IMPERIAL PRAYING MANTIS KUNG FU
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Imperial Praying Mantis Kung Fu is a combat level martial art taught at Imperial Combat Arts school in Denver Colorado. Northern Praying Mantis style Kung Fu is an art famous for its strike captures, speed, and in true combat level Mantis Kung Fu, its highly toughened hands and fingers. Imperial Mantis is a massive, complete martial art with the highest levels of toughening, intense combat training, and fully immersive battlefield weapon mastery.
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Imperial Praying Mantis Kung Fu is designed to fight multiple opponents with lethal intent and comes from a direct lineage of true combat level Kung Fu. At Imperial Combat Arts Praying Mantis Kung Fu is an Ancient 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 MANTIS KUNG FU
To master Imperial Praying Mantis Style 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. In addition Imperial Praying Mantis 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.
PRAYING MANTIS TOUGHENING
Praying Mantis Kung Fu Masters at Imperial Combat Arts demonstrate the power of Mantis toughening by using one finger to break boards, strike into melons, and destroy actual animal eyeballs held in moving dummies unique to Imperial Praying Mantis. Imperial Praying Mantis also toughens the wings or blade hands, knuckles, and legs. With toughening, melee weapons, and the Black Scorpion Ground-fighting Imperial Mantis Kung Fu is a complete combat martial art. Enter Page> Hand Toughening
PRAYING MANTIS EXERCISES
There a several levels of complex exercises required to develop the incredibly fast and complex way in which Praying Mantis Kung Fu moves and fights. The fast and powerful arms that Praying Mantis uses to capture strikes are forged through several exercises and use of a specialized piece of equipment with strong movable arms. It can take years of toughening to even begin to use this custom dummy that is affectionately known by our practitioners as the "Mantis Death Machine".
PRAYING MANTIS FORMS
Praying Mantis forms teach the complex footwork and techniques of Praying Mantis Kung Fu, as well as the dynamic flow and rhythms of the fighting style. Our forms are not like the flashy acrobatic forms you may see in popular modern form competitions. These forms are much more guarded, more practical, and train students in brutally effective techniques, that work directly with the master level hand weapons Imperial Mantis develops for true combat.
PRAYING MANTIS SETS
Praying Mantis trains hand-to-hand combat sets against all the Imperial Eight Animal Styles. This training gives Praying Mantis Kung Fu Masters the experience of training against all types of fighters from the most powerful to the fastest. At Imperial Combat Arts Praying Mantis practitioners also master the art of Black Scorpion Ground Fighting with its numerous ground fighting sets. These dynamic combat sets include, grappling, chin na, throws, kicking from the ground, and weapons.
PRAYING MANTIS DRILLS
Praying Mantis Kung fu drills are done vs partners, mitts, and bags as well as custom training devices and machines that are unique to Imperial Praying Mantis alone. Some of this equipment is used to develop the fast, powerful arms of Praying Mantis, and its accurate finger strikes against moving and obstructed targets. It can take years of finger toughening to even begin to train on Imperial Praying Mantis equipment.
PRAYING MANTIS MATCHING
Praying Mantis Kung Fu training engages in matching every class, at least three times a week, and its practitioners usually drill for matching everyday. Praying Mantis Masters love crossing arms and want to test their style against any strike, kick, or technique imaginable. The toughened arms and complex footwork of Mantis allows Imperial Praying Mantis Masters to routinely demonstrate the impressive ability of capturing and taking baseball bats and clubs in full swing.
THE PRAYING MANTIS MIND
Praying Mantis Kung Fu fights with a patient, unassuming, predatory mind and the unemotional, heartless spirit of this legendary insect. Praying Mantis spends a lot of time training blindfolded and in meditation using their complex modes of movement to handle and capture all types of strikes even fighting blind. Natural Praying Mantis fighters are unemotional, intelligent, and logical people who don't fight out of anger but more from a predatory fascination of combat.
HISTORY MANTIS KUNG FU
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There are many legends about the origins of Praying Mantis Kung Fu. Some of the men supposedly part of the birth of the style are themselves fictional characters from old novels. Regardless of the creation of Northern Mantis Kung Fu, or its evolution, it was a well established martial art with many variations by the time its was incorporated in our Mixed Martial Arts school as one of the 8 Animal Styles during the reign of the Great Ch'ing (Qing) Dynasty 1644-1912 C.E.
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MANTIS 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. Praying Mantis 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.
MANTIS 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.
SCORPION KUNG FU
Scorpion Kung Fu techniques and the Scorpion Claw show up in many styles of Chinese Martial Arts. Scorpion Kung Fu at Imperial Combat Arts is an extensive combat martial 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 Kung Fu
SPIDER KUNG FU
Spider Kung Fu, one of three rare styles taught in the Three Forces Martial Arts, is a sub-style that specializes in rope fighting, entrapment, strangulation, captures, and entanglement vs multiple opponents. Spider is a master of soft weapons, gripping, striking, throws, and chin na. In addition Spider trains the combat applications of rope for use in man-traps, prisoner restraints, hunting, and primitive styles of climbing and rappelling.
BAT KUNG FU
The Ghost Bat is a very rare and little known style of Kung Fu that is trained as part of the Three Forces martial Arts (Spider, Bat, Rat). Ghost Bat is a circular running style somewhat similar to Pakua but with focus on stealth and evasion. Running while fighting is an important part of training for real world combat when maneuvering over large areas or throughout multiple opponents. This concept is no different then that of the fast stealthy maneuvers of small military units.
IMPERIAL EIGHT ANIMALS
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Imperial Praying Mantis 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. Praying Mantis was chosen to represent Ken ☶ (艮 Gèn) in the Pakua (Bagua). Ken represents Mountain, Stillness, 3rd Son, Completion, Courage, and Earth Energy. Ken consists of Two Yin Lines under one Yang Line. |