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White Crane Kung Fu

Pok Hok Pai (White Crane Kung Fu) The crane is one of the original five animals of Shaolin Quan. White Crane style is very well known in Chinese martial arts circles, being said to emphasise high steps and sweeping diversions of attacks with the arms for defense, and high kicks and strikes with the elbows, fingers ("the crane's beak") and wrists for offense. Tai Ji Quan is said by some of its schools to originally be based on a combination of White Crane and Snake Kung Fu.

There is another style of White Crane, associated with Tibet, that uses hand and arm attacks of the Crane and footwork of the Ape, as well as some hand and arm techniques of the Ape.

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