Wen Hsiu Quan

Hello, everyone! Just when I thought that my break from this blog was going to be a long one, some smartass went and posted this on Facebook: So- I thought it necessary to say a couple of things about an attitude that seems to be spreading among people who consider taking up martial arts. Well... It seems that Greta Thunberg is a good way to get people triggered about anything, but I would most likely not have even begun writing this post if it did not have something to do with martial arts. First of all- my view on criticizing any style of martial art has been made known in an earlier post, along with my reasons for holding that view. To save some new readers the trouble of searching through my older posts- let me just say that I am against it. Okay- for my reasons you are free to search through my older posts... Secondly- I have found a correlation between people saying any technique "does not work" and unwillingness to train. It was only in very recent t...

Hello, everyone and welcome back! :) We are finally here... The last movement in the last form to be discussed on this blog. Well- at least for the time being... I had lots of fun creating these gifs and will most definitely use them in future posts. Thank you to those who have followed this series, thus far. I know many of you are far away and we may not be able to meet in person. You are, however, welcome to email me or inbox me with any questions or comments that you may have. Well... on to today's move... In the book the movement starts with an outward block like this... From there you can assume that you have a firm hold of the opponent's attacking arm when you move in with the hammer fist. After striking downwards with the hammer fist the fist shoots diagonally upwards with an uppercut or as we call it here- a cannon punch. I must admit that I am using more of a downward forearm strike than a hammer fist in the above demonstration...