Pachi Tanglangquan
According to Wikipedia and school websites, the name of Taiwanese master Su Yu-chang's institute, teaching several mantis branches and bajiquan in separate syllabi.
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About Pachi Tanglangquan
Pachi tanglang is, according to English Wikipedia and the school's websites, the name of the institute of the Taiwanese master Su Yu-chang. English Wikipedia writes of the Pachi Tanglang institute, and the school's website in Mallorca states that it teaches separate syllabi of several mantis branches and bajiquan, the arts whose names are joined in the title. We have not been able to document a separate system that would merge the two arts. All sources for this topic are Wikipedia and the school's own websites, and we found nothing about it in encyclopedias or specialist press.
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According to English Wikipedia, Su Yu-chang lived from 1940 to 2019. From the age of eight he studied under the mantis master Chang Tekuei, and from 1963 he was among the prominent students of Liu Yunqiao, founder of the Wutan center for spreading Chinese martial arts. According to Wikipedia, he left for Caracas, Venezuela, in 1976, while the school's website gives 1978. The Cambridge branch writes that Su founded the Pachi Tanglang institute in 1978 in the lineage of Liu Yunqiao. According to Wikipedia, Su founded the first European branch in Mallorca in 1989 and soon afterwards one in Barcelona. According to Wikipedia, branches later appeared in Tokyo, New York, the Netherlands, Norway and Britain. According to it, Su died in April 2019 on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands. The school's website in Mallorca lists separate syllabi of four mantis branches, among them six-harmony and seven-star, and further of bajiquan, piguaquan, baguazhang, xingyiquan and taijiquan. We have not found the school's grades or examination rules.
History
Only English Wikipedia and the websites of the school and its branches cover Su Yu-chang and his school, and we found no sources of higher reliability. According to Wikipedia, Su was born on 24 June 1940 and was a Taiwanese fighter, researcher and practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine. From the age of eight he studied under the mantis master Chang Tekuei the pimen branch of mantis and the mizongyi art, and from 1963 a prominent student of Liu Yunqiao. The school's website also lists as his teachers Wei Hsiao-Tang, Li Kuen-Shan and Shang Tan-Chih. According to the school's syllabus, pimen mantis runs through Chang Tekuei, seven-star and meihua mantis through Li Kuen-Shan and Wang Songting. In 1976, according to Wikipedia, he left for Caracas, where he first taught together with Dai Shizhe and later founded his own institute. The school's website states that in 1978 Su taught at the Central University of Venezuela as part of a cultural exchange. According to Wikipedia, Su gave the Wutan center an international continuation as the Pachi Tanglang institute with branches worldwide. Wikipedia does not say founder of the system, it writes of the institute.
How it differs
The school's website in Mallorca lists four mantis syllabi with different lineages, pimen mantis from Chang Tekuei, six-harmony through Ding Zicheng and Liu Yunqiao, seven-star and meihua through Li Kuen-Shan, and eight-step, and bajiquan as a separate syllabus. English Wikipedia states in the article on northern mantis that eight-step mantis was taught abroad by Su Yuchang as a student of Wei Xiaotang.
Training
The school's website in Mallorca lists separate syllabi for pimen, eight-step, six-harmony and seven-star mantis with meihua, and further for taijiquan, bajiquan, piguaquan, baguazhang and xingyiquan. The six-harmony mantis syllabus lists sixteen basic techniques and nine hand forms. According to English Wikipedia, Su published books, mostly compiled from lessons, in Spanish, Japanese and English, among them Pachi Tang Lang Chuen in Barcelona in 1990 and Pachi Tanglang Chuan in Madrid in 2006, and he made videos on baguazhang, bajiquan and several mantis branches.
Today
According to English Wikipedia, Su founded the first European branch in Mallorca in 1989, soon after one in Barcelona, and in 1992 trained special security teams for the Barcelona Olympic Games. Branches later appeared, per Wikipedia, in Tokyo, New York, the Netherlands, Norway and Britain, and he strengthened branches in Taipei and Kaohsiung. Su died, it says, on 29 April 2019 on the island of La Palma. According to its website, the Cambridge branch was founded in 2003 with Su's direct authorization, teaching has stopped since 2020 and a sister branch has operated in Lisbon since 2023. The school's website in Mallorca bears the name of the European Pachi Tanglang Association.
Did you know
According to English Wikipedia, Su Yu-chang's father, Su Cheng-sheng, was a member of the Taiwanese baseball team Kano, which Wikipedia calls legendary. The school's website states that at the age of fourteen Su won the Chinese national kung fu championship and in 1968 won gold with the Taiwanese team at an international championship in Malaysia.
Frequently asked questions
Is Pachi tanglang a separate style?
English Wikipedia writes of Su Yu-chang's institute, and the school's website in Mallorca states that mantis and bajiquan are taught there in separate syllabi. We have not been able to document a separate style.
Who was Su Yu-chang?
According to English Wikipedia, a Taiwanese master who lived from 1940 to 2019, a student of Chang Tekuei and from 1963 of Liu Yunqiao, who taught in Venezuela from 1976 and later in Europe.
Where is Pachi tanglang taught?
According to English Wikipedia, Su founded branches in Mallorca and Barcelona, later branches appeared in Tokyo, New York, the Netherlands, Norway and Britain, and he strengthened branches in Taiwan. The Cambridge branch's website also lists a branch in Lisbon from 2023.
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