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The Kung Fu in the name tells me it's Chinese. Chuan tells me it's probably a soft style. Outside that, couldn't tell you anything.
Chuan means "Fist", what makes you think it was a "Soft" style?
I cann't think of a hard style with Chuan in the name. Tai Chi CHUAN comes to mind. So does Xing Yi QUAN (alternate spelling). I'm geussing based on those three things, thats all. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
Yen Ching Chuan School of Kung Fu was the name of the Kung Fu school I attended back in 1977. I never knew the significance of the name. It was in Santa Cruz, Ca. My sifu also taught me some Jeet Kune Do, which I had been studying on my own - along with a number of other styles of martial arts, before settling on Kung Fu.Anyone ever heard of yen ching chuan kung fu? I can't seem to find much on the Internet regarding it? Just curious where it originated and what kind of system it is.
Thanks
tj
The post you are responding to is 17 years old and the poster hasn't been on this forum since 2009 so you are not likely to get a reply.Yen Ching Chuan School of Kung Fu...
...Until this day I've never heard anyone mention it. Where did you find out or hear about it?
Thanks for this. This is very similar to what I was taught. A lot of flowing arm and hand movements, combined with low stances and strikes... I loved it. I also dabbled in Wing Chun, practicing Chi Sao with my instructor, and later in life, with my two oldest boys. Those were great times!The post you are responding to is 17 years old and the poster hasn't been on this forum since 2009 so you are not likely to get a reply.
According to one post on another forum from around the same time,"Yen Ching Chuan" was a name of a legendary (wuxia) figure in Chinese martial arts and a name sometimes applied to what is better known as Mizong quan, a longfist system which was taught in the US by Adam Hsu and his students. Here's a link to see if it's anything like what you trained:
Roger- you are speaking in the past tense. Have you retired from the martial arts? I stopped for some 15 years and then in 2007, in my early fifties, I started up again. Now, in my late 60s, I'm doing less, and what I do is more "age appropriate" but I still dabble in it.Those were great times! Thanks so much for the video! -Roger
I started with a school in Connecticut that taught a showy and not-very-authentic five-animal system kung-fu and then had a bad leg injury and had trouble continuing. Due to a genetic defect in my ankles compounded by the injury, static balance is very difficult for me as well.I'd like to learn some forms just to help me with my balance. I'll be 62 this year. My health isn't so great. I think performing some forms will help.
Roger