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what about using push kicks to keep them out of punching range. A lot of boxers have trouble defending agains kicks.

ok fair point. I'm curious though - what would be considered a taoist art and why ? somthing that has been studied continuously in taoist temples ? or somthing that subscribes to taoist cosmology or...

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really ? that seems like a hard one to prove. One creation theory credits the introduction of internal work into chen family martial arts to Jiang fa - supposadly a taoist priest see...

try doing a right click on the link and select "save file as" to save to your local disk. Thats not javascript you're seeing its the binary contents of the wmv file displayed as text.

Ha - I got the dragon version - I think its pretty cool too.
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thats probably enough...

This is a complete guess but maybe its because a lot of the 7* we see in western countries came to us from the HK lineage and for a long time most overseas chinese originated from Hong Kong and...

looking around the rest of that site you can see that translater - Joseph Crandall has translated an enormous amount of material on the internal arts - mainly bagua and Xingyi and sunlutang's taiji...

ha!, found it. from the site:

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'only' 1 hour ! - I'm happy if I manage 20 minutes standing a day. I notice that you've got 12% of voters on your zhan zhuang poll doing 1 hr or more.

btw how can I find the article you mentioned...

so if you're not Australian what is your favoutite biscuit brand ? - in fact thats bollocks. the fact that it says cookie instead of biscuit shows that the quiz is targetted at Americans.
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a quick google turned up http://www.brisbanekungfu.com/ which teaches hsing-yi along with just about every other chinese art it seems.

Brisbane is in sunny queensland, Australia. climate is probably pretty similar to Florida for all you north americans

In that case how can you be sure that its even the same system ?
Southern mantis bears little resemblence to northern beyond having the same name and a similar creation story ( monk watching mantis...

interesting. My experience has been with the Yang style where I learnt 8 standing postures. I'm not familiar with the 24 Wu Style Neigong stances. Were they all derived from the Yang or did some come...

in an earlier thread: "taiji mantis (PM Taiji)???"
Mantis 108 mentioned the taiji related training in taiji mantis. I was wondering if this includes Zhan zhuang - standing qigong - a fundamental...

from the same form pictures
http://www.northernmantis.com/images/bungbopops/bb39.jpg
is an example of using 7* to trip. The extended leg is hooked behind the opponents leg while the palm strike to...

links work fine for me. If not just go to northernmantis.com then forms then bung bo.
What you call the heel abduction stance is a 7* stance.
the 7* stance can be used to hook an opponents leg or...

that book is ok but the author seems a little bit too enthusiastic about colonic irrigation for my liking.

hmm somthing in the water. I just started this form on saturday. Is it really the most advanced form in 7*. For us its the 4th form we learn after
bung bo, Bahk Yuen Tao Tow and Sup Baht Sao
I...

Yes they are differnent romanizations but they both come from mandarin. Chi Kung is the old wade-giles system wheras qigong is pinyin - now the official romonization scheme. same as Tai chi' chauan...

Does anyone know of good mantis schools in Tokyo ? Preferebly 7* but any northern mantis style would do. I'm going to be living there for most of this year and I'd like to be able to keep training.

there is a video available of the lohan form. See http://www.mantiskungfu.com/video.html and scroll down to TAPE 10 - LAW HON GUNG. I haven't actually seen this one but I've heard that its quite...

sifu shou-yu liang is based here in vancouver. I'm currently doing his introductory qigong course - its stuff out of the qigong empowerment book. He is a really nice guy and very well respected both...

http://www.studiomantis.com/index.html

is a 7* nothern mantis school in cambridge which is kinda near you.

"By the way the question has already been resolved by Sifu Funk himself via e-mail & I must say it was very interesting to read what he had to say about Al Cheng & Wong Hung Fun...."

Awesome. I'm...