Anyone know any animals that are not so often seen in most Kung Fu styles? I know of some styles that have animals that aren’t really seen as much as others. I have also heard brief mention of animals that I have not heard much about anywhere. Like lion kung fu. Anyone know of any obscure animals and how they are played?
Dog, apparently lots of low attacks and ground fighting.
Elephant, dunno much about it but saw it in a documentary about various martial arts. It was said that this was basically a southern style.
I keep hearing stuff about lamas
‘symbol crash’
hung fut has 10 animals, snake, crane, dragon, tiger, leopard, eagle (not eagle claw), horse, monkey, elephant, and lion. horse techs do downward blocking, like you are defending your flanks, elephant are strikes that come from the top down in an arcing manner, as for lion i am not actually sure which part of my forms are lions. i asked once and the only one that was pointed out was butterfly palms which are like a lions jaw. these are just some simple examples.
[QUOTE=xcakid;753709]Dog, apparently lots of low attacks and ground fighting.[/QUOTE]
Fujianese Dog boxing. Rare style from what I gather
[QUOTE=xcakid;753709]Elephant, dunno much about it but saw it in a documentary about various martial arts. It was said that this was basically a southern style.[/QUOTE]
I have heard of elephant Kung Fu as well. I have no idea what style it was, but a very long time ago I saw a guy in a magazine or book (don’t remember which) showing a hand/arm position that was labeled “elephant trunk”.
I’ve always been fascinated with Hung Fut. Interesting information. What do you know about Hung Fut’s eagle and monkey?
lol! 
That conjured up images of some sort of Sim City cheat involving a different kind of Lama Kung Fu (old school PC gamers may know what I’m talking about).
rare: deer, bear, terrapin(turtle) and horse
been there, done that
Check out my old articles (a two-parter): The Martial Menagerie: Exotic Animal Styles of Kung Fu - part 1 in 1999 October; part 2 in 1999 November.
Mongoose. It seems to appear only in an old CMA movie and in Shou Shu.
i’ve heard of the duck and scorpion. those must look awesome.
i saw toad kung fu. i was like wtf, kung fu hustle?
[QUOTE=FuXnDajenariht;753751]i’ve heard of the duck [/QUOTE]
As in AFLLLAAAAACCCC. That makes me hungry. I think I will have some roast duck and yang chow fried rice for dinner.
[QUOTE=Shaolinlueb;753760]i saw toad kung fu. i was like wtf, kung fu hustle?[/QUOTE]
Actually, I came across a video from China of Toad Kung Fu the other day. I think it was posted on here maybe.
chicken and sparrowhawk.
Choy Lay Fut has the 5 shaolin animals forms:
Tiger, Leopard, Snake, Crane and Dragon
And supposedly:
Lion, Horse, Monkey, Deer and Elephant
don’t forget Fetus style (it’s real).
[QUOTE=SevenStar;753817]chicken and sparrowhawk.[/QUOTE]
I’ve heard of chicken. I hear that WFH-Hung Gar has a lot more animals in it then many know about. I once heard that chicken is in it. I heard there is Black Tiger (from Soo Hak Fu’s lineage) in it as well. And since there is Lion’s Roar influence, I’d guess there is ape in there. I also heard that the crane’s beak is from the Lion’s Roar crane, and that Fujian White Crane does not have this hand weapon.
i’ve heard of the duck
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You would be refering to the Nine Way Manderian Duck style!!!
I heard it was somehow related to tai tzu, but never found any proof of that.
[QUOTE=neilhytholt;753749]Mongoose. It seems to appear only in an old CMA movie and in Shou Shu.[/QUOTE]
Funny. Whats the name of the movie?
[QUOTE=neilhytholt;753792]Actually, I came across a video from China of Toad Kung Fu the other day. I think it was posted on here maybe.[/QUOTE]
lol ya that was shaolinlueb that posted it in that contemporary thread:
duck style looks ridiculous. there is a video of it on youtube just do a search for yaquan. as for scorpion my old sifu taught techniques from that style its interesting but was never something that really interested me.
as for the eagle in hung fut it focuses on the wing. similar to crane wings. there are a lot of defelcting and slapping techniques. if you were a hung fut pimp i think a large part of keeping your hoes in line would be with eagle techniques. what differentiates is from crane in hung fut is that the beak is the focus of crane techniques and the wings are the focus of eagle. monkey is … monkey. i havent seen too many monkey styles that are drastically different. but that could be my limited exposure to it.