Shaolin Kung Fu Styles
All styles of Shaolin
kung fu have their own characteristics. There are many different
styles in Shaolin kung fu. The techniques of a style are combined
together in 'forms' (known as 'Kata' in karate) A form is called
a 'Tao' in Chinese, and this part of kung fu is thus called 'Taolu'.
Every movement in a form ofcourse represents one or multiple
combat techniques, and are not just meaningless movements (often
there are also some hidden combat-applications, only shown to a
few students...)
The Shaolin school of
kung fu has developed and adopted many styles of kung fu. Ofcourse there are also kung fu schools that practice only one of
the above mentioned styles, like for example the school of eagle kung fu.
That´s why you´ll also find a lot of these schools in the kung fu
section...
There are a lot of
different styles in Shaolin kung fu (more than 400 !), and we
don't know them all, but we are giong to try to complete the list of the
different styles, their history, characteristics, and their
different fist-forms, as well as the weapons used (in the
different styles), in this section...
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