[Hunter_86]

Does anyone know any information about a place where they teach drunken boxing?

[Wilhelm von Wankenstein]

Simple - just hit the nearest biker bar

Just a tad more seriously, which drunken style are you looking at? Several of the established styles, like Hung Gar, Eagle's Claw and Northern Shaolin all have their own drunken forms. If you're thinking of what Jackie Chan did in Drunken Master, for instance, that was the Hung Gar form.

[Mr.Cool]

Most drunken boxing forms are advanced forms in other systems. So far I've only come across one school that teaches drunken boxing(and seems legit) as an independent martial arts system, but I can't remember the website. I think it was Lau familly drunken fist or something like that. Try a google.com search for it

[Wilhelm von Wankenstein]

Indeed. There's a common misconception that Drunken Boxing is a style in and of itself. While I don't doubt that there are one or two styles out there that focus entirely on drunken style, the majority of drunken boxing I've seen is an adjunct of other systems.

[Mr.Cool]

Found it: http://www.joybotsin.com/

[asag2]

Hammerhead I do remember reading about some schools that teach entirely drunkin boxing forms.

Mr. Cool the drunkin form you speak of that is taught by the lau family is a form within Eagle Claw.

[Mr.Cool]

I think this is a different Lau familly.

[Hunter_86]

thanks for all the responses. I really appreciated it.

[jlambvo]

Interesting... I know nothing about drunken boxing, it's interesting to hear it described as an advanced/adjunct, deceptive form of other systems.

I've been told a similar interpretation regarding the HtH fighting style of Gyokyushin ryu ninjutsu. Gyokushin ryu uses body mechanics very similar to it's parent tradition Gyokko ryu kosshijutsu (which is very Chinese) but in whacked out and deceptive ways that could look like "drunken boxing."

There is some speculation that Gyokushin ryu is a synthesis of sorts by the Toda family and perhaps Takamatsu himself, based on old strategies and philosophies now entitled ninjutsu/ninpo. Takamatsu spent extensive periods on the mainland and supposedly mastered many fighting systems from there... I wonder if he borrowed some of these concepts (of drunken boxing) and applied them to Gyokko ryu, giving a fittingly deceptive style of fighting to this ninjutsu "ryu."

A little tangent, sorry if it is innappropriate

[Wilhelm von Wankenstein]

jlambvo: LOL, [i]suizake kenpo[/i? I haven't seen much Gyokko-ryu in action, but the little I have seen is indeed very deceptive, but I would venture to say in a different way from Drunken Fist. Drunken Fist is something of an offbeat, highly-specialised form of fighting that deliberately goes against the norm of martial arts to make itself highly unpredictable and frustrating to deal with, whereas I find that Gyokko-ryu, while deceptive and subtle, very much conforms with the norm and rule of successful martial arts, as it were. Drunken Fist would be what in Chinese would be called qi men wu gong, literally 'strange martial arts' that take advantage of the element of utter surprise to be successful.