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Has anybody heard of, or perhaps learned, the bowl and chopsticks form (supposedly from Shaolin Black Tiger)? I read about it through an article on Black Tiger that was in either IKF or KFM over a...

For me, it all started with a movie.
After going to see Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 3 times, I started buying MA books, including David Carradine's book. I pretty much skipped all the chapters...

Unfortunately his website has been down for some time, and it had the email of his "assistant" on it. You might ask at the Waterloo Kung Fu Academy; while it may have been quite a while since he...

I thought it was rather refreshing. I was getting a little tired of the whole grand Chinese tragic period piece with too much wire-fu.
My weapons teacher said of House of Flying Daggers: "Too much...

I've kept mine for about two years now, and it is a bit of a pain, but at the most if I decide to teach it will be a great resource to me; otherwise it will just be a great source of memories. ...

Funny how outsiders see us...
I was recently studying in another city, and the teacher there asked me what people thought when I told them I practice kung fu, and my response was that I don't even...

Movies, that is. Iron and Silk, Talons of the Eagle, Shaolin Temple...
My teacher used to drive Pan around, and he did indeed carry his "travel-sized" tile to pound on in the passenger seat.
I...

Several years ago, my teacher got the opportunity to train with Pan through the Waterloo Kung Fu Academy in Kitchener (Canada). He learned a couple of very cool forms from Pan, including Five Tiger...

I think of the hook kick as being the opposite of the roundhouse, in that the foot comes around the other direction to strike with the heel.

To quote a friend of mine on fancy jump up spinning...

Instep in that case b/c we never train specifically to hit with our shins, although I practice it on my own sometimes.

Then again, I've got a bag at home I can practice hitting with my shins,...

I prefer the top of the foot as opposed to the ball, because I feel like I can get better power/accuracy out of it.

We chamber our crescents as well, due to the not wanting to telegraph that...