holy crap @ ren guangyi

[golden arhat]

Go to emptyflower and ask for good chen people near you. Dont make a habit of listening to hippies such as fu pow.

Welcome to traditional kung fu. One more of us, one less of them.

i still intend to carry on with mma
but chen style looks good aswell and they could probably compliment each other quie well

[golden arhat]

and uhh

anyone link me to emptyflower ?


i actually know one chen style place in manchester (yue liming) but its way too far to travel by bus :/ especially when i'm broke

[golden arhat]

also


anyone notice that merryprankster is on fu pow's ignore list?

merryprankster always seems to have something good to say and always thinks thoroughly about it before he posts
in fact i have nothing but respect for him

i wonder why fu pow ignores him ?

[sunfist]

www.emptyflower.com/xingyiquan/index.html

I think the forum link is under 'drilling'.

And yeah, crosstraining is good. At your age you should be soaking up different influences like a sponge.

[TaichiMantis]

Excerpts from an article "Training in Cannon Fist Boxing "by my kung fu uncle, Sifu Randy Choy.

"Even though every jin or "power" is important, you'll have those practitioners who only want to learn about fa jin. I can't complain because I did the same thing...."

"Fa jin can be used in fist strikes, elbow strikes, shoulder strikes, and even in your side kicks. Fa jin energy comes directly from relaxed, smooth movements. Tense or stiff movements will not produce the correct fa jin power. To understand this explosive energy, you must understand the Rules of Chuan and seek more training from your Taijiquan instructor."

"A word of caution: do not go hog crazy trying to fa jin everything all day. This is exactly what I did. In Taiwan, I tried to fa jin the trees all day. I kept punching into the trees until my knuckles were badly bruised. This produced no good results...."

"As I progressed, my teacher, Mr. Pan Wing Chow gave me three more rules to follow. First, you don't fa jin if your opponent is fighting back. Secondly, you don't fa jin if your opponent is stable, and finally, you don't fa jin if your opponent can issue power to meet your power. I take these words to heart whenever I practice Cannon Fist boxing."

[GeneChing]

See Innovating Traditional Martial Arts: Ren Guangyi's 5 Step Roadmap by Stephan Berwick in our 2007 September/October issue.

[brianK]

http://www.emptyflower.com/cgi-bin/y...B.cgi/YaBB.cgi

Direct link to the EF forum.

What's with the "one more of us, one less of them" attitude. I train bagua, xingyi, and BJJ, and I'll soon start taking judo at the BJJ school. All of my arts enhance my fighting ability. It's not about choosing a style and then dogmatically convincing yourself and the rest of the world that it is superior to all others; it's about personal martial development. Are your arts tools which you employ, or are you a tool (pun intended) which your art employs?

Brian

[sunfist]

http://www.emptyflower.com/cgi-bin/y...B.cgi/YaBB.cgi

Direct link to the EF forum.

What's with the "one more of us, one less of them" attitude. I train bagua, xingyi, and BJJ, and I'll soon start taking judo at the BJJ school. All of my arts enhance my fighting ability. It's not about choosing a style and then dogmatically convincing yourself and the rest of the world that it is superior to all others; it's about personal martial development. Are your arts tools which you employ, or are you a tool (pun intended) which your art employs?

Brian

I disagree. It IS about choosing a style and then dogmatically convincing yourself and the rest of the world it is superior to all others. Id debate your point on the matter, but your styles are all inferior so there would be little purpose to it all

[GeneChing]

Check out our latest sweepstakes - you could win a CHEN STYLE TAIJIQUAN LAO JIA YI LU APPLICATIONS DVD, Autographed by Ren Guangyi. Contest ends 6:00 p.m. PST on 03/19/09. Good luck everyone!

[Chazmek]

I love the lighting and the chalk dust on the floor; very nice visual effects
The camera shaking when he stomps the ground is neat too.

[Zenshiite]

BTW, the emptyflower mentioned earlier is now http://rumsoakedfist.com/