“As dense as raindrops and as fast as a burning string of small firecrackers.”
Fanzi Quan, or Tumbling Boxing, is a style of Kung Fu that stresses the combination of external and internal strengths and energies. It is
also known as Bashanfan, or Eight-Palm Boxing, because of its eight major flashing movements that are executed as fast as lightning. The
movements in Fanzi Quan are varied and continuous.
The forms practiced in Fanzi Quan are short and brief. Its movements are agile and quick and arranged in compact patterns. Various
techniques and moves are like whirlwinds and the entire forms are completed as if in one breath. Fanzi Quan stresses crisp, fast, hard
and resilient movements.
Some people believe that Yueh Fei created Fanzi Quan, but no historical records have verified this. It was during the Song Dynasty that
Fanzi Quan was believed to be created, but it was during the Ching Dynasty that Fanzi Quan got popular.
Fanzi Quan fighters prefer to fight in a straightforward way. They change freely from hardness to softness, and softness to hardness.
Their fist never hits out aimlessly nor does the hand retreat without trying to attack on its way back. A Fanzi Quan fighter takes root in
their legs while emphasizing hand tricks and movements.
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