quicktime clips

[18elders]

can't open the clip of Master Shr's beng bu.

can open all the others though

[Mr.Binx]

18elders, are you getting a ripped quicktime icon when you try to open that particular file?

Edit: Also, try saving the file to your hardrive and see if it will open properly when you click on it from there.

[18elders]

Yes, that is what i get, a ripped QT icon

[Mr.Binx]

Heh... It looks like Microsoft Windows just had a problem with reading the apostrophe in the filename. I removed the apostrophe and it should be viewable to you now.

[18elders]

saved it to my hard drive and then it opened, thanks for your help Mr. Binx.

[Tainan Mantis]

Here is some footage shot the other day on a clip called:


Tina Spar.



The girl Tina is 14 fighting my student who just was discharged from the army.

I put this here to show how I train a girl like this to deal with bigger people.
You can see that the guy, Hsiao Shun, is not being aggressive, too bad, he should have been more so, but it is the stigma of beating up little girls.

Which is also why I didn't post myself hitting her.
I don't want any proof to come back and haunt me.

This clip can be divided into 8 times of contact.
What follows is the play by play.
If you are not into deep analyzing of a fight you may find this boring.
But it is useful for me to help my students(and myself) improve as well as pinpoint what went wrong.

1. Tina takes the initiative to seal and throw a right hook, left seal and right backfist.

2.Tina expects to attack again, but misreads Hsiao's intentions.
Hsiao seal with go lou tsai and punches her in the face.
She dodges, but takes a bit of it.

Getting hit like this is good for her so she realizes that she will get hit, doesn't mean she has to lose too. It doesn't bother her anymore thanks to me slapping her in the face frequently. So she comes back and takes the initiative for...

3.Tina attempts a gou lou tsai chest punch, but at the same time Hsioa does the gou lou hook punch.
I have to admit he throws a craapola punch. Maybe he felt bad about hitting her in the face a second ago.

"No mercy on the battlefield!" is the Shaolin motto.

Tina throws a left hanging block, but she is too late.
Well, it doesn't matter as Hsiao's hook is intercepted by low flying aircraft.

4. Tina comes in again, but loses confidence on initial contact and gets out.

Good idea when you don't have a good feeling.

5.
Tina comes in with the gou lou tsai punch to the chest.
If you go slow you will notice that her left sealing hand loses contact with Hsiao's right hand.
She is now in deep danger,but Hsiao doesn't take advantage of it.
She continues with the right hook backfist combo anyway.

Interesting point, in PM the hook is very often followed by a backfist. Here the backfist blocks Hsiao's right head punch.
It is a good combo that is useful even when you don't have a clue as to what is going on.

6. Odd coincidence they both do a kick.
Notice how her lead hand occupies his before the kick.
Good principle to follow to help prevent your leg from being grabbed.
But, her kick should have hit hsiao in the grion.
We need to work on the accuracy of that.

I speciffically blame this mistake on her old TKD training.
I would consider this a good example of how studying a MA makes you a worse fighter.

The groin is what should be hit, not the point scoring belly.

7.
Tina comes in again with the sealing and hook punch, but loses on her short range, luckily she keeps her hand down to help absorb some of Hsiao's kick.
Though, for the record it is sloppy and worthless kick.
I would stand on the side and curse up a mighty fit after that kick.

8.
TIna tries to come in for the go lou tsai combo as Hsiao also tries that combo.
She is overpowered, but is able to get the left hand up in time.
truthfully it wouldn't matter as his hand is just swatting flies.
Again with the curses and sarcastic questions to him by me.

I don't think she is going to get skill by him pulling his punches away, but don't worry this was his first time crossing hands with her(if you can call it that).
I think even she would have liked it much more if he had been more aggressive.

[18elders]

i sent a video over with john to give you. Did you get it yet?

[yu shan]

With the help from 18-Elders, I finally got to view Master Shr`s two roads out of Beng Bu. A little differant than the way I got it, but inspirational. Wish I could get his video on this form. Tomorrow`s computer lesson, Tina Spar!

[Tainan Mantis]

About sparring thread.

Here the clip called shao xun is a single drill repeated all day to ingrain the attack and defense.

The clip called Kevin and Zak I attack with several different methods and Zak doesn't know which I will use.

Tina spar. The beginning of aggresive defense comes out.

18 Elders,
Got the vid. Thanks. We can talk privately about it.

Yushan,
I learned Beng Bu 1st road how it is filmed here.
This is a good example of how a move contains a principle, in this case to keep connected to your opponent to apply the elbow technique.

You can cover a small distance or a large one it doesn't change the principle that Shi Laoshi is trying to impart.

[B.Tunks]

I couldn't see a link for the tina clip in your post Tainan. Am I blind or just lost?

bt

[Tainan Mantis]

Third clip down called,
"Tina Spar"

[TheBlackDragons]

Are all those videos Northern Praying mantis?

[TheBlackDragons]

Tainan Mantis

Your really good

It's refreshing

1. Are you an instructor?

2. How many years of training do you have?

3. If you teach where?

Thanks for your time

[Tainan Mantis]

All forms are PM except weapons.
And the blue uniform stuff is from a video I made on Shaolin.
The drills are PM But the 2man form shown is not.

Trained around 20 years and now teach in Tainan, hence my name.
I am actually a better vid editor than MArtist.
You should see the vid crud I keep locked up at home before judging me.

Well, actaully you shouldn't. It is my bigget secret.

[sayloc]

Tainan

Very nice video clips! Thanks for sharing them.

Do you know of a Short stick system (single and double) taught in Taiwan? On of the clips there is a two person short stick sequence that looks familiar.

Thanks for your time