SHIDAXING/TEN LARGE SHAPES TEN ANIMALS - SIX PRINCIPLES 

The oldest of the so-called "Internal Martial Arts", Shidaxing or the Ten Great [Animals] forms, has been around for almost four hundred years and has hardly changed in that time. Dan Vercammen was the first Westerling who discovered and started practicing this martial art in Shanghai in 1985. It's a spicy, very efficient martial art with roots in Taoist alchemy and military training from the Song, Yuan and Ming periods (10th to 17th centuries). Through single techniques, which lead to longer sets of movements can be combined, the practitioner gets quick access to the core of the training. The movements of ten animals (dragon, tiger, horse, rooster, monkey, snake, swallow, sparrowhawk, bear and eagle) are the inspiration for the Shidaxing techniques.

Powerful and elegant techniques serve to defend yourself, improve your health and increase your resilience, and to be spiritually alchemical work.…