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Northern "Shaolin" Wushu as in modern chinese government sanctioned wushu routines created by committee?

Umm, that's not Traditional Northern Shaolin, whatsoever, it's just nice sets to do at...

That's not true at all, every school or teacher I learned with since 1975 had taught self defense and being able to fight with all the material, from day one, including using the qi gong and...

Oh, sorry, I made a mistake, it is not Painter that promotes 8 Animals Bagua, it is Jerry Alan Johnson, from the 1970s.
Here's some YouTube videos you can check out of his old lectures:...

Long fist isn't necessarily external, it's very internal, that's why you learn it first before Taiji, it's that it expands the body, and builds strength, etc., things that you would want a pre-teen...

But Chinese people at that time did not teach taji to children (nor XY ad BG), it was considering detrimental to their health and development. It was for people over 25 or so, because you needed at...

Somewhere in my archives there's an old list from 1980s of which SD routines were for each rank. I have so much stuff, it would take a while to find it, if I still have it and hopefully didn't throw...

But that not true at all, that's not what happened.
Traditional Yang was always the thing to learn.

He became a major promoter of Taiji Quan in the USA and outside of Taiwan. In Taiwan he wasn't...

Gao is heavily merged with Luohan Quan, which has that.

There's just one Meteor First routine.
I'd have to see the SD version or see the names of the movements and postures so I could compare it to the set that (drawings, not video) I have in my...

Well, he was trying to do this, which is standard Hebei Xingyi Quan - Wuxing Lianhuang Quan (Five Elements Linking Form):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb0jtUxTy5s

well, you might be right. But was Sin The teaching the 1990s material himself or instructors. How do you know that the instructors didn't get them from books or videos so that they could make more...

8 Animal Bagua is from one particular lineage.
It is the style that John Painter does in his videos that came out in the 1970s.

But why would Ie (or whoever from back then) bother to go find the,at that time, brand new and untested and obscure Chen Manching set, when the Yang family 108 set was always readily available...

that is correct in Cheng and Sun styles.

No distinct lineage, that's the traditional wushu version of the Five Elements Linking form, that all lineages coming from Hebei Style Xinyi Quan do. That looks like the exact official government...

Well, the mud walking method comes from Beijing style Bagua Zhang (you have to say "zhang" - plams after Bagua because there are lots of different styles also named Bagua).
It comes from Bagua Zhang...

Now you people are talking history and this is much more interesting.

Look, I apologize for being pompous and all, and I would like to call a truce.

I'd like to help you guys trace the SD forms...

I never kept any copies of transcripts, I read them on Usenet, a long time ago.
And whether it was Kentucky or Tennessee, I don't remember, it was too long ago. Look, plenty of people know it...

You don't know how to read too?

I didn't say anywhere that SD has Shotokan, please I would never disparage Shotokan that way, hah hah. SD has fake American Karate Fu, just like you.

You are full of baloney in everything you ever say.

I'm 50 years old. My band has been playing for 20 years, we have over 100 records out on 40 different labels from all over the world. We play...

This so completely shows ignorance that is almost laughable if it wasn't so sad.

Perfect mimicking of angles is not the point.

The point is full transmission of truthful time tested information...

Look, it's very simple:

People know that Sin The's / SD routines came from books and videos because all public versions of routines are MARKED with purposefully implanted incorrect postures here...

Well, sure, yes, ONE application of that movement is throwing someone over the leg, for sure. All CMA has levels of use: basic striking, joint locking, throwing, and the most advanced is attacking...

well, then it's an optical illusion. his dantain is doing all the work and he is using whole body movement and his root is deep as a result.

That old master was famous for his ability to use...

And, if you thought that was something other than beginner Taiji being shown by that guy, you are sure in a sorry lame state of delusional psychosis.

He's being sincere and working hard on...