Looking forward to part 2. Fantastic stuff. Thanks for sharing.

@lionsroarsifu

9 жыл бұрын

prowl82 thank you, my pleasure. My respect and best wishes to you and your Pai.

I rediscovered your page on here, I just found a book written by you by accident. "Hop Gar Mantis Kung Fu" so far it's a good read.

As always "rich" in explanation. Thank you once again for this great applications...and the path... how to use traditional kung fu....

@lionsroarsifu

9 жыл бұрын

Marios Tsiouroutis Thank you, my respect and best regards to you and your Pai.

incredible as always. its good to see such traditional training pay off. what did you have to do as foundational training of you dont mind me asking? thanks again

@lionsroarsifu

9 жыл бұрын

chineseboxer9991 Thank you... Loads of Seed fists, forms and full contact sparring (this was in 1973 - for Hop Gar). Respect and best wishes to you and your Pai. Steve.

@chineseboxer9991

9 жыл бұрын

lionsroarsifu what is the purpose of the seed fists? from what I can see I would guess that they are to learn to generate power, synchronize and connect that power with the stance, body and arms?

@lionsroarsifu

9 жыл бұрын

chineseboxer9991 Yes, that's it, plus, mind-body connection. In many ways the seed fists aren't particularly practical, but in my view that's not their best purpose (applied practicality). The synchronization you mention also involves arc-segmantation so that long-arm power is reduced to short-arm power and then extended back out again so that you have a full-bandwidth of the power-chain along the whole arc-path. This also entrauns the notion of multiple re-firing points along the arc-path - something which arises pout from a real clash against a non-compliant opponents structure. Stand-off fire-and forget flailing isn't the best use of 'long' arm power. Long-fists should be used for precision whole-body-weight close-in penetration and follow through. The long-arm basics entrain a degree of fitness, and also linkages for power, but in practice, these should be 'fired' with thoughtfullness rather than run out as wild flailing.

@chineseboxer9991

9 жыл бұрын

lionsroarsifu I find it so interesting that very different styles of kung fu, when trained traditionally, share so much in common in the basics. I suppose we are all human in the end. a shame how rare it can be. thank you for the in depth explanation. keep up the videos!

@lionsroarsifu

9 жыл бұрын

chineseboxer9991 Thank you... My sincere respect and best regrads to you and the Pai