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ONG BAK, and the upcoming Fearless.

wow, unbelievable.

last time I heard from an TV interveiw with a Shiao Ling monk in Taiwan, Eagle claw is pretty much lost.

sorry, I mean like 2nd season.

nope, I haven't had chance to see the anime. comic already went to 2nd round.

if this is the sachin that I heard of, it's a kata that focus on breathing, and is used to helping your internal strength.

I have seen the comics.

After you see the whole movie and also Ong Bak, you won't have this doubt.

Jet Li's latest movie "Fearless" will be released thru out the Asia at Jan 26, 2006. Dunno when we are able to see it in theater in US. here is the official website, there are trailers inside. Looks awesome. Most fighters in the movie are professional martial artist instead of actor. http://www.fearlessthemovie.com/main2.htm

I am trying to find out too.

the first match of this particular event, which was happend during 2004. The result was 5:0, all the kung fu fighters won, but according to Kyukoshin, they are not familar or used to the Chinese full contact rules. That's why for this 2nd match for 2005, both parties actually made agreements and mod the rules first before competition. Also, during the first event, most of kykushin figthers weren't the best in the class, so this time, they actually send Kyukushin world's champions to compete.

it's not MT, they might dress like one, but it's not. I am trying to find the results too.

are you talking about martial art film in general, or Karate film???

it's full contact, but I dunno the details of the rules. All I know is, the rule will be slightly different then the first time, and also, the rule was consulted and agreed by both side.

It's one of the biggest martial art event in Asia this year. 5 kung fu practioner VS. 5 Kyokushin Karateka. Dec-23, 2005 the tournament holds in Guan Zhou, China Here is the website: (sorry, I can't find the website in English) http://gz.piao.com.cn/video/zhuanti/gongfu/gongfu.htm This is 2nd time of this particular event, last event was hold on 2004. The most interesting thing about this year's tournament is, the 90 Kg class Kyukoshin Karateka is the personal bodyguard of Russia's President Puting. He is this year's Kyokushin Champion of the world. really want to see this. Anyone who got more info please post.

MAN, it's been two days after I ordered it. Still waiting for it. : (

I just ordered the DVD also, can't wait to watch it.

I thought they are very famous with their crecent sword

No that's not true, NOT "nearly all" chinese people knows that Hung Gar is martial art style and is same as hung chuan. Maybe nearly all cantonese people knows, but definately NOT "nearly all" chinese people knows. Cantonese is not standard Chinese language, it's only a dialog that is used in Canton area, and HK. Therefore, most chinese don't know how to speak cantonese, usually only people from canton area and HK speaks Cantonese. And even if you say "I practice Hoang Chia" in Maindarin chinese, not only it's gramatically incorrect, most Maindarin chinese speaker will look at you weird, especically people who know nothing about Martial art or Cantonese. However, if you say Hoang Chuan most people knows. Juding by your spelling of wu hok chia and ngai sut chia, it looks like you learn your chinese based on Cantonese, which is NOT standard Bejin Chinese or Maindarin Chinese which were widely used by most Chinese. Now back to the topic. Chuan Fa Chia does exist, and it didn't specific style, it just mean studies of Chuan Fa, and anyone that knows chinese knows that Chuan Fa is just a general terms, no style were specific, just like what you pointed out. However, this goes the same with Karate Ka, it just mean person who studies Karate, but didn't specific styles. There are many styles within karate, such as shotokan, Go Ju, shindo Jinen ryu, Wado ryu, and such. Karate is just like Chinese Kung Fu, or Chinese Chuan Fa, it's a general terms, and Shotokan is a style of Karate, just like Hoang Chuan is a style of chinese Chuan Fa. (however, I do believe there are way more chinese Chuan Fa styles than karate, and the difference between some of the styles are rather large.)

in Japanese, you say "they practice karate" too, there is no Ka in it. they do exist. Just like you say he is SU fa Chia (brush writing specialist or someone who spend their time study su fa) so does Japanese However, Chia and Ka also mean specialist or someone who spent their time study certain subject. It was used in many cases and definately in martial art's case, that's why there is budo ka, and wu tao chia. 1st of all, althought gramar wise that is correct, no on speaks like that in these days, people will consider that's very arrogant. The reply you will get from that is "there are so many people with last name of Hung, what you mean by your from Hung Chia" 2ndly, I think only Cantonese will say I practice Hung Gar, I am sure if you go to China or Taiwan, even singapore, they won't say Hung gar, they will say Hong Chuan. or Tiger Crane style. again that's how you say it in Japanes also, you say you practice karate, or judo, you don't say you practice Judo ka, or Karate-ka.

Well, the topic is kung fu grappling, it didn't say anything about ground.

the differences in the terms of the grammar weren't big enough to say it's completely differernt. Ken po ka and chuan fa chia are same.

terrible idea. Basic is the most important of them all.

There is also Shiao Chiao. There are actaully several grappling technics in Kung Fu, the problem is most of them (almost all) are not famous in US, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist. Even Chin-na, most people only know there is Chin-na in US, but not many people knows there are actually Da (big) Chin-na, and Shiao (little) Chin-na.

never heard of it.