Sacred Spring

Outer Skills

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The following outer skills are taught within the Sacred Spring school: The emphasis is on efficiency of movement and applicability

Striking Arts - Practical kicks, hand and body strikes.
Locking Arts - Includes wrist, leg, arm locks and strangles and chokes.
Throwing arts - Practical throwing techniques
Ground Arts - Defense from teh ground, and grappling and escape whilst on the ground
Cane and Stick arts - Use of a short cane and various lengths of stick for attack and defense.
Knife and Blade arts - Knife attack and defense, with various shapes and sizes of blade
Push hands/ Sticky hands - Listening, adhering and movinmg with your opponent. Sensitivity training.
Circular and linear movement - Understanding the laws of motion and using them to defeat your enemy.
Hand, stick and blade drills - Straigtforward drills for building automatic movement and muscle memory
All fighting ranges - Using all weapons at all ranges

Other weapon arts may be studied and all that is useful will be considered and included where appropriate.

Sacred spring practitioners are expected to be proficient in all of these arts. There is no intermediate grading system, this would be the responsibility of the individual clubs, it is sufficient that when students appear for thier practitioner level grading they are competant physically in all of these outer arts. For a beginner, learning through our accelerated learning and skills building process, sufficent competance could be reached in three years. An experienced martial artists, whatever the style, may already have achieved an appropriate level in all or some of these arts. Each Sacred Spring level requires a combination of inner and outer skills.