IMPERIAL SNAKE KUNG FU
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Imperial Snake Kung Fu is a combat level martial art taught at Imperial Combat Arts school in Denver Colorado. Snake style Kung Fu is a legendary martial art known for its toughened hand weapons, blinding speed, and incredible accuracy. Imperial Snake 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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The Imperial Snake Styles are designed to fight multiple opponents with lethal intent and come from a direct lineage of true combat level Snake Kung Fu. At Imperial Combat Arts Snake Kung Fu is an Ancient Mixed Martial Art containing 5 unique styles of snake, and other 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.
IMPERIAL SNAKE STYLES
Snake Kung Fu masters at Imperial Combat Arts train and master 5 distinct styles of Snake Kung Fu, and several sub-styles, that come together seamlessly as one complete Mixed Martial Art. These styles allow any size of fighter to master snake, and give Snake Masters the ability to fight any size or type of fighter they encounter, both armed an unarmed. The 5 Snakes master all realms of combat from grappling & ground-fighting to leaping and running.
PYTHON KUNG FU
Python Kung Fu is a high level combat art that masters powerful palm strikes, highly toughened fingers, powerful kicks, and a massive system of combat grappling, chokes, strangles, joint attacks, and throws. Several of our masters taught Jujitsu before joining Imperial Combat Arts and training Python for combat with its toughened fingers, throat crushing grips, lethal tail strikes, and the deadly grappling that fighting multiple armed men demands. Enter Page> Python Kung Fu
COBRA KUNG FU
Cobra style Kung Fu is a lesser know Snake Style that masters long range strikes, powerful whipping backhand strikes, highly toughened fang weapons, and hard heavy throws. Imperial Cobra is also a master of standing Chin Na with its primary focus on Chin Na throws, joint destruction, and quick arm breaks. Cobra Masters at Imperial Combat Arts routinely demonstrate breaking boards and bricks with just the two fingers of the Cobra's Fangs. Enter Page> Cobra Kung Fu
ADDER KUNG FU
Imperial Adder is a devastating Snake Kung Fu that specializes in toughened knuckle and finger strikes, Chin Na, ripping & gouging, as well as painful and powerful grips that often crush the throat. Adder Masters are equally at home fighting on their feet or the ground. Unlike the heavy throws of Python and Cobra, Adder uses it strikes, grips, and Chin Na for tight twisting bring-downs and take-downs. Adder has numerous nerve attacks, and is a master of afflicting pain.
VIPER KUNG FU
Imperial Viper is a high-speed combat style that trains primarily striking and kicking. Viper specializes in toughened knuckle strikes, counter grappling, and fighting larger opponents. Viper style uses numerous complex and ever-changing patterns that have high percentage success in confusing and controlling opponents to open vital point strikes. Like all the Imperial Snake styles Viper toughens its hands and legs for years to weaponize its body for combat.
ASP KUNG FU
Imperial Asp Style Kung Fu is designed after small but deadly snakes such as the Mamba. This extremely fast-moving martial art specializes in fast fingertip strikes and powerful blade hand hits to vital points. Asp Masters at Imperial Combat Arts are experts of high speed bobbing, weaving, and evasive maneuvers to get into striking range and spend many hours training to evade and counter the high level Chin Na and Grappling of our other Animal Styles.
SNAKE 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.
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 Baqua 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.
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.
SCORPION KUNG FU
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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 Page
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TRAINING SNAKE KUNG FU
To master Imperial Snake Kung Fu our practitioners develop the highest levels of hand toughening, leg toughening, and body conditioning. There are numerous challenging exercises, long intricate forms, hundreds of sets for strikes, kicks, throws, and chin na, and of course matching. In addition Imperial Snake Kung Fu 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.
SNAKE TOUGHENING
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Snake 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. Unlike a technique, bone and joint toughening takes years to master, there is no rushing it, and if done improperly the hands can be permanently damaged. Imperial Combat Arts holds the ancient knowledge to truly and safely master these legendary Kung Fu hand weapons.
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SNAKE EXERCISES
There a several levels of complex exercises required to develop the unique, fluid, and powerful way in which Snake moves and fights. These exercises are done both standing and on the ground and some of them can be more difficult than the highest levels of Yoga just to hold, and while moving full speed. Snake Kung Fu Masters also train tandem exercises that require two high level practitioners. Unlike sport or fitness training these exercises are directly related to combat.
SNAKE FORMS
There are six forms trained in Imperial Snake Kung Fu each one consisting of 1-3 hundred moves. These ancient forms hold vast amounts of knowledge about Snake Kung Fu and every set included in these forms has and will work in combat vs. multiple opponents. 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 transfer directly to combat.
SNAKE SETS
Sets are a crucial part of training all martial arts. These traditional techniques are practiced over and over with a training partner to develop the muscle memory, reflexes, and skill of the technique for combat. Imperial Snake Kung Fu trains hundreds of sets vs multiple opponents, including sets for striking, kicking, counters, chin na, grappling, throws, evasion, and weapons. Sets and forms are the primary ways that Masters pass on ancient knowledge to the next Masters.
SNAKE DRILLS
Combat drills are an important part of all Imperial Combat Ats classes. Drills are used to incorporate strikes, techniques, maneuvers, etc. into the body as a second nature reflex, as is required for battle. Imperial Snake Kung Fu drills are done vs partners, mitts, and bags as well as a series of custom training devices and machines that are unique to Imperial Snake alone. These traditional and modern devices are some of the guarded secrets of our arts that will never be shown outside of class.
SNAKE MATCHING
Animal Kung Fu mastery requires a lot of matching. Imperial Snake matching is done vs multiple opponents and often times on balancing posts, in the dark, or blindfolded. There are no rings, gloves, or pads used in Animal Matching. High level animal practitioners rely on their control, indomitable defenses, and body toughening to match each other without causing serious injury, Snake practitioners match each other, as well as the other Animal Styles.
HISTORY OF SNAKE KUNG FU
The origins of Snake Kung Fu are truly ancient and shrouded in myth and legend. Snake Kung Fu is considered one of the main styles which eventually led to internal martial arts such as Tai Chi, Wu Tang, and several others. This is self evident in that Snake techniques are found in many ancient martial arts. While Shaolin claims they created most Chinese Martial Arts even Snake Kung Fu in their 1500 year existence, modern historians have found Snake Kung Fu to go back centuries further. Our own unique martial history brings 5 legendary arts of Snake Kung Fu into one combat system during the era of the Great Qing Dynsasty 1644-1922.
SNAKE 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. Snake Kung Fu has its own unique ancient weapons, favored battlefield weapons, and each of the Five Snake Styles masters their own series of weaponry for ranged combat, long weapons, and for close quarters combat.
IMPERIAL EIGHT ANIMALS
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Imperial Snake 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.
Snake was chosen to represent Kūn ☷ 坤 in the Pakua (Bagua). Kun represents Earth, Mother, Yin, Receptive Energy, and Self Control. Kun consists of three Yin Lines making Snake Kung Fu the most Yin animal martial art taught in the Eight Animal System at Imperial Combat Arts. |