Kungfu Moves in Karate. Move 2: Precious Duck Swims Through Lotus
Hi, everyone! Welcome to the third installment in my series of posts about Kungfu moves found in Karate. Read articles on the internet and you'll find that almost everyone says that Karate is developed from the White Crane style of Fujian. That is really an oversimplification of things. I have never learnt White Crane. We at Martial Arts Forums have seen one video being posted in our group of an elderly master performing a White Crane form and I think we can all agree that it certainly does not resemble much of what we see in Karate today. Today's technique, however, I have found in two styles of Karate before I have learnt about it in Shaolin Kungfu. The move is called "Precious Duck Swims Through Lotus". In Master Wong Kiew Kit's Five Animal Set this movement looks like this: In Shukokai's- and Shito Ryu's version of the kata "Rohei" we find it looking like this: The Precious Duck is the punch and not the bloc...