Real Shaolin Kung Fu: Shaolin Tiger Boxing VCD
Performed and demonstrated by Shi Xingjin
Explained by Shi Deci
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Published by People's Physical Education Publishing House
ISBN 7887210437

Tiger-style Boxing is an imitation set, and it is powerful and fierce, like tiger leaping from the mountain, tiger howling in the woods. The hand form is usually used with the tiger claw. Your will leads your qi (internal energy) to the finger tips. Keep your hands, eyes, body and footwork well coordinated. The movements are quick, changeable, and impossible to defend effectively. Your performance should imitate a tiger's power.

Animal-imitating Boxing imitates the forms and movements of animals with the stress on the hitting features of their movements and actions. These are then developed into fist plays by combining the offensive and defensive skills of the martial arts. Such animal-imitating boxing styles include monkey boxing, mantis boxing and eagle claw boxing. The movements look like a dragon flying, a tiger jumping, a clever monkey clattering, an eagle soaring, a crane standing, a snake roving, a duck waddling, a dog leaping, a rooster pecking and a mantis wielding its forelimbs. In the Shaolin boxing there are five animal-imitating routines - dragon, tiger, leopard, snake and crane. Shaolin Tiger Kungfu is very effective for combat.

虎拳是少林武术中的象形拳，拳式威猛，如猛虎下山，虎啸生威。拳路中贯穿的手法常用虎爪，以意领气，气贯爪指。手、眼、身法、步法、协调一致，快速多变，防不胜防。虎拳要表现出兽中之王的威猛气势。