What forms are in your Shaolin regimen now?
Here are the Shaolin forms that I am currently practicing on a regular basis (at least once a week, hopefully more). Since this is the Shaolin forum, I'm restricting my list to Shaolin forms. Currently I'm only doing Songshan Shaolin forms.
baduanjin
xiaohongquan
dahongquan
qixingquan
changhu xinyimen
taizu changquan
tongbi luohan
qixing tanglang
qiang (Taguo version)
dao (Taguo version)
I've shown you mine. Let me see yours. ;)
Agreed, that's not weird at all, Lucas
I've always loved xiaohong and dahong. Like you, I was taught a few different versions. With dahong, I'm currently doing the version that my Shifu Yan Fei propounds, since I'm training under him. His is closer to the Taguo version, abbreviated from the version I learned from Shi Decheng. I'm a little concerned about the next time I see Decheng, since it will be hard to revert, however, I think he'll understand. He's pretty laid back that way. My xiaohong stays true to his version. I've never learned Yan Fei's xiaohong. I've only picked up a few things from Shi Guolin, Shi Xinghao and Shi Sugang (and those versions are pretty similar).
I've actually never studied gong li
All I know about gong li is what I've gleaned from Dr. Yang Jwing Ming's work.
There. You've seen my bottom. Happy now?
May all beings be happy.
bottomless pit of knowledge indeed. :p
Sort of, monkeyfoot, sort of
That form begins similarly to our qixing tanglang and echoes it until a few moves after the first turn, but it's very very different from the version we do. That's par for the course - there's a lot of variation.
My master Shi Decheng's qixing tanglang is in our current issue (2010 July/August) - see Shaolin Seven Praying Mantis By Scott Jeffrey. I never learned that form from him. I practice a version I learned from Yan Fei. Yan Fei was from Shandong originally, so he has some root mantis in him, plus he's really long and tall, like so many Shandongers. Our new addition, Yantuo, does a qixing tanglang too. I've seen little bits of it as we use a lot of those lines for our jibengong practice, and his is quite different too. Nevertheless, you can see the root is the same. Unlike some of the more core forms of Songshan Shaolin, qixing tanglang seems to have more variation than the others. They all have variation.
I'm told we're keeping Yanchen on our staff at O-Mei Kung Fu. Three monks, baby, THREE! Plus they're all traditionalists. I saw his guai form last night and I'm thinking I should dust off my old tamo zhang and learn his version. Shaolin life is very good at O-Mei now. :cool: