I'm still working on the mantis mind, I think.
7 years of hung gar and 13 years of other stuff compared to not yet 2 years of mantis makes me not a mantis fighter yet.
but, as I talk about in the 'sparring note' thread, I finally got into some feeling of the right thing friday.
SO:
constant movement, mostly forward, hands never stop moving
side to side waist jing with most circles
vertical spinal jing with the verticle circles like LKW{edit: good lord, I meant YKW } talked about.
Brandon Lai's favor move was a 7 strikes sequence that covers clockwise circle, counter clockwise circle, and verticle circle. Very fast and no matter what you do. His blocking hand will take over your blocking hand and that allow his striking continue (switch hands concept).
that's exactly what I was doing with one set of combinations (I'm NOT, of course, saying I do it like BL )
the karate guys had a hard time dealing with that. I think they could but their sport venue training doesn't emphasize continual attacking. they do combinations of 2-4 but always exit after the last technique due to the scoring method.
Last edited by Oso; 06-06-2005 at 07:29 AM.
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