Royal Dragon
02-17-2007, 08:16 AM
Hello all!
My recent inquirery into a local Chicago school has me wondering about the history of Chinese martial arts in Japan.
It's well known that Southenr styles like Five Ancestor's Fist, and White Crane were big influances on Okinawian Karate, which in turn influanced Japanese Karate, but what about direct Chinese to Japanese influances?
For example, the school I was asking about claim to have learned something called Kang Chuan Do which was founded here by a guy who originally learned something he called Gung Mao Gung Fu.
This is what the site says about Gung Mao Gung Fu
Gung Mao incorporated open hand as well as closed fist techniques in both blocking and striking. Kicking was kept to solar plexus level or below with the exception of two secret kicks kept at head level. Jump kicks were limited to front kick types. Last but not least, Forms, which came from an array of styles.
See that part in Bold? Does that mean this is a system of random Chinese martial arts that was collected in Japan and taught under the name Gung Mao? what does Gung Mao mean anyway? Does it mean "Skill of Mao Zedong?"
either way, what DIRECT influance has Chinese martial arts had on Japanese systems? How much Chinese Kung Fu was being practiced in Japan? Do we know now if it was historically posiible that Chinese martial arts were in Japan in an underground fashion and highly secrative in nature?
Maybe systems like what Shaolin Do evolved from really were Chinese in origin? Maybe we all just "Think" there is no connection? Not that I think Shaolin Do is Shaolin mind you, but based on comments on another thread I suspect it may have some sort of Southern Chinese or Hakka connections in Japan. Same with this Gung Mao system.
What is the plausibility of Chinese Kung Fu being in Japan, and has surfaced here in the US in the form of these strange Karate-ish schools, claiming to teach *Chinese* arts from Okinawia and Japan?
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My recent inquirery into a local Chicago school has me wondering about the history of Chinese martial arts in Japan.
It's well known that Southenr styles like Five Ancestor's Fist, and White Crane were big influances on Okinawian Karate, which in turn influanced Japanese Karate, but what about direct Chinese to Japanese influances?
For example, the school I was asking about claim to have learned something called Kang Chuan Do which was founded here by a guy who originally learned something he called Gung Mao Gung Fu.
This is what the site says about Gung Mao Gung Fu
Gung Mao incorporated open hand as well as closed fist techniques in both blocking and striking. Kicking was kept to solar plexus level or below with the exception of two secret kicks kept at head level. Jump kicks were limited to front kick types. Last but not least, Forms, which came from an array of styles.
See that part in Bold? Does that mean this is a system of random Chinese martial arts that was collected in Japan and taught under the name Gung Mao? what does Gung Mao mean anyway? Does it mean "Skill of Mao Zedong?"
either way, what DIRECT influance has Chinese martial arts had on Japanese systems? How much Chinese Kung Fu was being practiced in Japan? Do we know now if it was historically posiible that Chinese martial arts were in Japan in an underground fashion and highly secrative in nature?
Maybe systems like what Shaolin Do evolved from really were Chinese in origin? Maybe we all just "Think" there is no connection? Not that I think Shaolin Do is Shaolin mind you, but based on comments on another thread I suspect it may have some sort of Southern Chinese or Hakka connections in Japan. Same with this Gung Mao system.
What is the plausibility of Chinese Kung Fu being in Japan, and has surfaced here in the US in the form of these strange Karate-ish schools, claiming to teach *Chinese* arts from Okinawia and Japan?
e