Song of Locking Hands Fist

[tungmojingjung]

Locking Hands Fist of the Eight Immortals Style is perhaps the best representative skill of the Eight Immortals system. This boxing implores the skills of Locking, Capturing, Pulling, Controlling, and Seizing. Its movements are fast, sudden and flexible requiring softness and hardness working together as a single unit. The primary hand tool of Locking Hands Fist is the famed “Cup Hand” which imitates one as if holding a cup. Locking Hands Fist simply serves to allow the learner to learn the applicable techniques without any “Drunken Fashion” so as to have a better understanding of the “Drunken Technique”. There are no “Drunken” elements in this boxing because the main function is fighting skill. The core fighting skills of Locking Hands Fist is characterized by the Eight Immortals system Eight Keywords which are: Sticking, Directing, Closing, Borrowing, Lifting, Escaping, Leaning and Intercepting. Theoretically speaking within this boxing school these are the true “Eight Immortals”.


Song of Locking Hands Fist/ Immortal Offers A Cup

The way to flexibility must always be through relaxation and stillness.

In hardness there is softness, in softness there hardness, the two are inseparable.

Stepping is light, flexible yet balanced.

Study each movement independently so as to grasp its full potential.

When engaged with an opponent, move with rather than at.



Troy Dunwood