Pak Hok Pai
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Pak Hok Pai ("White Crane Style"), better known as Tibetan White Crane, is a Chinese martial art derived from an Indo-Tibetan style called Lion's Roar. Like many other styles that imitate the movements of the crane, Pak Hok Pai does not meet force with force, but rather teaches students to evade attacks and then quickly respond with counter-strikes using pin-point accuracy. Also like most other Crane styles, it is a very beautiful, graceful art. It should not be confused with another Chinese style, Bai He Quan (White Crane Fist).
History
The ancestor of Pak Hok Pai, Lion's Roar was created in the 15th century by a Tibetan monk named Ha Da-Do using both Chinese and Indo-Tibetan martial arts influences. In the mid-19th century, another Tibetan Buddhist monk, Sing Lung, and his four students brought this style to the Green Cloud Shaolin Monastery in Guangdong Province, southeast China. There, it soon evolved into the arts of Lama Pai, Hop Gar, and Pak Hok Pai. The founder of Pak Hok Pai was Ng Siuchung.
Techniques
Though it is a southern style, Pak Hok Pai features movements found in northern systems as well, including both straight and roundhouse punches, elbow and knee strikes, and high and low kicks, so that students learn to fight well at all three ranges of combat (i.e. short, medium, and long range). It further includes Chin Na (joint locks) and Dim Mak (vital points), and also many weapons forms. There is also Qigong and meditation, making it both an internal and external style. Because of its many techniques, it is considered a very difficult style to learn, requiring many years of study.
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