Minimum number of sets

[mooyingmantis]

Mantid1,
Agreed! But that is the nature of American society.
In school we earn grades on report cards. In college we earn degrees represented by diplomas. In the Boy/Girl Scouts and military we earn rank represented by pins and badges. In martial arts people expect to get a physical representation of whatever they accomplish.
Whether good or bad, it is just how we Americans have been programmed to think.
In my best Kwai Chang Caine imitation, "Without the carrot, of what use is the stick?".
Richard

[mooyingmantis]

This thread was started in 2006. I thought it was interesting, so I decided to dust it off and bring it back out of the basement.

I have reduced the curriculum that I teach at Mantis Masters Academy down to five forms:

Luanjie
Beng Bu
Zhai Yao
Meihua Lu
Ba Zhou

If students are interested in forms, I have other supplemental sets they can learn. But I think the above five forms teach the necessary core teachings of tanglangquan fighting.

[Kellen Bassette]

I have reduced the curriculum that I teach at Mantis Masters Academy down to five forms:


If students are interested in forms, I have other supplemental sets they can learn. But I think the above five forms teach the necessary core teachings of tanglangquan fighting.

You are wise my friend.

[yu shan]

There are only so many ways to hit a man.

[xiao yao]

The Taiji mantis of Cui Shou Shan doesnt contain a huge number of forms anyway

in addition to the forms Richard says he teaches it also has Shuai Luo (very basic intro form), Ba Fang and Zhong Lu Fan Che (these 2 forms are both more like basics - a few moves done over and over and over)

To answer the question "minimum number of sets" I think Luan Jie, Ba Zhou and Zhong Lu Fan Che..... I havent learnt Zhai Yao yet so I cant comment on it