These five type snakes make up the southern snake style system. Grandmaster Ng taught this particular snake style as well as water snake, shadow snake, king cobra, and Golden snake. The green bamboo viper is the snake style taught in the United States by Grandmaster Wing Loc Johnson Ng. As it was integrated into Shaolin, it got more refined and sophisticated. This particular form of snake fist originated in Cambodia and worked its way up to China. The snake style of green bamboo viper is one of the five subsets that was taught at the Southern Shaolin Temple. With them, they brought all the martial arts knowledge they had. Fukien temple was a refuge for the Henan Temple monks when that temple was destroyed. Snake style kung fu was practiced at this temple as well as dragon kung fu and praying mantis kung fu. The Southern Shaolin Temple in Fukien Province was sometimes known as 'the snake temple'. Snake style generally aims for weak points of the human body, such as the eyes, groin and joints. There are even specialty varieties of sword blades and spear points that curve back and forth down the length of the blade in imitation of the snake's body known as snake sword and snake spear. Snake style is also known as an approach to weapons training, the Chinese straight sword and spear in particular. Since breath is important to any movement of the spine and ribs, snake style is considered one of the main styles which eventually led to internal training. This necessitates building a strong spine to contain the power and strong fingers to convey the strike. The stancework is fluid in order to maximize the whipping potential of any movement. The ability to sinuously move, essentially by compressing one's stomach/abdominal muscles, is very important. Snake style is based on whipping or rattling power which travels up the spine to the fingers, or in the case of the rattler, the body shake which travels down the spine to the tip of the tailbone.

Snake is one of the archetypal Five Animals of Chinese martial arts the other four being Crane, Tiger, Leopard, and Dragon. There are two unrelated, Northern and Southern snake styles. Some, for example, imitate the Cylindrophiidae, while others imitate the python, while some schools imitate other types of snakes, like the viper and the cobra. Дifferent snake styles imitate different movements of snakes.

The sinuous, fluid motion of the snake lends itself to the practical theory that underlies the ' soft' martial arts. The snake is also one of the animals imitated in Yang family Taijiquan (T'ai chi ch'uan), Baguazhang and Xingyiquan. Snake style is said to especially lend itself to applications with the Chinese straight sword. Proponents claim that adopting the fluidity of snakes allows them to entwine with their opponents in defense and strike them from angles they would not expect in offense. 'snake fist') which imitate the movements of snakes. There are several Chinese martial arts known as Snake Boxing or Fanged Snake Style ( Chinese: и›‡ж‹і pinyin: shГ©quГЎn lit.

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