When you checked out the spear video, did you notice the other videos he has on YouTube? Weak!
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When you checked out the spear video, did you notice the other videos he has on YouTube? Weak!
Was anyone here told the history and backround on this form? I was taught that GMT had to create this for for rank advancement in the black belt levels...Now I see that it is a standard wushu form... See my other post "attention anyone and everyone"...
I watched the chinese video on the other thread and must admit while not identical to how we do it, it is very similar. And I mean very similar. Makes you wonder though.....this form has been taught since the 70's, I think, how would sin have gotten it if he copied it? It was before dvd's and vhs. I guess he could have gotten it from a manuscript or something. Or maybe he was taught it and this validates the original material we have been taught.
Bodhi--yes, I watched some of those, too. very interesting.
When I said "weak", I was referring to Mr. Cook and his execution of technique. Had not heard of him before and I would be curious to find the source of his material.
I had been aware of the similarities of many different form in SD and the other arts. I never really got into the whole who came first, chicken or egg, thing. I enjoyed my SD, still maintain the material and have cross-trained in some other arts and managed to incorporate/integrate many of the techniques. I guess my military background has allowed me to accept what works for me, regardless of source, and discard what does not. I have no problem with a hybrid form or system if it works for me. If someone wants to dispute a system or style, that is their thing, not mine. Heck, if you did not allow that, this whole thread would not exist. Have a great day!
Shaolin Do has its first 9th degree black belt..... is this also grand master or senior elder master or ????
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Is he with the SD club up there? Blue Ash?
no not with SD
http://9dragonskungfu.com/master_jerry_cook.html
...or is there something i have missed a glimpse of phantoms in the mist. Traveling down a dusty road bent forward with this heavy load..
For the love of all that is good and holy!!
Gene(or any moderator for that matter). PLEASE lock this thread!
Shao-lin Do may exist in terms of..yeah..there are schools you can visit that claim to teach the art of the "Grandmaster" of the Shaolin temple(of which there is NONE--period!!!).....
BUT..
It is NOT an official style of Shaolin kung fu!!
Fight the phonies,
LTN
LTN-thanks for your invaluable insight and contribution to this thread. Just for the fun of it, try, really try, to imagine that somewhere there is someone that disagrees with you. Yes, I know, hard to do, but try. Then, when you have just about wrapped your mind around the fact that you are not the center of the cosmos and that there is a remote possibility that you may have missed something or had misinterpretted something....look at this thread and try to understand that some folks just do not care what other people believe and prefer to do their own thing. Whether that is a mode of dress, speech or practicing a variation on a martial art, they just do something different than you. And regardless of what label is placed upon that, it is not wrong, but just different from what you choose to do or see. Deal with it and have a nice day.
the master cook I am referring to is in hamilton . I dont know what affiliation he may have with the blue ash school.
the jerry cook referred to here http://9dragonskungfu.com/master_jerry_cook.html
is a totally differant guy. I made the leap that since we are in the Shaolin-do forum that Master Cook in Ohio was the teacher you guys were talking about.
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Thanks for clearing that up.
themeecer actually shares a lot of the passion that Bruce Lee had about adopting techniques into your own way of 'expressing yourself.'
-shaolinarab
(Nicest thing ever said about me on these boards.)