OT: Do anyone here actually knows MA?

[SkineePanda]

Off-topic but how many wuxia forumers actually knows martial arts? Or whatever experience?

[Battosai]

I know "whup yer a*s"-fu.

More seriously, I've taken bits and bits of different martial arts and I must say I'm very jaded about martial arts in general. It doesn't do much for street cred when I've beat up black belts and 10+ years kung fu practiioners before...

[Ken Cheng]

My martial arts training is limited to the set of moves for Shaolin's 7 Stars Praying Mantis Fist and Tiger and Crane Fist, both of which I learned when I was twelve years old. I also had about a week's training in Tai Chi Sword Technique.

It's not much of anything at all, really, but I guess I can lay claim to being both a Shaolin *and* Mo Dong disciple.

[rabadi]

You can pretend to be H7Q's disciple too, Ken, since I remember you posted in this forum before that you managed to imitate 18 Dragon Subduing Palm to scare your classmate bully

[Ken Cheng]

Originally posted by rabadi
You can pretend to be H7Q's disciple too, Ken, since I remember you posted in this forum before that you managed to imitate 18 Dragon Subduing Palm to scare your classmate bully

The really funny thing is that the incident with Anwar took place at about the same time that I was learning the Praying Mantis Fist. I wonder why I didn't think about trying out those real kung fu moves and instead, relied on TVB's fake kung fu!

[Du Gu seeking a win]

Originally posted by Battosai
I know "whup yer a*s"-fu.

More seriously, I've taken bits and bits of different martial arts and I must say I'm very jaded about martial arts in general. It doesn't do much for street cred when I've beat up black belts and 10+ years kung fu practiioners before...

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72 Arts of ShaoLin


http://www.kungfulibrary.com/

Seventy-two types of Shaolin Arts

1 Mo zhang - the grinding palm

2 Feng zhang - the windy palm

3 Liuxin zhang - the rocket palm

4 Chuanso zhang - the shuttle palm

5 Tui shan zhang - the palm pushing a mountain

6 Pi chai zhang - the palm cutting wood

7 Chen zhuan zhang - the palm breaking bricks

8 Jin zhusa zhang - the palm with iron grasp

9 Jin gou shou - the iron hook-like arm

10 Wa yan shou - the hand tearing out eyes

11 Tanglang shou - the leg of an Mantodea

12 Bai she xin shou - the hand as accurate as a spittle of the white snake

13 Hei hou tiao shou - the black tiger jumps over a mountain

14 Heihu zhua lian shou - the claws of the black tiger grasping the face

15 She mao shou - the hand like a snake-shaped blade

16 Bai xin shou - the hand of eight wizards

17 Zhin cha zhi - the finger like a gold pin

18 Zhou zhi - the bamboo finger, the finger like a bamboo stick

19 Wu kua hongqian zhi - five fingers like red flower pistil

20 Zhin gong zuan zhi - the piercing finger as hard as a diamond

21 Cuan xin zhi - the finger piercing the heart

22 Tou gu zhi - the finger punching holes in bones

23 Yi zhi jin - the finger as hard as metal

24 Chan si zhou - the elbow with a cord wound on it

25 Go xin zhou - the elbow punching the heart

26 Po yin zhou - the elbow breaking Yin

27 Niu chan tui - the dislocated thigh

28 Pe zhu gan - a bamboo fighting pole

29 Gu shu pan gen - twisted roots of a dry tree

30 Te wu gen di - the iron buffalo ploughs soil

31 Fei mai qiao - the leg flying like a feather

32 Hei xian feng - the black water-spout

33 Tie sazou - the iron broom

34 Hou tiao qian - the monkey jumping over a wall

35 Yian qu shui - the swallow drinks water

36 Chang e bian yue - Sorceress Chan E ascends the moon

37 Tian gou chi yang - the Heaven's Dog eats the Sun

38 Ha mo zu tian - the toad drills the sky

39 Gang jin juan - the diamond fist

40 Shi kai hua - the stone blossoms out like a flower

41 Zuan xin chui - the hammer punching the heart

42 Lu kai hua - the skull blooming out like a flower

43 Duan mu zhuang - to break a wooden stove-couch

44 Ti jie shi - to break a stone with a leg

45 Fang feng Zhen - Zhen releases winds

46 Da shai dai - to strike at a sand bag

47 Fen mu guan - the coffin broken into pieces

48 Dai tie wa - to wear iron hoops

49 Diao shaku - to hang trousers with sand

50 Yue ying jian - to jump over a moon abyss

51 Feng xuan ai - the flight from a steep precipice

52 Go wu ji - to jump over a roof gable

53 Zuo liu xing - the rocket stance

54 Taishan zhuan - the pole like the Taishan mountain

55 Xin yi ba - the heart and mind clench

56 Qi wei chuan dong - the bristling hedgehog strikes a hole

57 Suang to yue - to embrace the moon

58 Tie gan tui - the leg like an iron pole

59 Kao re guo - the cauldron heated on fire

60 Zuai ti deng - to throw down a stool by a foot

61 Lu da gun - the ***'s strike

62 Zhai she zu - the foot digging soil

63 Guang chuan tie bu shan - to put on an iron shirt on the naked body

64 Wu kong fan jin dou - Wu Kong fights against sinew dislocations

65 Tian bing xia fan - the Celestial Soldier descends the sky

66 Da murien - to strike a man of wood

67 Xie zi zou lu - the scorpion crawls along the road

68 Qian jintui - the leg weighing one thousand jins

69 Zha yan huan zuo deng - to change in an instant the stool

70 Luohan shen gong - Luohan's magic feat

71 Jiao long nu kong - the coiling dragon growls in wrath

72 Qi guan qi mao - the breath "chi" washes the hair on the skin


General requirements to the way of carrying-out exercises

The breath Chi must unite with the force - Li, the brain must be in unity with the heart, the heart must be in unity with the mind, the mind must guide the breath Chi. Besides, the internal vision should be available in the brain and create plans; the brain must implement those plans, as far as the guidance of the breath Chi is concerned. The breath Chi strengthens the force Li which is a motive force of the breath Chi.

With the use of the breath an effort is made and the effort must reach the eyes and vision. When doing external exercises, one must go from small coercions to deep ones, from simple coercions to complicated ones. The intensity of loading should be increased smoothly and step by step, excessive efforts do not lead to success.

During external practices the secret of success lies in constant observance of the principle "Toil and Persistency". All the men who reached the top in the Shaolin practices got their high abilities in hard toil and reached successes only after a lot of regular exercises. One must rely only on his diligence. If you are not persistent in your heart, you will abandon your training half a way and loose what you have obtained during your practice.


For the first time in English

We shall continue to publish the unique book by
Jin Jing Zhong
"Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin"
(Tanjin, 1934) .

The book will be fully published in several issues of online e-magazine GONG FU:

http://www.kungfulibrary.com/gong-fu-e-magazine.htm

For the first time the book describes full training methods in all 72 Arts. Being until recently for outsiders the most secret part of training of Shaolin monks, which made them invulnerable in fight, 72 Shaolin Arts at the present time become available to all who are ready to practice them persistently and with an open heart.

[Temujin]

My MA background :

3 months of Hung Gar Kung Fu
1 Year of Wing Chun Kung Fu
2 Years of Tae Kwon Do
1 Year of Aikido
Proficient in the art of nunchakus

But I haven't practiced any of these arts for many many years.

[Son of Light]

3 months of Tai-Ji Quan.
Still learning...

[Zhang San Feng]

Originally posted by Battosai
I know "whup yer a*s"-fu.

More seriously, I've taken bits and bits of different martial arts and I must say I'm very jaded about martial arts in general. It doesn't do much for street cred when I've beat up black belts and 10+ years kung fu practiioners before...

yeah the martial arts they teach these days is all about the money and not about actual martial arts...i m different in what i ve learned

i ve learned 11 years of kungfu, including:
-north and south shaolin fist/five animal fists/staff/nine section whip/3 section staff/broadsword
-wu dang fist/sword/two handed sword/drunken sword
-kunlung sword/broadsword/double sword/ double broadsword
-hua shan sword
-drunken fist
-yang family spear
-yang tai ji fist/sword
-wu dang tai ji
-chin la
-ground kungfu
- ba gua
-xin yi
- fo jia quan
- nunchucks
-ying chun butterfly knives
-sai
-guan dao
-tiger fork
-halbred
-fan
-zi lan meng (natural style)
...and some other stuff

the 72 shaolin skills list u have there is kinda wrong...missing a few and the names are wrong for some too...the most important ones it missed are: tong zhi gong, jin gang zhang, yi zhi chan...then again it might be because i missed it

[TaiHan]

Originally posted by Zhang San Feng
yeah the martial arts they teach these days is all about the money and not about actual martial arts...i m different in what i ve learned

Is it the student fault or the teacher? If the teacher teach it correctly by starting from the basic, the student would get bore and leave. The teachers, living of them, needed to keep them entertain. Also who would like to pay someone to drain the life out of them in their training. Along time ago the teachers are the one who have the power and could punish the student and force them to train really hard.

I have heard that Yang Lu Chan forced his sons to train really hard that the one of the son ran away a couple of time.

[Zhang San Feng]

Originally posted by TaiHan
Is it the student fault or the teacher? If the teacher teach it correctly by starting from the basic, the student would get bore and leave. The teachers, living of them, needed to keep them entertain. Also who would like to pay someone to drain the life out of them in their training. Along time ago the teachers are the one who have the power and could punish the student and force them to train really hard.

well the thing is that teachers dont want to teach a lot, and most of the time the students repeat a single move for months. this is because of two reasons, 1) the teachers dont know enough and are afraid that they will eventually have nothing to teach. 2) it is a easy way to make money when teh teacher ahs to do minimum work but get maximum monetary rewards...of course this is of schools not in mainland, however from what i hear from my cousins, some schools in china too are getting close to adopting this 'get rich quick' scheme

[Tazzy1972]

does throwing waste paper into the wastpaper basket considered a throwing kungfu?? if so yes tat's my MA experiences