Eagle Claw information

[once ronin]

This Lau fat Man forms.

[Ben Gash]

Yeah, the form in the video is northern Faan Tze Ying Jow Pai, as taught by Lau Fat Mang.
there is southern eagle, it's a Hakka system called golden eagle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYAE...eature=related

[hakka jai]

Hi folks,
Golden eagle claw in Taiwan isnt Hakka eagle claw that i know of . HEC is based in TAI PO , NT in HK is more Hung garish with low wide stances & short bridge . The Sifu that i know of in HK are Chan koon wah & his teacher Au si Wing .

Regards
hakka jai

[Olaf]

The golden eagle boxing looks like a mix of hakka boxing and long fist

[BakShaolinEC]

that's the 5 leopards form from Northern Eagle Claw system.

only southern eagle claw i have ever seen was an old black and white film. and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmBKx2fL0A


here is Taiwan 5 claw golden eagle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8_xL4TeoPo

[mickey]

Greetings,

The Southern Eagle Claw posted by BakShaolinEC appears to be form the same family of the form presented in the beginning of this movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gX1fT1DJkY

The form demonstrated during the opening credits is only half of the form (Wong Tao and Chi Kuan Chun may be deomnstrating the two man form). The complete form and applications was put on video by WTN productions back in the 1980's. The demonstrator, Woo Tchi Nyu, is a student of Grandmaster Chan Kwok Wai.

mickey

[diego]

Greetings,

The Southern Eagle Claw posted by BakShaolinEC appears to be form the same family of the form presented in the beginning of this movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gX1fT1DJkY

The form demonstrated during the opening credits is only half of the form (Wong Tao and Chi Kuan Chun may be deomnstrating the two man form). The complete form and applications was put on video by WTN productions back in the 1980's. The demonstrator, Woo Tchi Nyu, is a student of Grandmaster Chan Kwok Wai.

mickey

Thanks for the replies, I need a copy of this on dvd lol

[mickey]

Greetings diego,

The form represented in the movie is called Seven Styles Eagle Claw. I do not know if the WTN people are still in business. Here is their site:

http://www.secretsoftheorient.com/


mickey

[ShaolinDan]

Diego,
As a northern eagle claw practitioner, I admit I'm biased, so don't listen if you don't want to. However, if you're looking to learn eagle claw style, I would say do yourself a favor and learn northern eagle claw, not southern. Bias aside, it will at least be much easier to find a teacher... Also, though southern (or cinema) might be what you see in the movies, the (good) reputation of eagle claw comes from the northern style.
Good luck, anyway.

[soulfist]

Apparently Bruce Lee studied Eagle Claw!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjEwnHb34PE

[ShaolinDan]

Apparently Bruce Lee studied Eagle Claw!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjEwnHb34PE

Maybe. My guess is he just picked up the kick combo 'cause it looks cool.

[ngokfei]

Southern Eagle Claw is IMO just a branch of the Yue Fei Style coming out of Shandong Province but originally from either Anhui or Hubei provinces. (per 2 diverging histories)

Many often confuse the fact that todays modern Northern Eagle Claw is a blending of numerous Northern Long Fist based styles that tends to obscure the true foundational origins of the style which are Fanziquan (aka Bafanshou) and Yue Jia Duan Da Chui. check youtube for visual examples.

An interesting book mentions the connection of Yue Jia Quan being learned by one of the 5 Elders of Shaolin (Wu Mei/Ng Mui - today known as the founder or ancestor to styles such as Dragon and Wing Chun. And yes I know it has nothing to do with Lung Ying's form Called Ying Jow Mor Qiu.

So if you want to train old school eagle claw then pick up/learn the 1st of its 4 core sets- Sup Lo Hahng Kuen - 10 road walking fist.