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    Phoenix-Eye
    Conditioned stances
    Don't just stand there.
    Praying Mantis in the South
    Rapid punches
    Open Mount

    Two sisters in Malaysia
    A nun, a cave, an orphaned boy;
    A priest with eyebrows white.
    These are from whence the phoenix looks.
    Do you see?
    Use the Phoenix's Eye.
    -Ernie Moore Jr

    Chuka Shao-lin training not only uses stances but drills where one is alternating or switching/transforming between stances, incorporating footwork with stance training, not just static strengthening the feet in the stance.

    There is a style that might be called, Southern Praying Mantis. The punching has been regarded as machine gun (-like).

    The first form of Chuka Shao-lin might have a name meaning Opening the Mountain.

    A book--Phoenix-Eye Fist...told of a story where a Shao-lin nun ended-up in Malaysia, my Think. She cared for two sisters. They lived in a cave called crane. But the children learned Crane from the nun And animals around them including praying mantis. The Sisters became formidable and adopted a boy.

    The White Eye-brow or Bak Mei System uses phoenix-eye fist.

    Kung-Fu has named different fists. One fist is called phoenix-eye.

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    [QUOTE=No_Know;1162454
    A book--Phoenix-Eye Fist...told of a story where a Shao-lin nun ended-up in Malaysia, my Think. She cared for two sisters. They lived in a cave called crane. But the children learned Crane from the nun And animals around them including praying mantis. The Sisters became formidable and adopted a boy.[/QUOTE]

    Truly poetic, No_Know.

    This made me smile. A friend of mine wrote that book.
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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

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    Phoenix-Eye Fist:
    A Book, A System,
    A Technique


    Cheong Cheng Leong
    Donn F. Draeger
    One with photos
    One with paper

    Visual
    Textual
    Two as one
    As narrorator.

    Spear hand
    Hammer
    Two dragons
    Swim together~

    Three kicks
    Do more than surprise.
    Even a duck
    on the rise.

    I happened upon a pond
    masked by lily pads
    and lotus flowers
    When surfaced ducks
    To my surprise
    And worse, each had a phoenix-eye.

    I could not penterate the center line
    Deflected while my chest was heeding
    The centerline onslaught it was recieving
    His second level tactic impeding
    Attacking while defending-
    My attempt at advance receding
    Am I being kicked too? Oh, my what a beating.

    Many options many drills
    Result is a show of Will.
    Chuka Shao-lin, my Respect.
    -Ernie Moore Jr.

    I was looking to go off of my pleasant feeling reading a resent response to some of what I'd written. WhenI'd studied from the book and read and reread the story it was somewhere more than twenty years ago now. But I tought there were two Authors and onewas in the pictures and was in the storyas it progressed past what I'd put.

    Looking to do someting about the person jdhowland knows,but no knowing which I included both.

    The system I heard was pheonix-eye fist, but thereareseveraltypes of hand stylings in the system. One of the handdrills is something like duck rising from beneath a lily pad.

    Writing this I loked around for reminders about stuff in the book. The red coer later edition has a picture from which I could complete a memory of a drill--"handset."

    I recall there being three levels of tactics: first is block Then attack. Second level tactic is block While attacking. Third is Attack-no blocking.

    Phoenix-eye is a technique used in other Systems much as Systems might have techniques that are Chin-Na but not go in depth of Chin-Na.

    To jdhowland And the book authors I thought of it as key for me to further my understanding of an essence of Kung-Fu.

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    [QUOTE=No_Know;1162475...I thought of it as key for me to further my understanding of an essence of Kung-Fu.[/QUOTE]

    The essence congeals on the green leaf of new life.

    Sparkling in the clear light of morning, a rare jewel

    Losing its affinity for leaf, it plunges into space

    Silently thunders to the ground like a meteor

    Held by earth, amorphous, unknowable

    The essence continues on its stygian course

    To find the wellspring of all knowledge

    One day to arise, as the phoenix lifts its wings

    On a tide of surging water, constrained only by the well

    It finds a home in the roots of the tree

    And knows it must seek the sunlight
    "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

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    The water reaching
    Like experience teaching.
    Striving like a student thriving
    Instructor drawing learning
    matched by yerning.

    We come to school
    as the gathering of dew.
    on a leaf
    green-fresh-new.

    We think we know and so we go
    Thunderously on to showing our skill.

    Inspired and inspiring.
    Quagmyred and retiring

    Some stay longer;
    some loose hunger.

    Someday thoughts of
    When I was younger.

    Held by our enviroment
    Life becomes an event.

    Asa our abilities dim,
    So do they grow.

    What we used to believe,
    we now better know.

    Eventually we are the humble
    That we were told to be,
    But knew better
    When received the seeds.

    A variety of growth.
    A variety of needs.

    Be like water?
    Be like.?.what you can Imagine.

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    Two Martial Artsie Poemsishs by Ernie Moore Jr.

    Chambered punch
    Deflect and block
    Interrupted attack
    Punch goes to lock.
    Use momentum
    to facilitate a break.
    Broken lock
    Attempt to reverse make.
    -Ernie Moore Jr.

    Pouncing Leopard hiding in the shadows
    Frolicing Tigers bounding in the meadows
    Leopard advances
    Den under attack.
    Catch them on the way back.
    Advantage lost
    Victor is a toss.
    -Ernie Moore Jr.

    Poemiticizing the first poem, with a bit more kung-fuieness

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    I was alone and saw the tiger leave.
    I followed and pulled it's tail.
    -Ernie Moore Jr.

    Some people won't/can't/don't
    leave well-enough alone.

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    Slightly OT

    Museum program features poetry, ‘Qigong’
    Posted Mar 7, 2019 at 12:01 AM
    COSHOCTON — The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum will host “An Afternoon of Poetry and Qigong” Saturday, March 23, at 4 p.m.




    Robin Mullet and Holli Rainwater will share readings and movement from their forthcoming book, “The Curve of Her Arm,” published by Night Ballet Press. The book combines haiku and free verse in a collection of poems on the art and practice of qigong, an ancient Chinese health care system that combines gentle body movement, breath practice, and deep relaxation. Inherent in the practice of qigong is a connection to the healing power of nature and a life lived in balance. The Chi Classes offered by the Library and taught by Holli are based on qigong and its offshoot, tai chi.

    Each poem begins with a particular movement then goes beyond to the emotions, memories, and insights brought to the forefront by practicing this ancient form.

    The event is free. The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

    The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum is located in Historic Roscoe Village, a restored canal-era town, at 300 N. Whitewoman Street, Coshocton. For more information, contact the museum at 740-622-8710 or at jhmuseum@jhmuseum.org.
    The Curve of Her Arm by Robin Mullet and Holli Rainwater
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