Drunken Boxing / Drunken Kung Fu

[No_Know]

Look for mainland China competitions. They might have this routine or at least that technique as the Ziujiquan?

first learn rolls (forward), then:

cartwheel
roundoff
handspring
handstand against a wall~
free standing handstand
walking on your hands (feet in the above your waist)
-backwards from the wall
-free standing forwards and backwards
headspring
Kip (up)

Then:

headspring from handstand at wall.
build to diving headspring like in the routine.

This might be something. Meanwhile conditioning lightly your head and neck (flexability/strengthening).

[shaolinboxer]

When you do a head spring, the trick is to drive your heels back under you as quickly and directly as you can. Try to kick youself in the butt, and push straight up with your arms and neck, not out and forward. You need the sudden push to get you up, and the kick in the butt you turn you over. Above all, be quick!

Keep trying and good luck!

As far as fighting and and drunken boxing...I think the concepts of looseness, fluidity, surprise, and distraction are all good tools for fighting skills....but the specific movements may not bne directed towards combat.

[mestre]

Its very important to keep your hips out and back arched when doing this as this gives you the memento to land on ur feet.

[TenTigers]

Different drunken sets train different things, wu-shu is performance oriented, but we practice an eight drunken immortals set that is pure fighting. Takedowns, throws, suplexes,jointlocks,counter jointlocks, leg and ankle locks and breaks, all very effective. They just appear drunk due to the fact that you are rolling on the ground, But take a series of BJJ techniques and do them in a form and it will look similar.

[mad taoist]

We have a similar move in our style. You do a 'handstand' on two hands, your head and your shoulder. Your hands are both on one side, so your body is leaning to one side. Your feet are together. It is sort of like stance training; we try to hold it for as long as we can. Then we kick, bending our knees and then kicking with our heels together. It is immediately after the snap that we roll backward (were your body is facing) to a stand up.

Hope that makes sense!

[joedoe]

Originally posted by DrunkenMunky
...
And my teacher said drunken boxing is useless in a real fight, what do you all think? Thanks for all your help.

So why does he teach it? If drunken boxing was useless in a fight, it wouldn't have survived this long.

[Julien]

hmmm... well, drunken boxing has the confusion factor

i would be confused if i thought a man was going to jab me in the face and actually kicked me in the knee.

[Tyger]

We don't have a particular drunken form/set where I study, but the
drunken mind-set and way of moving can be adopted by any of the
other sets.

There may be unrealistic drunken techniques out there, but many
motions are intended for health or training and not neccessarily
combat (this is true in many styles/individual sets). In my
experience, drunken fighting is very disorienting to the opponant
and the relaxed power generated by the movements is equal to
more orthadox meathods. It may look a little hoaky at times, but
anybody who says it's worthless probably hasn't had enough
experience with it. But hey, we can't be experts in everything
right?

[Vash]

Choy Lay Fut Drunken Set Article

Video for ^

Joybotsin

Shaolin Drunken Set

Zui Quan Instruction Manual

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Please. Throw out your own links, thoughts on the system, locations of reliable teachers, things like that. The usual Ultimate game.

[SevenStar]

I chose yes, for nostalgic reasons. When I was younger, I always wanted to train it. I don't have any links to post, but I have two video tapes on drunken - one is an empty hand set and the other has staff and sword sets.

[CaptinPickAxe]

Here's the question of the day:
What are the chances you could apply Drunken Boxing in a real situation? Not bashing, just curious of its effectiveness. I, too, wanted to learn DB, but kind of forgot about it as I progressed in my training.

[Vash]

I imagine that'd take hella long time to actually be able to apply.

Still, drunk wrestlers/boxers on the street seem to be the one's we're supposed to be training against.

[CaptinPickAxe]

Its easy to restrain a drunk. Trying to act like a drunk takes serious control. An old KF brother of mine put it perfectly, "Its being so controlled you look out of control". He knew a drunken form and had been practicing for close to a year and it still looked ridgid. Honestly though, how effective would a drunken boxing move be on the street? The whole misleading thing would be a plus, but how much would that help?

[norther practitioner]

Some of drunken style is obviously over embelished....

I have taken several things out of a part of a form and used it once (somewhat successfully) in the street (or club for that matter).

The move...

step in diagnol to a straightish punch and block same side (left jab... block left arm outward) kick right leg back hard enough that it throws your body foward.. kick kinda looks like an off kilter scorpion kick...

Like I said, or not but I was really lucky, I think you have to realize your limitations in everything, but db is something I have had fun with...

[Vash]

Shane;

Excellent post. Gotta question.

Do you have any knowledge of/experience with the folks at Joytbotsin ?

Another question;

You know of any Drunken practitioners in or near Arkansas?

Again, good read. Links were very interesting. Looking forward to hearing from you again.