Lohan Posture application
Hi all
Been a while since I posted anything remotely interesting....
but I've been practicing Xiao Hong Quan and am interested in your views on the Lohan Posture which Gene kindly demonstrates in the link below....
http://www.martialartsmart.net/45001.html
Any views on applications?
I've heard/seen various but mine is a pull down head/kneck control (lower hand) and knee strike
In Xiao Hong Quan this is followed by a downward diagonal punch which would hit the head positioned in the previous move.
Any views?
PE
Well, that opens a huge pandora's box...
Do you know who Jinnaluo is? Every Shaolin practitioner should. He's actually more important than Bodhidharma in some ways, at least to those of us who got that deep. ;)
Here's an e-zine article about Jinnaluo, to get you started.
The one-legged posture is a variation
In particular, you see it as a variation in the BSL forms. Songshan Shaolin tends to end with Hero in a horse stance but a few of the BSL forms end in this one-legged variation. BSL 8 comes immediately to mind as an example.
Note that we published a variation of Hero in a Horse Stance in our Jan/Feb 2001 issue in a photo-essay piece Busted! Kungfu Masters Reveal Their Favorite Military Police Attacks By John Brown and Martha Burr. Interestingly enough, it's an O-Mei version from my master, Tony Chen, and in the O-mei system, it's called Wu Song strikes the Tiger. Tony's interpretation of it is wild - he pulls a strike to the top of the foot, then to the groin, then a takedown and trap out of it. He also re-interprets it for knife fighting and bayonet fighting.
Well, if you can't find it...
...it's still available in our back issues.