IMPERIAL EAGLE CLAW KUNG FU
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Imperial Eagle Claw Kung Fu is a combat level martial art taught at Imperial Combat Arts school in Denver Colorado. Eagle Claw Kung Fu is legendary martial arts known for its powerful and toughened hands, as well as its Chin Na and weapon training.
At Imperial Combat Arts Eagle Claw Style Kung Fu is an Ancient Chinese Mixed Martial Art containing 3 unique animal sub-styles that make this effective fighting style a complete martial art with master level toughening, ground fighting, grappling, chin na, hand to hand, kicks, throws, and weapon mastery. |
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Imperial Eagle Claw Kung Fu should not be confused with simpler Eagle martial arts taught in mainstream Kung Fu. True to its 900 year military lineage, Imperial Eagle Claw is a massive, complete martial art with the highest levels of toughening, intense combat training, and fully immersive battlefield weapon mastery. Imperial Eagle Claw Style Kung Fu is designed to fight multiple opponents with lethal intent and comes from a direct lineage of true combat level Eagle Claw Kung Fu.
TRAINING EAGLE CLAW KUNG FU
To master Imperial Eagle Claw 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 Eagle Claw Kung Fu is a combat level Mixed Martial Art and trains the powerful Black Scorpion System for its ground fighting and grappling.
EAGLE TOUGHENING
Eagle Claw Kung Fu toughening is unique in the Imperial 8 Animal Styles in that Eagle Claw Weapons toughen the powers of all 8 animals. From the powerful claw strikes of Tiger and its ability to tear the throat out of an opponent, to the lighting fast two fingered strikes of Imperial Snake. Eagle 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. Enter Page> Hand Toughening
EAGLE EXERCISES
Imperial Eagle Claw Masters are very physically strong and also very intelligent with a huge amount of techniques and tactical strategies. Imperial Eagle Claw Kung Fu is not a hard, or soft style, but both trained in balance and harmony. There a several levels of complex exercises required to develop the powerful gripping, striking, Chin Na, and modes of movement used in Eagle Claw Kung Fu. Unlike sport or fitness training these exercises are directly related to combat.
EAGLE FORMS
Imperial Eagle Claw Kung Fu forms teach a vast amount of combat knowledge, and are a key part of developing the muscle memory, reflexes, footwork, techniques, and flow of Eagle Claw Kung Fu. Our forms are not like the flashy acrobatic forms you may see in popular modern form competitions. These forms combat practical, and train students in brutally effective techniques, that transfer directly to combat. Like all the Imperial Animal Styles our forms and techniques are guarded and will never be publicly displayed outside of classes.
EAGLE SETS
There are a huge number of sets trained in Imperial Eagle Claw Kung Fu these sets include; counter striking, kicks, kick counters, extensive Chin Na and Chin Na defense, throws, and weapons. Eagle Claw Masters train their sets against other Eagle Claw practitioners and against all the other Imperial Animal Styles. This training gives Eagle Kung Fu Claw Masters the experience of training against all types of fighters from the most powerful to the fastest. Sets build the full speed reflexes and muscle memory needed for true combat.
EAGLE DRILLS
Imperial Eagle Claw Kung Fu drills extensive Chin Na vs. all types of techniques fully intermixed with strikes and weapons. Imperial Eagle Claw Kung Fu training uses custom equipment to help develop the fast powerful Chin Na and strikes against moving and obstructed targets. It can take years of grip, arm, and finger toughening to even begin to train on the equipment used by Imperial Eagle Claw Kung Fu Masters at Imperial Combat Arts.
EAGLE MATCHING
Imperial Eagle Claw Kung Fu practitioners engage in extensive matching vs. all the other 8 Animal Styles and on beams, posts, or blindfolded. This training prepares Eagle 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. Blindfolded training in matching helps develop Eagle Claw Masters other senses for positioning, striking defense, and ability to feel Chin Na techniques without sight.
THE EAGLE MIND
Imperial Eagle Claw Kung Fu fights with an intelligent predatory mind that can seem almost cruel. Eagle Claw Masters understanding and development of so many techniques mixes with their ambition and power to make them successful and accomplished warriors and team leaders. Imperial Eagle Claw Masters fight from a position of balance in the Taoist energies and fluctuate between them seamlessly in their techniques. One moment Eagle may be as intense and aggressive as Tiger, the next as emotionless and patient as Snake.
HISTORY OF EAGLE CLAW KUNG FU
Statue of Yue Fei
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Creation of Eagle Claw Kung Fu is traced to Yue Fei, the same Imperial General accredited with the creation of Xingyi. Yue Fei was known for using smaller numbers of only the best troops and trained them extensively in both these martial arts in addition to their weapon training. Yue Fei learned the Taoist and WuXing martial principles used in XingYi and Eagle Claw from the famous Taoist Wu Tang (Wudang) Masters that lived near his home during his years of training. Both arts are clearly Taoist in origin.
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Imperial Eagle Claw Kung Fu has long been a favored military style and became a part of Imperial Combat Arts during the reign of the Great Ch'ing Dynasty 1644-1912c.e. in Beijing where it was still being taught by Imperial Instructors. Imperial Eagle Claw comes from a direct lineage of almost 900 years of military use and real combat, not a monastery or temple.
EAGLE CLAW 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. Eagle Claw 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.
EAGLE CLAW 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.
IMPERIAL HAWK KUNG FU
Imperial Hawk Kung Fu is an Eagle Claw Sub-Style for medium build fighters that use more body weight in their Chin Na and, falling, leaping, and ground-fighting in their techniques. If Eagle Claw is half Tiger/Crane in Taoist energies then Hawk is half Panther/Crane. Imperial Hawk also contains all the stealth and ambushing tactics of Panther Kung Fu training even leaping, rolling, falling, and killing opponents in total silence.
IMPERIAL FALCON KUNG FU
Imperial Falcon Kung Fu is an Eagle Claw Sub-Style for small build fighters that use more striking, and kicking, and not as much of the classic Eagle Claw Chin Na they may lack the power for. If Eagle Claw is half Tiger/Crane in Taoist energies, then Falcon is half Leopard/Crane. Imperial Falcon also trains the complex patterns of controls and striking used in Leopard Kung Fu and many prefer to Master the Ground-fighting art of Cantonese Dog over the Black Scorpion. Enter Page> Falcon 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. >Scorpion Page
IMPERIAL EIGHT ANIMALS
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Imperial Eagle Claw 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. Eagle was chosen to represent Sun ☴ (巽 Xùn) in the Pakua (Bagua). Sun represents Wind, Gentle, Penetrating, 1st Daughter, Wood Energy, and Loyalty. Sun consists of Two Yang Lines, over one Yin line. |