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Фестиваль боевых искусств 'Традиции Вечны' Херсон 2013
The ancient treatise of the White Crane School Pei Ho Kwan says:
“Without SOFTNESS you cannot get to know HARDNESS. Without SUBTLETY you cannot get to know STRENGTH”. Without TENSHO you cannot understand SANCHIN!!!
San chin is hardness, Tensho is softness. Hardness without softness is serfdom, softness without toughness is weakness. One without the other cannot make a whole.
The main goal of Sam jen/San chin lies in receiving the advantage from the contact with the opponent. This, undoubtedly, demands a timely reaction to the changes in the combat situation; which, in its turn, is not possible without the momentary transformation of hardness into softness and the other way round.
In Pei Ho Kwan there are several types of Sam jen/San chin that aim to resolve these problems. These include the Diamond finger San chin and the ancestor San Chin. Overtime they transformed into kata rokkishu, which, in its turn, served as basis for Tensho.
Sam jen/San chin of the Diamond finger. For this complex are distinctive the techniques built upon Shaolin north-south principle. The movements are conducted back and forth, left and right, up and down - which gives an opportunity to change the direction of the application of force in fight.
Sam jen /Sam chin of the ancestor is the “softest” complex of San chin. It is characterized by slippery movements that imitate crane’s wings. To unusual poking finger strokes are added whipping and cutting movements. The emphasis is placed upon uniting the heavy-sticky and accentuated-fast movements. Thus, is consolidated the basic principle of the “White Crane”: hard but not really hard, soft but not really soft