LONG HAR CH’UAN

Long Har Ch’uan means ‘Dragon Prawn Boxing’. The reason for this is
that we use the two arms as ‘feelers’ with the body slightly concave. The
theory is that if someone strikes with a fist, you go in at the waist, which
causes the attacker to have to reach further to strike, where-as, you are
able to re-attack at a closer range. See Photo number 1.
Long Har Ch’uan is only a training
method, which is used in order to gain a
certain way of doing things. In kung fu
we try not to place the same sort of limitations
on ourselves that some of the external
styles do by sticking rigidly to
what the forms or katas dictate. We use
the forms only as guides to teach us
something and then translate what they
have taught us into our own particular
body types or ‘preference.’