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Well, you said they had some people add 7* forms more recently, so I intuited that you were getting people from other styles to come add to the SD curricullum. Or is the SD curricullum really pretty...

I meant made up by Sin or Hiang.

However, this does get me to one point I'll praise SD on--it seems like it might be getting better. I'm still of the opinion that it started out as some kind of...

I am actually in New Orleans right now, to visit my family, but I've been living and working in Taiwan the past couple of years.

In other words, within SD there's the fake Mantis that somebody made up and the real Mantis people tried to reincorporate into it later.

Yes, I actually study with him in person, though I don't know how I can prove it to you other than that I have knowledge and experience outside of what is taught in his DVDs. I'm actually in the...

Exactly. Go do that form at a tournament where people know anything about Praying Mantis and it may not fair so well.

My teacher's name is Zhou. Kung-fu Loung is the name of his school. Even if I posted a video of myself doing a form you might say, "how do we know that's really you?" I get my info. about PM from him...

The thread was, "here are some SD videos that show how SD is authentic CMA." I disagreed that said videos represented authentic CMA, so I posted my opinion. There was a video linked to of Sin doing...

I don't have to prove SD is fake. You have to prove it's real. I can't prove there never was a Shaolin Grandmaster that looked like a dog. It's impossible to prove a negative. You have to prove the...

I just answered this question in the previous post. Also, I never said I was a master. That's the problem, in fact. Even someone who had been taking authentic Mantis for 6 months would say Sin's...

Okay, you can blame the students for not trying hard enough and the teachers for sending students on to the next form before they're ready, but there are two major questions to be answered:

1. Do...

I have seen a couple, though they're usually very brief and Sin does more talking than demo. I don't do modern wushu. I do traditional PM and Longfist in Taiwan taught to my teacher by Wang Songting,...

What good is hand-picking students to represent the art when every video I've seen of the "Grandmaster" of said art makes me crack up laughing? The problem with these videos is not the athleticism of...

That one wasn't too bad. A bit sluggish, but not bad. I've never studied Guan Dao, so I don't know what it's supposed to be like, but assuming he's a relative beginner it looks pretty good. If it's a...

I do Mantis and agree with you. Not only that, but I have pointed out specific problems with what little SD mantis I've seen, but to no avail. To be fair, they have addressed the issues of the name,...

If it was marketed more like that (a hybrid system) I'd be more okay with it. But do you have forms that actually combine elements from your multiple systems as Mantis combines the monkey footwork...

No, because SD is not a style, it is a school claiming to teach a wide variety of syles.

Ok, sorry. I didn't mean to insult your system. What lineage is it originally? What other Mantis forms do you do?

About White Ape Steals Peach... I know there is a ton of Mantis that doesn't use...

Don't you do like a Korean hybrid style though? Well, I suppose just as there is a form called "Shaolin-quan" in Islamic Longfist, there could be one called "Tanglang-quan" in some other lineage...

And where did you get that info? Considering that there is little if anything like that in Beng-bu the first PM form, I find it a bit hard to believe. Also, there is no form called simply "Tang Lang...

That's the problem with Shaolin-do forms. They're all basically the same forms as you can find in books and on videos, but clearly demonstrate a lack of understanding of their respective systems. Sin...

http://www.shao-lin.com/video/mastersin.wmv

So which Mantis forms do you know? You wouldn't happen to have a video of one?

So in which mantis move do you keep the fingers pinched together and...

Nope, my lineage is 7*, the "hardest" of the Mantis lineages. Our hands and arms can be rock solid, but that doesn't mean we don't use the fingers individually... in fact, nimble usage of the fingers...

HAHAHAHAHAHA! A little touchy are we?

Why don't you come show me where I'm wrong? The thing is, I actually DO know a pretty good amount about a number of the CMAs Shaolin-do claims to teach,...

What is it Sin Te is supposed to be doing in that video? Please tell me it's not Praying Mantis.... please...