Great list of kung fu styles.....

[Fu-Pow]

http://www.atlantamartialarts.com/styles/kungfu.htm

[Volcano Admim]

zero credibility due to this:

"B. Internal Styles (Soft, Mental/Spiritual)"

[SPJ]

Cool.

Good link.

[Fu-Pow]

Originally posted by Volcano Admim
zero credibility due to this:

"B. Internal Styles (Soft, Mental/Spiritual)"

Not talking about that part. Talking about the list of names.

[Tak]

I practice the invincible Et Al gong fu style! Notice how it is northern, southern, and internal all at the same time! I will use it to first confuse, then destroy you! Tremble with fear, and duct-tape shut the mouths of your women for fear that they will begin their lamentations prematurely!

History:
This style was actually passed to a Benedictine monk in a remote monastery high in the Italian Alps by a mysterious chinaman who stopped once a month to do the monks' laundry. The monk, upon defeating Satan with it in a widely promoted cage match, proceeded to teach the style to all the monks in the monastery, except one pudgy, overweight monk named Alvinius. Finally, when it became known that Alvinius had impregnated one of the monastery's faithful St. Bernards, who was previously thought to have been barren, the other monks agreed to teach him the ultra-deadly style, which has since become known as Et Al, which is Latin for "...and Al."

[MasterKiller]

The first real references of an organized system of martial arts came from a man named General Chin Na.

WTF?

[Shaolinlueb]

i like the list of names. if those are all real, but my list of known styles is very small. id like to see some of these rareer styles from china one day.

[sean_stonehart]

Umm.... dig this from the site... from the page... then go to the source...

This is extremely controversial. Most of what appears here is a summary of what has been learned from Sifu Benny Meng.

and this....

(Contributors: Nick Doan, Alex Jackl)

Anybody recognize them? They wrote it, we just use it.

I'm one of the admins of the site. That part of the site was done before I came aboard. If anybody would like to step up & write a neutral but accurate assessment of what "defines" Kung fu, then write it & send it to me. I'll be glad to once over it & if it fits, put it up. Otherwise ... STFU.

BTW... that's not what generates the traffic to our site. What generates the traffic is the non-political, non-biased school listings for the metro Atlanta area and the news & posting areas. We hope it helps to bring the MA to the fore ground in Atlanta. We've provided information & postings for cultural events, requests from professional sporting teams, etc...

Anybody else got one to match?? www.lamartialarts.com maybe?? www.dallasmartialarts.com out there anywhere??

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Fu Pow... thanks!

[Meat Shake]

Meatshake wonders how many of those are not included in the shaolin-do curriculum.

[Shaolinlueb]

Originally posted by Meat Shake
Meatshake wonders how many of those are not included in the shaolin-do curriculum.

:LMAO:

[chi generating face]


.. gene might find that funny.

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

im really drunk and lost.

someone should help me to bed.

then pleasure me.

[Serpent]

blooming lotus will be around in about an hour. You've still got time to run and hide.

[SPJ]

The list of schools and styles are ok. Of course, there are more.

But it is quite a decent representation.

There are 2 points in the history may not be accurate.

There is no General Chin Na. Chin Na or grappling exists in every school of Wushu. The first school of using Chin Na as a sole fighting method is Iron Claw (Teh Zhua Gong) practiced by 8 Gods Men/school. It may be dated back as early as 3000 years ago.

The fighting skills and fighting in groups are shown in curving on stones 7000 years ago in China. They may predate the development of Chinese languages. And thus not recorded in words. or prehistorical.

For these, you have to do a search for the documents.

Other than that.

It is a good web page.

Good job.

In the history section; Personally, there should have a mention of The first emperor of Song dynasty. Tai Tzu Chan Quan. Which is considered a forefather of long boxing. TTCQ was used to train Ming's Army. There is Shaolin Tai Tzu.

There should have a mention of Tong Bei Quan from general Han Tong.

I can see the authors have most experiences from the Southern boxing (Nan Quan) and southern derivatives of the Northern.

Tong Bei has complete records and books on theory, poems, etc. It is the most completely documented system for over 2000 years.

In contrast, there are a lot of missing links in other schools.

[Ben Gash]

No mention of Wan King Fist or Taiboquan

[sean_stonehart]

Funny Ben...

As I posted earlier... the page in question is a piece used by the site written by somebody else.

If ANYBODY would like to contribute a nice, concise history of CMA with no political or stylistic prejudices, I'll be glad to use it & credit you accordingly.

It's good enough to get newbies some info they can use in making decisions on a basic level. We're not about educating the masses... that's up to their sifu & kwoon.

Are there errors? Of course there are...
Am I interested in fixing them? Sure but not really... I don't have time between my job, & training...
Am I open to somebody donating a more correct version? Darn tootin'...