DRUNKEN BOXING
The Deceptive Fist of Beggar So Chan
By Mike Frazier
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Beggar So and the Drunken Lineage
Every tradition needs a folk hero, and So Chan, better known as Beggar So — is a great one. Born in the late Qing dynasty, variously tied to Foshan or Hunan depending on the source, which tells you how much of his biography is retelling rather than record.
Consistent across every version is the fact that he was known as one of the Ten Tigers of Canton, master of Drunken Eight Immortals Boxing, a style whose loose, off-balance movement hides real structure under what looks like a man who's had far too much to drink.
Illustrated Techniques Include:
You DO NOT actually have to drink alcohol in order to practice the Drunken Fist. The whole idea is to make the opponent THINK you are drunk while you are actually quite cleverly outwitting him.
So Chan, also known by his nickname Beggar So, was a Chinese martial artist and folk hero who lived during the late Qing dynasty. He was a wanderer and vagabond who made a living performing martial arts and acrobatics with his younger sister in the streets of Guangdong. He formulated the unusual Golden Bowl and Iron Chopsticks technique, which involved the use of an iron bowl on one hand to provoke the opponent and striking the opponent's acupuncture points with the iron chopsticks on another hand. He also taught martial arts at Sancheng Community Training Centre in Guagzhou. Beggar So has had one of the longest running fictional afterlives of any Chinese folk figure, almost as famous as Wong Fei-hung.
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