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chopsticks sound great... one question though... are they thrown end over end-like a knife- or in a manner similar to a dart?

as an interesting aside, my brother and I used to play a game when we...

ugh... you win... I'll go home now

Many thanks, I truly enjoy knowing as much background info as possible.
So is it safe to assume that using both the left and right hands to perform the break and chop constitutes one technique? I...

as a question
what is the name of the 3rd move in this form (the one following the deng pu)
it seems to be the same move that starts the 3rd row of Beng Bu.
It is done both to the left and to the...

Ye Gods…

Truce please, I have no intention of making enemies real or imagined anywhere, and I am sorry to ruffle your feathers. My apologies indeed. In my opinion, and copious past experience,...

Practice these arts because you love them, or because you gain from the experience.
If you look for bloodshed, you can find it almost anywhere, and there are much quicker avenues to it that don’t...

A thousand apologies in advance for my signature verbosity….

I at no time would want to purport myself as any kind of scholarly pundit on the subject of Eastern martial culture, and count myself...

a teacher leaves a mark. good, ill, its there. its yours to keep, and that being so, treat him or her with regards to that

people can round about to great extent
question someone's manner or methodology of training
but the crux of it is this...
no matter what you do
great or weak
hidden or clear
street or...

bengbu

one reason...

I am something of a "husky lad"
so getting up to go to the bathroom in the dead of night could involve some crushing steps.

thanks guys,

I was away from computer for a while

devout

I may be showing my major ignorance on this point...
but what is Yuan Yan Tang Lang?

I saw it listed on a website (www.atlantamartialarts.com)
as a type of "non-spread" praying mantis style...

Basics or deep treasures of the system…
All valid if repetition is your guide.
With so many players and so many inclinations to the forms' practice, isn’t the possibility for manifestations in...

I propose the point to be moot, in lieu of the fact that there is a difficulty in qualifying all physical altercations as violence. Let me expound.

Almost universally the word itself “violence”...

Kudos to yu shan’s detractors, who even here value free expression and the transmission of ideas over their own filial piety.
I most adamantly would like to see yu shan back again involved in the...

Diego,

In perusing your posts -and they are copious- I am reminded of William Butler Yeats.
“...What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born.”
What ever...

If I might...

I must say, that as a novice, being involved in the learning of 7 hands was a recent benchmark for me, and a kind of portal step into seeing change in my martial arts life. Though...