In Rou Chuan (柔拳), the most important practicing is The Five Great Cranes.After completing the training in Shaking Crane, Dragon Crane is the relatively advanced training in the next level.

五大名鶴(The Five Great Cranes):

縱鶴 (Shaking Crane)

龍鶴 (Dragon Crane )

猴鶴(Monkey Crane)

捘身鶴(Vibrating Crane)

梅鶴神拳(Plum Flower crane)

White crane is one of the famous style in southern Chinese martial art. Dragon Crane is one of the evolved forms of white crane Grand master Tong found in Fujian Province of China. The style's most distinguished feature is that it combines few Tai Chi and Ba Gua's moves in traditional white crane style. Note: The Korean style uniforms we wear are for the purpose of grappling while practicing our wrestling technique. We are Chinese people practicing traditional Chinese martial arts.

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I can appreciate 'to heck with tradition, this stuff just works better for what we need' on the uniforms.

The form contained some core movements which seemed somewhat reminiscent, to my relatively CMA-untrained eye, to Chen taiji specifically as opposed to, for instance, Yang; does that sound at all accurate?

The pragmatic section looked interesting, lots of use of large* swinging and pushing movements using coordinated hands. How is it going for you?

*I was uncertain how large the movements were until I recalled that the movements I am used to using are better described as "ginormous"

I can appreciate 'to heck with tradition, this stuff just works better for what we need' on the uniforms.

The form contained some core movements which seemed somewhat reminiscent, to my relatively CMA-untrained eye, to Chen taiji specifically as opposed to, for instance, Yang; does that sound at all accurate?

The pragmatic section looked interesting, lots of use of large* swinging and pushing movements using coordinated hands. How is it going for you?

*I was uncertain how large the movements were until I recalled that the movements I am used to using are better described as "ginormous"

I have never been trained in Chen Taiji so I am not sure about the relation but I can say that they could be similar. Dragon Crane like Tai chi is an internal type of martial art, which stresses about chi and body coordiantion, internal fajin, Soft Vs Hard philosophy and etc.

"The Five Great Cranes" are the five white crane styles Grand master Tong deemed the best out of many white crane styles in China.

(of course that is just his own personal opinion)

Different from the traditional white crane(short wing), these five styles are categorized as the "long wing crane", that the arms usually extend longer in combat and the power of strike usually results from the shoulder and the body rather than from the first two joints(wrist and elbow). The most important feature is that these five styles really stress on the coordination between breathing and movement, and the ultimate goal is to be able to master the unique "vibrational" fajin, which is different from the inch punch.

Edited May 12, 201214 yr by dre2308