What styles were available to students in Canton, Guangdong in its heyday at the end of the Ching Dynasty?
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What styles were available to students in Canton, Guangdong in its heyday at the end of the Ching Dynasty?
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I suppose I should add Foshan into the next, being almost a suburb.
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It's how you ask the question that's important: let me google that for you
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Canton styles
Yes, Google IS my friend, but so are the reliable and knowledgable brains on this forum! You guys rock. Now if I could compress all your knowledge onto a zip drive...
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well, you'd have a zip drive with a load of jibba jabba on it. lolOriginally Posted by Baritsumaster
you're still gonna have to do the work.
And if Malcolm Gladwell has it right, you're looking at about 10,000 hours of practice.
If you want to space that out reasonably, you can say that it takes 10 years to get really good at anything.
knowing without applying is not enough.
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Ten years, that sounds about right. No short cuts. I'd better get back to work then. I'm a reference librarian after all.
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Aw, c'mon, guys! I like making lists.
I'll start the ball rolling, Will, and see if anyone jumps in.
Of course, you know about Hung Ga and Choi Lei Fat. To that I'll add Choi Ga and Lama Kyuhn, for starters.
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For it breeds great perfection, if the practise be harder then the use. Sir Francis Bacon
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We'll come up with the definitive list of what I'll call "Styles Wong Fei Hung Encountered".
Don't forget Hop Ga!
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that was pretty cool!
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Jow Ga, but not officially until about 1915. Lau Ga. Lots of Ga's
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We're cooking along.
Traditional Southern family styles: Hung, Lei, Mok, Choi (not Lee Fut)
And some unheard of style called Wing Chun. Wasn't that an Eighties pop group?
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Perhaps a little Lion's Roar?
Of course, practically any style could show up in Canton, being a port city and so close to Hong Kong, where some early tournaments took place. WFH fought in one and beat a foreignor and his dog/wolf, according to his memorial
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The general public wouldn't have recognized the name "Lion's Roar" in the period you are examining. Perhaps, not even "Hop Ga." Those were insiders terms for what might have been known generically as "lama kyuhn" or lama-style boxing. The branch known as "Tibetan White Crane" probably didn't have a name until the beginning of the nationalist period.
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"Look, I'm only doing me job. I have to show you how to defend yourself against fresh fruit."
For it breeds great perfection, if the practise be harder then the use. Sir Francis Bacon
the world has a surplus of self centered sh1twh0res, so anyone who extends compassion to a stranger with sincerity is alright in my book. also people who fondle road kill. those guys is ok too. GunnedDownAtrocity
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Canton Styles
Five Family Style from Ark Wong
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