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	TAIJIQUAN White-Crane
		It is most widely believed that one day while washing her clothes at the rivers edge a white crane became overly inquisitive.
		To her surprise the crane did not retreat and effortlessly deflected all her attacks.
		Of the well known White Crane Masters of this century, Xie Zhong Xiang is perhaps the most famous.
	www.taijiquan.co.nz /whitecrane.htm (589 words)

	Fujian White Crane (martial art) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the traditions of the Lee family branch of Flying Crane, Fāng Qīniáng was born in the mid-18th century.
		According to its traditions, the lineage of the Ong Gong Shr Wushuguan in the town of Yǒngchūn (永春; Minnan: eng2 chhun1) in the prefecture of Quanzhou in Fujian Province was established when Fāng Qīniáng taught its founders during the reign of the Ming emperor Jiāzhèng (嘉政).
		Fujian White Crane is one of the constituent styles of Five Ancestors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fujian_White_Crane (467 words)

	Wing Chun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wing-Chun learned the Fujian Shaolin arts from her father and, from their raw material, created a new style after being inspired by a fight between a snake and a crane.
		There is a story that White Crane was created by Ng Mui after she was inspired by a fight between a snake and a crane, as in the Yip Man oral history of Wing Chun.
		Fujian White Crane and Okinawan Karate are indisputably related and Guangdong is much closer to Fujian than Okinawa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wing_Chun (3711 words)

	White Eyebrow Kung Fu -- Recommendations and Resources
		White Crane style is very well known in Chinese martial arts circles, emphasizing high steps, sweeping diversions of attacks with the arms for defense and high kicks and strikes with the elbows, fingers (in the form of 'the crane's beak') and wrists for offense.
		The second school of White Crane Kung Fu is also known as the Fujian White Crane and this school traces its history to the Southern Shaolin Temple in province of Fujian.
		White crane is one of the original five animals of Shaolin Quan and one of the styles that constitute Five Ancestors Fist.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/175/white-eyebrow-kung-fu.html (793 words)

	Fujian White Crane - Hard Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		For the sake of simplicity it is known as Fujian White Crane Kung Fu in the West.
		The White Crane style that is taught by Dennis Ngo originated in the Yong Chun district of the province.
		Fujian White Crane Kung Fu (international) is now accepted as original and from the same lineage by Yongchun White Crane Wushu (China).
	www.kungfu-taichi.com /styles/hard.html (577 words)

	Okinawan White Crane - Renshi Graham Moughton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The founder of white Crane was a woman the ‘Fang Chi-Niang’, who was inspired by the tenacious fighting spirit of crane, which seemed to block with its wings and hit with its beak, Impressed with this fragile creature, she decides to mimic the crane until she mastered its movements.
		Okinawan White Crane is said to have been passed down through the lineage of Bushi Matsumura Okinawan martial arts master and Royal bodyguard, and Gokenki a Chinese tea merchant who taught the Crane system on Okinawa at the turn of the 19th century.
		Okinawan White Crane is taught slowly and solidly, with heavy emphasis on stance and footwork.
	www.btinternet.com /~jonathan.masters/crane.htm (1442 words)

	Fukien Shaolin White Crane Kung Fu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		It is the particularities of her situation which led to the unique nature of White Crane.
		The basic White Crane body movements, called Djuan Sen, reveals a tendency to turn and sidestep and strike an opponent while his own momentum is still carrying him forward.
		White Crane kung fu from the South of China is continuing to thrive, thanks to the enlightened thinking of one of its foremost proponents.
	www.aei.ca /~straycat/kungfu/w-crane.html (2653 words)

	FUJIAN WHITE CRANE FIST: AN OUTLINE OF HISTORICAL ELEMENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NAFADI
		When is said that White Crane Fist had a great influence on development of Okinawa karate this Crane Fist was not a pure sytem but a soft-hard system that incorporated several elements of others systems to become more efficient.
		Crane (He) boxing (Quan) was not developed in Shaolin temples, but among civilians as a boxing for self-defense and health's preservation, however, it was based in principles developed in the Shaolin boxing.
		Southern White Crane Fist emphasizes heavily hand techniques over kicking, and in order to have a strong power in the hands the stances are firmly rooted.
	www.geocities.com /Colosseum/Bleachers/6758/Hequan.htm (3638 words)

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		The name "Tibetan White Crane" is associated with the lineage passed down from Wong Lam-Hoi through Ng Siu-Chung, whose training with Wong was later supplemented by training with Chu Chi-Yiu, and Ng Siu-Chan.
		According to the White Crane (Pak Hok) Athletic Federation in Hong Kong, the style was developed secretively in Tibet during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
		In some ways, Lama Pai, Tibetan White Crane, and Hop Gar take the distinguishing characteristics of Northern Chinese martial arts (fully extended arms, mobility, high kicks) even further than those arts themselves do and may be a source of the Northern characteristics found in the Southern Chinese martial arts of Guangdong.
	www.elitejkd.net /arts-whitecrane.htm (635 words)

	Warrior-Scholar.com :: View topic - Bok Hok Kwon ( White Crane Fist ) = Hakutsuru
		Yes, there are some Okinawan forms called White Crane (Hakutsuru, 白鶴) based either on Matsumura's style or on Wu Xianhui's teachnigs but as far as I know, none of these is commonly practised in TSD circles.
		White Crane is actually very similar to Matsumura's style and also to old Naha systems which I can confirm because White Crane is besides Taiji the only Chinese system I gave a try to out of curiosity.
		Or White Crane Chinna: one of the basic techniques is very similar to the elbow "blocks" in the 2nd half of Pyung Ahn 3.
	www.warrior-scholar.com /wforum/viewtopic.php?t=146&sid=8067bc4272df7d4dbb2f199ef90b7638 (1932 words)

	Helen Shen White Crane Kungfu, Fujian White Crane
		Helen Shen White Crane Kungfu, Fujian White Crane
		Fujian BaiHeTang 董木堯福建白鶴堂 was founded by the Grandmaster Dong MuYao.
		As the situation of conflicts between Taiwan and Mainland China evolved, and the family tradition could not be kept, Grandmaster Dong founded the Fujian BaiHeTang, teaching Fujian BaiHeQuan ("Fujian White Crane Kungfu") to the public, and performing healing with Tie-Da-Shun-Shang.
	www.taomartialarts.com /crn/crn_fujian.html (328 words)

	Leung's White Crane
		It was popularly known as White Crane, or Tibetan White Crane to be exact.
		Yet it cannot be mistaken for the Fujian Style of White Crane, which owes its origin from the original Shiolin.
		White Crane today is evolving; many practitioners often make what is given to them their own.
	www.sfwhitecrane.com /hist.shtml (670 words)

	White Crane Research Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		This encapsulates the White Crane philosophy and involves the signature "Gungshen" or Spirit Shout of the Calling Crane style, exhaling Qi and essential energy, opening the voice and assisting power into the movement.
		The body position (Tiwei) is held supple and relaxed and is likened to a bow with the limbs being the arrows (Zhang).
		White Crane Kung Fu is a soft style which focuses on short ranged hand techniques, with a strong emphasis on applying Dan Dou Qin (Chi tremor).
	home.austarnet.com.au /tsuruken/p59.htm (300 words)

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		One of the reasons Master Huang insisted that Wee Kee Jin learn White Crane was that it would shorten the usual time required to learn how to generate relaxed forces from 7 years to just 4 years, thus accelerating his learning of Tai Chi.
		Fujian White Crane is a soft-hard system with its fundamental basis in correct posture, alignment, breathing and "mind" to create and issue the "relaxed force" at speed.
		White Crane can be considered soft-hard because the emphasis is more on internal power than external strength.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/park/yfv90/central/fwc-wshop1-2002.htm (326 words)

	Jundokan United Kingdom
		According to Master Huang however, they are in fact just different aspects of the one style, and so within his White Crane, all of them may be found.
		Fujian White Crane is part of the ancestry of Goju Ryu Karate Do.
		Although the forms (kata) of White Crane have not been passed down verbatim, it is likely that what Kanryo Higaonna learned from Xie Zhong Xiang was how to develop and apply the fundamental princples of force and movement.
	www.jundokan.org.uk /whitecrane.htm (214 words)

	White Crane Kung Fu eBooks
		Fujian White Crane is not related to Tibetan White Crane, the Shaolin Crane Form or the Tiger Crane form of Hung Gar.
		Properly translated as The Tiger Crane Combination Set, this form is an important Hung Gar Kung Fu routine which trains you to attack with the ferocity of a tiger, and move with the grace of the crane.
		Fang Xi Liang's White Crane Kung Fu, sometimes called Fujian or Southern White Crane Kung Fu is a soft style which focuses on short ranged hand techniques, with a strong emphasis on applying Dan Dou Qin (Chi tremor).
	www.ikungfu.net /White-Crane.htm (575 words)

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		But Fujian housed three different Shaolin temples in its time and these gave birth to the famous White Crane "kung fu" (a westernised term the Chinese don't use, as it simply means "hard work")/Wu Shu styles, or "southern styles" as they are sometimes called.
		The White Crane styles from Fujian were originally born from this temple, and emphasise both "hard" (often direct) and "soft" (often circular) techniques, encompassing strikes, kicks, locks, throws, grappling, punches, etc. They also use various ancient weapons, from the self-explanatory broadsword and spear, to trident, tiger catcher and even the fan.
		White Crane students also learn when meditating to start "refining" their energy.
	www.nickryan.net /articles/kungfu.html (3337 words)

	KarateForums.com - Crane
		Well i can't answer how i see crane used in karate because i have'nt seen it used in karate.I don't think it's the deadliest of the animals either in my own thoughts.I would say snake,tiger,and monkey are some of the most deadly.I like the crane though although tiger and monkey are my two favorite animals.
		White Crane is very deadly, as is snake, and dragon forms beacuse of thier fluid unpredictable movements.
		I know of the concepts are crane concepts even though movements are more like a mixed of karate and crane in one movement I seen certain hand postions and such.
	www.karateforums.com /archive/o_t/t_10638/crane.html (788 words)

	QC Results > white crane in Quebec
		Sifu of Shaolin White Crane Kung Fu in Montreal, Quebec.
		White crane, wing chun andamp; northern shaolin kung fu; Weapon training andamp; Lion dance.
		White crane, wing chun and northern shaolin kung fu; Weapon training and Lion dance.
	www.canadianbusinessdirectory.ca /historyqc_white_crane.htm (185 words)

	" White Crane Kung Fu Info Page"
		Fang Chi Niang was drying grain at this temple one day when a huge white crane landed near her and started to eat up the grain.
		Fang quickly grabbed her staff and tried to shoo away the bird but everything she attempted was foiled by the crane: it evaded with its head, avoided strikes to its wings and pecked at the staff.
		White Crane style takes it technique and strategies from the creature itself and heightens each attribute to a special skill.
	www.plumpub.com /info/knotebook/boxWCfukien.htm (799 words)

	Baihequan (White Crane Kung Fu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		White Crane ("Baihequan") is a traditional Chinese martial art inspired by the movements of a crane.
		One of Huang's teachers is thought to have been influencial in the development of the Okinawan martial arts.
		Some additional images of Yek Sing Ong doing White Crane are available for those who are interested.
	www.rembrandt.gen.nz /white_crane (137 words)

	Hung Gar Information
		He is said to have added to Tiger Crane the bridge hand techniques and rooting of the master Tit Kiu Saam as well as long arm techniques, attributed variously to the Fat Ga, Lo Hon, and Lama styles.
		The dissemination of Hung Kuen in Southern China, and its Guangdong and Fujian Provinces in particular, is due to the concentration of anti-Qing activity there.
		The Hung Mun began life in the 1760s as the Heaven and Earth Society, whose founders came from the prefecture of Zhangzhou in Fujian Province, on its border with Guangdong, where one of its founders organized a precursor to the Heaven and Earth Society in Huizhou.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Hung_Gar (1728 words)

	Oriental Planet - white crane kung fu
		Fujian White Crane Kung Fu Become a member Member login Username: Password: Dave Courtney Jones Instructor FWC City & Islington and FWC City of London Dan Grading China 2004 Contact details: 07958...
		This particular system of Naha-te can be traced back to a style of White Crane Kung-fu and may also have been influenced by the Dragon, Hawk, Mantis, and Lion systems of Kung Fu.
		white crane kung fu in crawley from visualcontact.co.uk
	www.bigorientalplanet.com /kungfu/whitecranekungfu (967 words)

	Fujian Baihequan - White Crane Kung Fu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Fujian Baihequan - White Crane Kung Fu Fujian Baihequan - White Crane Kung Fu White Crane Kung Fu - 白鶴拳 or báihèquán in Chinese - is a traditional Chinese martial art inspired by the movements of a crane.
		It is not the same as the crane form from Shaolin Kung Fu or Tibetan White Crane, which are separate styles.
		We are not teaching the White Crane Kung Fu system at the moment.
	www.singongtaichi.com /baihequan.html (180 words)

	View topic - He Quan
		The 5 substyles from Fujian white crane is actually substyles from Yongchun Bai He Quan.
		the tibetan white crane was attributed to a lama, but in fact it is a chinese style.
		Tibetan white crane is one of these attempts at making the bridge.
	www.cyberkwoon.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=8105 (554 words)

	Fujian White Crane (martial art) - China-related Topics FU-FZ - China-Related Topics
		Q??ni??ng tried to hit the crane on the head, but the bird moved its head out of the way and blocked the stick with its wings.
		Q??ni??ng tried to hit the crane's wings, but the crane stepped to the side and this time blocked with the claws of its feet.
		W??nm??o (?????????), a historically verifiable opera performer and leader in the 1854andndash;1855 Red Turban Rebellion in Foshan, is said to have practiced the Y??ngch??n style of White Crane.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Fujian_White_Crane_(martial_art) (520 words)

	ShaolinWolf.com
		He Quan, or crane boxing, is the general name for five styles of crane-imitating boxing, all of which have around a 300 year old history.
		All five crane styles became formally accepted by the end of the Qing dynasty and all five styles are predominantly practiced in the south of China.
		In jumping crane boxing, students are required to move around in circles with their bodies and arms relaxed.
	www.shaolinwolf.com /maguideindex/crane.htm (525 words)

	Authentic White Crane Kung Fu Boxed Collection
		Much of this material may be lucky to survive as some was destroyed in a fire and this comes from a hand copied edition.
		This material - with illustrations of figures - is probably the most "hands on " of the volumes with descriptions of evasive methods, strikes and other fundamental elements of the art.
		"White Crane Boxing's Founder Fang Qi-Niang": Written sometime in late Qing dynasty this manual is not attributed to any author.
	www.plumpub.com /sales/lionbks/bk_whitecraneboxed.htm (495 words)

	FuJian White Crane Kung Fu Fu Jian London England China Singapore
		Also here is a 5 Meg.mov file of one of the Haku Tsuru (white crane in japanese) forms that he practices.
		He then split from it and started to teach the Tiger Crane syllabus deceptively under the name Fu Jian White Crane which he was still doing in 2001 which was the last time I visted any of his schools.
		I am not sure of where his crane is from but I know it's emphasis is a little different from our own, and yet without a shadow of a doubt Crane.
	www.fujianbaihe.com /fujianbaihe/othercranes.html (2351 words)

	FightingArts.com Forums: White Crane help.
		After reading the bubishi, it seems as though much of the katare kata are related to the same area of china that white crane was developed.
		Though Goju uses a lot of crane blocking and stepping routine and few Crane movements as found in Saifa (1 leg stance(knee,block,check sweep whatever) kick and Seipa (seen in WC spining twist back fist) among others but there doesn't seem to be any direct connection to purely White Crane.
		Fukien or Fujian White Crane does look like Uchei or Goju somewhat you can see an begining but there are no simliar Kata except an open hand version of Sanchin and its not done the same.
	www.fightingarts.com /ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/9854031/Main/221790 (1013 words)

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