New London Northern Mantis Kung Fu school website

[KungFuLondon]

www.KungFuLondon.co.uk

Regards.

[Oso]

That's a cool looking place to work out. Nice gothic architecture.

Any more info on the curriculum? Forms taught?

Welcome.

[BeiTangLang]

Interesting. Just playing "Devils advocate",..looks like an incarnation of SD. More information would be greatly appreciated.

[FEELERSTRIKE]

I have never heard of this branch of Tang Lang before , has anyone ever come across it before ?
Not to seem rude but shouldnt forms be taught earlier on than five years ? Forms are the basis of Tang Lang , how can you train in tang Lang without them ?
How can you be a senior student / instructor without training forms ? Where do the techniques come from that you use ? 50 forms are a vast amount to start 5 years into your training .

[ursa major]

Originally posted by FEELERSTRIKE
... Not to seem rude but shouldnt forms be taught earlier on than five years ? Forms are the basis of Tang Lang , how can you train in tang Lang without them ? ....

Well, you have to give the instructor time to learn the forms first eh?

OK JUST KIDDING !

Maybe that is how they were taught in that line?

UM.

[FEELERSTRIKE]

You could be right it is a branch I am not familiar with , could be a new approach ? If it works , then use it .

[BeiTangLang]

Your in-country,...go check it out for us!

[FEELERSTRIKE]

I would like to but unfortunately I have club nights Monday to Thursday and do not live locally to our capital , but if I get a chance I will . It would be good if the guys from that branch would kindly give us more information on who they are and what they do as their site only gives very limited information .

[Hua Lin Laoshi]

Getting back to the London Mantis website it's unfortunate that there isn't enough substantial information there to determine what the style is about. At first I thought it might be a variation of Wah Lum from Sifu David Hawkins (ex-WL who switched to CLF) but after viewing the website it's obviously something else.

[ironox]

Corja shantung is a northern mantis system.

you can log on to Sifu Alims website : www.northernmantis.co.uk

Sean

[Hau Tien]

http://www.frixo.com/sites/mantis/sifualim-poster.jpg

Hmm... I don't know much about the system... but... a combination of Tae kwon do, jiu jitsu, judo, and praying mantis? Maybe it's just my lack of experience, but that seems a little off to me?

[FEELERSTRIKE]

Ironox ,
Hello and welcome to the community . I am afraid I have never come across your branch before but it will be good to have your opion on this forum .

[BeiTangLang]

Originally posted by ironox
Corja shantung is a northern mantis system.

you can log on to Sifu Alims website : www.northernmantis.co.uk

Sean

Ironox, welcome to the forum.

The members for the most part here are all traditional praying mantis practitioners from around the world. They know what mantis looks like and have a grasp of what is in it.

They need to know more about a system than an obscure story to convince them that they system protrayed is legitimate; The Corja site does not do this. All it does is send the all to familiar alarms of being made up.
No, I am not saying that it is made up, but that the website sends that alarm to most of us here.

Thanks for posting & we are looking forward to more information on the Corja school.

[Hua Lin Laoshi]

Well the website makes the claim that it is the original NPM yet offers no lineage. Definitely a red flag. With all the historians here I'm sure nothing less than verifiable documentation will suffice.

"My teacher told me so" just isn't going to cut it.

If it is a verifiable offshoot then it could open up a new perspective on the history of NPM.

We're all eagerly waiting to hear.

[FEELERSTRIKE]

It would be interesting to know more as the northern mantis scene in the U.k. is not overly large but has been quite well established for many years with my shifu being a strong promoter of the 7 star branch as passed on to him by his master Mo Lam for nearly 30 years .