IMPORTANT: Duck Kung Fu

[PaiLumDreamer]

DUCK KUNG FU? Are you kidding me?

I was looking at wikipedias "list of kung fu styles" and it listed duck kung fu. I searched around, but mainly got a list of food resources.

Anyway, my girlfriend isnt really into martial arts at all, but she absolutely LOVES ducks. They make her go insane, so I got a really bright idea.

TEACH HER DUCK KUNG FU. Dont ask me HOW im going to go about finding someone that actually knows this, but its my new mission. Before I begin to search locally, I was wondering if anyone on the forum knew anything about it/had some experience? Maybe they wouldnt mind providing a demo?

Any help greatly appreciated.

[monkeyfoot]

It looks weird.....like a duck

If you get hold of ''the kung fu years (feat jet li)'' there is a small section on duck kung fu.

Apart from that and maybe an internet video somewhere on my H/D, I have no other examples.


craig

[WanderingMonk]

all I remember was this guy walking with his knee sort of bent, think very narrow and deep horse stance and walking, kicking off dirt like a duck while shaking his bootie. and his hands were down imitating the wing. It is more of a duck style interpretive walk imitation. I am sure there is no fighting application, with the only exceptiion of freaking your opponent out and punching the living day lights out of him as he fall down laughing hysterically.

[GreenCloudCLF]

Google's first hit for "Duck Kung-Fu"

Duck videos

all in chinese only I believe

[GeneChing]

I did an article on exotic animal styles in our OCT 99 issue - The Martial Menagerie: Exotic Animal Styles of Kung Fu - It was part of a Animal styles special done by request for the issue. I got Shaolin monk Shi Yanming to do the duck pose. He was familiar with it somewhat, but I'm not sure to what degree. It's not a common style at all, but it's extant.

The Chinese love ducks. There's even these rather obscure kung fu weapon that I like to call 'duck-on-a-stick'. Imagine if you will, double escrima batons with rubber ducks on the top, and then visualize the whole thing being made of steel. I think they are called iron duck clubs (tie ya gun) but I'm not sure about that. They are pretty rare. I've seen demos and would love to find a pair.

There's also a throwing weapon that's an iron duck. There's this whole myth about how it had razor wings that would pop out when thrown, but I've never seen that, just a reference and a poor line drawing.

DUCK = today's secret word

[Brad]

I've seen two duck styles... one looks like a duck imitation (maybe more of a qigong exercise than wushu style), and the other looks like a chang quan style (it's not imitative).

The first you can see on the "This is Kungfu" dvd the second (mandarin duck boxing) is available on Chinese vcd.

[Ben Gash]

Plumpub also offer a disk on duck imitation boxing http://www.plumpub.com/sales/vcd3/coll_animal.htm

[PaiLumDreamer]

Ok, I admit...I didnt search all too hard. Thanks for the links though!


I wonder if my sifu knows anything about it. I just havnt had time to give him a call yet.

Thanks again.