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Hi Everyone,

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tongbei

I have finally got around to releasing a tutorial I filmed 2 years ago.

It is of Datongbei quan.

I learned this version in Master...

Hi Djuan.

From what I know of these forms;

There is a style in china called Mizong Yi and YanQing Quan. However Mizong is not always related to this. The name is also given to a form that has...

Hi J,

I understand your difficulty and the frustration involved. I myself spent over 10 years in Songshan and I can tell you even within the Shaolin temple there are also many variations and there...

拽開大四平，踢起雙飛腳。韜脅劈胸墩，剜心摘膽著。仙人指路，老子騎鶴。餓虎撲食最傷人，蛟龍戲水能兇惡。 魔王使個蟒翻身，大聖卻施鹿解角。翹跟淬地龍，扭腕拿天橐。青獅張口來，鯉魚跌脊躍。蓋頂撒花，遶腰貫索。 迎風貼扇兒，急雨催花落。妖精便使觀音掌，行者就對羅漢腳。長掌開闊自然鬆，怎比短拳多緊削。兩個相持數十 回，一般本事無強弱



Ok lets look at the...

This is quite funny, the techniques Dang Tou Pao 當頭砲 and Ao Luan Zhou 抝鸞肘 just happen to appear right next to each other in WuBeiZhi, in fact on the same printed block. So the author just read these...

Twist Heavenly Sack
扭腕擎天橐

Ok this is a difficult one, I cant find the name but it is descriptive.

Our questions should be is it talking about twisting your opponents wrists or your own?
What...

Cool! That pretty much sums it up in one! Seems about right. I like that laozi riding a crane is climbing on the opponent, perhaps to throw them or headlock them, that is certainly a monkey like...

Great, thanks!

Ok, lets begin with the Shui Hu Zhuan version, this reads more like an old Quan pu.

FOUR-EVEN STANCE

拽開大四平 Zhuai kai da si ping, Pull apart big four even, so I have seen to...

These are all 4 character names by the looks of it, there are usually also 7 character names which give a little more info, here is the Luohan 18 hands poem from Shaolin temple, this is NOT the...

A lot of these are indeed common moves,

I often look at old QuanPu and there are some common technique names between the many styles.

However, there is a problem, though there are common names...

Cheers Dan!

Glad you like it. Editing the next one, Da Tongbei, right now. 13 Chui is the Shaolin Tongbei sub-style so it is particularly compatible with other Shaolin forms like DaTongBei,...

Thanks for your support Rett!

If you have any questions on it, or any ideas as to how we might improve our later videos please message me.

Hello Everyone,

I have released a full instructional video of the form 'Shi san chui' 13 Hammers. It can be bought here at Vimeo;

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/13hammers

It is 2 hours long, 1...

Here on ctext,

http://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&res=150824

Has the Wubian houji 武編後集

So WuBeiZhi, 5th scroll, section 106-107. Thats where most of the 'fist' techniques are mentioned.

This section is good and seems to be together;
...

Great posts. I almost don't want to comment and break up the chain so my apologies. But I thought some input from Shaolin might be helpful. Yao bu is still commonly used terminology today in MinJian...

Right,
that very part (section 61) contains the phrase 各得其所, 'each finds its proper place' still used today, which (to me) would accord with Aquinas above, 'correct estimation of capacity' as an...

Is Humility directly related to classical Chinese Virtue?

敬

Well, first we must understand what humility is. We all know it as not having too high an estimation of ones capacity. But if it is a...

Stance is perhaps the most misunderstood part of Shaolin Kung Fu.

There are many different methods of generating power in traditional Shaolin,

take this form Ti Shou Pao (Rising-Hand-Canon), it...

As above, for balance.

Going back to texts 2000 years old people are talking about studying WenWu, Culture and Martial Arts. The two must always go together as Yin and Yang.

Martial artists...

In a lot of traditional schools the off hand is not held at the waist but higher up towards the nipple, with the folded arm closed over the exposed part of the ribs. Secondly the head is directly...

I think the skill is in the preparation, really need to find someone to do it. There are lots of recipes but I don't think they are too much use on their own.

Hey Soco, cheers for that, yeah I have seen their stuff before. They are a bit more ambitious. I don't so much want to do a whole online training school, but rather some videos for people who already...

haha, really? That sounds pretty funny I'll check it out.

Thing is they can't just youtube it because most of the stuff is not on youtube, most has never been filmed. But also the stuff that is on...

Right, I see what your getting at. Anything that requires a really specific situation to arise will likely not be useful. Show that it can be used in the general case.



Be that as it may, for...