Yue Family Boxing and its forms

Said to derive from the great folk hero, General Yue Fei (Yueh Fei), this ancient branch of boxing has been highly influential on the growth of Chinese Kung Fu especially in the Jiangxi area. Subdivided into many styles it claims a long lineage and a wide range of straight forward and simple techniques.

See the story of Yue Fei, folk hero.
Read about the Yue Family style.
See another branch of this boxing.

DVD#18066 Ying Men Quan #1 (Yue style) Forms #1 & #2
A Triple DVD

This unusual style is from  the Yue Family lineage. This is what might be called the "rich side" of the family. Yue, claiming a long lineage and a direct inheritance from Yue Fei, is necessarily a very straight forwad and simple style. Ying Men branch comes from the same origins but the form shown here by teacher and fifth generation successor, Qin Zhen Wu, is a highly sophisticated blend of what appears to be a mix of Pigua, Chuo Jiao and even Xing Yi. A very nice, though only medium length form, requiring a limber body and very loose arms. Applications, a specialilty of the Yue boxers are shown.

Mandarin with English subtitling:

DVD#18067 Ying Men Quan #2 (Yue style) Form #6
A Double DVD,

Continuing in the ancient tradition of the Yue boxing style, this form is quite obviously a combination of fighting techniques. The demonstrator Qin Zhen Wu—60 and spry— has studied Sun style (from Wang Fu Xian) and Da ChengQuan (from Wang Bin Kui, Wang Xuan Jie, Wang Yong Li). In 1996 he started with Lu Zhong Ren. He shows Ying Men which he has practiced from childhood (and it looks it). Each of these forms contains a lot of varied movement and sophisticated actions. Qin is an accompllished martial artist with a style somewhat resembling that of George Xu.  Applications, a specialilty of the Yue boxers are shown.

Mandarin with English subtitling: