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Hi Top Mantis,
As far as I know Zhang Fuchen is not the top master of Mantis in Taiwan nor the grandmaster.
He is my elder who studied while I was there.
There are soem vid clips of him with my...

The original title of the form is called Iron fist. It is subsumed under Li Kunshan's Longfist manuscript.
Zhang Fuchen Is my elder. He studied with Shr Zheng zhong for about 7 years. And left int...

Very nice to hear him talk. He sounds like he knows what he is talking about.

"Do you dare to strike?...
'I dare!'

That is the beginning he tells us.

In training we learn how to move by...

[QUOTE=PangQuan;761709]i always liked to see the kids playing games. physical games. There are so many things kids can do that will benefit thier MA and are just games to...

I have noticed a common attitude among several schools that teaching kids is how you keep the doors open so that you can do what you want with some other adults class.

But how does that atitude...

Hi all,

How do schools take care of students before and after class?

I have seen them sitting down watching videos and playing video games.

Went to visit some tkd schools. Interested in...

18 Elbows is completely unrelated to 8 elbows.
8 Elbows is also about three or four times longer than 18 Elbows.
The 18 elbows form has around 18 elbow strikes while the 8 elbows form had between...

2)The dots you would normally see on the foreheads of fictional shaolin monks: where do they come from and for what reason are they put there to begin with?

They are from cylindrical cones of...

[QUOTE=Michaelwalter77;740713]Given my relative lack of knowledge and only 2 months to prepare would you suggest just learning Immortal pointing instead? QUOTE]

Better to learn one and remember...

[QUOTE=Michaelwalter77;740550]
The forms taught will be Xian Ren Zhi Lu- Immortal Pointing the Way and the Wang Lang version of Beng Bu.
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Hopefully you meant the Laiyang version of Beng bu...

Well, this new version that has been made public has spurred my commitment and motivation to finally finish this thing.

I can actually see that I might finish someday.

When I started I thought...

Thanks,
I have been working on this book for years

Kevin

http://www.plumflowermantisboxing.com/

There was a lot happening with a thread about this about 2 years ago. He even posted either thru another or himself, I think it was himeself.

I think I may have started that thread, funny I can't...

My Shifu always said, women doing kung fu become more attractive.
Thanks R,
K

BTW, for a romantic version of Yue Fei I recomend the Qing dynasty novel called GENERAL YUE FEI
translated by T.L. Yang

Kevin

http://www.plumflowermantisboxing.com/

Thanks for that.
I will add this to my collection.

The four people with bows and quivers are the assistants, I forget the proper name.
This is an excellent picture and tells us what they wore...

It is time to bring this thread back as I have finished writing an article on the waist chop.

http://www.plumflowermantisboxing.com/Articles/waist%20chop.htm

Kevin

Hi All,
On qigung I wrote the following


'...you must push your qi to the back using both mind and muscle. The teacher strikes this area to make sure that the student does it correctly and to...

This was my experience. Few people were there at 6 though. Shifu would bang on the door to the school, I slept on the patient's table, to wake me up. I had to rush out right away and begin training....

A new article from the 18 Luohan Gung translation.

The internal body of Mantis Boxing from Eighteen Luohan Gung. In Chinese the melodious rhyming verse of the Eighteen Luohan Gung sonnet was a...

Hate to be the grinch, but actually the original manuscript is not translated at all.
Only a description of the movements.

For an example of a translation of the actual handwrittten text that is...

Gao Dasheng of Longfist Mantis teaches er lu chang quan as I recall.
I think he also published a book on it. I know he did a four road runing strike, xiao hu yen as well as Mantis hands.

Kevin
...

Has anyone seen or been part of a MA school able to successfully run a taiji for kids program?

I ask since I notice there is little to no Taiji in this area.
I suspect it would be hard to get...

Hi Jake,
I think I put some examples in the article.
How they meant wrapping way back when is probably a point that could be debated.
But, you see it in single/double sealing. Especially in...

Hi O,
'Luan Jie is really a "make your own form" form, which is why it's called "randomly connecting."

I wrote an article on this for MQ a while back.
Luan means chaotic in the modern...