Your trainings?

[pccksf]

Hi everybody! How are you all?

Do you mind sharing your own shaolin trainings?
What do you do first and how do you train?


Herman

[norther practitioner]

Can you be more specific... that could take all day.

[pccksf]

sure.. I mean things like what do you learn when you first started your shoalin trainings?

I practise the 5 stances, a warmup gung, and 100steps han gung kuen.

[norther practitioner]

We do a 9 stance drill similar to wubu chuan, a form called yi chuan, and some two man stuff to start out with.

[pccksf]

9 steps? what are the 9 stance drill?

[norther practitioner]

Just a stance drill my teacher has come up with.

horse
high
cross
front
back/front
drop
skip
front
horse

[stimulant]

10 line tan tui

wu bu chuan

warm up kicks

for first 6 months!!!

[Losttrak]

Warm Up:

10 count punches
Neck
Shoulders
Waist
Hips
Knees
Ankles
One Foot Stance
Low Stance
Split (front/back/middle) & (Head to Knee)
Push Ups (hand/fist/tricep/backbend)
Searching The Sea**
Sleeping Buddha**
Kicking The Sky**
One-Leg Squat**

Basic Kicks:

High Heel Kick
Outside Crescent
Inside Crescent
Sidekick
Roundhouse Kick
Hook Kick
Axe Kick
Front Slap Kick
Spinning Sidekick**
Spinning Backkick**
Wheelkick**
Kicks Across Room**
Scope Kick**
Circle-Sidekick**
Leg Hooks/Sweeps**

Stances:

Bow
Horse
One Foot
Twisting
Cat Stance
Fighting R & L
Tiger Holds His Head
Walking Stances**

Punches:

Backfist
Straight Lead
Reverse Punch
Hook
Uppercut
Double Arm Attacks**
Classical Attacks**
Spring Attacks**
Riposte**


Stuff with stars by them are for people who have been doing the workout for some time.

[Shaolinlueb]

stances:
horse
bow
cat
crane
open
sitting
crouched
sneaking

kicks:
cai jow
lun bi cai jow
zang zi tau (sp?)
wa bu tau
li hay tau
set zi tau
tan tau
side kick
sweep
roundhouse
heel kick

jumps:
single knee
double knee
single knee raise other foot up
tornado jump
jumping cai jow
arch back
tornado kick

rolls and breakfalls:
kneeling roll
standing roll
running roll
diving roll
diving roll over pads
crouching breakfall
standing breakfall
jumping breakfall

self defense:
reaction drills
work applications for forms
free sparrign drills
sparring
continious fighting

combining random basics
forms


thats not in one night.
we take bits and pieces and do them in the scheduled class.
usualy do a warm up then go through the basic ones everyone knows first.

[bodhitree]

jump drills, stretching, serious jump drills, stance exercises/holding, forms!

[pccksf]

um~ Pretty different from what I learn. But also simular.

First, warmup (a basic gung from wu dan)

then,..

I do the 5 stances in a few different ways. 5 stances are horse, bow, empty, twist, single leg. When I mastered the MAN JONG, we will do the MO JONG. It's simular but in different ways of practising.

Stretches and kicks...

[Scythefall]

A typical beginners class - We open class with the salutes, then go through three chi awakening exercises. After that we do lubrication of the joints and some light stretching. Then we move into the traditional temple exercises. These double as stance/waist training and further warm up the muscles and stretch you out. We hammer through 8 count blocking, punching drills, some kicks, and usually a muscle-tendon change set. After that we grab kicking shields and work on kicks and strikes. After that we take a quick 2 minute break and come back to work on Tan-Tui and forms. We close the class with chen village style chi kung and then salute out.

Intermediate and advanced classes follow similar structure but are more intense and have more fighting related applications depending on the time of year. If it is nearing demo time, like chinese new year, we'll do forms until we can't move.

Mantis is fighting oriented and we end doing forms. There's about 14 or 15 forms in Tai Chi Mantis, 7 "7-star" forms and 7 Tai chi mantis forms.