This is the first Fei Hok Phai's routine. Chiu Ping Lok 'Sifu' made this routine to teach the fundamental stances ('mapu' horse stance; 'kunpu' arrow stance; 'ten ti pu' low stance; 'til key pu' cat stance; 'tan key pu' crane stance; 'key long pu' cross stance), punches and kicks, blocks and breathing exercises (external 'chi kun').
The 'Lim Pou Kuan' is a proper and very useful warm-up exercise.
'Lim Pou Kuan' means something like 'Stances and Punches Practice'
'Lim': Practice
'Pou': Stances
'Kuan': Punches
It is considered an easy routine. It is divided in two parts: in the first part, each movement is repeated four times and after each movement the student count ('one', 'two', 'three', 'four' or 'ja', 'ji', 'sam', 'sei'). Each movement can be done with full power, but it is not a routine to practice the speed. There is a space of time between each movement.
The second part of this routine is more dynamic, without the counts, but with the same rhythm of the first part.
Usually the student spend between one or two months to learn this routine.
Since a started to practice 'Fei Hok Phai' in 1985, the sequence of this routine was changed several times. When I just arrived in Ireland I made (one more time!) some changes on this routine. My idea was to keep the practitioner facing the same direction during the first part of the routine, and add more kicks to the routine.
I like to practice this routine as a solid base to warm-up at the beginning of my kung fu classes. Below, the first part of the 'Lim Pou Kuan', very slow and without strength, just to help my new students (and also to help my old Brazilian students!) to remember this sequence of movements.
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