Tiger
Tiger is one of the first animal styles taught in Chi Lin. The techniques and movements are very "external" and are very similar to Karate in many ways.
(By "external" we mean that the fighter is using muscular strength and speed as opposed to " internal" arts where alignment and body mechanics are refined to the point where power is generated slightly differently).
Tiger is characterized by the Tiger Hand position and by the Six Pointed Tiger where the heal of the palm is used for striking. The hand can be trained by Iron Palm Training.
A board wrapped with a few different size ropes that are soaked in Chinese herbal medicine, bags filled with wet and dry sand, and bags filled with metal balls are all used with different types of lineaments to help condition the hand for fighting. Another Tiger training method involves pulling the bark from an imaginary tree with the Tiger Claw Palm. (Fu Jow). This is a dynamic tension exercise that helps create a very strong forearm and hand.
No one who is below the age of 18 should practice any of the special hand training. Their bodies are still growing. The training should be done when the growth of the body stops.
Chi Gung and Nui Gung Training are also involved. Various dynamic tension exercises and breathing exercises are taught to enhance the students abilities.
The tiger techniques in Chi Lin are circular in nature. The attitude of the fighter is important in being able to fight effectively with this style. Intense concentration on your movement and on your opponent is essential. Fast hand moments are accompanied by quick, fluid footwork. Tiger techniques are often deceptive when they strike. Blocks and strikes can sometimes come from the same movement. Often a block will be a strike. The Tiger destroys what it attacks. It disrupts the opponents mass quickly and completely, when it can.
Tiger requires a lot of low stance training. Moving from one to another quickly and smoothly while punching and striking with speed and power.
In Chi Ling Pai, The Short Form of the Tiger, Tiger Jumping Over a Log, Tiger and Crane, and White Tiger, are the Tiger forms in the system.
Some of the techniques are Tiger Palm Punch, Falling Tiger Punch, Springing Circular Tiger Block and Descending Tiger Block.
(By "external" we mean that the fighter is using muscular strength and speed as opposed to " internal" arts where alignment and body mechanics are refined to the point where power is generated slightly differently).
Tiger is characterized by the Tiger Hand position and by the Six Pointed Tiger where the heal of the palm is used for striking. The hand can be trained by Iron Palm Training.
A board wrapped with a few different size ropes that are soaked in Chinese herbal medicine, bags filled with wet and dry sand, and bags filled with metal balls are all used with different types of lineaments to help condition the hand for fighting. Another Tiger training method involves pulling the bark from an imaginary tree with the Tiger Claw Palm. (Fu Jow). This is a dynamic tension exercise that helps create a very strong forearm and hand.
No one who is below the age of 18 should practice any of the special hand training. Their bodies are still growing. The training should be done when the growth of the body stops.
Chi Gung and Nui Gung Training are also involved. Various dynamic tension exercises and breathing exercises are taught to enhance the students abilities.
The tiger techniques in Chi Lin are circular in nature. The attitude of the fighter is important in being able to fight effectively with this style. Intense concentration on your movement and on your opponent is essential. Fast hand moments are accompanied by quick, fluid footwork. Tiger techniques are often deceptive when they strike. Blocks and strikes can sometimes come from the same movement. Often a block will be a strike. The Tiger destroys what it attacks. It disrupts the opponents mass quickly and completely, when it can.
Tiger requires a lot of low stance training. Moving from one to another quickly and smoothly while punching and striking with speed and power.
In Chi Ling Pai, The Short Form of the Tiger, Tiger Jumping Over a Log, Tiger and Crane, and White Tiger, are the Tiger forms in the system.
Some of the techniques are Tiger Palm Punch, Falling Tiger Punch, Springing Circular Tiger Block and Descending Tiger Block.