Hakka Boxing
About
Hakka Boxing
客家拳
We teach elements of three Hakka Boxing traditions:
- Pak Mei ("White Eyebrow")
- Lung Ying ("Dragon Style")
- Tong Long ("Praying Mantis")
Hakka Boxing styles are aggressive, short to medium-range systems that specialize in shock (scared, sudden) power, called Geing Jak Ging (驚扎勁), and share a focus on the four primary principles of "Float", "Sink", "Swallow", and "Spit" with other Southern Chinese arts like Five Ancestor and White Crane styles.
Hakka traditions typically specialize in weapons such as the staff, butterfly swords, tiger fork, crutches, bench, and hoe.
Pak Mei Kuen (白眉拳) was created by Cheung Lai Chuen (張禮泉) as a synthesis and expansion of his training in four fighting traditions:
- Wanderer / Gypsy style (流民派),
- Li Family style (李派),
- Dragon style (龍形), and
- the White Eyebrow style (白眉).
Pak Mei is a right-hand dominant style, specializing in simultaneous attack/defense, that emphasis the power and aggression of the tiger and the speed of the leopard.
Lung Ying (龍形拳) is based on the movements of the dragon. It specializes in quick, evasive footwork, striking from the flanks and throwing multiple strikes in a "machine-gun" approach.
Tong Long (螳螂拳) specializes in soft neutralizations and sticky-hands skills punctuated by flicks to the opponent's eyes and rapid strikes with a pheonix eye fist.
