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Sifu Innes applies "Tiger Leans on Wooden Door" to grip Sifu Eugene's kicking leg

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Many practitioners, including some masters, have practiced their kungfu sets for year but they have no idea of how the patterns in their sets are used for combat. They also do not realize that the kungfu patterns were not invented, but evolved from actual fighting situations.

At first the fighting movements were straight-forward, not unlike the random punching and kicking of untrained persons. But as experienced fighters used more advanced movements, simple techniques gradually became more sophisticated. These fighting movements were stylized into kungfu patterns over many centuries. Hence, when we practice a kungfu set, we are actually going over the effective fighting movements used by past masters.

Due to various factors, different combatants preferred some patterns over others. The various special sets in this course represent the crystallization of these various preferred ways of fighting. Course participants go over all the patterns in their set to explain their combat applications.

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Tame Tiger Hide Dragon

This pattern is called “Tame Tiger Hide Dragon”, and is found at the beginning of the Tiger-Crane Set. Many practitioners of the set have performed this pattern without knowing its combat application. One useful application shown by Sifu Innes and Sifu Eugene here is to counter a grip from behind.
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Four Fingers Piercing Sky

Again, many practitioners are ignorant of the combat application of this pattern called “Four Fingers Piercing Sky”. Sifu Innes and Sifu Eugene each shows an application. Grandmaster Wong explains that it can be used like “Single Tiger Emerges from Cave”.
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Flying Bird Flaps Wings

A useful application of this pattern, “Flying Bird Flaps Wings” is to release a double arm grip from behind, especially when an opponent has not tightened his grip. Grandmaster Wong explains that if the opponent uses a Bow-Arrow Stance, you would have to land sideway so that you can stomp on his toes and without his bent front knee hurting your back.
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Tiger Leans on Wooden Door

Why do you think the two Tiger-Claws are placed in the way of the pattern? Sifu Innes suggests that the Tiger-Claws are meant to grip an opponent’s leg as he kicks. Grandmaster Wong explains that it can be used in this way, but it is not a good response because there are some weaknesses.
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Improving the Combat Effectiveness of the Pattern

Sifu Innes improved the combat effectiveness of the pattern. Now he locks Sifu Eugene’s leg under his elbow and prevents Sifu Eugene from striking. Such training, including an understanding of the combat philosophy involved, contributes much to making course participants into masters.
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Why is this Application Not of a High-Level?

Sifu Innes and Sifu Eugene repeat the application of “Tiger Leans on Wooden Door” from another angle so that other course participants can see the movements more clearly and give their comments. This application, while tenable, is not of a high-level. Do you know why?
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Leading to a Coup de Grace

Merely holding an opponent’s leg does not serve much combat function. Although you immobilize your opponent, you yourself are also immobilized indirectly. But you can use it as a mean to a coup de grace, like what is shown in this video. In a real fight, you must make his fall so that he breaks some bones, or you may follow up with a decisive blow.
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1. Returning to the Basics
2. Form, Force, Flow and Element of Threat
3. Reviewing the Basic Combat Sequences
4. Devising Strategies Using Combat Sequences
5. Applying Strategies for Effective Combat
6. Free Sparring with Prescribed Conditions
7. Combat Sequences to Train Spontaneous Attacks and Responses
8. Using Strategies and Tactics in Attack and Defence
9. It is Heartening to see so Many People Using Kungfu in Free Sparring
10. Felling and Gripping Techniques in Shaolin Kungfu

11. How Sequence Training and Chi Flow Enhance Combat Efficiency
12. The Tiger-Crane Set - Manifesting the Hard and the Soft in Shaolin Kungfu
13. The Dragon-Tiger Set - Crystallization of Two Wahnam Traditions
14. The Dragon-Form Set - Demonstrating that Softness Can be Very Powerful
15. Shaolin Monkey Set – Symbolizing Spiritual Path from Cheekiness to Enlightenment
16. Shaolin Five-Animal Set – Gist of Shaolin Forms and Essence
17. Shaolin Pakua Set Set – An Exclusive Set Fit for Kings and Generals
18. Combat Application pf Pakua – Sharing Secrets for Combat Efficiency
19. Beginning to Learn some Monkey Tricks
20. Refining Techniques in Combat

21. Some Examples of High level Combat
22. Collective Effort for Greater Benefits
23. Can Sophisticated Kungfu Techniques be Used in Combat?
24. Skills are usually More Important than Techniques
25. One-Finger Shooting Zen – the Treasure of Shaolin Wahnam
26. Raising Levels of Techniques and Tactics in Combat
27. Bringing Combat Skills to More Sophisticated Levels
28. Monkey Techniques are Flowing and Agile but can be Very Devastating
29. Flowing with the Opponent's Momentum
30. Beware of the Monkey Tricks

31. Marvelous Techniques Beget Marvelous Techniques
32. How to Raise your Level of Combat
33. How you can Defeat your Opponents
34. Employing Sophisticated Kungfu Techniques to Enhance Combat Efficiency
35. Systematic Training is Essential for Combat Efficiency
36. Raising Combat Efficiency from Basic to Advanced Levels
37. Kungfu Philosophy and Swaying Willows
38. Hands Pave the Way, Kicks to Clinch Victory
39. Six Harmonies of the Double Tiger Claws
40. The Amazement and Effectiveness of Monkey Kicks

41. A Bag Full of Monkey Tricks
42. Gentle and Flowing, yet Very Powerful
43. Can your Responses still be Correct and Spontaneous in Real Fights?
44. Incorporating Kicks into Combat Sequences
45. Elaborate Patterns to Meet Complex Combat Situations
46. The Benefits of Understanding and Applying Kungfu Philosophy
47. Our Kungfu is a Training of Energy and Mind
48. Ensuring Own Safety when Felling Opponents
49. The Beauty and Profundity of Shaolin Felling Techniques
50. Felling Techniques of the Dragon and the Monkey

51. Felling an Opponent Without him Realizing What has Happened
52. Pattern Analysis of the Tiger-Crane Set





To be continued

• Intensive Chi Kung Course
• Intensive Shaolin Kungfu Course
• Intensive Taijiquan Course

• List of Certified Shaolin Wahnam Instructors

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