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Influences of Hakutsuru on Hakuda
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There can be no doubt that Chinese White Crane Chaun Fa/Gong Fu known as Hakutsuru has substantially influenced the Okinawan Martial Arts. Hakutsuru was practised by many Okinawan Masters including Sakugawa, Bushi Matsumura,Kanryo Higaonna.
Hakutsuru or White Crane has also had a special influence on the Kempo that we practice known as Hakuda Ryu. Although in Hakuda Ryu we do not specifically practise White Crane Gong Fu/Chaun Fa there is no doubt about its influence through the use of Crane walking and various Crane Exercises in our Kempo. The Crane styles of Chinese Martial Arts had both external (Combative) and Internal (Therapeutic) aspects. We therefore supplement our training with a Crane style Chi Gong.
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Crane Style Chi Kung/Qi Qong
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Below I outline something about the internal aspects of our arts and the Crane style Chi Gong that we practice and how this relates to the actual practise of the Hakuda Ryu Kempo that we practise.
Crane Style Chi Gong:
The style practised was developed by Dr. Chao Jing Sian in September 1980 in Beijing, who had studied many different styles of Chi Gong and based the form on the movements of the Crane. This form of Crane Style Chi Gong has been passed down through the Ni Family as a Therapeutic or Medical Chi Gong.
This Crane Style Chi Gong has 6 parts:
1. Uniting with the 6 directions (N,E,W,S, Heaven and Earth) and has 9 crane like movements with 27 steps. This is the short form that is practised in Hakuda Ryu & Nihon Go Shin Kage Ryu as the first complete Chi Gong set.
2. Communication with Heaven, Man and Earth: and has 7 movements with 30 steps.
This form builds on some of the movements of the first but focuses on the Cranes Wings. In this part one of the postures is similar to the invisible archer which also forms one of the postures seen in Okinawan Te.
3. Crane Head movements to open the gates of Chi has 8 movements with 19 steps.
This form builds on the first but focuses on the Cranes Head.
4. The Crane Skims the Water has 7 movements with 26 steps.
This form focuses on the Cranes Legs and Wings (Walking), In both Nihon Go Shin Kage Ryu and Hakuda Ryu Kempo Crane Walking of this type is practised as part of Tai No Shintai.
5. Gather the Chi to its origins has 6 movements with 24 steps.
This form has what looks like two low kicks and hand postures like the invisible archer, such as are seen in Te.
6. Standing Meditation has 15 movements including internal body movements with 8 steps. This is mostly internal and is similar to exercises such as Over the Log and Lifting the Vase.
It is important to realise that there is both hard and soft Chi Gong, the hard refers to the External Shaolin Arts and the conditioning that is often endured, where as the soft refers to the internal arts which have much in common with Hsing I, Pau Kua and Tai Chi Chaun. All of the Crane styles have both an internal and an external aspect.
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Nei Chi Kung Influences on Hakuda Ryu
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Kung Nyay and Tibetan Chi Gong:
Many of the movements in Tibetan Kung Nyay, a type of Yoga, not dissimilar to Taoist Yoga and Chi Gong contains many movements that are very similar to Crane style Chi Gong. However it should be noted that there are various forms of Kung Nyay.
Therapeutic Exercises:
The types of exercises that we do in our training includes Japanese Junbi Taiso (Basic Exercises), Do-In (Self Masage) & Makko Ho/Oki-Yoga (Meridian Stretches) with a variety of Chinese exercises such as Chi Gong or Qi Qong, Tibetan Kung Nyay along with Okinawan exercises such as Muchimi and Kakie. Below are outlined somehing about some of these exercises that we practice:
1. Junbi Taiso (Loosening up exercises):
These are for loosening the Joints. These are loosening exercises to prepare for the practice of a broad spectrum of martial arts.
2. Do-In (Self Massage):
These are for warming the muscles & have their basis in Japanese Shiatsu, Tibetan Kung Nyay and Chinese Chi Gong.
3. Makko Ho or Oki Yoga sometimes called Japanese Yoga (Stretching):
These exercises help to prepare the veins and meridians for the practise of internal martial arts but can be studied independently of the martial arts. The origin of the exercises that we use is in Chinese Taoist Yoga and Japanese Macrobiotic Shiatsu.
4. Aiki Ho Junbi Taiso or basic exercises for the direction of Ki, These set of exercises with Japanese names are similar to those found in Aikido and Shintaido.However we also practise as part of our Aiki Ho Junbi Taiso the Crane Chi Kung set and other exercises that have their origin in Nei Kung, an early form of Chi Kung that provided the basis for Pau Kua, Hsing i and Tai Chi Chaun
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Page Updated Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:08pm EST
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