Anyone know good footwork clips?

[Royal Dragon]

Hello all!

I am looking for a variety of footwork strategies, and clips of drills and such to train them. Does anyone have some good sugjestions?

[bodhitree]

www.rosstraining.com

He has some cool jump rope workouts that will improve your footwork.

[Royal Dragon]

How about good two man drills for footwork, and various footwork strategies to compare?

[Black Jack II]

Here is something different, its not kung fu but its a bit of the male/female triangle system we use in panatuken/escrima and in other southeast/malay systems.

The indo players sometimes call it Langka Tiga (triangle lower body footwork)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgqG4Vs_K44

[mantis108]

Shan Zhuan Teng Nuo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-11H5XdNuXo)

Have fun.

Mantis108

[D-FENS]

Here is something different, its not kung fu but its a bit of the male/female triangle system we use in panatuken/escrima and in other southeast/malay systems.

The indo players sometimes call it Langka Tiga (triangle lower body footwork)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgqG4Vs_K44


Here's some solo practice on the triangle:

http://www.pencak.net/new/video/driehoek.avi

[Royal Dragon]

Hmmm, that solo stuff on the Triangle looks strikingly like some of the footwork in my Southern Tai Tzu. I would like to see more of this kind of thing. Just because it's not from a direct Kung Fu lineage does not mean it can't explain Kung Fu footwork when it's similar. I think sometimes peopel get too hung up on *How* something is being explained, and not *What* is being explained...especially when the *What* is vertually identical.

Some of the Mantis looked good to, again due to the evolutionary considerations, also good for my Northern Tai Tzu.

I wasn't to partial to the hopping in place stuff though, I don't really see how that corelates to fighting.

Keep Em comming gents!

[SanHeChuan]

Shan Zhuan Teng Nuo

Have fun.

Mantis108

Was that "the running man"? :D

I think that triangle is a pretty common idea, and SHOULD be used everywhere. IF not then I blame RD. :p

[Black Jack II]

The triangle is an important symbol in FMA and it serves "often" as a basis of movement and sectoring in its footwork along with a core movement of body shifting.

The Male and Female triangles can be used in step and slide methods as in boxing, and are a very important zoning method to bridge the gap in the defense-attack cycle, the male triangle point faces the attacker where the female triangle point faces away, from there the movement is really simple yet very intereting.

Put those two triangles in a box and more even starts to come out, but the point is to keep it simple, fast and direct, well depending on the style anyway.

Here is a good example of using the triangle pattern and the geo pattern on the ground used, often with tape or just baston's placed on the ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO2r989sdfw