In Martial Arts there is fighting styles such as the tiger, crane, and snake. Is there a rabbit fighting styl?

Question

And No Smart Stuff! If A Mantis Can Do It Why Not A Rabbit, Right?!

Answer 1

Rabbits while fast and good at teaching you to run when needed, are more prey than predator. The tiger is predator that kills its prey with it's sharp claws, the crane preys on smaller  animals with it's deadly beak, and the snake hunts other creatures using poison from its dangerous fangs. All of those animals have one thing in common, they are the hunter not the hunted. Not only that all of those creatures show incredible strength and ferociousness in the wild, instead of fear and weakness like the rabbit.

Answer 2

Yes - it involves breeding rapidly to overwhelm your attackers with your offspring!

Answer 3

Kung Fu animal styles are normally taken from animals that are Predators.  Animals (or insects) that hunt and kill other animals.  These animals have used the same techniques and attacks on a daily basis for survival, therefore they are usually straight forward and efficient.  

Baring the Monty Python movie, I have yet to see a rabbit attack and kill another animal for its consumption.  

But there are definitely things that the rabbit can teach a Martial Artists.  They are very good at quick speed, changing directions quickly, and being aware of their surroundings.  But as for an entire style based on a rabbit, I do not believe there is enough to work with.

As for the Mantis, It has been known to take down larger and stronger animals on a regular basis, and has been doing so for many thousands of years (or more - they recently found a fossilized preying mantis from the dinosour days)

Answer 4

Rabbit technique.  Dig a hole.  Hide.  Quiver.  

To answer your question, the asian techniques for combat were modeled after creatures that martial artists observed in combat.   These creatures displayed movement that the masters believed they could model and utilize in their own combat. That is why you see styles such as Mantis, even though the mantis is a small creature.

Rabbits are not creatures that engage in combat.  So no...no Rabbit style exists.

Answer 5

yes there is,its where you have lots of s*x and reproduce lots hence the term "root(thats have s*x in our lingo)like a rabbit.

Answer 6

There are as many styles as the great creatures in nature.  Study the rabbit and develop the same powerful movements; the powerful nibbling.  You too shall become as powerful as the great rabbit.

LOL

Good luck!

*additional

If you have ever seen a rabbit run from a fox or any other predator than it is easy to say that the rabbit has one of the strongest most athletic defensive styles nature offers.

Answer 7

ok, I'll give you a serious answer and a joke answer.

1- serious answer,

probably becasue the term "rabbit" style didn't mimick any animal movement that was supposed to be applied to describe the martial arts style. AND rabbits are considered docile animals so advertising that you do "rabbit style" will turn away prospective students.

Also many things were taught to a group of people that were generally illiterate, so it is highly likely that equating motions to typical ideas about how animals moved, helped the dirt farmer students (lets face it, techniques had to be able to be learned by illiterate farmers as well as professional soldiers) to memorize and remember the techniques during training.

2- joke answer.

Rabbit style = forcible rape style.

do you know how sexually aggressive male rabbits can be?

its like they are in prison and will hump anything that moves as a method of dominating it.

here are some examples of what rabbit style might look like if applied to combat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5HB9itO4...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUU_oOBZK...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmwZOU4qZ...

(first minuite or so on the last one)

do you really think that forcible rape should be considered a form of self-defence?

thats why there is no rabbit style.

EDIT: actually there is one where a rabbit tries and succeds that against a big dog (I think a doberman or aikida) search youtube for it, I didn't have the time.