I'm slowly but surely creating videos to help people understand Lian Huan Quan better. Even if you don't practice Shaolin, some of the applications are nice and can be incorporated into your training.
As one of the forms that most people training Shaolin learn first, I think it's important to help people with it. I met up with Will from the Monkey Steals Peach channel (check it out if you've not seen it, some great documentary videos on Chinese martial arts) for training a few times recently, and he said something that I think a lot of people probably think- "isn't Lian Huan Quan just a beginners form, things don't necessarily have an application to them". As a beginner form, I think it's been somewhat lumped in the same bucket as Wu Bu Quan.
Whilst it's true that it is used to teach beginners, it's actually quite an old form, and does contain plenty of good applications. One particular movement is a twisting roll and step from ma bu to ma bu, which is always taught as avoiding a punch and stepping in. I've heard this many times, but had never seen someone actually demonstrate against someone. Spoiler alert, if you take that at face value, it doesn't work. So I thought I'd make a video on how it is actually used in context.
As one of the forms that most people training Shaolin learn first, I think it's important to help people with it. I met up with Will from the Monkey Steals Peach channel (check it out if you've not seen it, some great documentary videos on Chinese martial arts) for training a few times recently, and he said something that I think a lot of people probably think- "isn't Lian Huan Quan just a beginners form, things don't necessarily have an application to them". As a beginner form, I think it's been somewhat lumped in the same bucket as Wu Bu Quan.
Whilst it's true that it is used to teach beginners, it's actually quite an old form, and does contain plenty of good applications. One particular movement is a twisting roll and step from ma bu to ma bu, which is always taught as avoiding a punch and stepping in. I've heard this many times, but had never seen someone actually demonstrate against someone. Spoiler alert, if you take that at face value, it doesn't work. So I thought I'd make a video on how it is actually used in context.