I'm in my teacher's new Lian Bu Quan DVD!
I was recently asked to help Mr. Rovere out with his new DVD (Secret Fighting Skills of the Chinese Military: Lesson 1) and thought I'd post a link to a short video clip from it (you can watch Mr. Rovere kick and punch me and another training partner around a bunch :P I'm the "lucky" guy up first who gets it in the groin. It's ok, I don't want kids. :P )
Link to the clip is here: http://www.rovere.com/movie/lssn1.m1v
More info on the video (and Mr. Rovere, of course) is available at http://www.rovere.com/videos.html#lbc
Cheers!
Gene's lyric thread lists the same translation I had above. Cool.
I wonder why, Ravenshaw, I wonder why...;)
I've been getting into LBK again lately. I used to by bored by it because it was so rudimentary, but I've been enjoying sprinkling some xingyi energy into it. Plus I learned a basic jingang form a while ago, a preparatory form for mizong, which worked the Grabbing hand, hammer strike technique, so I got to thinking about it again.
lkfmdc, I like your comment about preserving history. I'd add that in fencing, the modern sport has changed dramatically. For example, and few fencers still understand this, historic fencing took into consideration the angle of the blade. Since most people were fencing with blades that were essentially a flattened-diamond cross section, the angle of the blade - flat vs. edge - had a dramatic effect on the physics of your application, not only in blade on blade actions, but also simple ideas like penetration of the rib cage. Of course, this has all been discarded in the modern game. I suppose you could propound the same argument for traditional hand combat, although that might be more challenging and it'll surely lead to the ol' 'my techniques are too deadly for MMA' nonsense.