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| Eagles Claw Kempo |
| General Yeuh Fei’s Yeuh Jar Ien Jao (Eagles Claw style) |
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Yeuh Family Boxing
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The Eagles Claw system, known as Yeuh Jar Ien Jao (Yingzhai Quan) was founded by General Yeuh Fei in approximately 1130 AD in Hou Pei province, and is based on Shaolin, and has in recent years become related to the White Crane system.
Yeuh Family Boxing:
It should be noted that there are many different styles of boxing that are named after the Song Dynasty (1127-1279) General Yeuh Fei, these are collectively known as Yuejia Quan, or more simply as Yeuh Family Boxing, which include both fist plays (Quan) and Wrestling methods (San Shou).
Yeujia Quan styles are primarily based on the combination of internal and external body methods and utilises the principles of Yin and Yang in conjunction with the Wu Xing (5 Evolution phases) and their relationships to the body organs such as the Heart, Liver, Lung, Spleen and Kidney. .
The Descendants of the Yeuh family styles can be found in the following Provinces of China: Hebei, Hunan, Anhui, Szchuan and Guangdong. The styles practised in this regions has led to the fusion of Yeuh family methods with localized Martial arts traditions, which are themselves subject to local cultural variation such as regionial (town, village) and family martial arts systems.
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General Yeuh Fei:
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The founder of the Eagles claw system, General Yeuh Fei was born on the 15th February 1103 AD at Tan Yin in Hounan province. His father died when he was one month old, and he was therefore brought up and educated by his mother who was a poor educated female scholar.
When Yeuh Fei became a tenant farmer he continued his scholarly pursuits and is said have mastered the teachings of Suen Bin’s (220BC) ‘Suen Tzu Bi Far’ (Suen’s book of Tactics), which was concerned with military strategy.
In the same village in which Yeuh Fei lived there was a scholar and martial artist who had trained at the Shaolin temple who noticed Yeuh Fei’s ability, this man Chou Ton was to become Yeuh Fei’s martial arts teacher.
In 1120 AD when Yeuh Fei was nineteen years old he joined the Chinese army and fought against the nomadic Gin. Yeuh Fei eventually he became a Marshal and led the Chinese army against the Gin, during which time he introduced martial arts into the Chinese military curriculum.
Yeuh Fei also taught two other martial arts Shaolin Chaun Fa: Yin Gin Ching, more commonly known as I Chin Ching, which he had learnt from Chou Ton, this is an internal style and the parent of the internal art of Hsing I.
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Yingzhoa Fan Tzi Quan (Fan Tzu Ien Jao)
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Another style of Eagles Claw was the Fan Tzu Ien Jao system, but little is known about the history of this style as until the Ming dynasty (1368-1644 AD).
During the Ming dynasty a Shaolin monk called Li-Chaun (Li Quan), who was a master of Fan Tzu Chaun Fa mixed the system with Yeuh Jar Ien Jao and created Fan Tzu Ien Jao, these days known as Yingzhao Fanzi Quan (Eagle Claw Tumble Boxing).
Li Chaun’s principle disciple was Tao Gi, also a Shaolin priest who passed the teachings to Fa Cheng, who in turn taught Lieu Shih-Jwing (Li Shijun).
It was Liu Shijun who during the reign of Emperor Daoguang (1821 - 1850) in the Qing Dynasty who taught a 9 move Yueh style fist play in the barracks of beijing garrison and later became known as a Master of Eagles Claw and long staff in Peking around 1900 AD.
The Fan Tzu Len Jao system was then passed to Lieu Shih Jwang’s nephew Chen Tzu-Cheng who taught at the Shanghai Chin Woo Association and later at the Hong Kong branch between 1924 and 1929, where Chen Tzu Cheng’s student Lieu Men Far taught until his death in 1964.
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Characteristics of Eagles Claw
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The Eagles Claw system, due to its development from General Yeuh Fei's family boxing styles which included Shan Shou in its curriculum is in many ways similar to the Japanese martial art of Ju Jutsu,
The style Yeuh Jar Ien Jao encompasses Joint locks and strikes to vital points. Thirty-six of these strikes are lethal, but there is actually 108 form’s hand striking a total of 108 vital points. The system is characterised by the use of a technique called Ying Ji Ao (Claw hand) and its method of using kicks to block the attacks of an adversary rather than to counter attack with foot strikes.
There are, according to Dr. Yang Jwing Ming (1982) thirteen key words which describe the basic principles of the Yeuh Jar Ien Jao (Eagles Claw) system. These are Revolve (Jhan), Gesticulate (Yeh), Ascend (Terng), Clamp (Diao), Joining (Kaw), Throw (Zen), Movement (Nou), Dodge (Shan), Withdraw (Sou), Jump (Yaw), Stumble (Dye) and grasp (Jaw).
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