Strangest Animal style :/

Im not doing this to start a war rather i thought it could be a good laugh.
Please try and use ones you have at least seen SOMEWHERE.
My award go's to Crab Kung Fu which i saw advertised in a hong kong school online and also once saw in a movie.
Now i know that movies are obviously different to real kung fu but still this was hillarious.
There were 3 fighters using it. They used crab claw hands a lot of chin na and constandly scuttled around to the sides like crabs do.
How do people think to come up with these systems what the heck go's though there heads!
I mean many i compleatly understand but CRAB! Ive also heard of elephant and deer boxing :rolleyes:
hehe each to there own.
Please dont take offence to this its not meant as an insult to ANYONE and i study animal kung fu myself within Hung Ga.
Its just to see what other ones people have seen bantered about.

you cant win all the time but you cant always lose either...

I've heard of Rabid Dog style.

"Pain is merely weakness leaving the body"

jet li did chicken style in one of the OUATIC spin offs.
the shields for wings and the silly hat were just fab!

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5 animal kungfu?
NO
5 pockemon kungfu :eek:

~K~
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Although I'm certainly no expert, I've learned a form for Elephant kungfu. My teacher learned it from Doc Fai-Wong, so it may be affiliated with the Choy Li Fut system and is almost certainly a southern chinese style - makes sense, as you'd expect an Elephant Form to have something to do with Indian martial arts rather than Chinese. Anyway, a quick and rough description follows.

The fist used in elephant kungfu keeps the second knuckle of the fingers tucked tight against the thumb, which in turn is held across the palm. This creates a kind of 'pointed' striking surface with the main knuckles (where the finger meets the back of the hand) for backhanded strikes and another at the first knuckle for forward and spinning strikes. (I've never learned jaguar style, but from what I've read the fist configuration is somewhat similar.) Footwork is in short steps, and hard to predict on account of a great deal of front and back scissor-stepping and spinning movement. There are only three kicks - a low snapping front kick aimed at the groin and low side kicks to either side aimed at the knee. The low side kicks are accompanied by a shoulder height straight side punch to clock the head if your opponent tries to block or redirect the kick with a low hand technique. Other foot attacks are sweeps accompanying hand throws. There are a lot of elbow strikes, including rising elbows that double as blocks for blows to the head, side elbows that are aimed at an opponents ribs and accompany a 'trunk pull' of an attacking hand with the opposite arm, and a double side elbow for opponents close in to your left and right. Fist strikes come in many directions, the most common of which in the form is a shoulder-height spinning blow with power generated from a scissor step twist and swiveling hips. There are also uppercuts, over-the-head drop punches which generate power from a bending waist and knee, downward diagonal arc punches with the thumb side of the fist, backfists, and an interesting intercepting punch aimed at the funny bone of a lunging jab.

As I said, I'm no expert, but I believe elephant kunfu is intended to be used for infighting at punching range, the bridge between punching range and the clinch, and the striking from the clinch itself. It may also have uses for dealing with two opponents at once, expecially if they are both close to you. JWT has also learned the form, and has mentioned that the unpredictable twisting motions of elephant kungfu help to obscure the practitioners centerline and allow him or her to strike from unusual angles.

There's a bit more info at <a href="http://www.taichiherb.com</a>Tai Chi People's website</a>, although not much is known about the origin of the style.

Hope this helps.

(edits due to spelling and grammar errors)

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Another of the pecurliarities of the Elephant Kung Fu form is that it turns only one side fully to the opponent. It obscures the rear weapon from an opponent in front of you, but it also puts your centerline perpendicular to them. I would consider it a markedly defensive form.

JWT

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hehe man what a thread my sifu once told me about one of his teachers friends who was one of the best in china about 40 years ago at duck boxing , yup duck stle he even showed me some moves, i was like okay you think tai chi is complex duck boxing is like .....

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Gay Duck Kung Fu

Not a style, but there's a move in one of our forms that is fashioned after a cow/bull. It's a shoulder attack.

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Hey I was just kidding about the Gay Duck thing. I have nothing against ducks, it's just duck is probably the funniest animal that you can pair with the word "gay."

But really, you want dumb animal styles?

Mating Dove Kung Fu
Wounded Ant Kung Fu
Aardvark Nose Fist
Sloth Kung Fu (and you though Tai Chi guys moved slow)
***** Toad Kung Fu

Iron

holy ****! I can't say *****?!! (h o r n y)? What if I want to talk about ***** toads? you moderators do know that ***** toads are a kind of toad, right? how are we supposed to discuss ***** toads if we can't say *****?

Iron

I've never seen it but i've heard of Alligator style, i think that would be kinda weird

The object is not to hurt someone else, but to stop them from hurting you

There are no aardvarks, ***** toads, or sloths in china. There are alligators though.

I can imagine what duck style must be in fighting aplications.
I once saw a duck defending its young from a seagull by biting its wing and repeatedly slamming it into the ground whle beating it with its wings...funniest thing i ever saw:)