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Yeah. I learned flexible, adaptive, spear, straight sword, and stomping--plus then non- 8 immortals crazy mad drunk. Can't remember parts of stomping and straight sword. Anyone have notes on those they're willing to share?
My thoughts? They're hard, but fun. Some good stuff, prob some bad--but I love drunken style, good or bad.
Seriously, though...notes, anyone? I learned stomping and Jian in a seminar---forgot some sequences b/c no notes were given. Ill pm u my email address.
Last edited by Shaolin Wookie; 06-25-2014 at 11:38 AM.
I only know drunken broadsword, and mad drunk. I've seen some of the immortals forms and agree they do look difficult. But I'd love to try them.
It looks like Master Mullins has released a new DVD on some of conditioning aspects of the immortals. Might be worth a look.
I got the mullins dvd, its worth the money.
...or is there something i have missed a glimpse of phantoms in the mist. Traveling down a dusty road bent forward with this heavy load..
Shaolin Do is real Shaolin Do.
It's not real anything else.
Nor is it firetruck or camel and it's definitely not outer space. Only shaolin do is shaolin do...
Kung Fu is good for you.
But it's not just its own thing. Everyone who practices at brown belt level will recognize Jing Woo Jie Quan (see here). There are differences in the form, but they follow the same general pattern. What most SD practitioners will see as a major difference, however, is that we have many "crossed hands" positions, like the hands/wrists are shackled and are being broken as the palms/arms open up for a sweep. Seems to me that what we practice is a blend of normal Jie Quan and Wu Song Qi Jie Quan (see here). SD tends to see itself in other forms, since we have the same techniques, whether anyone else likes it or not. Now, more than likely they're cobbled-together forms (someone cobbled them together or changed them or made them up), but it doesn't erase the links we see in the forms. SD is SD, but we don't know what SD is---can't trust GM The', and he admitted to making some stuff up, creating Shaolin Do in teh 1970s for marketing purposes---and so it's not just itself. It was something before that, and something else after that point.
Lian Wu Zhang has much more of the crossed/shackled hands, and is taught as a family of Jie Quan. It's not, in reality, as far as I have researched through Jing Woo contacts and students of Su Ke Gang that I've contacted. But in SD, the two are linked, and Lian Wu Zhang picked up some of the Wu Song "Chained hands" techniques.
It's a simple thing to steal material then try to claim a relationship between the ones who authentically learned the material in comparison to those who stole it. its still WRONGNow, more than likely they're cobbled-together forms (someone cobbled them together or changed them or made them up), but it doesn't erase the links we see in the forms.
Hung Sing Boyz, we gottit on lock down
when he's around quick to ground and pound a clown
Bruh we thought you knew better
when it comes to head huntin, ain't no one can do it better
"Authentically learn"?
"Stole" mental content or body postures? Lol. The only thing "wrong" is the fraud of calling an original form by an ancient name in order to sell it to students.
What is inauthentic learning? If you learn something--even astrology, hung gar, or phrenology--you learn it, and your learning is authentic. Is it any good? Different question. I've met many CMA guys who preach the gospel of never going to the ground, the utility of protective karate fat (muscles are so passé) and deadly eye pokes capable of stopping a RnC. They probably learned to talk that way. Either way, their learning isn't any good.
Some forms were copied, some weren't. Liu su peng taught 18 tai (roc) forms. I've only ever seen tai in hsing-I before. Both brothers teach the same core tai forms. I've seen 3 and practice the first 3 as a set. The structure of the tai forms is pretty much standard, and not far from the mechanics of sd's core stuff--the generic birds/cranes, for instance. Maybe Liu su peng is a myth, maybe not. I know some people who met him, though. Makes me think those are hallmarks of Chung yen shaolin in Bandung, but perhaps not "ancient" shaolin. If peng's tai style---which has a particularly non-standard-CMA feel to it is Ching yen, it'd explain why some of the The' bros material feels and looks different than, say, hua quan or 7* mantis.
In all honesty though, this is truly interesting. The structure of the tai forms is basically standard across schools, however different aspects of the techniques seem to get different emphases from one instructor to the other, and as you say not far from the mechanics of Sd's core stuff. Thank you.
Still going! Amazing. And I see HSK is still hanging around.
I got one eye on EVERYTHING
Hung Sing Boyz, we gottit on lock down
when he's around quick to ground and pound a clown
Bruh we thought you knew better
when it comes to head huntin, ain't no one can do it better
Plain and simple.
Read Uncle Willem's new book...Journey Through Time. He indirectly substantiates many of SD and SKT's claims....
Frank, the only eye you have on everything is the big brown eye. How's your hardcore underground gung fu family Tong?!
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