The Bow for Basic Southern Shaolin Kung Fu Fighting Style

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Julio Anta from Anta’s Fitness & Self Defense in Miami, Florida. My website is www.antakungfu.com. As part of our southern Kung Fu training, one of the most basic things is our bow. A lot of people take it wrong, what a bow is. A bow is just a handshake. A lot of Asians instead of shaking hands Japanese, Koreans might to do this with their eyes down. Chinese depending some will bow like this and some will bow like this. That is what the explanation I am going to give you. The way we bow, or a basic bow if you come to a class. Your feet are in a V, your knees are slightly bent, shoulders are back, totally relaxed, your fist are over your belt, shoulder elbows back, chin in. This is my weapon, this my shield, I look at you. We never take our eyes off from our opponents and come back again, basic bow. Then we have the Shaolin bow that we do in more Shaolin forms, which is southern Shaolin. The Shaolin bow is in a cat stance. We bring our hands back like if you have a baseball and a glove, come in to a cat, we show a tiger and we bring it in and back. So it would look something like this. That is our bow and most of our forms."