by Walter Wong » Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:14 am
Lien Bu Chuan is a great sequence. For combative usefulness it's the best one in my opinion of the Long Fist curricullum.
There are throws/takedowns throughout most of the form and Chin Na's as well. The strikes can be obvious. Kicks are hidden within every step/stance change in the form. Trapping the opponent's arms and chokes are in there as well.
I heavily stress Lien Bu Chuan applications when I teach Wednesday nights. Students that night are striking, kicking, locking/sometimes choking depending on the technique and throwing/taking each other down with Lien Bu Chuan techniques. I'm personally still researching for more practical applications without changing or modifying the form and also studying Master Yang's Lien Bu Chuan video for the applications that he show.
These applications are difficult to describe in text. Please, if you have a chance to come to Boston, come visit YMAA Headquarters and I can show you.
For the meantime, look for the not so obvious applications in Lien Bu Chuan. Use your imagination but be realistic about what you come up with. Alot of the time the applications for takedown or locks are so obvious in the Lien Bu Chuan form that's easily over looked cause people so commonly only look for the striking aspects of the form. And additional hidden blocks are in there as well during countering an opponent's attack are overlooked in Lien Bu Chuan. Kicking is abundant in the form as well if you treat the stepping as kicks.
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Walter Wong on Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:57 am, edited 3 times in total.
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