Xing Yi Quan in close-combat

Introductory techniques of knee, elbow, head and shoulder

Many practitioners of the style Xing Yi Quan see the style as being composed only for the five movements (five elements), the twelve animals and the forms of free hand. What the majority of the people is unaware of is that the five movements possess each one a variety of mutations, with different forms to train and to apply the force. The same happens with the twelve animals, where each one possess variants in force and application. Xing Yi Quan is a style of martial art of real contact. Its practitioners will find inside the style everything they need for the combat in close, middle and large range. I am presenting here some techniques of infighting little known, but of great utility in combat. We start with the techniques most common: knee and elbow strikes. The advantage of these two weapons and besides being of great penetration, they are of easy use. Although they are gifts in the animals movements of the style, to be developed well, it has to be trained isolated until the domain of its basic mechanism. This concept is valley for any style of martial art.

BASIC KNEE TECNIQUES

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BASIC ELBOW STRIKES

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A beginning pupil who has not learned the specific force of each one does not easily perceive the techniques of head and shoulder. I will give a small basic example of like those techniques are presented, and also as they can be used when in combat.

BASIC HEAD ATTACKS

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BASIC SHOULDER ATTACKS

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All the techniques above had been presented in a simple form, for its practice and application, but I affirm that serves for nothing just knowing many techniques. In the true martial art what matters is to domain techniques. There is a great difference between having a superficial notion about something and really dominating a knowledge. The domain of one technique not only implies in the notion of its basic mechanism, but also in the experience of its use and the conditioning of the natural weapons necessary for the appropriate use.

By MARCELLO LUIZ TEIXEIRA

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 2002.

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