Crane

[paihequan]

Sure Jeff,

 

All of the above plus Body-Energy-Meridian-Alignment, Ground Reaction Force, Step & Slide, Kunyan-Pu, Dow Ma, Bik Bouh, Connecting the Chinese Coin, Quanmu - Fist Mother, Hequan Quan Jue, T'un - Swallow, Chen - Sink, Fou - Float, T'u - Spit Out, Body Change, Change Body, Four Point Gold, and Element Hands To name but a few.

[martialartsresearcher]

White Crane Kung Fu ROCKS. I wish i could take it. see ya.

[jeffrogers]

Thanks Ron,

 

How about inside hitting as opposed to surface hitting. -Jeff

[paihequan]

Jeff,

 

Comparing terms for principles of what we do in Hakutsuru and Fujian White Crane can often lead to differences simply because we both use different terms to describe that which we do.

 

As a rule though, "inside hitting" as you termed it is one aspect of Fujian White Crane (there are many others too numerous to mention here).

 

Regards

[jeffrogers]

I understand that. Lot of diffrent styles have diffrent names for a example a punch. But still its the same thing. I know there is tons of concepts. Inside hitting one and there are many points or I mean concepts that go into just doing Inside hitting itself. -Jeff

[paihequan]

Jeff,

 

Exactly. The concepts may have different names but are the same in action.

 

What do you know of the Four Poems of Crane-Fist (He Quan Quan Jue). This involves T'un - Swallow, Chen - Sink, Fou - Float, T'u - Spit Out. These four concepts are essential to all Crane-Fist.

 

Regards,

[paihequan]

The name of the 6 forms from Sleeping to Playing Crane has a  certain philosophical meaning in Chinese, as natural phenomenon, to have energy/qi to start with, the Crane has to sleep first. When  the Crane wakes up in the morning, first thing he will do is to 'call' as to soothing the qi. Then the Crane has to fly, then to eat (prey). After he is done with eating, he shakes (like dog gets out the water, shakes around to get rid of the water type) to relax. Finally, the Crane is happy and playful. It ends with playing as Chinese' outlook for life. Fighting is application/function but not the purpose of life.

[jeffrogers]

My instructor Larry Naranjo doesen't mention the names very well on it. Nor does Tony Sandoval from what I heard. He goes more by American type names. Depends on who he teaches. He doesn't go into the Japense or Chinesee names for it. He will talk about Body change, or rising energy, sinking energy, rooting energy and many more ideas. So I don't quite understand what your talking about. -Jeff

[paihequan]

Jeff,

 

I see, well basically these four concepts have to do with the types of energy and applications applied: Swallow, Sinking, Floating, Spitting Out.

[jeffrogers]

I know it refers to enrgy aspects. My knowlege is very little. -Jeff