Nam Huynh Dao – this style from Vietnam seems to focus on explosive, fast Qi force to attack pressure points and to finish quickly. It has characteristics of Wing chun, Chi Na, Bagua stepping and five animals style.

In the video above a master of this style demonstrates his skills for a class of interested students. The movement in the beginning looks a little dance like and definitely a little different.

After showing off the movement of the martial arts, he demonstrates some techniques with willing assistants. First he has two students attempt to stop him from pushing them backwards.

Next he shows how to land a few strikes from the same shoving position against two opponents. He then demonstrates using an opponents own force against them, pushing one attack off to the side, out of the best attack position.

Now he gets into defending attacks from him an opponent, using the placement of his arms and hands to defend a person striking at him and attacking a nerve in the same movement.

Similarly he shows an attack to the sternum with an elbow strike off his opponents attack.

The attackers are clearly just demonstrating at a slow speed, but the movements and nerve attacks are definitely interesting.

About Wing Chun

Wing Chun literally: “spring chant”), also romanised as Ving Tsun or Wing Tsun, (and sometimes substituted with the characters 永春 “eternal springtime”; is a concept-based Chinese martial art and form of self-defense utilising both striking and grappling while specialising in close-range combat.

source: wikipedia.com

About Bagua Stepping

Baguazhang is one of the three main Chinese martial arts of the Wudang school, the other two being Taijiquan and Xingyiquan. It is more broadly grouped as an internal practice (or neijia gong). Bāguà zhǎng literally means “eight trigram palm,” referring to the trigrams of the I Ching (Yijing), one of the canons of Taoism.

source: wikipedia.com

About Five Animals Style

The Five Animal martial arts supposedly originated from the Henan Shaolin Temple, which is north of the Yangtze River, even though imagery of these particular five animals as a distinct set (i.e. in the absence of other animals such as the horse or the monkey as in T’ai chi ch’uan or Xíngyìquán) is either rare in Northern Shaolin martial arts—and Northern Chinese martial arts in general.

source: wikipedia.com

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