KC). [6]
Dragon style can refer to: A style of the martial arts called Southern Dragon Kung Fu; A Norwegian architectural style called Dragestil
Hung Ga Kuen or Hongjiaquan (Chinese: 洪家拳, meaning "fist of the Hung family") - alternatively shortened as either Hung Ga (洪家) or Hung Kuen (洪拳) - is an ancient southern Chinese martial art, which roots lie in the Southern Shaolin kung fu.
Jigen-ryū (示現流 lit: revealed reality style) is a traditional school of Japanese martial arts founded in the late 16th century by Tōgō Chūi (1560–1643), a.k.a. Tōgō Shigekata, in Satsuma Province, now Kagoshima prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. [1] It focuses mainly on the art of swordsmanship.