DRUNKARD KUNG FU

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'Drunken Boxing' techniques are based on the legend of the 'The Eight Drunken Immortals' of the Taoist tradition. Each of the techniques in the Drunken Set demonstrates an attribute of one of the Immortals.

Imitating a drunk person, the style confuses the opponent, looking like he is loosing the balance and becoming unpredictable...the agile footwork enables the exponent to totter, sway and fall without harm, confusing his opponent, rising up on the tips of his toes then dropping to low, crouched positions. The hand-form which is readily identified with the Drunken style is the Cup-Holding hand-form.

In our school you can learn the Traditional Drunken Boxing that is fight oriented, so not as acrobatic as the Contemporary Wushu Drunken Boxing. Traditional Drunken Boxing also involves stumbling and staggering, but not to such an extreme as Contemporary Wushu Drunken Boxing.