san soo kung fu, similarity with other chinese arts?

[turonaga]

i have yet to encounter the san soo style of kung fu, what does it looks like? any descriptions?

 

does it have similarity with other chinese arts like hsing-i or pak mei kung fu?

 

i have encountered hsing-i and pak mei so i'm trying to just maybe there's a similarity so i can more or less imagine what it looks like. thank you

[White Warlock]

Here are a few video clip examples. Most of these are being performed slowly, in a relaxed state, and with consideration for the partner's safety.

 

so-so quality clips. Note that the interview of grandmaster Jimmy Woo ends with him giving a demonstration -

 

http://www.kungfusansoostuff.com/masterswork.html

 

More masters at play -

 

http://www.easthillskungfu.com/videos.htm

 

A nice demonstration -

 

http://www.easthillskungfu.com/fair.htm

 

Video clips from master Chuck Cory's site -

 

http://www.sansoomichigan.com/vidgallery.htm

 

(don't have realplayer installed, so can't vouch for these)

 

http://www.redshift.com/~mjacobi/mpegs.html

[turonaga]

thanx for the references.

[Natural]

Heres....about the history http://crane.50megs.com/index6d.htm

 

Hope it helps.

 

If you read all article, sanda was copy from muay thai because they were geetting beat up, but they have done well, they began in 1997, and beaten the thais.

[White Warlock]

Ahem... Natural. Sanshou/sanda is not San Soo. Not even remotely similar. You're doing that guessing thing we talked about...

[turonaga]

Ahem... Natural. Sanshou/sanda is not San Soo. Not even remotely similar. You're doing that guessing thing we talked about...

so sanshou/sanda is another style of kung fu?

 

what does it look like?

[White Warlock]

Yes, completely different animal. The name 'san soo' was posed by grandmaster Jimmy Woo around 1970 as a means to pacify the Americans that wanted something easier to say and market than 'tsoi li ho fut hung ga,' the original name of the art that is argued to be over 4000 years old.

 

Sanshou, on the other hand, is far younger and is a 'byproduct' of relatively recent Chinese/Thailand competitions. Read the article, noted above by Natural, for what seems to be a 'biased' report on sanshou.