I know this was discussed months ago, but as for the stepping, there's 3 main methods in traditional bagua zhang. Some schools will use all 3,...
I think you can't lump all the modern forms together because they were created by different people with different backgrounds. Anyway, in...
BTW, my last teacher, An Tian Rong, began his training before contemporary wushu even existed and Nick is one of his favorite colleagues. The guy...
BTW, Nick Gracenin's main traditional training is in Fu family martial arts, though he's learned other things from other teachers over the years....
That's because "performance" wushu is poorly understood by many. It is based on traditional technique and is pretty easy to teach combat...
They're not related. Visually, you can tell the difference in technique pretty easily: Northern mantis: YouTube - Praying Mantis Kung Fu -...
Oh, and qigong (chi kung) are basically breathing exercises and meditation (moving or stationary) used mostly to develop your health.
Sounds like the curriculum for one of the Shaolin monks. chang quan and nan quan would be modern wushu competition styles (long fist and southern...
What's the history of it? Just curious, because the name's extremely generic (and redundant) and doesn't really say much... Chuan Fa is just an...
And Yohan's right, pigua zhang does incorporate very well with western boxing :)
You guys are talking about the same thing, just spelling/translating a bit different. Pi Gua = Axe Hitch (or split deflect). Sometimes it's...
That's crazy expensive :-O
Yup, internet message boards sometimes require the development of a different kind of thick skin and cool head than martial arts training ;)...
The "old timers" often fought more upright like modern day kick boxers using a follow step. Many stances are transition or for training throws...
Video's working now for me... not sure why it wasn't before :-P
I'd go with 3-4 years, as that seems to be about the point when most average people who train regularly are ready to compete in the "blackbelt"...
Cool, what system of kungfu do you practice?
Does the training go beyond push hands, to a more complete freestyle sparring eventually?
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Cool, get the vid link up! ;) What other 2 forms of kungfu did he study aside for Wing Chun?
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