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As far as I know SD only teaches one Ground Dragon form...that doesn't mean they aren't there, though. Ground Dragon seems to be one of the more advanced/demanding systems, and it would make sense...

In Cartmell's book, are there depictions of the throws?

As for youtube. It's kinda funny. I can't find much in the way of just basic clips of techniques. Lots of free wrestling, but not a lot of...

Thanks, y'all for the responses so far. I guess I should have been more clear. I already have what I feel like is a pretty good arsenal of pa kua applications, but after watching some shuai jiao...

Any suggestions. I really just want it to compare techniques with applications I have from pa kua, or to give me ideas for new applications from pa kua.

Thanks.

I've seen videos for a form called san cai jian that I think is really cool. Don't know much about it, but I'm pretty sure it's a somewhat popular form and should be easy to track down a good video.

I'd heard se meng tao lian referred to as a crane form before from other schools. Does anyone have any info on why this is?

This may be blasphemous, but I think a lot of times, the masters just did their forms and fought. I wonder how much thought they put into the forms other than, "am I moving as fast and as powerfully...

Honestly, with the lian u chang forms, if I didn't know they were supposed to be similar forms, I might not even draw the connection based on the performance. The SD forms (as usual) seem to have...

CSC folks, what's the deal with this form? I love our monkey forms, and I'm curious where/when the West acquired this form. I've heard it was taught to them by someone on the China trip awhile back,...

Are shuai chiao fights always broken up so often? I know they're hitting pretty hard, and it's a lot more intense than it looks, but I gotta say, I was a little disappointed. I would think that a...

Man, I just got around to watching my liu shing dvd. I can't believe how fast he is! I think I've gotten a good taste for it, especially after watching him go through first leopard at the...

This is all just what I've heard from my teacher, and I may really paraphrase him incorrectly (which I'll admit if I'm called on it)

Flying tiger is actually one of the five sub-families of the...

How many of y'all are going to be in Kentucky for the seminar? I'd like to put a few more faces with names.

I'm pretty pumped about it, but to be honest, I'm more excited about second ground...

I think for some people, that has simply become a part of the training. I would be willing to bet that back in the old days, the monks, the ones who did train to fight, but also heavily practiced the...

Man, where to start?

Lamassu - you should read back through posts of TWS. Whether I agree with his case or not, he has his reasons, and you might understand him a little better if you check it...

BQ-

Yeah! I can hardly contain myself these days. I got really bummed a couple weeks ago when I remembered/realized that I had been thinking March came after January! hahaha...I was so excited...

I have always found it interesting that if people stick around for any length of time, of the ones who quit, most seem to quit after six months or two years. These time tables have been found to be...

Lamassu,

There's another North Austin SDer in Chicago right now. Lxtruong on the boards here. I'm sure if you were around the north school for the past five years you know him...It's Long. He...

JP - How's it going so far? While I'm not a proud parent at this point, I was a big slacker over the last semester and put on some weight that I'm gonna try to lose. Anyway, I was just wondering if...

To those of y'all partying over the weekend for Halloween:


have a blast, keep safe, and most importantly:


WATCH OUT FOR ZOMBIES!!

He's never claimed to be out of Austin. I believe he said he's from somewhere out west...either LA or Colorado somewheres.


TWS - did you get to check out the big martial arts event that just...

I'm really confused why my post was quoted with the above post.

For all his talk of supporting Grandmaster sin, and honoring his wishes, or however you want to put it....I really think TTM has no clue what GMS wants from his students.

As I've said before, he...

Baqualin - man, that would be pretty dang cool.

KC - I think that's a great idea. I'd love to show folks what I've been doing with monkey...unless someone who outranks me wants to take that one!

Yeah, ultimately we have to leave it up to them...or more appropriately, their lady friends.

As for February, that's pretty tough, 'cause I try to make it back to Texas for Master Schaefer's...