IMPERIAL LEOPARD KUNG FU
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Imperial Leopard Kung Fu is a combat level martial art taught at Imperial Combat Arts school in Denver Colorado. Leopard style Kung Fu is an art known for its speed, and ferocious intensity. Leopard style is cunning and masters fakes, feigns, and deception in their techniques to gain access to vital points.
Imperial Leopard is a massive, complete martial art with the highest levels of toughening, intense combat training, and fully immersive weapon mastery. |
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The Imperial Leopard is designed to fight multiple opponents with lethal intent and comes from a direct lineage of true combat level martial arts.At Imperial Combat Arts Leopard Kung Fu is a Mixed Martial Art containing 3 unique 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.
TRAINING LEOPARD KUNG FU
To master Imperial Leopard Style Kung Fu our practitioners develop the highest levels of hand 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. In addition Imperial Leopard trains all types of drills for combat, these drills make use of the usual martial arts mitts and bags, as well as several traditional and modern custom made devices.
LEOPARD TOUGHENING
The Leopard Kung Fu Hand Weapons are legendary and kill with one strike to the throat. Leopard masters at Imperial Combat Arts demonstrate the ability to strike solid wood with bare knuckles, breaking 3 inches of pine, three times in one second, with the same hand, in a very fast flurry. This level of toughening is far from wrapping the hands and wearing boxing gloves for sport, these are true weapons designed for life-and-death combat. Enter Page> Hand Toughening
LEOPARD EXERCISES
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There are several levels of complex exercise required to develop the fast, agile, and intense way in which Leopard Masters fight. These exercises are done standing, on the ground, and in Golden Leopard are done with a partners full weight on your back. Leopard Kung Fu training at Imperial Combat Arts is more difficult than running, weightlifting, or walking in a squat for an hour, true Leopard Kung Fu mastery requires the highest levels of willpower toughening.
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LEOPARD FORMS
Leopard Kung Fu forms are intense with a lot of dynamic maneuvers, leaping, lunging and fast paced flurries of striking, kicking, and clawing. An 8 minute form in Leopard is more challenging than sprinting for 8 minutes. Imperial Combat Arts forms are not like the flashy acrobatic forms you may see in form competitions. These forms teach brutally effective techniques that transfer directly to life-and-death combat.
LEOPARD SETS
Leopard Kung Fu sets are done vs all the other animal styles and the art of Leopard specializes in fighting larger, stronger opponents. Imperial Leopard practitioners are usually small, fast people and are always looking to test their skills and techniques on the largest most powerful students in class. In real life-and-death combat their are no weight classes and even a large Tiger Master can be suddenly dwarfed by a larger opponent and then favor Leopard and Southern Tiger tactics.
LEOPARD DRILLS
Leopard Kung fu drills a lot of fast paced striking and kicking as well as ripping, tearing, and clawing on specialized Leopard equipment. Some of this equipment is used to develop Leopards fast footwork and angular throat crushing strikes on moving and obstructed targets. It can take years of toughening to even begin to train on equipment used routinely in Imperial Leopard Kung Fu training. Leopards do a lot of their full speed workouts on balance beams and posts at our school.
LEOPARD MATCHING
Leopard Masters do most of their matching on beams and in rough terrain that challenges balance and awareness of footwork. Leopard Kung Fu is designed to fight in tough real world environments a long way from the flat controlled rings and mats used in competitive sports. One of the primary reasons our Headquarters school is indoor/outdoor is for the outdoor use of obstacles, running, high beams, training in the elements, and training with projectile weapons.
THE LEOPARD MIND
Leopard masters a cunning predatory mind that looks to recognize and exploit enemy patterns, and manipulate any situation into their advantage. Leopard Kung Fu has many faces in its use of deception and feigns. They're expert liars, and masterful actors who may appear small, cowering, injured, and afraid, to lower opponents defenses lureing them into a sense of superiority. The highly trained Masters then launch a ferocious assault of lethal techniques to vital points to end the fight quickly.
HISTORY OF LEOPARD KUNG FU
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Our own unique martial history brings the legendary art of Leopard Kung Fu into our combat system during the era of the Great Qing Dynsasty 1644-1912. Leopard was also the symbol of a 3rd class military rank in Imperial China for over 500 years from 1391C.E. to 1911C.E. and is still the rank insignia worn by our Instructor-of-Instructors rank titled Ting Sifu. Here again the Leopard is a symbol of ferocity, cunning, and a master of tactical strategy.
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IMPERIAL LEOPARD 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.
CANTON DOG KUNG FU
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Canton Dog Kung Fu is a ferocious street, and ground fighting style, 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, highly trained, Dog Kung Fu attack. This style, like all the animals arts, is savage and brutal for real life-and-death combat. These techniques aren't desperate self defense moves, but the highly toughened and powerful attacks of Martial Arts Masters. Enter Page> Dog Kung Fu
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PHOENIX KUNG FU
Phoenix or the Feng Huang is found in most Leopard Kung Fu if only a hand weapon and few strikes. The legends of this bird date back at least 8000 years, and modern sources claim that the mythical Phoenix has its roots in a prehistoric bird that lived in China. Phoenix Kung Fu, a complex martial art in its own right, gives bird-like energies to Leopard Kung Fu with the highly toughened knuckle strikes of the Phoenix-Eye and melee weapons trained primarily in Phoenix Kung Fu.
GOLDEN LEOPARD KUNG FU
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Golden Leopard Kung Fu is a unique and challenging martial art with two Master Level Leopard practitioners fighting together as one entity. This art is more intimate and complex that dance mastery with full speed combat decisions communicated through movement, growling, and guttural code. Golden Leopard Masters draw weapons from each other, attack in unison, throw, push, pull each other, and train high levels of group fighting tactics and ambushing.
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LEOPARD 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. Leopard 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.
BUTTERFLY SWORDS
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These Short Swords, often known as Butterfly Swords, are a pair of light swords carried in a single scabbard. Unlike most modern Butterfly Swords, true combat Butterfly Swords have a effective thrusting point. The blades of these swords are about the length of the forearm allowing for fast techniques and greater maneuverability when fighting in close quarters combat. Enter Page> Butterfly Swords
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DEER HORN KNIVES
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These weapons are the primary specialty knives that are trained at Imperial Combat Arts. These blades are fully sharpened save the inner side of the lowest points on each side of the grip. The locking and turning use of these weapons is where they get their name "Deer Horn Knives", in their similarity to how deer lock horns when fighting other deer. Enter Page> Deer Horn Knives
These weapons are the primary specialty knives that are trained at Imperial Combat Arts. These blades are fully sharpened save the inner side of the lowest points on each side of the grip. The locking and turning use of these weapons is where they get their name "Deer Horn Knives", in their similarity to how deer lock horns when fighting other deer. Enter Page> Deer Horn Knives
SHORT SPEAR
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The Short Spear is the primary pole-arm trained in Leopard Kung Fu at Imperial Combat Arts. This fast and devastating weapon excels in close quarters combat for more confined spaces and for ease in carry, especially in todays world. The Short Spear blends seamlessly with Leopards hand to hand combat training using the same speed, power development, and techniques already developed in this light, fast, style.
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IMPERIAL EIGHT ANIMALS
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Imperial Leopard 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. Leopard was chosen to represent Li ☲ 離, in the Pakua (Bagua). Li represents Fire, Clinging, Radiance, 2nd Daughter, Adaptability, and Clarity. Li consists of Two Yang Lines, with one Yin line in between. The two Yang lines are like fire and the Yin the burning wood or fuel. |