Ape Style

[fallen_milkman]

Just wondering if anyone could give me some information about this animal style. I am having trouble finding any information on it, most of what I find is monkey style. Some links to dvds for sale would be especially helpful!

[ChinoXL]

well just to let you know any style marketed as ape is fake because there were simply no apes in asia!! they have chimps.. but no apes.. i was dissapointed when i was told this but what's close to it is thai shing pek kwar which is monkey

[stonecrusher69]

I hace heard of a chinese guy how teaches white ape.I'mnot sure if its a system maybe its just a form.Anyway he is a northern shoalin master.I heard it was a rare form.I don't know anyhing else about it.

[elbows_and_knees]

There IS an ape style, but it's not pure ape. Hop Gar is a combination of the ape and crane. Definitely not fake.

[Mai-Monkey]

there are 3 monkey types only 1 is well known the other two are monkey-drunken fist and monkey-dragon i practice traditional thai shing pek kwar

but my sensei only teaches street fighting he doesnt like rules ha ha wat a great man i landed a couple of blows on him last time and thats quite hard to do hes fast for a 5ft 60 yea old lol

[fallen_milkman]

Actually, my sifu found a form for me: "White Ape Comes Out of the Cave." Very interesting stuff. Broad, sweeping strikes with the arms, lots of takedowns and ground stomps, even some ape-like chest pounding for body conditioning. Pretty cool looking. Hopefully I'll have it down by the end of the summer.

[mantis]

well.. ape style is used as the lower body style for mantis boixng too... so if you search for 7-star mantis you should be able to find enough about ape as well

i know we use things like the white ape coming out of cave and things like that

[giang_hu]

I heard a lot of the monky/ape styles can be used for ground-fighting, contrary to the "myth" perpetuated by BJJ practitioners that kung fu has no ground-fighting (not that good kung fu practitioners need to know ground-fighting, of course).

[ravenzoom]

Every fighter should know a minimal amount of ground fighting. How are you going to use your wing chun if you get tackeled to the ground?

[fallen_milkman]

Yeah, monkey is good for ground fighting. It isn't your normal way of fighting, since it is much more mobile than grappling, but it definitely works.