BEGINNING KUNG FU CURRICULUM
Warm up
- Ankle, knee, waist, wrist, elbow, shoulder rotations
- Body slaps - horse stance, arrow stance
- Arm swings - one direction & two directions
- Leg swing - left and right
- Stretches - front leg, side to side, flat, center split, sitting & bow stance
Stance training
- Horse stance - Ma Bu
- Sitting stance - Zuo Pan
- Forty Sixty stance - Si Liu
- Arrow stance - Gon Bu
- Single leg stance - Du Li
- Empty leg stance - Xi Shi
- Thirty Seventy stance - San Chi
- Stretching stance - Pu Tuei
Basic punches and kicks
- Horse stance punch - Ma Bu Tsuei
- Arrow stance punch - Gon Bu Tsuei
- Moving punch - Tuo Bu Tsuei
- Moving palm strike - Tuo Bu Jang
- Forty sixty punch - Si Liu Bu Fa Jing
- Direction punches
This level of practitioners needs to study the following lines and forms
before moving to Intermediate level of Kung Fu practice.
- Six basic lines of Praying Mantis
- Ten lines of Tan Tui
- Tsa Tsui form - Praying Mantis
- Ben Bu form - Praying Mantis
- Miao Dao - Willow leaf saber
- Fung Mo Guon - Crazy Windmill Staff form
