Nam Hồng Sơn

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Nam Hồng Sơn is a fairly young Kung Fu style from northern Vietnam at almost 100 years of age . There is one Nam Hồng Sơn of the most common styles and there are large schools (mainly Hanoi and surrounding areas) with a total of several thousand students. In Germany ( Berlin and Leipzig ) and France, schools were founded by various Vietnamese masters.

Emergence

Nam Hồng Sơn Kung Fu was developed by the Vietnamese great master Nguyễn văn Tộ (also Sáu Tộ), who lived between 1895 and 1984, at the beginning of the 20th century in Vietnam from Shaolin Kung Fu (Chin: 少林 拳) and traditional Vietnamese Kung Fu developed.

Nguyễn văn Tộ, who was born in Van Hoi (Thuong Tin District, Ha Dong District) in Vietnam in 1895, learned Shaolin Kung Fu in southern China from 1909 to 1919. He then studied the centuries-old Vietnamese martial arts with the three most famous grandmasters of his home country :

  • Cụ Ba Cát
  • Cụ Cử Tốn
  • Cụ Hàn Bái

Together with these grandmasters, Nguyễn văn Tộ studied the various styles of Shaolin Kung Fu as well as the original Vietnamese forms.

These studies and the internalization of the characteristics of both traditions led to the belief that a combination of elements of Shaolin Kung Fu and the Vietnamese martial arts will create new possibilities. This would increase the chances of success in combat and competition. In order to implement these ideas, Nguyễn văn Tộ founded the kung fu school "Nam Hồng Sơn" in Hanoi in 1925.

“Nam Hồng Sơn” is made up of the terms “Nam” (南) for the traditional Vietnamese martial art and “Hồng” (紅) for Thiếu Lâm Hồng Gia ( Hóng Jiā Shaolin Kung Fu - 少 林洪 家 ). "Sơn" (山) symbolizes the firm status and existence of this style and means "big mountain".

Well-known grandmasters - direct line

Masters in Germany

  • Hoang Quang (Leipzig, since 1987), great-nephew of the great master Nguyễn văn Tộ
  • Phạm ngọc Quân (Berlin, late 80s to 2003), student of Cụ Bà Họ
  • Ute Pham (Berlin, to date)

Schools of the Nam Hồng Sơn in Germany

The oldest school of Nam Hồng Sơn is the Kunstkampfsport-Club eV in Berlin, founded by masters Phạm ngọc Quân and Ute Pham. Since 1991 it has produced more than 1000 students and some masters in this style, and competitions small and large have been organized regularly since its inception.

In 1992, Master Hoang Quang founded the Kung-Fu-Verein Leipzig eV, in which he teaches students from Leipzig and Taucha personally.

In 2003 the NHS Kung-Fu association was founded in Berlin, which was renamed “Nam Hong Son Dynasty” in September 2010. Master Lê Quốc Trung teaches in Berlin himself every two years, and regular training trips to Vietnam are also organized.

The Vo Dao Vietnam style of Chu-Tan-Cuong , a Kung Fu master living in Halle / Saale, is essentially based on the traditional Nam Hồng Sơn Kung Fu.

Features of the style

The Nam Hồng Sơn places particular emphasis on deep positions and particularly powerful and smooth execution of techniques; this is typical of Vietnamese martial arts. A graduation system was introduced late for Europeans by Europeans and is now gradually being used in Vietnam. While earlier in Vietnam you often only had to show a combination form (sequence of techniques, similar to the kata in karate) in order to advance as a student, in European belt systems more is often demanded of the individual student, e.g. B. partner exercises, techniques in standing and in motion, which often form fractions of the forms and should make the technique understandable to the student, for example as self-defense.

Elementary training content

  • elementary kick and punch techniques
  • Application training with partners while standing, moving and on punch pads (special emphasis is placed on low stance and powerful techniques)
  • Bài Quyền: Form training, d. H. fixed sequence of techniques, similar to the kata in karate
  • Training with traditional weapons (stick, sword , halberd , spear , xi, chain and fan )
  • Free fight for advanced students
  • Breathing techniques and meditation

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