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There are five complete Martial Arts comprising Imperial Snake Kung Fu. The closest translation of these Arts names into English would mean: The Arts of the White Python, Black Cobra, Red Adder, Green Viper, and Blue Asp.
Python is a heavy art utilizing sheer crushing power, low power kicks and fast highly toughened strikes. It has a powerful system of ground fighting that specializes in suffocation and strangulation. It can cause collapse, unconsciousness and death by applying blood stoppage techniques to an opponent even without touching the throat or neck.
The Python toughens the hands extensively to develop Poison Hand, Venom Hand, and Death Hand.. Bricks, wood, and concrete are some of the substances that are broken with the Python fang and tail weapons.
Cobra develops single strike blows that blind or deafen, hard heavy throws, and quick arm breaks (especially breaking a punching arm or kicking leg). The Cobra breaks boards and bricks with just the two fingers of the Cobra's Fang.
The hand toughening in Cobra is extensive, and the nerve knowledge is extremely detailed. Where the Python toughens weapons to damage a large area on the body, the Cobra's weapons damage a much smaller (medium) area on the body, but more deeply.
Adders's venom is not just toxic, it is an acid-like fluid that starts to digest the wound and the limb that was bitten. So the Adder style uses techniques of acid-mouth snakes such as the Water Moccasin, Cottonmouth, or Coral Snake.
The Adder's strikes pinch, rip, tear, and squeeze, so that the toughening chosen for it involves, ripping and tearing hard substances apart training to get at the soft vulnerable nerves and arteries below.
Pain is not something that goes along with the successful Adder strike as a by-product of accuracy. Pain is a primary force applied to every block, strike, seizure, and release.
Viper has single high-speed techniques designed to combat more than one opponent. The pain from the screams of one so hit has a terrifying effect on that assailant's companions! His actions look a little like both Cobra and Adder, but is short, fast, confusing, everchanging, arising out of a seemingly peaceful placid position where the Adder explodes into the enemy's face and body.
His toughening is to work on medium range. The Viper strikes opponents with substance breaking power in flurries of strikes and kicks to vital points.
Asp is like the Black Mamba or tropical ocean Sea Snake; small, fast, and the most poisonous of all snakes; one drop of its venom is equivalent to one hundred drops of Cobra venom. This is what the Chinese Asp Kung Fu patterns itself after. Extremely fast-moving, the asp aims to hit an opponent so fast, that his hands are often not seen.
The study of nerves is deep and complex. Asp trains to make a lethal strike blindingly fast, with penetration deep within the body, and to be an expert at high speed bobbing, weaving and evasive maneuvers to get into striking range.
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