Animal Styles in Arts Other than Karate?

[Faraz]

There are different type of animal styles like snake style and sum other.Does these come in karate,martial arts or in any other ?

[Patrick]

I'm going to go ahead and give this it's own topic. Thanks.

[red dawn]

Do you mean are they taught in Karate or have styles of their own?

I do believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, but the animal styles are more common in Chinese martial arts, such as Kung Fu. Those arts mimic tigers, snakes, hawks, and other animals. I don't think you'll find to many of that in Japanese arts.

[TaeKwonDo Afficianado]

I am not certain if there are "styles" in martial arts other than Chinese in origin. However, there are definitely groups of moves in other arts that mimic animals, or at least individual moves that do so.

Or, they could be based off of the Chinese styles and moves, and not directly after the animals themselves. There are a lot of leapard paw strikes and Viper style attacks I've seen that appear to be similar to Chinese styles.

all the best,

Tom

[mlucasone]

Shaolin 5 animal kung fu mimics animals. There are a few other forms of ma that include mimicing animals that were derived from chinese styles, like some Korean styles. I think kuk sool won does, not sure on that one though.

[Red J]

I am not certain if there are "styles" in martial arts other than Chinese in origin. However, there are definitely groups of moves in other arts that mimic animals, or at least individual moves that do so.

Agreed. You can see the animal "traits" in many different styles. However, they are not always taught as such. For instance, precise finger strikes to vitals are characteristic of the snake, most styles have something like this, but do they call it snake? Probably not unless the system has a Chinese base.