DUCK STYLE KUNG FU
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Duck Style Kung Fu is a combat level martial art taught at Imperial Combat Arts school in Denver Colorado. Duck Kung Fu is a traditional martial art that shares a long history of the Duck as a military style used in formations, weapon design, and combat throughout ancient China. Duck Kung Fu is a fast and aggressive fighting style that strikes in combinations using kicks, weapons, and toughened fingertips. 
Duck Kung Fu is taught as a substyle of Crane at Imperial Combat Arts and specializes in close range combat using the bend arm to block and control strikes. Duck Kung Fu is best suited for short and stocky body types. 

DUCK STYLE HAND TOUGHENING

Duck Style Kung Fu starts with the prior master level toughening already developed in its parent styles of Crane. Duck specializes in a highly toughened finger-tip strike that that is likened to a marriage between a Spear Hand and Crane Beak. Masters of the style demonstrate breaking concreate with this weapon and use it primarily in blinding attacks, throat strikes, or heavy hits to the jaw. At Master levels Duck also fights with a toughened Palm & Blade Hand or "Wing" and years of foot/shin toughening. Enter Page> Hand Toughening 

HISTORY OF DUCK IN COMBAT

The Duck is not one of the first animals or styles that come to mind in relation to military training or martial arts however the animal has had great significance in Chinese martial history. Ducks themselves are very fast and aggressive animals that even today can send an unexpecting person running amidst a blinding flurry of attacks. The Duck has been clocked at moving over 100mph in flight and fly at an average of 50mph. This speed generated from such a small bird helped give rise to this aggressive fighting style. 
The Mandarin Duck Formation, as seen in the late 1500's C.E. military manual written by Ming General Ch'i Ch'i Kuang, is a primary battle field formation that evolved into several varied formations depending on environment, mounted opponents, and the implementation of firearms to the battlefield. This book, the Chi Hsiao Hsin Shu, was one of the first manuals to show martial arts and battlefield arts as one linked study. In our combat arts weapons and the empty hand are one study.
The standard Mandarin Duck Formation consisted of two five man teams. Each team had a swordsman as the leader, one wolf brush soldier, two Spearman, and one soldier with a Military Fork.

TRAINING DUCK KUNG FU

Duck Style Kung Fu is trained as a sub-style of Crane Kung Fu. Where Crane specializes in long range and angular strikes, Duck gives powerful, direct line, and close range strikes to Imperial Crane. The close-in bent arm positions of Duck allow for strong clearing of all types of strikes. Practitioners of Crane Kung Fu master Duck as a sudden, quick change of distance and energy to overwhelm an opponent with flurries that strike 10-15 strikes per second, or powerful close range strikes. The unique shape of Duck's hand weapon allow the user to strike opponents as much as two feet taller then themselves with tremendous force. Duck also adds to Crane devastating close range kicks, knees, and intermittent elbow strikes. Duck Kung Fu training uses sets, forms, drills, exercises, toughening, chin na, and heavy sparing to develop this unique and powerful sub-style.

DUCK STYLE WEAPON STUDY

Much like the empty hand Duck Kung Fu's combat style and energy are well suited for short weapons used in duel wielding, to augment Cranes long range weapon preference. Most classic are the Duck Blades also know as "Deer Horn Knives", dual combat knives, and Elbow Knives that lie on the forearm. 

CRANE KUNG FU
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Duck is a Sub-style of Crane Kung Fu, a legendary Chinese martial art as renowned for its grace, agility, and balance as it is for its powerful highly toughened angular strikes. Crane masters train extensive kicking, leg controls, maneuvers and high level shin and foot toughening. Masters of this fighting style at Imperial Combat Arts also train extensive battlefield weapons that compliment the style namely, Staff, Saber, and Spear. 
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