NOTE
This is done at "walk through" speed, just to record the set
To me, it is very classic CTS verson Lama Pai, others have said it looks a lot like CLF...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Z8Gpq-RUY
NOTE
This is done at "walk through" speed, just to record the set
To me, it is very classic CTS verson Lama Pai, others have said it looks a lot like CLF...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Z8Gpq-RUY
I trained with Sifu Innocenzi for a private lesson in Lama basics. I wish I had more time in NYC, because it was so enlightening. It is footage like this that makes me wish I was going to school closer to the East Coast.
I should really note that Laurette was the first one of us to speak Chinese and helped us a LOT.... he also had a wide experience in TCMA....
Does anyone have information on Kingston Ku from this article, The Deadly Fighting Principles of White Crane Kung Fu?:
http://books.google.com/books?id=bNI...page&q&f=false
The name is new to me and a quick Google search turns up nothing. Thanks.
"Look, I'm only doing me job. I have to show you how to defend yourself against fresh fruit."
For it breeds great perfection, if the practise be harder then the use. Sir Francis Bacon
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Hey guys, I was wondering how much does the mui fah jeong play into the training of these styles? The reason I ask is that at my school, David Chin being my sifu, we train forms and footwork on the mui fah, then I see some lama people do the needle in cotton (name? sorry) on the mui fah. I was wondering what the benefit is of this.
Hope all is well,
Will
My sifu put some posts arranged in the plum flower pattern, he told me, kind of like the "5" on a dice, and was doing some form on the posts...i should ask him what it was.
All the lama schools have stories about this, if not exactly the same methods. In my tradition we start with Mui Fa Johng on 5 posts in a quincunx pattern (like the 5 spots on a gaming die) then move on to a slightly more elaborate take on the same form, Dai Johng Muih Fa, with a nine-post pattern. This is completely different from the fourteen-post needle-in-cotton posts.
The ability to jump up onto the posts is a difficult skill to achieve in itself. After becoming adept at the footwork the posts were gradually pared to a smaller diameter with a spokeshave until the tops were only a few inches in diameter. The problem with this sort of skill, according to my sifu, is that your steps become so habitual it is hard to vary your footwork--steps will always tend to be the same distance.
"Look, I'm only doing me job. I have to show you how to defend yourself against fresh fruit."
For it breeds great perfection, if the practise be harder then the use. Sir Francis Bacon
the world has a surplus of self centered sh1twh0res, so anyone who extends compassion to a stranger with sincerity is alright in my book. also people who fondle road kill. those guys is ok too. GunnedDownAtrocity
Thats some interesting stuff. We have different mui fah patterns as well...not to far though to actually know them.
Hahahaha we just use a step up to them hahahaha The way we work it is that hardwiring these steps isn't bad, as long as you learn the different angles and the like. Hard to explain though, but it makes sense when fighting hahahaha
Huh...thats actually really cool. In my sifus hop gar system we don't have that form. What we do up on the forms is train the kay men bo and the white crane striking, more commonly known as seven star continuous striking. The whole body elimination thing is trained up there as well.
Wow...you are very kind...hahaha all I can say is anything can help. My voice teacher is HIGHLY underrated and needs much more recognition. Thanks again.