Meihuazhuang
In the Las Vegas area, there is a teacher at UNLV that teaches meihuazhuang. After doing a lot of online research, some important things about the style are:
* This style is seldom heard of and is kind of rare.
* The style goes back at least to the Ming dynasty, and could even be as old as the Han dynasty, so it is considered an ancient style.
* The style had originated in the Kunlun Mountains.
* Many of its practitioners were associated with the Boxer Rebellion, and as such kept a low profile due to prohibitons on the style.
* Meihuazhuang practices the 18 classical weapons, as well as weapons unique to the style.
* It is often described as an 'internal' style, as qi and qigong are very important to the training and has five postures cooresponding to the five elements and their construction/destruction cycle.
* It seems to have a very loose structure in comparison to most other styles, and puts a big emphasis on freefighting.
Here are links to my internet sources:
http://clubs.unlv.edu/imaa/
http://www.meihuazhuang.ca/
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/Meihuazhuang/
http://www.youtube.com/user/SifuWu
http://www.youtube.com/user/YinShenping
http://yinxing.free.fr/Site%20England/TextWhat.htm
http://www.meihuazhuang.org/ (The site is in French, I think...)
http://wulinmingshi.wordpress.com/20...ai-tournament/
http://www.wholife.com/issues/8_2/02_article.html
If anyone could give me more information on the style, or point me to more websites that would, I would mighty appreciate it.
Last edited by Tao Of The Fist; 09-26-2009 at 06:47 PM.
Reason: Because not all of my sources are from the internet.
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