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Hello, Michael,

I just read your post. It was nice meeting you at Sifu Chang's home a couple of weeks ago. Sifu Chang certainly fits your description of being open and helpful with 8 step as...

youknowwho...

In reply to your post regarding Grandmaster Wei not liking students to go learn from GM Liu at Wutang, GM Wei did not mind much at all. Mr. Vincent Chen, his number one student went...

Electric Mantis,
Just a note to fill you in, and a quick thanks for Rich stepping up for me here while I was away from the forum. I just help pass on information from my sifu, John Chang and some...

Hey, Kevin, Rich, and Electric Mantis....

Onyami

I just read your post and I will get the telephone number of Master Zhuo Xienfu's Eight Step Mantis school there in Taiwan. I should be able to...

Onyami,
Please re-read my earlier replies to your posts. I was not judging whether your teacher was good or bad. I stated that the form which he is demonstrating is not Li Pi. As I said before,...

Hello, Onyami,

Just a heads up... the man in the video calls himself "Kung Fu Loan" (kung fu dragon) and claims to be the final student of G.M Wang Son Teng. Supposedly G.M. Teng chose him to be...

Blackmantis,
To answer your question on the two man version of Li Pi. It is like another form in itself. You have other movements/techniques to learn to be able to do the form. Basically this...

Onyami

I took a look at your vid clip concerning the "Li Pi" form in question. Answer to that, being a ba bu practitioner... this ain't Li Pi. (You can call a duck a chicken all day long, but at...

Blackmantis,

This kick is practiced in 8 Step Mantis. It is located in session four at the end of the form. We call this a bow/arrow kick in our style and not only is it a kick which comes...

Thanks, Earth Dragon...


Electric Mantis,

I don't consider jing, chi, shen unimportant... but I don't really push hard to advance too much in these. I know that chi is important in martial...

Sayloc,
You are right on the jing issue... my fault for just referring to fa jing as just jing. I should be more clear in the "jing" I am speaking of. I just have a bad habit of saying jing...

Hello, again E.M.

Just a quick response here about your question concerning jing. Jing and qi (chi) are not the same by any means. Chi is an energy which all humans have from the time that they...

Electric Mantis,
Thanks for your kind words for Sifu Chang; I will pass them along to him. By the way, it is true he is back here in the states. I am not sure where you found this out, but it is...

Hi, Guys...
Some of us 8 step mantis practitioners were discussing this post the other night during our practice. There were a lot of viewpoints on doing chi sau or seven palms, which is the first...

Earth Dragon,

First, I am not John Chang. He has been my sifu and good friend for over 8 years now. I met Sifu Chang while teaching instructor training in White Tiger Kung Fu (bok fu). He was a...

Ba Bu Tang Lang

Here are the forms for Eight Step Green Mantis. Just for general information, these forms are almost complete in being standardized at Mr. Zhuo's school in Taiwan. All the...

Dragonball,

I saw your posting the other day. John (Jia-Hwang) Chang is a good friend and has been my sifu for about 8 years now. He has been in Taiwan for over a year now with his work. He does...

Hi, guys,

Some people cannot download the clip from the link I posted, so I am putting in another link to a different location. This time, the file is a .rar file to aid in downloads for some...

Greetings,

After posting a link to a vid clip for my friend, Grim, it was requested by others that I post the full clip if possible. I don't mind posting the entire clip for those who are...

Hi, Grim
Thanks for the update on your e-mail. By the way, who is teaching you 8 step green mantis, anyway? I am not familiar with any instructors in your area. As far as the form, there will...

Grim, my friend...
what happened to your e-mail? Account closed? As per your questions in your last e-mails, I am going to insert a link to a vid clip. It will show you the last half of session...

baldmantiz

John Chang has been my sifu for about 8 years now. He does reside in the San Jose, California area and spends a lot of time in Taiwan getting to see his old friends and former students...

Greetings to all you ba bu brothers, Tainan Mantis and Mr. Lin~

I had a correspondence from my sifu, John Chang and he remarked about the photos that were posted earlier. This is an excerp from...

Greetings to all of you, Ba Bu practitioners!

My sifu and good friend, John (Jia-Hwang) Chang wrote me from Taiwan, where he is very involved and asked if I would be able to post some of his...

Ni hao, Mr. Lin
I am pretty sure that you are correct about continuing palms. Sifu Chang did not learn that form from GM Wei, but he still wanted us to learn this form. Actually it is sort of easy...