What a lucky group of indoor students.

@lionsroarsifu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jason, very kind of you to say. Respect, Steve,

Amazing!

@lionsroarsifu

5 жыл бұрын

Thank You Si-Fu Chris, highest regards, Steve.

Very nice

@lionsroarsifu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew, it's my 'left' hand. You'll understand....

What are the biomechanics for a powerful strike or punch generally?

Man I just love this style of teaching and Kung Fu, my school only teaches it to a select few and not sure which of these branches are taught there?

@lionsroarsifu

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bob Bader, this is from a branch of Bamboo Forest Temple Southern Praying Mantis, a rare 'Family' style.

Is Lama Pai another way of saying Pai Mei or Bak Mei(white eyebrow?

@lionsroarsifu

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Jason, The Tibetan Lion's Roar tradition has three branches - which themselves are further subdivided. Almost all these branches and sub-divisions go back to a Tibetan Buddhist Monk Sing Lung Lo Cheung 'Sage Dragon Venerable Monk' . These branches are: Lama Pai, Tibetan Pak Hok (White Crane) and Hop-Gar the Hero or 'Knights Family'. Hope this helps.

@jasonsecretsword7606

5 жыл бұрын

That helps allot. I am only familiar with White Crane of those branches and it is a vast style by my standards. I imagine The venerable Sage Dragon was no doubt amazing intellectual to have compounded so many high skills that the system needed dividing. I am very intrigued with the Hop Gar "shifting" body skill you express and teach(not sure what else to call it). I am familiar with the basic foundation skills and power generation from a few other southern styles. The shifting you express (I think through Hop Gar?)has obvious and amazing affect on the power generated (and ease of transfer)in other southern styles and is not commonly seen taught as I have only seen it from your videos over the years.

@lionsroarsifu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jason, Chan Tat Fu's lineage (which is mine in the Lion's Roar tradition) was s synthesis of elements from all three branches. He was also highly skilled in Choy Lay Fut, and in Northern Eagle Claw, so inevitably, his 'hand' has influences from these skills within it. The transferable power generation to some extent is my own contribution to Chan Tat Fu's system as I had received it from my first teacher. The elements were already there, but the synthesis (on my part) came from integration of influences from other styles I have encountered along the way. This actually, is 'traditional' in the Lion's Roar art - which accounts for its simultaneous unity and diversity between the Branches. Some of my own students are Si-Fu in Chen Tai Chi, Ba Gua, Hisng Yi, Splashing Hands etc so these influences (some of which are already there from Lion's Roar's journey through Western China, into the North and then down through the South and into Hong Kong) - have been accentuated by them - and with my full support. The seeds of the system, including its esoteric side, are fully consistent with this. The branches that don't originate with Sing Lung Lo Cheung 's introduction into China, come throughthe late Lama Pai and Tibetan White Crane Grandmaster Au Win Ning - one of Chan Tat Fu's teachers, who also studied a branch directly from two Tibetan Lama's from Manchuria. Au Win Ning's art is quite different from his classmates who are in the 'orthodox' lineage transmission. Au Win Ning was highly respected in China and Hong Kong and Chan Tat Fu was a co-founder (with Chan Hon Chung of Hung Gar) of the Hong Kong Chinese Martial Arts Association.

what branch of southern Mantis ? Chow gar, Iron ox , Jook lum ?

@lionsroarsifu

5 жыл бұрын

Its from a branch derivative of Jook Lum.