Keboh
12-07-2007, 03:16 PM
Hi,
I have been learning a kung fu style called Splashing Hands ... a really amazing and demanding art ... very aggressive, economical and with great footwork. Only a couple of people teach it in the US.
I've learned that the style is actually a synthesis of material taught by the late great GM Ark Y Wong .... and some material from a rare style learned in Taiwan in the 1950s.
The forms from GM Ark Wong are easy to identify .... but the part coming from Taiwan is less easy.
I would like to ask anyone living in Taiwan or China or anyone who is knowlegable about CMA history if they could identify it?
The Chinese characters for this art are: 闪手
I cannot speak Chinese at all .... but I believe they *MAY* be pronounced as zan shoo .... but I could be mistaken.
The system coming from Taiwan has very few forms .... it's mostly made of short drills as well as a lot of shuffling exercises done while doing punches, blocks, kicks etc. In a way, it seems more like western boxing than the "stereotypical" CMA.
There is an incredible speed and power generation created through the very relaxed arms and hands moving like whips .... together with the shuffling footwork. I've never seen anything like it ..... very scary to be on the receiving end of !
Here you can see the basic shuffle techniques demonstrated ... as well as one of the drills called Browns.
http://hem.passagen.se/sifu1/splashing.html
Sorry that I can't provide more footage .... but hopefully someone would recognize some of those movements shown ..... it looks a little bit like Wing Chun I guess ... but it's not!
I'd love to find any remnant of this rare style in China .... or hopefully even other people who keep it alive in China ...... unfortunately we don't know if it is still being practiced in China :-(
I have been learning a kung fu style called Splashing Hands ... a really amazing and demanding art ... very aggressive, economical and with great footwork. Only a couple of people teach it in the US.
I've learned that the style is actually a synthesis of material taught by the late great GM Ark Y Wong .... and some material from a rare style learned in Taiwan in the 1950s.
The forms from GM Ark Wong are easy to identify .... but the part coming from Taiwan is less easy.
I would like to ask anyone living in Taiwan or China or anyone who is knowlegable about CMA history if they could identify it?
The Chinese characters for this art are: 闪手
I cannot speak Chinese at all .... but I believe they *MAY* be pronounced as zan shoo .... but I could be mistaken.
The system coming from Taiwan has very few forms .... it's mostly made of short drills as well as a lot of shuffling exercises done while doing punches, blocks, kicks etc. In a way, it seems more like western boxing than the "stereotypical" CMA.
There is an incredible speed and power generation created through the very relaxed arms and hands moving like whips .... together with the shuffling footwork. I've never seen anything like it ..... very scary to be on the receiving end of !
Here you can see the basic shuffle techniques demonstrated ... as well as one of the drills called Browns.
http://hem.passagen.se/sifu1/splashing.html
Sorry that I can't provide more footage .... but hopefully someone would recognize some of those movements shown ..... it looks a little bit like Wing Chun I guess ... but it's not!
I'd love to find any remnant of this rare style in China .... or hopefully even other people who keep it alive in China ...... unfortunately we don't know if it is still being practiced in China :-(