Tainan Mantis wrote:
Shrye's video is Beng Bu and Lanjie.
The Beng Bu video does the entire form fast.
The road by road fast and slow.
The slow way is the tradional methof of teaching, very unlike what you see in most modern videos.
It is based on the saying," Chu shou kuei pan jia man(literally; hands attack quickly, hold posture slowly)."
It is a principle to remember when doing forms as a beginner or as a warm up.
It means that the motion from posture to posture follows the original speed and intensity, but each posture is held for a long time.
This is the way his shrfu's taught him.
There was no explanation of a move or slo mo demo by the master.
The move is done one way and it is the student's responsibilty to work the move until it is perfected.
This can be seen in the tape as he does the form just this way for the benefit of the camera.
Both tapes show the applications to all the moves.
There are no 2 person training drills, though.
Both tapes also have the same set of basic exercises and drills as well as a short demo of some other forms.
These drills include the traditional roads of Mimen PM.
I recall he didn't put them all there though.
There were only 7 originally.
BTW, That Mimen style of teaching. There were 7 roads of basics which the student must stay with for about 6 months.
Then start the first form, which is lanjie.
The video's are short and not cheap.
But for students and grandstudents of Ponglai it is the only chance to see these 2 forms, especially Beng Bu the way it is done by Shr Zheng zhong.
This would be invaluable to the overseeas students who don't train with him here on a regualr basis.