Budo international Martial Arts Magazine Jul.-Aug. 2014 | Page 53

The 16 Combat Strategies of Weng Chun Kung Fu – Part 2 Huen Lau Kao Da The Red Boat Weng Chun (Chinese: Ban Chung Weng Chun) The 16 Combat strategies of the Red Boat Weng Chun tradition are based upon the first four of them, the Loi Lau Hoi Song: The Weng Chun practitioner gives his opponent the opportunity to attack and push forward, taking up his opponent s power and using it to gain more momentum for his own counter attack (Loi Lau). The opponent is refused to retreat back into long distance combat, and where he withdrews his power, he is being followed (Hoi Song), thus forcing him to remain in extreme close distance combat, where he is being controlled. In the second sentence the next four strategies provide the Weng Chun practitioner with actual procedures to this end: Huen (circling) Lau (spiral) Kao (hook) Da (punch). If an opponent for example attacks with a straight punch, his aiming is being hampered by circling. Furthermore he automatically gets into a worse combat position, since circling makes it easy to intersept his line of power from the side, or even to get Text: Andreas Hoffmann, Christoph Fuß Photos: Archiv Andreas Hoffmann, Gabriela Hoffmann