What is Long Fist, and what are the four strikes, eight methods, and twelve forms of Long Fist?

Changquan is one of the traditional Chinese styles and belongs to a northern school of martial arts. Generally speaking, Chajuan, Huaquan, Cannon Fist and Red Fist are all included in Changquan. In ancient China, there were also styles of boxing called Changquan. Now the long fist is nearly thirty years in the development of boxing, it is in the cha, Hua, cannon, Hong, bullet leg, Shaolin and other types of boxing on the basis of their style characteristics, comprehensive organization and creation.

The "Four Strikes" in martial arts sports refer to kicking, hitting, wrestling and taking. Wushu sports "eight methods" refers to: hand, eye, body, step, spirit, gas, power, success. Wushu sports in the "twelve types" are: moving like the waves, quiet as Yue, up like an ape, down like a magpie, standing like a pine, standing like a chicken, turn like a wheel, folded like a bow, fast as the wind, slow as an eagle, light as a leaf, heavy as iron.

Expanded Information

The fist is characterized by a long strike in the hand or leg to put the long strike far away from the main action to support the long stretch, tendons and bones straight, and sometimes in the fist with the wringing of the waist and shoulders to lengthen the point of striking to play the advantage of the "long an inch strong an inch.

The number of movements and trips in the routine is generally high, and short punches are also used occasionally in the long fist, but the whole set of movements is dominated by long strikes. The basic technical rules of long fist include: top head and vertical spine, Shu limb tight fingers (toes); shape and force smooth, dynamic, rapid and static; eye to convey the spirit, and gas to help the momentum; yin and yang rely on each other, complementing each other. In addition, the ancient alias of Taijiquan.

The technique of the long fist must be "like a shooting star", swift, agile and powerful. This is not only in the fist, arm swing, but also in the palm, wrist subtle movements should be so. Upper limb movement to achieve "fist like a shooting star" this requirement, it must be loose shoulders and elbows, so that the shoulders, elbows, wrists and other joints in the movement to strive to loose live smoothly, to the momentum of the rapid as well as cover up the ear, the preemptive