cool history...good topic KCC.
ok...so, how old is old when talking about these sets?
is a specific creater cited? branch?
are these sets 'pure' mantis or borrowed?
(edit: oops, missed your second paragraph, B., just got done w/ a 12 hour day...)
anything else?
I learned 'steal the peach' from Jake along with the rest of the Peng Lai Nashville group back in '04 I think...I like the set a lot and Jake did a great job teaching it.
one of the things for me (for those of you who remember me from back in the day's of Cottrell's list server) is that I came from a school in the hills here in NC that claimed mantis but with nothing to back up the story once I started looking elsewhere and had something to compare it too...'steal the peach' held several moves that were very close to some of the stuff that was taught at that school.
I've given up trying to correlate what was taught there but it is still nice to run across something that is close to what was taught there...makes me feel like it wasn't such a complete waste of time.
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