Southern Mantis - Why so secret?
This is a discussion ive moved over from the "does you style have all the answers thread" Ive moved it becouse it was taking over the thread, so I thought it might do better here.
Southern Mantis is a very hard style to find accurate information on, its also very secretive and has been adopted into several Hakka familys. Im posting this thread in the hopes that southern mantis practioners everywhere will share with us a little of what they know.
What ever you feel comfortable saying.
We will take it as a given that anyone speaks only from there own training and experience so please no posts saying "thats not spm".
That said... Would anyone like to tell us.
There history according to there particular pai.
Any techniques or tactics favored eg locking, presure point work, methods of power delivery. Do you favour particular fist types.
Maybe tell us a little of your training and how long you have studyed.
Even if you just drop the name of your school it will help in giving an idea how many different pai's there are around.
Steven Richards also made several very informative posts in the before mentioned thread. I would also encourage everyone to read those as well. They are an excerlent start.
Come on all you spm people out there hiding in the grass:D
Re: southern praying mantis
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Originally posted by RedBuddhaStyle
One of the main reasons that southern praying mantis is kept so secretive is that it was supposedly developed by the royal ming family while they were hiding in the southern shaolin temple. And since no one was supposed to know they were there, i guess the style never got known either.
Amazing. So from what I gather from kung fu myths and the true chinese history gleaned from martial arts video's. No one can tell hakka from yuen. Southern chinese from northern chinese. Or manchurian from southern chinese just by looking at them.
Uttlerly amazing. It just befuttles the mind. I learned that wing chun was used to kill manchurian's cavorting with chinese women in brothels!
Scene 1:
"Where you going?"
"Oh, gonna blow off some steam at the flower blossom club"
"Have fun, but dont forget to wear your conspicuous manchurian lord outfit".
"Oh yeah, thanks. I forgot."
Scene 2:
[Close up of door. Girls giggling. Two feirce wing chun fighters stand ready to kick down the door]
>crash<
"Hey, who are you?"
"We are of the red boat society. We are here to reinstate a non-creative dynasty that stagnated for hundreds of years before it was overthrown by manchurian barbarians!"
I was going to finish the chain-punch-of-death scene but its probably too violent for younger audiences.
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hey steve i have a book pheonix eye fist
by donn f draeger and a malaysian sifu(sp),its a popular text,its in every library here in van,do any of you know what im talking about,pt2 was just printed it says the style came from a nun who adopted to orphan girls and raised/taught them in a cave,it talks about hakka,i'l have to get back from my frien cant remember the fine detials.
This book has come up on the southern board,do you guys know if its spm or which style of hakka may it be,also any idea how many styles within the hakka clans.I think at wingchunkuen.com it goes into hakka styles in the articles and the bulletin boards.
steve if the p-eye book is spm,we must chat through emial,maybe you can delve into the intricacies of the pheonix eye,in my hopga theres a pheonix eye in a heel-adduction"mantis stance"to the solar,can you answer through my emial.
If the style is not spm and you hakka guys have some links or info into what style that book is exactly.
thank you,& sorry for interrupting this discussion with a old topic.