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Since we are not confused enough already, I'm going to add some more conflicting information.

In our school's Luo Guang Yu Seven Star tradition, the three 'mother forms' are said to be Beng Bu,...

Fair point Brendan. I will remove the last bit as it does have that tone.

I hope then it will read as intended. That is, someone responded to that PDF we put out and said it was basically all...

Hi all,

Having a very interesting discussion in the new Facebook group. Someone (I don't want to say who unless he chooses to come on here, respecting privacy etc) has posted a lot of corrections...

:)

Steady on, Mighty B.

I did hint apologetically that my post may be off topic etc and to please ignore if so. I don't look at the other forums much.

Disclaimer: not a teacher or master etc

I think if you want to fight gloved sanda or any variation on sports fighting/mma ... the best thing to train would be - Sanda, at a Sanda school or Muay...

I'm a big Facebook addict, I'm in. Already joined.

I'd like to chime in on the are there 'mantis weapons' thing ...

Although I don't need to really add anything because ... argghh, agreeing with Jake again ... 3H said it pretty clearly in post...

Over in Shanghai we have finished a new 150 page book on 7* Mantis. It is as yet unpublished but we have decided to put part of it online for free.

At the following link you can read a new...

Hi Shaolin Peeps,

Here's another two-part mini documentary, this time about a Tong Bei master in Shanghai. Again, we haven't really promoted that site much as the content is still building up. As...

Sorry of this is repeating anything I missed.

Mizong was Huo Yuanjia's style sure.

I live in Shanghai and have had access to the photos and records in the Jingwu society here, also to teacher...

Jake

Where I tend to agree with your assessment here is that even though I quite believe in CMA/Mantis 'techniques' I feel that once that first bridge or counter is made and you go inside, then...

This still fits if you take Master Puyot's deifinition. Outside of the striking distance, punching you is 'reaching out the arms'. This is when bridging takes place. And once you enter inside the...

You could check out their main sub schools.

For CCM you could see either Lee Kam Wing (HK) or the Chu Luen clan (NYC etc).
For WHF you could see Tse Wingming, who trained with him before he later...

Hi r.(shaolin)

The group hand set is their Tan Tui. But that morning, Pu laoshi was just throwing out loads of sets and we were along for the ride so I didn't get half the names, I will E-mail...

Hi all

I have just finished helping to shoot a short video about a teacher of Cha Quan in Shanghai.

Shaun Hogan is 48 and has a hip replacement, but was inspired to keep training daily by his...

Yeah, that's what I put up at reply #5.

The interesting thing is that it's not relevant ifone was an orignal name or not, if you look at the forms they are the same.

I notice a lot of schools...

The naming thing ...

In Seven Star schools that go back to Fan Xu Dong/Luo Guang Yu there are six, but later branches differ on the names. If you look at the forms themselves you can see they're...

At the risk of agreeing with certain people again - I'd like to forward an example in favour of the Qi is not magic side.

When you first learn any new sports you have to expend a lot of energy to...

You don't see how forms - as part of a complete training program - help?

What do you study?

I guess it's not nice to point this out as so many people do Modern Wushu these days. But it is a gymnastic sport that resembles kung fu. I know plenty of dancers who are ripped, flexible and have...

Master Kai Uwe Pel has an interview in shanghaiist.com at the moment.

It's currently the lead story and here is the direct link:

http://shanghaiist.com/2008/01/21/interview_maste.php

RF

It's easy to find. I was up there three months ago or so.

First, you need to base you trip in Qingdao City. Laoshan is in a district of the city unsuprisingly called 'Laoshan District'. You'd do...

Beowulf

The story is set in Scandanavia and is thought to have come from that area/tradition yeah ....

When we talk about it being English we are referring to the famous written poetic version...

I gave up on all that.

Modern Shaolin is full of stuff like Steles with simplified characters and monks who claim to have been there for ever despite the temple having been abandoned in the...

Sal, you say:

"Most all Shaolin material can be traced back to their Rou Quan sets and their nei gong sets of Luohan 13 Gong, Chan Yuan Ba Gong, and Lie Hu (6 harmony) Gong.
These are their most...