TAN TUI KUNG FU Back To Basics Routine Muslim Minorities .
TAN TUI KUNG FUBack to Basics RoutineBy Laurie CahnThis classic article was written in 1985 and first publishedKarate Illustrated Magazine.Author in high longfist posture.Several months ago, I asked my teacher, AdamHsu, what he first learned when he started practicingkung fu. He said that his father taught him a ten linetan tui routine. He explained that this was not a"family style" of tan tui. Because tan tui is wellknown, and widely practiced in China, evensomeone not serious about kung fu might well knowtan tui.Many Westerners have a difficult timepronouncing Chinese words correctly. There are somany different dialects. Tan tui (rhymes with RONto-A) is often mispronounced Tom Toy. Thisfamous Mr. Tom or Mr. Toy is often thought to bea Shaolin monk, who developed the system thatbears his name. But just as Tom Toy is not a realperson, tan tui is not a system in and of itself, nordoes it belong exclusively to the shaolin changquan (long fist) system. Instead, tan tui, meaning"springing leg," is simply the first level training ofthe Islamic style chang quan. Perhaps people areattracted to romantic visions of monks endlesslytraining in beautiful, isolated temples, many changquan systems are mistakenly called shaolin.Actually, shaolin is one of many branches in thelarge family tree of the chang quan system. Theshaolin chang quan system was developed by theHan people of China, while jiao men chang quan1(Islamic style long fist) was perfected by China'sMuslim minorities. In China there is an old kungfu saying: "From Nanjing to Beijing, the best tantui comes from hui style." (Hui refers to IslamicChinese.) Because of this kind of saying, in Chinasome people refer to tan tui as "huihui tan tui."The practice of tan tui spread all over China. Theprovinces, especially famous for their skill in the artand for a great number of students, were in theNorth: Henan, Hebei, Shandong, and Shanxi.There are many ways to practice tan tui. In SanFrancisco, there are four completely differentmethods of tan tui being taught. Aside from this fact,the jing wu system tan tui (perhaps the most famousand well promoted of all) is taught by fourinstructors in four different versions.Tan tui consists of a series of lines, that contain aset number of movements, repeated on the left andright sides. While there are a variety of ways ofdoing tan tui, usually it is organized into either a tenor twelve-line routine. Probably the original way topractice tan tui was to learn one line per month. Thefinal two months of the year, after the ten lines werelearned, were devoted to polishing the form. Ofcourse, one line of the twelve-line version was doneduring each month of the year.Sifu Hsu spent nine months learning tan tui fromhis father. Then he became a student of Sifu HanChing Tang and spent the entire year learning thejiao men chang quan system ten-line tan tui.This dedication to practice to something as basicand simple as tan tui might seem unreasonable, oreven impossible for some kung fu practitionerstoday. Is it worthwhile? In much of modern life theemphasis is on speed and convenience: fast cars, fastfoods, fast airplanes, a fast life. You don't have timeto cook dinner, so you rush to McDonald's and graba Big Mac. Of course, it's true, you did eatsomething. It's also true that you didn't eat a well-balanced meal. It was convenient.Unfortunately, there is no convenient way tolearn kung fu. It requires time, patience and diligentpractice--all items that can be learned from practicing tan tui. The humility and determination that canbe acquired after practicing tan tui for a year couldbe valuable for most kung fu students. However,after several months of tan tui, many students arequite sure that they can do the form at leastadequately. Many people believe tan tui is too basicand too boring to keep their attention. What manystudents fail to realize is that a year of practice canTraditional Wushu Association
speed up their future development. Tan tui is goodbasic training; it builds an exceptionally strongfoundation. Any student with good basics will findadvanced techniques easier to pick up. A kung fuproverb cautions: "Do not look down on tan tui forits plain postures and simple tactics; you will find ita powerful weapon after persistent practice ofkicking and stamping." The value of practicing tantui has never been disputed by knowledgeable kungfu practitioners. The boredom factor is not a newissue. Tan tui is recognized as being so beneficialthat it is adopted as part of basic training by manydifferent kung fu systems. A tang lang teacherincorporated tan tui into his system, but he made hisversion fourteen lines. Another teacher added moretechniques to another style of tan tui, creatingsixteen lines. No one knows if this was done in aneffort to sustain students' interest, or if theinstructors felt more was better--more lines and/ormore techniques.All styles of martial arts became popular in Chinaas more people began training. Instructors oftenbegan to add their own understanding and trainingtechniques, improving and polishing the quality ofthe art. On the other hand, some instructorsweakened the art, because they lacked properunderstanding of kung fu.Other recognizable differences in tan tui stylesare between styles that use high kicks, such as jiaomen chang quan, and those emphasizing low kicks,like the jing wu system. It isn't necessary to saywhich system is better. High kicks train students'balance and improve flexibility. Also, when a highkick is held at its apex, a student's leg strength isgreatly increased. Low kicks, on the other hand, aremore practical and more apt to be used in realfighting situations. Training for low kicks helps astudent learn how to deliver power. It is importantto note that even if the kicks in tan tui are done onlyone way, other basic training may be done tosupplement a student's knowledge and ability tokick. For example, while students of Sifu Hsu learnthe jiao men chang quan system with its high kicks,they are required to learn a series of low kicks too.One of the most common differences seen amongvarieties of tan tui deals with the fist. Some use avertical or standing fist, while others prefer thehorizontal fist. Again, it is a waste of time to arguewhether one way is better than the other; most likelythe difference happened because of organization. Ina single school, it's easier if everyone does the same2techniques. One can imagine an instructor orderinghis students to follow his methods. Of course,instructors might have sound reasoning, too. Somefeel that turning the fist produces added power;others believe keeping the fist vertical forces astudent to use his entire body to gain power.Author practicing the longfist Cha Quan form.Tan tui is used in most schools as an integral partof basic training to build up a student's foundation,but there is more than one way to do it. In thebeginning, each technique is done in a singlemovement. For example, punch, pause, block,pause, punch, pause, block, pause, and kick, pause.After a student becomes more adept, then he or shemay begin to combine some of the movements.Instead of blocking and holding the block and thenkicking, the blocking movement would be combinedwith the kick, so the student begins to learn to blockand kick simultaneously. Sifu Hsu has added tou bu(pulling step) for advanced students. Adding tou bunot only teaches the students to adjust the distancebetween themselves and their opponents, but it alsofacilitates the proper way to issue power bysimultaneously combining body movement with thestep.In addition to practicing tan tui alone, the studentalso must have some two-person training in order toreally understand the practical application of tan tui.This doesn't really teach the student to fight, but itdoes begin to condition the arms and legs, giving afeel for contact. Of course, much more training willbe necessary if the student wants to learn "real" kungfu usage.What are the basic techniques that can be learnedfrom tan tui? First, it teaches the basic postures:bow and arrow, horse, twisted, low, stretching leg,Traditional Wushu Association
40-60 and so on. It shows each position statically,and it teaches the student how to change smoothlyfrom one stance to the next.Next, tan tui uses all basic punching and blockingmovements. Again, these movements are learnedindividually, and then in combinations. For instance,line one separates the punch and the block, whileline two begins by simultaneously punching andblocking.Tan tui doesn't just teach a number of disparatemovements that are linked together in sequence; itteaches the student how to use the whole body asone piece. It shows a student how to bring the powerup from the feet and legs, engaging the entire bodyin delivering power, rather than simply using thearm or upper body. Sifu Hsu always likes to remindhis students that "the whole body is a fist." What hemeans is that even though a movement may appearto be a punch, in reality you may never get to deliverthe punch; your opponent may interrupt your punchas you attack and instead you must be ready to useanother part of your body, such as the elbow, hip, orshoulder, to complete your attack.Tan tui trains the legs--this is why it is called thespringing leg routine. As a foundation for the wholebody, the legs must be strong for students to improve. The constant repetition of holding postures,especially holding a kick at the point of climax,gives students ample opportunity to strengthen theirlegs. The saying, "The hands are like two doors, butit is the legs that deliver the power," shows why somany generations of kung fu practitioners have spentendless hours doing tan tui.Tan tui training is not just for the body: it buildsthe spirit, too. The willpower that it takes to forceyourself to repeat a not-so-fancy series of movements is good mental training. But it is not enoughto just repeat the movements; they must be donewith an eye that is looking for constant refinement.If the movements are simply repeated by rote thenpractice will never cause improvement. Studentsmust put their souls into each movement, and perform each routine with the wide-open, expansiveflavor that is the trademark of the long fist system.In addition to building the spirit, tan tui is a placewhere a student can begin to learn to control qi.What is qi? Some people call it internal energy,some just call it breathing, and still others call itthe life force; probably any and all of thesedefinitions are correct given that the concept of qiis very Chinese and difficult to translate into pre-3cise English. When practicing tan tui, or anymartial art for that matter, it is essential to keep qidown--the area about two to three inches below thenavel. As the student works out more vigorously,and becomes more fatigued, it becomes moredifficult, and more important, to keep qi down.One way to learn to control qi is to count yourbreaths while holding each posture. This also aidsconcentration, keeping the mind from wanderingduring practice. Instead of thinking about whaterrands you have to do after practice, or the fightyou had with a friend--you force yourself to countthe number of breaths, and try to keep them slow,regular, and very deep. This kind of trainingassures a student of building a foundation like apyramid: the head and upper body form the top,while the legs make up the sturdy base of thetriangle.The Ten Lines of Jiao Men Tan TuiTo describe a tan tui routine more specifically, Iwanted to give a brief synopsis of the ten line tantui set of the jiao men chang quan system. WhenSifu Hsu said that he had an old poem that hadbeen handed down to him by Sifu Han ChingTang, I asked if I could use it. Sifu Hsu explainedthat he thought the poem might confuse me morethan it would help me to really understandanything about tan tui. He told me that many oldpoems or manuscripts are passed off as some kindof incredible Bible that contains the real secrets ofa certain style. Many old kung fu masters were notscholars or intellectuals, and many times theirability to write even rudimentary Chinese waslimited at best; this rendered many old written textsalmost completely useless. After watching aclassmate of mine, who is getting his masters degree in Chinese language, struggle for two weeksto sensibly translate the poem, I began toappreciate why Sifu Hsu had said that, ".evenConfucius would have a hard time translating thispoem."Having abandoned my idea to have the poemtranslated, I will summarize the ten lines of the jiaomen chang quan. When it is possible, I will includeexcerpts from the poem that are understandable.The opening and closing to the poem are somewhattranslatable, so I have included those sections."The Kun Lun, grand immortal, teaches to theworld. Called tan tui [the techniques] containedTraditional Wushu Association
within, know no bounds."Line one: This is the most basic of all the lines,showing the basic forward thrusting punch in abow and arrow stance. The poem uses the imageof a yoke to describe this line, possibly becausethe arms are outstretched as if they weresupporting a yoke.Line 3Line four: This line begins with a change ofdirection on the 45-degree angle. It introduces anumber of new stances: the low stretching leg, thetwisted, and the 40-60. It also shows the chang shou,the technique of "wiping the arms or hands.''Line 1Line two: In this line, the student learns to punchand block at the same time--left kick, right punchand so on. The poem talks about a pulling andpushing motion referring to the way the right sideof the body twists forward with the punch whilethe opposite side retracts.Line 4Line five: This one is fairly straightforward:simultaneously upward block and punch, doublestrike (or block) down, and toe kick.Line 2Line three: Line three begins like line one butimmediately covers and blocks to the rear whilepunching. It introduces the long arms, orwindmill motion, the backfist, and blocking byusing the whole side of the arm and body.Line 5Line six: Line six begins like line four except on astraight line. It introduces a finger strike, and blockthat uses the arm in concert with turning the bodyand dropping the center of gravity into the low,stretching leg stance.4Traditional Wushu Association
Line 6Line seven: Line seven starts like line two with asimultaneous block and punch. It then introduces anew kind of overhead circular arm blocking andtrapping movement combined with the twistedstance. The roundhouse kick is done for the firsttime, rising out of the twisted stance andsimultaneously blocking.Line 7Line 8Line eight: This is the longest and most complexof all the lines. It includes three different kicks:toe, heel, and the side kick, and two of these areexecuted from low, coiled stances. Line eightlinks together several of the techniques that haveappeared previously.Line 9Line nine: Line nine is done on two opposite 45degree angles. It uses a low, blocking movementto lead into a flying double jump kick, combinedwith a wide-open arm movement.Line ten: This line begins with a small circularblock (and step) that the poem describes as"picking a flower." Another step is initiated bythe rear leg; then the body coils inward and botharms shoot out in opposite directions as thestudent executes a flying double jump kick. Thepoem describes this as springing outward like anarrow.Line 10Sifu Hsu says, "People, don't just look atwhat seem to be simple movements. Kick a lot,practice a lot. This is the foundation and roots (ofyour martial arts training)."Photos: (Line 1) Ron Jones; (Line 2) Rose SarinasWong; (Line 3) Derek Ma; (Line 4) Navid Mostofi;(Line 5) Deb Kwo; (Line 6) left to right Dan Farber,Rachel Norman, Rich Miller; (Line 7) Priscilla Sarinas;(Line 8) Thomas Weiss; (Line 9) David Bennett; (Line10) Thomas John.About the Author: Laurie Cahn is a Yin style baguapractitioner in San Francisco. LCSF@sonic.netCopyright (c) 2013 Laurie Cahn. All rights reserved.5Traditional Wushu Association
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