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How to practice eagle claw boxing well

Eagle claw boxing is a kind of boxing developed by absorbing eagle's form, meaning and hitting method, which belongs to pictographic boxing. Also known as talon heel flip boxing, talon line boxing and talon boxing. This fist mainly imitates the action of eagle claw grasping the ground and eagle wing turning. Its characteristics are: rich claw method, grasping and pinching, turning up and down, fast chain, copying boxing, both form and spirit. It is required to rub hands, grasp hands, divide tendons and bones, have rich acupoints, flip flexibly, and look like an eagle. The whole routine is violent, fierce, fast and dense; Quiet, witty and steady, like an eagle waiting for a rabbit, with pictographic actions such as "the morning eagle spreads its wings" and "the eagle preys", it gives people a sense of wit, decisiveness, courage and beauty. To practice eagle claw boxing, in addition to good physical fitness and basic skills of martial arts, we should also focus on the following four methods. First, highlight the practice of claw type and claw method Eagle claw boxing is dominated by eagle claw hand, with both fist, palm and claw. Whether the claw shape is correct or not will directly affect the accurate application of claw method, and also affect the eagle shape of the body. Therefore, first of all, we should practice the claw type, especially not to be confused with Tiger Claw, chicken feet, dragon feet and other claw types. The correct eagle claw hand type should be: the thumb bends in abduction, the other four fingers are close together, the joints of the second and third fingers are tightly flexed, each finger tries its best to spread in the direction of the back of the hand, and the back of the hand stretches like an eagle claw. Don't spread your fingers or bend them excessively. The eagle claws in the routine are divided into single wind, double claws, one claw and one punch or one claw and one palm. There are five kinds of single claw: upper claw, lower claw, reverse claw, vertical claw and reverse claw.