Pachi Tanglangquan
A fusion of bajiquan and praying mantis boxing created by Taiwanese master Su Yu-chang. Today it is taught more in Europe and the Americas than in China.
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About Pachi Tanglangquan
Pachi Tanglangquan is a system that combines bajiquan, the fist of eight extremities, with the styles of the praying mantis. It was created by the Taiwanese master Su Yu-chang, who was born on June 24, 1940, in Dongshan near Tainan and died on April 29, 2019, on La Palma in the Canary Islands. He came to bajiquan in 1963, when he began training under Liu Yun-chiao, one of the key figures in the Taiwanese transmission of this style. He took up praying mantis boxing and mizongyi under Chang Tekuei. He also practiced xingyiquan and Wu-style tai chi, so the resulting system rests on more than two roots rather than a single lineage. The year in which the system itself took shape is not documented, and the catalog has removed the previously listed year of 1980 from the record; only the milestones of Su's own career are documented with certainty. In 1976 he left for Caracas in Venezuela, in 1989 he opened the first European branch on Mallorca, and in 1992 he trained security forces at the Olympic Games in Barcelona. From there his institute spread further, to Tokyo, New York, the Netherlands, Norway, Britain, and eventually back to Taiwan itself. It is one of the few Chinese systems that today has a stronger presence outside China than inside it, a fact that says as much about the school's later history as about its founder's own travels.
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