Originally Posted by
KTS
snake similar to mantis? we mean shaolin here, yeah?
from what i have seen, much of the shaolin animals bear a great resemblence in basic technique.
Just for the record bro.. that clip was of me mixing CIMANDE ULAR (snake flavor cimande) pentjak silat (indonesian martial arts) on top of my usual bagua base. Nothing to do with Shaolin.. though I can see (in retrospect) that it might look kinda like mantis.
But the only snake I know anything about is the Ular/snake style in pencak silat and the snake aspect of Gao bagua (f.i. in our branch of Gao the whole houtien is called 后天蛇形缠连掌 or snake winding).
perhaps, in the next year or so i will focus on bagua more. i have a few xingyi animal forms to complete and maybe another 2 person fighting set to work with. and at least one weapon form.
combine those with my chen hunyuan taiji and being back into college, i am a busy guy!
Dude.. you work with the best you can when you can as much as you can. And life gets in the way
It's like that old saying
"Well darling you.. and me.. and baby makes....
... life an endless stream of compromises!".
There is alot of stuff that ZeZong line has that is... well it's not that it's stuff "only" we have.. so much as it's stuff other Gao lines have in their manuals but don't seem to focus on.. even though it's very much "low-hanging fruit" and very helpful to me.
So alot of me talking up my branch is to try and get the young guys in other Gao lines to look at their own internal lore and be like "oh yeah.. when did people stop thinking this was important?"
One of the great strengths of Gao bagua is that it is, *fundamentally* a LITERATE tradition of bagua. That's critical to my way of thinking.
"The first stage is to get the Gang( hard, solid power). every movement should be done with full power and in hard way, also need to get the twisting and wrapping power, whole body's tendon and bones need to be stretched to get the Gang( hard) power. "
-Bi Tianzou -