FREE SPARRING WITH PARTNER OF ANOTHER STYLE — SERIES 2
Free sparring, if done correctly, can be both fun and educational, besides enabling us to test or confirm our combat efficiency. It should never be brutal and hurting, which unfortunately is the case with free sparring by many martial artists today.
In the free sparring shown in this video clip, Anthony uses Southern Shaolin while his sparring partner, Carlito, uses Northern Shaolin. None of the movements are pre-arranged. Towards the end, Carlito uses a Shaolin technique known as “Angry Bull Charges at Fence”, which is similar to the “shoot” technique Wrestling practitioners frequently use to grab an opponent's legs to fell him backward.
Anthony responds with a Shaolin pattern, “Yun Thian Tames Tiger” by retreating his front leg and simultaneously with his palm striking the attacker's head, which could maim or kill an opponent, but of course in friendly free sparring it is just a gentle tap.
Carlito is an inspiration for those who love their art enough to prevent it from debasing into a hybrid of third class kungfu and borrowed Karate or Kickboxing. Although he is not a member of Shaolin Wahnam, Carlito can apply sparring methods generously shared by Anthony, a Shaolin Wahnam instructor, to spar using his own Northern Shaolin Kungfu.
For those who doubt whether kungfu can be used for fighting, it is illuminating to know that the kungfu style Carlito is using, i.e. Northern Shaolin, produced top class masters like Wang Zi Ping and Cai Long Yun who, as recently as 80 years ago, used typical Northern Shaolin skills and techniques to convincingly defeat challengers from other martial systems from many countries who specifically went to China to test whether kungfu was combat effective
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