Cricket Style?

[Yung Apprentice]

A friend of mine who once lived in China for a few years, told me he trained in a cricket stlye of Kung Fu. I didn't believe him, because I had never heard of it mentioned anywhere. He showed part of a form, before he was interrupted (we were at work) which is why I came here to be certain. I could be wrong, since there are many styles I've never heard of.

[Starchaser107]

there is a bazillion different types of kung fu out there. more than likely its not an established style, either a modern folk style or some really obscure form of kung fu.

or

your friend could just be taking you for a ride.

[GeneChing]

I once heard of a flea style, but no cricket. The Chinese do love crickets, so it could be plausible. I've just never heard of it.

[joedoe]

Cricket style - they wear leg and body padding and helmets. Primary weapon is a willow bat, or a hard cork-filled ball. They are guardians of a sacred relics they call 'wickets' and 'bails'.

[Starchaser107]

must be a japanese style because they all wear white gi

[mickey]

Greetings,

I remember seeing the Praying Mantis style in a few documtaries from Mainland China several years ago. The English translation in the subtitle was cricket.

mickey

[Yung Apprentice]

I figured he was full of crap. He was telling me how it's similar to the monkey style as your in a crouched position. He wasn't BS'ing about being in China for three years, but a cricket style? I figured to make sure by ask yall on here before I completely wavedm him off.

[Michaelwalter77]

It could be mantis and the name got screwed up in translation.
look at his form and cross referance it with mantis and see if you can find a match.

[Wharg0ul]

Originally posted by Yung Apprentice
I figured he was full of crap. He was telling me how it's similar to the monkey style as your in a crouched position. He wasn't BS'ing about being in China for three years, but a cricket style? I figured to make sure by ask yall on here before I completely wavedm him off.

Sounds like mantis to me.

[Yung Apprentice]

Maybe, I couldn't tell you, I've only seen one form from a mantis style, and it was done in an upright postition. This starts out in a crouched position, and the few movements he did before he was interrupted, continued it's movement crouched.


I had read that the mantis style borrowed stuff from the moneky style, so perhaps your right.

[norther practitioner]

Originally posted by Wharg0ul
Sounds like mantis to me.

You do a crouched Mantis??

I thought you studied Shaolin do.... Do you have any experience with mantis?

[GeneChing]

I'm told flea style is a crouching style. I've never witnessed it myself, but I have it on good authority.

[Hua Lin Laoshi]

I thought Flea was a style of bass guitar?

Yung Apprentice
Plenty of mantis video on the NPM forum. Watch a few of those and see they look anything like what you saw.

[Yung Apprentice]

I'm going to have to see him do a complete form, I only saw him start off in a crouched position, with his finger tips touching the ground, and he showed me couple steps of how they move.

[Wharg0ul]

Originally posted by norther practitioner
You do a crouched Mantis??

I thought you studied Shaolin do.... Do you have any experience with mantis?

I do practice Shaolin-Do. However, I'm 32...I've been around for a while.

If you remember from all the legends/stories surrounding the origins of mantis, monkey footwork was added to the initial mantis style to complete and strengthen it. Since no one seems to recognise a "cricket" style, but the footwork is being described in a way that suggests monkey, this leads me to deduce that it may in fact be mantis.

This is, however, only my opinion based on what has been discussed here.