Don't all Shandong masters do a little tanglang? I mean it's the cradle of mantis after all. ;)
Shandong has a rich martial tradition and a lot of Shaolin monks come from there, including...
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Don't all Shandong masters do a little tanglang? I mean it's the cradle of mantis after all. ;)
Shandong has a rich martial tradition and a lot of Shaolin monks come from there, including...
Perhaps it's because mantis forms are generally pretty short. It's surely an explanation for why there's so much variation in Bengbu.
Funny this should come up now because I've been toying with...
Cool. Actually, I picked that up from my first Sifu, Wing Lam. He had three mantis sets that he learned in Hong Kong but I never knew what the lineage was. It was among a few odd sets he learned...
That was enough to find it online easily: 白猿出洞
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I appreciate the assist. :cool:
Do you have the Chinese for "White Ape Exits Cave"? I once learned a mantis form called "White Ape Steals the Peach", which was also a groin strike, but not this...