Pardon my lack of knowledge...

[PHILBERT]

I was surfing the net earlier and came across this:

http://www.carbonecho.com/Kungfu/Videos.dtml

Now, I have never seen Southern Praying Mantis done before, so my question is this: Is that really Southern Praying Mantis? It resembles no style of Mantis I have ever seen. Just curious.

[PHILBERT]

So I guess no one here studies Southern Mantis?

[jon]

I know the vid you mean.
I pretty sure its not a traditional form but i could be wrong.
Looks quite nice to me, you can see expression of ging and there is good speed and flow.
It DOES look VERY odd though i know...
Also it pays to rememeber that the different variations of spm are quite different and look quite different especialy to those who are not knowledgeable of southern mantis.
I dont study the system so i cant tell whether the guy is a good representive of the system or not.
Im not even sure exactly what linage of SPM Norman Chin is from.

[David]

I can't make the link work at the mo.

[PHILBERT]

try typing in http://www.carbonecho.com and then click VIDEOS at the top and locate Kung Fu in there.

[TaoBoy]

Philbert,

Can't get that link working!
The previous one is dead too.

Bummer!

[PHILBERT]

Ahhh yes I see. Hmmm, either the site was deleted for one reason or another, or the server is down. Sucks too, had alot of good stuff on it. I could post it from another site, but I dont know of good sites to post about 7 megs of video.