{"id":11735,"date":"2013-11-08T07:49:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T15:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/?p=11735"},"modified":"2013-11-09T09:35:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T17:35:31","slug":"buddhist-yoga-and-a-muslim-fist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/2013\/buddhist-yoga-and-a-muslim-fist\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Yoga and a Muslim Fist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 94px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/sales\/kungfu\/collbk_SL2.htm#245\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;\" title=\"Shaolin Stretching\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/images\/CB\/sc200\/bk_sc245m.jpg\" width=\"84\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to see<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 94px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/sales\/kungfu\/collbk_longfist.htm#240\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/images\/CB\/sc200\/bk_sc240m.jpg\" width=\"84\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There are said to be five family fists for the Northern styles of Kung Fu:\u00a0 Pao, Wah, Hua, Cha and Hong. The last is also known as Shaolin. So here we have representatives of two of the five major fists. The first of these is a famous though now rarely taught sequence of extreme stretches originally designed for acolytes at the Shaolin Temple. If contortionists make you twitch, and joints creating odd angles makes you wince, you might pass on this one. In addition is the most famous set from a very famous style, Cha Quan or Muslim boxing. Both of these are in English and Chinese with an accompanying VCD; part of our &#8220;en face&#8221; series.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If contrortionists make you twitch, and joints creating odd angles makes you wince, you might pass on this one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[371,308,365],"tags":[451,1890,2226,1892,1893,216,1891],"class_list":["post-11735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookschinese","category-booksenglish","category-dvds","tag-cha-quan","tag-long-fist-kung-fu","tag-shaolin","tag-stretching","tag-tongzi","tag-wushu","tag-yoga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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