IMPERIAL CRANE KUNG FU
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Imperial Crane Kung Fu is a combat level martial art taught at Imperial Combat Arts school in Denver Colorado. Crane Style Kung Fu is legendary for its evasion, kicking, toughened hand weapons, as well as its Chin Na and weapon training.
Most people know of Crane Kung Fu as a graceful martial art with excellent balance. Imperial Crane Kung Fu is also a very aggressive and fast moving attack style that is intimidating and unrelenting. |
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If you ever experience the speed and intensity of bird attacks you'll have a good idea what the style was fashioned after. Imperial Crane Kung Fu demonstrates the highest levels of hand and leg toughening, with eight toughened parts of the foot. Imperial Crane Masters kick through cinder blocks, baseball bats, sticks, and concrete. At Imperial Combat Arts Crane Kung Fu consists of 167 specialized kicks designed to break the feet, legs, ribs, groin, and destroy the organs of opponents.
TRAINING CRANE KUNG FU
To master Imperial Crane Kung Fu our practitioners develop the highest levels of finger toughening, leg toughening, and body conditioning. There are numerous challenging exercises, forms, hundreds of sets for strikes, kicks, throws, and chin na, and of course matching. Imperial Crane Kung Fu is a combat level Mixed Martial Art and trains the powerful Black Scorpion System for its ground fighting and grappling.
CRANE TOUGHENING
Crane Kung Fu Masters at Imperial Combat Arts demonstrate the power of Cranes toughened hands by delivering the force of a professional baseball pitch into wood with their fingertips. Crane also toughens for ripping and gouging, clawing strikes, blocking, and of course for devastating kicks. These true body weapons are a far from wrapping the hands and wearing boxing gloves for sport. Unlike a technique, bone and joint toughening takes years to master. Enter Page> Hand Toughening
CRANE EXERCISES
There a several levels of complex exercises required to develop the incredible balance, evasion, and angular strikes of Crane Kung Fu. Crane Masters spend a lot of time training on wobbling posts at the school and demonstrate the impressive ability to stand stand one foot on a post and evade thrown objects while simultaneously breaking several boards with the fingertips. Crane Kung Fu masters this level of one legged balance and stabilization for its extensive kicking.
CRANE FORMS
Imperial Crane Forms teach the complex kicking patterns, evasion, and striking of Crane Kung Fu. Imperial Crane has 3 primary long forms as well as forms for its Sub Styles. The Heron form is exclusively kicking and at its highest level done full speed on a pattern of wooden posts. These forms train students in brutally effective techniques, that work directly with the master level hand weapons and toughened legs of Imperial Crane.
CRANE SETS
There are numerous dynamic sets trained in Imperial Crane Kung Fu for evasion, counter striking, kicks, kick counters, chin na, throws, and weapons. Crane Masters train their sets against other crane practitioners and against all the other Imperial Animal Styles. This training gives Crane Kung Fu Masters the experience of training against all types of fighters from the most powerful to the fastest. To begin training sets with Crane requires a degree of leg toughening.
CRANE DRILLS
Imperial Crane drills extensive kicking and legwork, these drills are done vs partners, mitts, and bags, as well as custom training devices and machines that are unique to Imperial Crane alone. Some of this equipment is used to develop the fast, powerful kicks of Crane against moving and obstructed targets. It can take years of leg and finger toughening to even begin to train on the equipment used by Imperial Crane Kung Fu Masters.
CRANE MATCHING
Imperial Combat Arts headquarters school has an outdoor training yard where Crane practitioners invest time matching on posts and obstacles buried in the ground as understood in traditional Kung Fu. This full speed ability prepares Crane to fight on uneven terrain and throughout the obstacles and debris of real life combat, far from training in flat controlled rings used in organized sport. Crane Kung Fu Masters love to match and to test their skills on all types of opponents.
THE CRANE MIND
Imperial Crane Kung Fu fights between a patient, wise predatory mind, and a terrible nonyielding aggressive state. Cranes are excellent hunters and Crane Kung Fu Masters can see opponents as nothing more than prey and easily counter their attacks with calm calculated techniques, or it can see its opponents as a real threat and fight with an intense berserker like assault of unyielding highly trained angular patterns designed to break through even the strongest defenses.
HISTORY OF CRANE KUNG FU
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1391c.e. - 1911c.e. |
Legends of Crane Kung Fu styles are as old as the 1400's to as young as the 1700's. Some say Crane Kung Fu was developed from watching a Crane fight and ape, Cranes fighting Cranes, a woman fighting a crane with a stick, as well as Cranes fighting snakes. Regardless of lore Crane Kung Fu became a part of Imperial Combat Arts during the reign of the Great Ch'ing Dynasty 1644-1912c.e.
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CRANE WEAPON MASTERY
Imperial Combat Arts Animal Styles also master melee weapons for combat. The weapons of choice for each Animal directly complement their martial art making use of the same techniques and body development they've already mastered with the empty hand. Crane Kung Fu has its own unique ancient weapons, favored battlefield weapons, and masters its own series of weaponry for ranged combat, long weapons, and for close quarters combat.
CRANE SUB-STYLES
There are numerous Animal Kung Fu Styles trained in Chinese Martial Arts, most people only know of the 5 or 8 most commonly practiced styles in mainstream Kung Fu, and even online research today will only produce minimal information on a handful more. Through our own unique martial history Imperial Combat Arts teaches numerous Animal Kung Fu styles as Sub-styles of the Eight Imperial Animals. The particular sub-styles attached to each Animal directly complement the main style, and share similar modes of movement, toughening, and weapons allowing masters to quickly learn additional martial arts styles that are similar in nature to their own. Some of these sub-styles are very rare while others are famous and legendary in their own right.
BLACK CRANE KUNG FU
Imperial Black Crane Kung Fu is a powerful sub-style that incorporates both Mantis Kung Fu and Snake Kung Fu techniques. Black Crane Style moves its arms like Snake Kung Fu using the similar serpentine form of the Cranes Neck and a unique highly toughened weapon for strikes. This unique martial art also uses the quick arm captures and strikes of Mantis Kung Fu with its similar arm posture. Imperial Black Crane Kung Fu is nothing like the Shaolin Style of Black Crane. Enter Page> Black Crane Kung Fu
GREY HERON KUNG FU
Grey Heron Kung Fu is a Sub-Style of Imperial Crane that fights exclusively with their legs. By training and matching to control, negate, or counter an opponents techniques with the legs alone, Heron Kung Fu adds a tremendous value to Imperial Crane Kung Fu. Many of 167 kicks trained in Imperial Crane Kung Fu are contained in this complex and formidable sub-style.
GREEN HERON KUNG FU
Green Heron Kung Fu is a unique sub-style of Crane Kung Fu taught at Imperial Combat Arts. This Crane style is for small, short framed practitioners and uses tighter, quicker strikes, often in combinations, as well as leaping to engage larger opponents. Green Heron is fashioned after small Herons in Asia like the Striated Heron. Imperial Combat Arts has several arts designed for small people to fight larger opponents, such as Leopard, Viper, Asp, Falcon, and Southern Tiger.
DUCK KUNG FU
Duck is a traditional Chinese martial art that also has a lot of significance in battlefield tactics. Duck Kung Fu is a fast and aggressive fighting style that strikes in flurries and combinations using kicks and highly toughened fingertips. Duck specializes in close range combat using the bend arm to block and control strikes and is a sub-style of Crane best suited for short, strong, and stocky body types. Duck Kung Fu style masters two traditional blade weapons know as Duck Blades. Enter Page> Duck Kung Fu
SCORPION KUNG FU
Scorpion Kung Fu ground-fighting makes Complet Combat Martial Art. Scorpion Kung Fu at Imperial Combat Arts is an extensive ground fighting and grappling art, and a sub-style to 4 of the 8 Primary Animal Styles. Scorpion Kung Fu itself contains many small animal styles that Imperial Combat Arts students train from day one, as part of the Black Scorpion Ground Fighting system. Black Scorpion is a massive art of ground-fighting, grappling, and Chin Na. > Enter Scorpion Page
IMPERIAL EIGHT ANIMALS
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Imperial Crane Kung Fu is one of eight main Animal Styles taught at Imperial Combat Arts. Each of the 8 Animal Styles is a complete martial art with its own master level toughening, ground fighting, grappling, Chin Na, hand to hand, kicks, throws, and weapon mastery.
The 8 Animals each energetically represent one trigram of the Bagua. Crane was chosen to represent Kan ☵ 坎, in the Pakua (Bagua). Kan represents Water, Danger, Motion, 2nd Son, and Honor. Kan consists of Two Yin Lines, with one Yang line in between. |