DOG KUNG FU - DOG BOXING
广州狗​式​功夫​

Dog Kung Fu is a ferocious street, and ground fighting style taught at Imperial Combat Arts in Denver CO. Dog Kung Fu is a rare martial art with an evil reputation. Eye gouging, groin attacks, finger, breaking, throat attacks, leg breaks, and even tearing off lips and ears are signature wounds from one quick Dog attack. Dog Kung Fu is taught as a sub-style of Imperial Leopard Kung Fu, and fights from leaping, standing, low realm, and ground fighting positions.
Dog Kung Fu fights with toughened strikes & kicks, bring-downs, weapons, and painful Chin Na.​ This style, like all the animals arts, is savage and brutal for real combat. These aren't desperate self defense moves, but toughened and powerful attacks. Students at Imperial Combat Arts begin Dog Fighting tactics in their third rank as a brutal and effective means to negate common grappling and boxing styles. True mastery however comes after years of hand and leg toughening and with high level Chin Na ability. 
"Iron Leg" one of the last famous Dog Kung Fu Masters with over 300 students was also a Muay Thai Champion who used Dog Kung Fu for his ground game, since then high level shin kicks and elbows have been integrated into our ground-fighting. 

TRAINING DOG KUNG FU

To master Dog Kung Fu one must develop the highest levels of hand toughening, leg toughening, and body conditioning. There are numerous challenging exercises that condition the body for take-downs and grappling. There are also numerous sets trained for strikes, kicks, throws, and chin na, and of course matching. Dog also trains drills for combat, these drills make use of the usual martial arts mitts and bags, as well as traditional, and modern, custom made devices. 

DOG TOUGHENING

Dog Kung Fu Masters at Imperial Combat Arts demonstrate the highest levels of hand toughening to meet the demands of true combat, far from wrapping the hands and wearing boxing gloves for sport. The powerful striking, kicking, and ripping attacks used in Dog Kung Fu require years of toughening to master. Unlike a technique, bone and joint toughening takes years to master, there is no rushing it, and if done improperly the hands or legs can be permanently damaged. Enter Page> Hand Toughening 

DOG STYLE GRAPPLING
地术拳​​

Dog Kung Fu has a lot of focus on anti-grappling and grappling with the objective of maiming or negating opponents quickly to move to the next opponent or regain a standing position. It is a common misconception that Dog prefers grappling positions that are normally seen as inferior. This is because much of Dog Kung Fu training is on how to fight from inferior positions in tricky, brutal, and unexpected ways. In this sense Dog masters the same feigns and deception as its parent style of Leopard Kung Fu. These two arts are trained as one complete system at Imperial Combat Arts along with Phoenix Kung Fu.

DOG STYLE CHIN NA

Dog Kung Fu uses Fen Chin style Chin Na and some fast Ts'o Ku techniques primarily to open opponents up for strikes, or to gain access to vital points. Dog Masters also develop fast ripping grips and toughened knuckle strikes from their Leopard Training. Dog and Leopard transition seamlessly between Chin Na and Striking often using both martial disciplines in one single technique. 

DOG KUNG FU SETS

Dog Kung Fu trains numerous painful and intimidating sets, that include take-downs, bring downs, throws, strikes, kicks, Chin Na, and grappling. These intense sets often leave training partners bruised and can cause levels of pain that creates momentary states of shock and loss of focus. It can take months of training to be able to focus through a flurry of attacks from dog.

HISTORY OF DOG KUNG FU

Dog Kung Fu has been taught in our U.S. schools since the early 1960's. Our earliest knowledge of Dog, before its integration into the Taoist Eight Animal System, is from street gangs in Canton China.

​Dog was know as a fierce group fighting style with emphasis on weapons, intimidation, ferocity, and pack hierarchy.