finally got the clips from wong

[Shaolinlueb]

heres some clip i took from the august tourny (wong 2004) some lion dance and me doing an eagle claw form and my friend doing a northern shaolin form (skipped a part :o). then from the grand opening me doing more traditional. will have some wushu clips from the schol later.
http://www.nacma.net/demo/index.html

not the best performances but ill show anyways.

[SifuAbel]

Not bad, your friend was doing #7. Interesting take on the form.

[sean_stonehart]

Lion wasn't bad at all. It was nice to see an old school trick in it.

[Shaolinlueb]

Originally posted by SifuAbel
Not bad, your friend was doing #7. Interesting take on the form.


hmmm, he skipped a part. i guess you noticed :D

[LarryD]

Originally posted by Shaolinlueb
heres some clip i took from the august tourny (wong 2004) http://www.nacma.net/demo/index.html

not the best performances but ill show anyways.

Cool! and you got part of my finish at the start of Adams Eagle Claw Lohan at the Wong tournament.
Adam L Eagle Claw Lohan (http://www.nacma.net/demo/wong2004%20videos/ShaolinLuebYingJowLohan.WMV)

[SifuAbel]

Would you mind a bit of a critique?

[Shaolinlueb]

eh go for it Sifu Abel. I know my lohan wasnt that great and it needs work, my friend who does #7 doesnt come here so.. if you want.

[David Jamieson]

i thought the plum flower form looked ok except for the ommision of a chunk of it the second tornado kick and the rest of teh back half of the form.

your eagle claw form was ok too SL. Nothing to be ashamed of there.

[SifuAbel]

You ever play with a hollow bat with a weight in it? As you swing it, the weight goes to the end of the bat and you feel the weight . You've got to show more of the "surge" in your strikes. That "weight" has to look like its hitting the inside of your strike.

Next you have to avoid "wilting" . That is, you must make sure that you maintain every position throughout your movement. Going from move to move without there being a moment where your hands are just "floating".

Next you have avoid "jiggle" . You must move through your set fluidly but be set in stone when its comes to the showing the end of the move. Its got to look like a blurr then a still picture. Especially in your stances. That horse has to look like its set in concrete.

And , most importantly, "deliberateness" this abstract concept shows thought in performance. Those players that know exaclty what the move is doing have this quality. The move comes across with more feeling. You feel the "fight" in the move.

As for the #7, I just thought it was bit choppy in places.

[norther practitioner]

Good stuff SL.

[omarthefish]

Now maybe the skipped parts were forgotten, maybe not. I dunno. But I do know that when I did Hung Gar, IF anyone went to enter a forms competition we never did the complete or original forms. We didn't make stuff up but we always took things out and rearanged other bits because we knew there would be video and we didn't want to let our forms be videoed by anyone who didn't get specific persmission from Sifu.

The moves wouldn't be changed but if the form ever showed up elsewhere we would know where they got it from.

Just a thought.

[SifuAbel]

Thats pretty much standard practice.

[norther practitioner]

The form I was competing with, was most of one form, and one line out of another. The original form, which I like, was borderline too short.

[Shaolinlueb]

he jsut blanked and did what he could think of.

[IronFist]

Does anyone else think it's freaking scary when the sword guys are doing forms right next to the other people? If they both end up in the same place at the same time, someone's going to get hurt, especially if it's one of those moves where you attack behind you without looking! He could easily stab the empty hand form guy and not realize it. :eek:

[IronFist]

What does "hao?" mean?

I was recently at a kung fu tournament (spectating) and people in the audience kept yelling that out. I heard some people yell that out in that video and it reminded me to ask what it meant.

[Shaolin Dude]

mandarin for good