Dr Damian and Sifu Anthony employ advanced techniques and tactics in their sparring

Kungfu has been debased to such a shocking state today that many kungfu practitioners, including some world known masters, think that kungfu techniques cannot be used for fighting! Hence, they use Kick-Boxing or other martial art techniques in their combat.

Of course, kungfu techniques can be used for fighting. We still have extant evidence in text as well as in pictures showing kungfu practitioners in the past used kungfu techniques, and not techniques of other martial arts, in combat. Many of our Shaolin Wahnam members have used kungfu techniques, including proper stances, successfully in real fights. If many kungfu practitioners cannot use kungfu for combat, it is simply because they have not been trained to use kungfu for combat, and not because kungfu itself cannot be used for combat.

In our school, our 16 basic combat sequences in Shaolin Kungfu and 12 basic combat sequences in Wahnam Taijiquan provide the main material for our basic combat training that enables us to use typical Shaolin or Taijiquan techniques for combat. In this course we use techniques from selected kungfu sets, which are more sophisticated than those of the basic combat sequences, to enhance our combat efficiency level.

Please note that you can download the video clips onto your own computer and view them at your leisure. Place your computer pointer at the picture or one of the links, and right click. Choose “Save Target As”. Select the directory or sub-directory where you wish to keep the video clip. Click “Save”.

How do you Handle a Powerful Strike?

Sifu Anthony Korahais is working out a special combat sequence using patterns form the Shaolin Pakua Set with the help of Dr Damian Kissey. (Dr Damian’s special set is not the Pakua Set but the Shaolin Five-Animal Set.) Sifu Anthony initiates with “Two Steps Pull Boat”, which is a powerful attack. Blocking or intercepting such a powerful attack is not recommended. So, how would you defend against it. Dr Damian provides a good answer. He brushes the powerful attack away following its momentum, and simultaneously counters with a palm strike, using the pattern “Green Dragon Shoots Pearl”.
The size of the video clip is 0.78 mb.
Click here to download