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Piercing Foot
Chuo Jiao
According to the legend that style was created by Deng Liang during Song Dynasty (960 - 1279). But records prove that Zhao Canyi (early 1800's), a revolutionary from Henan who participated in Taiping Movement (1850), created it.
Chuo-Jiao with its unique and variety of deadly footskills combined with the advantage of the fast hand actions of the Fan-Zi styles makes this a particularly lethal combination and uniquely beautiful style.
Main features: Of course many foot techniques, the concept to neutralise an opponent by breaking his leg bones, many double kicks.
Chuojiao - it is a method of using feet in martial art. It appeared at the Song dynasty and flourished during Ming and Qing dynasties. At the end of Song dynasty there were known "xia quan" ("fist of knights") and "ti quan" ("kicking fist").
Chuojiao was known as yuanyang tui (leg of mandarin duck). In the famous novel "River's creeks", created during the end of Yuan - beginning of Ming dynasty, in Chapter 28 "Drunken Wu Song beats Jiang Menshen innkeeper" there are words: "step of nephrite ring, leg of mandarin duck". So this style was popular during that time. When taiping's army came to Cangyin village in Raoyang district of Hebei province, they taught "chuo jiao" and "fanzi quan". During that time the most known masters wereDuan Xuhe (nickname - Old Xu) and Wang Zhanao (Wang - iron leg) from the Northern Bulan village of Gaoyang county of Hebei province. During the years of the reign under the motto "Daoguang" the generation 'Dian' of Duan family consisted of five brothers, all of them were good fighters. They became the students of famous master Han Luma, who taught them chuojiao and fanziquan. They transferred the art on the North-East to the Xu Zhaoxiong (nickname - Jingchan; people called him Xu Zhichan and gave him a nickname "Iron Archat"); Xu transferred the art to He Hexiang (nickname - Mingjiu) and Yang Junfeng, both - from Shenyang. After moving to Jilin province Yang taught his son Yang Jinchun and Hu Chunxian from Shenyang, who trained Zhang Zuolin (real lord of Manzhuria during 1920s). Besides them Cheng Qingchun (nickname - Dongge) from Yantai also was skilled in this art. In the branch, moved to Gansu and Shanxi provinces the most known were Ma Fengtu and Ma Yingtu.
Chuojiao includes 'ba gen' ('eight roots'), also called 'wen tanzi' ('civil parts'), and 'jiu zhi' ('nine branches') - 'wu tangzi' ('military parts'). 'Ba gen' - it is eight sole leg movements. All variety of leg techniques arises from this eight movements - it is a reason for the name 'eight roots'. 'Nine parts', also called 'nine-sections leg of mandarin duck'. High leg-techniques became the main.
Chuojiao's leg techniques include 19 forms and 90 methods. It includes: piao (fly on the wind, flatter), po (slopped), jue (horse kick), liao (lift), quan (surround), mo (mop), duo (stamp) and chuo (thrust-in); uses ti (hold), dian (point), dou (shake), mo (mop) and chuai (thrust) as a base.
