Bodhidharma inventing gongfu/wushu/Shaolin boxing is a myth invented during the late Ming dynasty era of syncretism by influence of Daoism....
I opened this thread with gleeful excitement, getting ready to read five pages of koryu and jujutsu discussion. Damn.
I used to like Yiquan. Then I learned that they cannot fight anymore. I was sad. I believed that it too has succumbed to an excess of theory of...
Yes, I am familiar with it, that's why the metaphor feels forced to me. We can postulate that there has been a single, original form of...
Funny of you to pick up those exact versions of Bassai, since they are all the same Itosu version, I think. There are many differing forms of...
I've noticed that he's also littered the Tameshiwari page on Wikipedia with a smattering of his original research, which clearly goes against the...
Claims can be rebuked by providing credible counter-evidence. I just came across one such evidence. It's an Okinawan document called Satsuyū Kikō...
Also: people who say Muay Thai is awesome only seem to think about the athletes that are on the top of their game. They don't come to think of the...
Let me chime in to this conversation too! There's a few things that I'd like to comment about your kata, based on what I know about Southern...
Using Wade-Giles romanization, the correct spelling would be Ch'inna. But nobody uses - or should use - Wade-Giles anymore. Just write it like...
I spent an exchange semester in Shanghai. I never managed to comprehend a single thing they ever talked to me in Mandarin, not to mention the...
There are two different styles of Taiji made by guys who had similar sounding names, 吴 and 武. They are pronounced with different tones in Chinese,...
I just can't tell whether your Wu is being a 吴, Wu being a 武, 吴 being a 武, 武 being a 吴, Wu being a Wuu, Wuu being a Wu or actually just Wu being...
I hope you are aware that Shotokan has never, ever been considered "traditional karate"?
Adam Mizner has crushingly bad reputation among the "martially oriented" Taiji community. That having been said, I personally believe he has...
I think Bak Mei power generation is quite different. Wing Chun does not quite look like this in its approach: [MEDIA]
I guess you don't know a lot about Bak Mei. Short range "shock power" is the default strategy of the whole style...
Anhui province? Are you going to Wuhan, by any chance? If you are interested in Baji, I can ask around. I know people close to Lü Baochun, who...
I've been dealing with some pain when training Bak Mei for a quite a while now on my right shoulder. It took me until last month to realise I had...
Mr Abs also has impressive lats. That means he is a proper Southern stylist. You cannot be a believable Southern stylist if you cannot use your...
Oh, I'm also such a grammar Nazi that "Siu Lum" hurts my eyes every time I see it since "Lam" is used in all standardized regular romanizations I...
Fa Kuen = Faa Kuen/ Faa Kyun (in standard romanizations) / Hua Quan (Mandarin Pinyin)/ 花拳/ Flower Fist. Some Gulao Wing Chun lineages have a form...
1. Pin Sun Wing Chun, as much as I've been able to realize, is the style of Gulao Wing Chun passed on from Leung Jan to Wong Waa Sam specifically...
Lü Baochun has some students in UK, I believe. And as a matter of fact, I think he teaches Baji right away and only then other stuff like Xingyi,...
Is my joke getting really that old? :eek:
A monk asked Zhaozhou Congshen, a Chinese Zen master (known as Jōshū in Japanese), "Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?" Zhaozhou answered, "無".
Nobody Important, which line of Yuan Chai Wan brand of Wing Chun do you train? Just asking out of interest since all of them seem to differ from...
"Yes or No"
What's your lineage, specifically, in terms of generations? I'm getting curious.
Are you talking of Shaolin as in Shaolinquan from the Henan temple?
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