Northern Shaolin Kung fu

 
 

Many systems of  martial arts have a Connecting Links Form.  Typically these forms are very advanced and they bring together many elements from different forms or training patterns into a synthesis that takes the martial artists skill to a higher level.   The Northern Shaolin Connecting Links Form is no exception.  The  image of Connecting Links is of a series of overlapping circles or links in a chain.  This form contains movements that have more spiraling energy and more spinning and circling movements.   It is easy to imagine Ba Gua Zhang being an  evolutionary expansion from the beginnings of  the spiraling and circling techniques found in this form.


This form also has the dramatic sequence of  one hand cartwheel into the splits.  This following by hoping into  a sweep of one leg by the other that ends in a push up position.   Then a jump of the arms with both legs end with only the heels and palms touching and the whole body stretched out horizontally off the ground.  This followed  by snapping the legs back into lotus posture with the legs crossed while seated.  From there is a quick hop up into the deep horse striking low with a cranes beaks to both sides.  Definite a sort of Kung Fu Break - Dance


Like all of the Long forms Connecting Links contains many techniques that are not found in any other form. 

Northern shaolin # 9 Connecting links - Lien Huan

BaK Sil Lum #9 Connecting links - Lien Huan

 

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