cymry Posted December 18, 2003 Posted December 18, 2003 Ever notice that all the stories about the history of certain styles have things in common. They begin with the founder watching a fight between two animals. The founder then studies the movements of the victorious creature, creates a new style, and is instantly unbeatable. Or they are a good fighter and then have a fight with some "master" and lose. Then they're humbled and they beg the master to accept them as their student, and after several long years they're the master's best student.
cymry Posted December 18, 2003 Author Posted December 18, 2003 Also, many have connections to the Shaolin temple.
battousai16 Posted December 19, 2003 Posted December 19, 2003 i can think of a half dozen off the top of my head that have nothing to do with either. "I hear you can kill 200 men and play a mean six string at the same time..."-Six String Samurai
cymry Posted December 19, 2003 Author Posted December 19, 2003 I think it's because the Chinese are very nostalgic, so the styles with the most flowery histories would be the most credible to them.
Drunken Monkey Posted December 19, 2003 Posted December 19, 2003 whoa... didn't i mention this somewhere here before??? anyway. i specifically taked about similarities in the histories of the newer styles such as wing chun, mantis, tai-chi (well, one of the chueng sam fung stories) and hung gar, all of which developed more or less around the same time. * * * anyway, if anyone has a good history/legend/myth of the the various mantis styles i would love to see it here cos i hear there are some very different stories in the different mantis styles. post count is directly related to how much free time you have, not how intelligent you are."When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
shotokanwarrior Posted December 19, 2003 Posted December 19, 2003 I was just wondering, what are the half dozen off the top of your head? Where Art ends, nature begins.
SevenStar Posted December 20, 2003 Posted December 20, 2003 liu he ba fa shuai chiao xingyi chuan bagua tai tzu baji that's half a dozen - he may have different ones in his list.
Drunken Monkey Posted December 20, 2003 Posted December 20, 2003 and before we anyone goes into long tracing of lineages, we are talking about immeditate origin... it doesn't matter if the guy's a seventeenth generation disciple of a twenty eighth secular disciple of one of the five remaining survivors of the senior members of the original shaolin temple... post count is directly related to how much free time you have, not how intelligent you are."When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
retsu Posted December 25, 2003 Posted December 25, 2003 some style has real weird legend, like learning from a deity in the dreams Qoo -_- LemonKiss
SevenStar Posted December 26, 2003 Posted December 26, 2003 one of the legends of drunken kung fu is stemmed from 8 immortals. I've heard the legend you are referring to, retsu, but can't think of it off of the top of my head.
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