Sil Lum Kung Fu

[JadeDragon3]

Just wondering if anybody here studies Sil Lum Kung Fu (Cantonese for shaolin);five animals of: tiger, crane, snake, leopard, & dragon? Not referring to Shaolin Do. This is the style I study. If you study it why do you like it better than any other style?

 

[Jade Tigress]

Just wondering if anybody here studies Sil Lum Kung Fu (Cantonese for shaolin);five animals of: tiger, crane, snake, leopard, & dragon? Not referring to Shaolin Do. This is the style I study. If you study it why do you like it better than any other style?

I trained it for about 2 years when I lived in Northeast Tennessee at one of Rick Ward's schools. Now I train SPM in the Chicago area.

 

[Mei Hua]

Bei Shaolin Honan Mei Hua Chuan, 20 years.

Why? It's far more practical than many other MA's I've seen and I've trained in a variety of styles. Plus our system is extremely rare, I run the only other school outside of the main school in the world, so to pass it on and keep it alive is an honor.

 

[xiongnu_luohan]

Just wondering if anybody here studies Sil Lum Kung Fu (Cantonese for shaolin);five animals of: tiger, crane, snake, leopard, & dragon? Not referring to Shaolin Do. This is the style I study. If you study it why do you like it better than any other style?

In the past I did the northern shaolin system of gu ruzhang - that's the one with the ten hand sets( koy moon, moi-i, lien wan, sik fot, duan da, bot bo, chum sam etc.). That style may have the five animals in it somewhere but I've never heard of it described as a northern 5-animal system.

The thing is that "northern shaolin" is really a category of styles that includes gu ruzhang's style, the songshan curriculum, hua quan( a shaolin version of an older style called hua shan pai ) and even the luohan style. I have heard of shaolin styles that are described as "northern 5-animal" but that's not the type of shaolin that I did.

There's a lot of different shaolin/sil lum styles out there. Chinese martial arts are vast and deep. I hope that helps. But if you want to tell us a little about your style that's good too.

 

[Taijiman]

I've done shaolin basics and conditioning... and a mizong quan form (not sure how Shaolin related it is ). That's about it though.

 

[JadeDragon3]

Well hello Mei. It's me, your DL buddy. Your everywhere aren't you? Lets go get a Guiness Drought or a Tsing Tao?

 

[Mei Hua]

Well hello Mei. It's me, your DL buddy. Your everywhere aren't you? Lets go get a Guiness Drought or a Tsing Tao?

Cheers bro, you got it