How hard are the requeriments on your Kung Fu Programm ?

[mooyingmantis]

How hard are the requeriments on your Kung Fu Programm ?

I want to ask to instructors and students about how many forms do you think is immportant an student need to memorize before he can star to learn new forms?

In large styles like Northern Shaolin or Praying Mantis with a large number of forms and weapons how do you work ? Do you teach 10 forms and push your students to memorize all them or do you only focus on the forms your student is learning right now and you don't push him to keep and memorize the previous forms learning years ago ?


thank you

My Northern Praying Mantis instructor said we should practice a form 1000 times before expecting to learn a new one. He emphasized quality rather than quantity of forms.

I choose to teach less than five mantis forms.

Theories/strategies from each form are extracted and taught.

Students drill every combination from every form as they study the form. Drills are done on the wooden dummy, BOB, focus mitts and a training partner. Combinations are expected to be worked into the sparring session in each class.

After one form is thoroughly trained in the above methods, a new form is introduced and trained the same way.

Students are expected to remember every form (and its quan pu) and be able to perform it whenever asked, regardless of how long ago the form was taught in class.

[SPJ]

forms are like a menu in a restaurant.

we only pick a few to practice (make a meal)

we do not eat everything on the menu/

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[SPJ]

there are many ways to remember the forms

1. recite the name of posture as if a poem

2. sing the name of the posture as if a song

or just use cue cards.

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the best way is to recite the name of the posture, every time you do the moves.

so if you practice 1000 times, you would recite the name of postures 1000 times.

then how could you forget.

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[SPJ]

German/French lessons? who was your teacher? Was it Satan?

yes. actually my german teacher was a catholic missionary from austria. he lived most of his life in taiwan, he spoke mandarin, haka, amoy (taiwanese) dialects.

my french teacher was---

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iedSa...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p2ay...eature=related

this canadian sings chinese. wow.

[EarthDragon]

My question is how do you fixed to encourage your student to work on new forms without lose the old ones

PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE.. its very simple

[Dark Chi]

Kong Poo is definitely TOUGH ENUFF. its the people behind KONG POO.

kong poo is the best. now what?

Yes I agree you can talk..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Wb52XXmts

Low level practitioners need not apply LOL