ZuiQuan

Everyone knows about martial arts, like karate, kung-fu, judo etc. But there is a martial art that less people know about, it's the ZuiQuan [pronounced Juikuenn] or, in english, the Drunken Fist.

It's a high leveled kung fu, the chinese martial art, and considered as one of the most rare and difficult to do. It's because there is eight arts in one, each of them are inspired by one of the eight immortals, Ba Xian. In chinese legends, there are eight immortals, they are like that only if they drink alcohol, so they are drunken everytime. I won't write the whole story, it would too long but I'm going to tell you a summary.

The eight immortals are six men, one woman and one another that change by the story-teller, sometimes it's a man and sometimes it's a woman. The eight were human before, but become immortal by gaining wisdom and magic power. They all have one or two items to identify them, like gourds, staffs or musical instrument.


The art is inspired by those eight, with their own abilities and problems. Someone that doing the ZuiQuan faints a drunken man to disturb the opponent, for people it could be funny to watch because there is some strange moves and sounds.

Nowadays, we can't find any clubs without an extreme luck in Europe. There is some Shaolin Temple, in China, where you could learn it but you won't be able to learn it like that, you'll need to be in the temple, and so become a buddhist monk.

Well, you can find some videos on youtube or dailymotion. By watching some videos and read about ZuiQuan, I wanted to do it, so now I train at home or outside like the masters teach it.

David F.