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Brandan,

Is the hook stance what I would call a sevenstar stance in HK lingo? If so is the stance you mention almost like a 40-60 stance?

Thanks!

Wasn't LGY also a bigger guy?

Hi Sifu Cottrell,

Will the get together take place on the 26th or over the whole weekend?

mantis_seeker

Hi all,

Where can I buy them?

I know this is a subject brought up in past threads, but as far as I can tell no one has given a place. Someone said they were available in NYC chinatown. I was...

Sifu Cottrell,

I am hoping that mentality is dying. At any rate at least it is becoming less vocal in some respects. I have been fortunate enough not to yet encounter such hostility. Sifu has...

Thanks for the replies guys,

BeiTangLang - I agree there aren't too many courses of action when somebody starts to publicly bash another lineage. But thanks to Sifu Cottrell, Tunks, and Albright...

In some of the other threads there have been arguments between which lineages is better, whether it is Seven Star’s argument between CCM and WHF or Wah Lum or 8 Step. It is a common internal argument...

Hi Sifu Tunks, Sifu Cottrell et. all,

Sifu Tunks wrote:

I too have heard this story. Mainly the part about having to climb up the tree to steal a peach for his mother. Concerning HK White Ape...

Hi Sifu Tunks,

Wow what a post!

Concerning this research it seems like all Sifu Ilya Profatilov research comes from one source. He has many manuscipts but they still are from his particular...

RAYNYSC ,



Knowing the applications to the form coupled with the thread mentioned you will be able to find stealing the peach. It is present in the form.

mantis_seeker

Sifu Cottrell,

Yes that does make sense. Thanks for the clarifaction to multiple questions!

mantis_seeker

Sifu Cottrell,

Would you say the underlying princliples are still the same in HK tang lang and mainland tang lang? What is the underlining core of tang lang that even with the southern infulences...

Sifu Cottrell,

Thanks for the reply. There use to be a JKD mantis school in Atlanta but I think they have changed their name now. It is an odd mixture to say the least.

Having seen mainland 7*...

Hi,

Do you think you could take priciples from other martial arts and mantisize them?

Also doesn't mantis have its own form of ducking and weaving motions similiar to western boxing?

Thanks...

Ming Fai,



Short answer is no they are not one and the same.

mantis_seeker

Hi,



I don't think that will help. A lot of crossing happened between 7* and plum blossom. It was not uncommon for masters of both styles to be friends and in the best of traditions things got...

Hi Frogman,



All mantis have some form of keywords as most of all CMA do. But there are different sets of keywords among the various styles of mantis. 7* keyword is different than plum blossom...

Hi ursa major,

I gather from your other posts that you practice both Hung Gar and mantis. When you spar do you mainly use Hung Gar or mantis?

I don't personally like to fight out of a cat...

Hi Tainan Mantis,

"I don't see how Mei Hua Kune goes under Mei Hua PM.
It seems that this was added to HK 7* by Luo Guangyu, probably his creation.

I can not find any verification of Guang Ban...

Hi,

I am not sure about 25 fist form but I am pretty sure the form "mantis takes first step" is a form taught by sifu Raul Ortiz in NY. It is a form particular to his lineage before his inclusion...

Hi all,


Tainan I only have the date of birth for Wang Rong Sheng from the mantis cave. It says he was born in 1854, I think. It also says Li San Jian met Wang Rong Sheng when he was 60. So if...

Hi Ray,

I can't make a general statement that all teachers are a certain way. When I first started learning I had a lot of questions. "Can I do this against this, what does this mean ....?" etc.....

Hi Skarbromantis,

Sometimes people insert a bandit between Li San Jian and Shen Xiao Dao Ren. It makes more sense that there was a person between the two and most people droped him.

If you...

I find it interesting that all branches of mantis trace to a nameless outlaw or bandit in their lineages. I just wondered about this since most chinese perfer to not be assoc. with those elements....

Hi,

I have to clarify that I am not from Jon Funk’s line. So I am not authorized to speak on his forms except from what my sifu has told me from speaking to sifu Funk. Maybe some of Jon Funk’s...