sano Posted October 5, 2003 Author Posted October 5, 2003 needle at the bottom of the see!?! where did you get that from? falcon kick!!!
battousai16 Posted October 5, 2003 Posted October 5, 2003 "sano, you've got to stop taking things so literally, or you're going to need to get a crane, guitar, monkey, a snake, a fair lady, a shuttle, windows, etc just to do tai chi " that's the greatest image i've had in quite some time! i can just picture some guy coming up to a class and pulling all of those out of his car! and sano, i assume that's the name of a technique in tai chi, but i haven't come across it yet. that or my instructor just hasn't called it out yet "I hear you can kill 200 men and play a mean six string at the same time..."-Six String Samurai
tommarker Posted October 5, 2003 Posted October 5, 2003 http://www.taichiproductions.com/images/article/5styles/Men%20sea%202.jpg I'm no longer posting here. Adios.
wcnavstar Posted October 5, 2003 Posted October 5, 2003 The No- Shadow kick refers to a kick that is done at close range while the opponent is distracted by the hands. Thus the opponent never sees the kick and only feels it. Hence The No- Shadow kick... Very Respectfully wcnavstar "We work with being, but non-being is what we use" Tao Te Ching
Drunken Monkey Posted October 5, 2003 Posted October 5, 2003 well, it's just another bad translation really. it is "mo ying gerk" which is better translated as no "image" foot/kick and as wcnavstar says, it is a kick that is done at close range that you cannot see. just a little revision though, it isn't accompanied by hand distraction, rather it is a kick employed when your hands are tied or in conjunction with hand techniques. think of how us wing chun guys use a simple front stomp/kick to knee/hip/stomach and you'll get the idea... 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."
Drunken Monkey Posted October 5, 2003 Posted October 5, 2003 as for the thing in the link, it's just something that they named after something done in a film that bears no relation to the actual move of the same name. 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."
Bdaze Posted October 6, 2003 Posted October 6, 2003 not possible. his leg would have to overtake light inorder to avoid causing a shadow. what they mean is, his kick was so fast that the shadow moved to quickly or unpredictable for the person on the recieving end to dodge. assuming they where looking at his shadow If in your journey you encounter God, God will be cut ~Hatori Hanso (sonny chiba)
paolung Posted October 6, 2003 Posted October 6, 2003 the "mo ying gerk" or "shadowless kick" of hung kuen is NOT based on misdirection (i.e. distracting the opponent so they cannot see the kick coming). this is a "gwai gerk" or "ghost kick". the mo ying gerk is based on speed. of course wong fei hung's kicks weren't so fast they physically didn't cast a shadow that's an expression to describe the amazing speed of the mo ying gerk, not to be taken literally (as another has pointed out)... but rest assured, the mo ying gerk is not based on misdirection, but speed... "It is not how much you know but how well you have mastered what you've learnt. When making an assessment of one's martial arts training one should measure the depth rather than the length". - MASTER "General" D. Lacey
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