Kung Fu Notes: Zuiquan ("Drunken Boxing")

[little_licks]

Comment - from here on I'm going to start posting my random notes on martial arts here. These will generally be pretty technical musings, usually analysis. They're not meant to be of interest to everyone in general - but I thought some of you might find them interesting.For some reason, I was thinking about Drunken Fist the other night

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[little_licks]

My point exactly.

But even if he were able to close the distance and capture a "door" (inner or outer), drunken dude's strikes are pretty freakin' weak and clearly lack structural backing. He'd have to hit the Kyokushin fighter with full shoulder and body blows to make any sort of real damage.

I feel bad for the drunken dude. Clearly, he's paid someone to teach him this crap and has probably developed a lot of bad habits and shattered fantasies around the material.

[gojiraeight]

"It strikes me that the drunken dude could do much better if he was closer to the opponent. (But that's probably just the tai chi talking.)"

I'd agree with that. I've seen some drunken techniques in which you sort of grapple with and put your whole weight onto the opponent. As if you were "laying" on them.

[gojiraeight]

I pretty much agree with your assessment. And from my perspective the strengths of Drunken boxing are in it's training not necessarily in it's application, especially in terms of using it as your one main style.

[gojiraeight]

oh yeah have to throw this in for fun...