APPLYING SHAOLIN PATTERNS CORRECTLY AND SPONTANEOUSLY IN FREE SPARRING

Shaolin Kungfu Show in Sabah

Two lovely ladies, Christina and Bendarnette, enjoying free sparring using Shaolin Kungfu


“Subtraction and Addition” is an excellent method to enable you progress from combat sequences to free sparring. This can be applied at various levels and with much variation. But basically it involves subtracting or adding one or more patterns from or to planned sequences.

Suppose you wish to initiate an attack using Sequence 5 followed by Sequence 9. Instead of executing all the four attack patterns in Sequence 5 — two Fierce Tigers, a Precious Duck and a Golden Star — you may take out one or more attack patterns. Let us say you take out the first and the last attack patterns. Therefore, you execute a Fierce Tiger and a Precious Duch, then continue with Sequence 9.

Now you wish to take out a Black Tiger from Sequence 9. So your attack will now be Fierce Tiger, Precious Duck, Fierce Tiger and Happy Bird.

Next, you may want to add a Poisonous Snake before your first Fierce Tiger, and take away the Precious Duck. So your attack sequence will be Poisonous Snake, Fierce Tiger, Fierce Tiger and Happy Bird.

After you have completed your attack you may repeat the same two sequences with subtraction and addition, or you may add a new sequence with or without subtraction and addition.

At any point your sparring partner may intercept your attack and counter-attack. You would decide whether to break his counter-attack and carry on the initiative, or allow him to attack and respond accordingly.

The videos below show the participants at the Sabah Intensive Shaolin Kungfu Course are able to use typical Shaolin patterns correctly and spontaneously in their free sparring. The secret behind this remarkable achievement is “Subtraction and Addition”.

It is heartening to note that the participants range from fresh beginners like Dr Roseline and Bernadette to advanced practitioners like Dr Damian, Sifu Jamie and Mahmood, who is a national Taekwondo champion from Saudi Arabia. They help one another and have much fun.


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LINKS

Review of the Intensive Shaolin Kungfu Course in Sabah in March 2007

Click here for an Overview of the entire course

  1. The Basics of Shaolin Kungfu Training
  2. Fundamental Combat Skills
  3. Defeat you Hand to your Opponent, Victory you Create Yourself
  4. Avoiding Disadvantages and Seeking Advantages
  5. Basic Principles and Tactics of Combat
  6. Skills derived from Sparring can be Rewardingly used in Daily Life
  7. Some Secrets in Practicing Genuine Kungfu
  8. Various Ways to Move into an Opponent

  9. Applying Combat Sequences in Sparring
  10. Linking Sequences to be More Combat Efficient
  11. The Secrets of Continuous Cannons
  12. The Mechanics of Continuation
  13. Marvelous Techniques Beget Marvelous Techniques
  14. Perfecting Forms and Developing Force
  15. Applying Tactics in Combat
  16. Objectives of Form Training in Solo

  17. Being Fluent in Kicking Techniques before Applying them in Combat
  18. Using Tactics in Kicking Attacks and Defences
  19. Different Levels of Sophistication in Sparring and Fighting
  20. The Legacy of Uncle Righteousness: Secret of Continuous Cannons and their Counters
  21. Benefiting from the Experiences and Teachings of Past Masters

  22. Poetic Patterns Can be Very Deadly
  23. Moving Back One Step when in Diffiuclt Situations
  24. Linking Sequences to Form a Kungfu Set
  25. Felling Techniques in Kungfu are Different from Judo and Wrestling
  26. Butterfly Palms and Hiding Flowers are Excellent in Countering Felling and Gripping Attacks
  27. Let Mercy Flow from the Hands

  28. Benefits of Solo Set Practice — Combat Sequences 13 to 16
  29. From Pre-Choice Sequences to Free Sparring
  30. Applying Shaolin Patterns Correctly and Spontaneously in Free Sparring
  31. Shaolin Kungfu against Boxing and Kick-Boxing
  32. Shaolin Counters against Wrestling Shoots
  33. The Secret of Grandmaster Ho Fatt Nam
  34. Why Shaolin Kungfu is Technically Faster than Boxing
  35. Shaolin Techniques, Tactics and Strategies against Boxing
  36. Revealing Secrets of Past Taijiquan Masters
  37. Overwhelming Opponents with Just One Pattern
  38. Poetry and Elegance in Effective Combat

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