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Any advice on how to do so?

Jet Li is was part of a wu shu team but i'm pretty sure he's grounded in long fist

(OVINE: wushu is also used as a term for MA in China.) There is a standard salutation recognized by almost every kung fu school. I don't mean to repeat the hand motions because everyone has said it a billion times but i'm going to add the leg movement of the mostly acknowledged salutation: You start out with feet together left palm touching or spaced ( either way it doesn't matter I do it space a bout 1.5" because i was tought that way) and elbows out, at the left breast/heart. Bring this accross to the right breast and step into a dragon stance with the right foot (for those who don't know: keep left in same erect position, turn right foot facing the side and step it out not too much but just enough. Just make it comfortable). then bring left foot out into an empty stance and extend both the palm and fist in front of you in the center ( the reason i like it slightly spaced is because at this point i can fully extend my arms with out seperating my hands or moving them closer, without opening myself up (i'm also including the movements laced into it). Next while still in empty stance, while bringing hands to about sash level close left hand into a fist. your fists should be facing eachother, with thumb and fingers side of fists facing the floor. you should be looking at your backhand and knuckles. then roll them into chamber and step the left foot back from empty and right back from dragon before the chamber is complete. Your roll should be at least at breast level because the move here is that when you brought your fists down you were knocking down a push or a double punch and then the role is a counter strike.

i thought wushu was just the term for MAs in general in China

surprisingly about a good 45-50% of the people i have met take or have taken some form of MAs. in my county i'd say maybe 5% of the pop. takes a MA

Hey just curiours to hear some answers, Whats your favorite Kung Fu style and why? I would have to say mine is dragon style because it's very multi-dimensional in that it's internal and external, and the lack of real blocking substituted by mostly evading techniques can really piss off your opponent so it's funny too.

well i wasn't told that when i started and you don't know my sifu so you really can't judge what kind of person he is, not to mention there are other sources that say that, that are genuine.

or fact?

ok. actually that stuff and info. you just gave me was great thanks.

right. yeah like i said they don't quite give the same reason but i pretty much said the same thing.

Shorin: the seocnd i saw the title of this thread i had a feeling you replied. Hey do you have a site about how the Bodhidarma did NOT teach the monks MAs and just Buddhism? i was arguing with some guy on a nother forum and i know it's true because a pupil to the Karmahpal told me so, when i was in India but this guy will only accept hard proof.

hey thanks for all the replies. those are perfect. ovineking: Remember awhile ago we were debating wether or not masters used forms to hide certain techinques? i have a good site thats really interesting. it talks about it somewhere in the middle of the page. it doesn't give the same reason as my sifu told me, but it acknowledges that thing were hidden none the less. http://www.kungfuloung.com.tw/for4.htm

Hey someone asked me the difference between long fist and short fist and i'm too tired to answer plus i figured that it would be nice to have a whole page full of people from both sides answers, and since i'm just a long fist student i don't want to be biased.

Who saw it? I thought it was very cool. Anyone recognize any forms?

sAtelite: thats not it and i would love to write the whole thing but i don't feel well right now. i'm sure if you google shaolin+twin dragon set you might get something Jules: phree89@yahoo.com

o so actually if i had just added about 200 yeras and switched the sides iwould've been right. gotcha. i just remembered it form one of my teachers whos a karateka for like 22 years i guess i rememebred too vaguely.

Martialartsmart.com has a drunken fist video.

didn't okinawa invade japan in like the 1300's? thats how certain weapons came into being like tonfa. Farmers used thier tools as weapons to drive out the Okinawans. am i wrong?

dude as a bodygaurd what type of action did u see?

to Balance_Timing_Technique: I take lonfist kung fu which is norhtern so mhy school likes to throw in extra stuff thats northern. So even though Twin dragon isn't really a longfist form its just a norhtern thing my school teaches to black belts. which i'm not but i wanted to learn it so my jaolin is teaching me. To Infrazael: Bruce Lee is the man. To Jules: That is the sickest. you gotta pic?

anytime

"fu ku gata ichi". even though i'm sure it's true thats probably not what it's called becuase thats japanese.

it's a two man set it's a northern shaolin set where each move has a counter so it's like fighting yourself since you know what happening. It's really stressing on basics with acouple of advanced techniques thrown in. But when it's really fast it's mad cool. It's good exercise in defeating an enemy who can anticpate your moves.

It was a cicada and then he captured a bunch of praying matis and had them fight eachother than studied it.

actually thats exectly what tai chi is about. clearing the mind. my school DOES tai chi and even when the master practices she does it slow. They don't need to practice it fast becuase doing it slow helps your body memorize it. Then when you do it fast it's a piece of cake.