Look at the part line of the hair, the crainail notch (nose meets head) and the roundness of the chin.
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Okay, yeah, I wouldn't recommend studying from that guy. The form isn't too bad but he's not doing it quite right. The place where it really starts falling off is the stepping, like at 11 seconds, and 42 seconds into it ... he should be doing jie-sie-jie-sie. Then at 52 seconds into it he's just way too high. Overall his stances are just way too high.
The Five Elders story is present in many folk tales and respectable lineages. Yes, there is no concrete proof (as of yet). However, there are many versions of this story in various places. On the other hand, the Su Kong story is only present in Shaolin Do. On top of that, it contradicts the Five Elders story.
And "neil", modern, credible archaeologists take a no B.S. approach to research. They use the finest in scientific equiptment to examine evidence. And respectable martial arts researchers examine evidence as well.
Yeah but Archaeologists come to some strange conclusions. For example, Tibetans who live in very dry and high altitudes used to practice something called 'sky burials', where a dead person, they carve them up and feed them to the vultures.
So in the Southwest U.S., archaeologists came across a lot of human bones that were carved up, high on these mountain peaks. So they decided that the people in the Southwest must practice human sacrifice and cannibalism.
They couldn't concieve of sky burials.
Do you see what I'm talking about here? They came to a conclusion based upon limited evidence. The conclusion may be correct but also may be incorrect, yet they think it is truth.
Yeah, what I was told Unicorn step is is a low stepping pattern where you cross step. In other words, step sideways in a low stance, back foot crosses in front of the front foot, then they switch. It looks like he's doing unicorn step, but he's way too high.
You could probably do it like you're saying with the knee high as well.
I don't really know what stepping is supposed to be done in this particular form except that it looks like it should be unicorn step and he's not really doing that, he's too high.
It really depends on who is doing the research. In the past there was tons of lousy research that was called archaeology. Lousy researchers still exist, but there are alot of excellent ones as well. If you are truelly interested, read up on the better ones. The good ones examine all evidence, use scientific analysis, and put their findings into words. They explain precisely how their findings came about.
Well what happens is there isn't really enough evidence most of the time to make conclusions, yet they make conclusions anyway.
And everybody accepts that as the truth, not realizing there wasn't enough evidence.
For example, Bering straight and humans coming over. They couldn't concieve of any ancient civilization having ships or anything that could reach the Americas, so they said it must have been a land bridge.
But now through other research they know that the Ming dynasty and before had huge ships capable of coming over, possibly even the Egyptians did too, and one guy built a raft that could do it of very basic materials.
So it kindof blows the entire land bridge theory out of the water. Yet that was considered by most scientists as the truth instead of a possibility.
There are alot of theories on some things and other things are proven. It's as simple as that. Today, more and more things are discovered and more and more history is revealed. There has also been alot of lousy research from the past that was passed off as archaeology that has now been proven wrong. There are still people who propogate falsities, but they are pushed to the fringe by the mainstream researchers.
"neil", that is simply not true. I acknowledged that there are many theories. However, we do know many things. If what you said was true, the Roman Coliseum could be thought of as a U.F.O. landing pad. However, in reality, we know much about the Coliseum.
No, I'm serious, nothing is ever proven in science. If you don't believe me, you need to study the logic behind science.
Hypothesis->Theory->Law, but laws still are not 100% proven.
Sure, it's highly probable that the Coliseum is not a UFO landing pad, but we don't know that for sure. We don't know for sure there aren't really UFOs from other planets, right?