6 Harmony Mantis Seminar

[RAF]

Master Su Yu Zhang will present a 6 Harmony mantis seminar at the Hall of Fame Tournament in Akron, Ohio Oct 8, 9 and 10th.

The tournament will be held at the University of Akron (3rd largest Public University in Ohio). Akron is about 25 miles south of Cleveland. There are also flights into the Akron/Canton airport about 12 miles south of the University.

The seminar will be held at Master Tony Yang's school, The Wutang Center for Martial Arts in Akron, only a few minutes from campus.
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http://www.wutangcenter.com/wt/index.html

MASTER YANG SHU-TON (TONY YANG) PRESENTS
THE EIGTH ANNUAL
WU TANG "HALL of FAME" OPEN 2004
INTERNATIONAL CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS TOURNAMENT


OCTOBER 9th, 2004
AKRON UNIVERSITY'S MEMORIAL HALL- AKRON, OH


Featuring: Lion Dances, Masters' Demonstrations, Full Contact Fighting, Traditional Kung Fu, Contemporary Wu Shu, Taiji , Bagua, Xingyi, Weapons, 2 Person Sets and Much, Much More!!!
Demonstrations & Seminars with Internationally Known Masters
For seminar updates watch the website


Masters' Demonstration: Saturday 10:00 AM
Competition Begins: Saturday 11:15 AM

For Further Info Contact Us At:
Wu Tang Center for Martial Arts
1063 S. Arlington Akron, OH 44306
phone: 330-327-5699
fax: 330-649-9885
email: wutangcenter@neo.rr.com
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The seminar will be held on Sunday October 10 at 10:00 am. The price is $120.00 and will include 2 tapes from his seminar in Japan. The form is Jin Li Cang Hua. The information is posted under Basic Information. Hope to see you all there!

[Oso]

good luck, wish I could be there too.

[Brad]

Will this siminar be beginer friendly(as in zero mantis experience) or is it intended for experienced mantis people?

[RAF]

Brad:

Its been over 8 years since I've done any mantis and I only have a very small taste of 6 Harmony mantis. The videos will be usefu and I know you have done stance work so it should be fun and worth exploring.

Hope to see you there.

[baji-fist]

Brad,

I think you should be okay for the seminar. As long as you have some experience in any styles, that should be good enough. Six harmony mantis is not like the other mantis styles. I think regardless of mantis experience, you should benefit from the seminar. Not to mention the tapes are also very valuable (I saw the tapes before it was release when Master Su was in Alaska) tools for you to remember the form.

[sayloc]

RAF

If 6 harmony is not like the other mantis styles what "flavor" does it have?

How does this translate? Jin Li Cang Hua.

See you there!

[RAF]

I unfortunately have very little experience in 6 Harmony Mantis. I learned a couple of the single moving postures, liu he duan chui (6 harmony short punch which is technically not a mantis form but is used in the system), a Beijing version of 6 Harmony which was taught to me when I went through the door in 1994, and qi qing zhao yao--our version has elements of the "soft" 6 harmony mantis in it. I did quite well with it many years ago. I will take the seminar simply to gain some exposure and insight into the 6 Harmony system.

http://www.plumpub.com/sales/sales-disc./new_tapes.html

[B]There are two types of Praying Mantis styles, the Hard and the Soft. There are more styles within the Hard Mantis and they are better known throughout the world. Within the Soft Mantis there is basically one style: Six Harmony. Many of the Hard styles have some Soft techniques and can be played softly but Six Harmony is based on Softness as a strategy and curriuculum. It contains only seven forms. This form, Jin-Li Cang-Hua (Chin-Li Tsang-Hua) - variously translated as Flowers in the Mirror (a Buddhist term) or Flowers in the Sleeve- is an intermediate form. Su Yu-Chang was taught it by Grandmaster Liu Yun-Chiao who was taught by Ting Tzu-Chen. Further influence was gained by Liu Yun-Chiao's friend and fellow student of Mantis, Zhang Xiang-San (Chang Hsiang-San). [NOTE: Each tape is in Chinese and Japanese but is accompanied by an English language booklet.

CONTENTS

Introduction to the LiuHe TangLang style

Basic techniques

The Flower in the Sleeve form

Applications shown

Duet practices

This video was filmed during the 2000 Nagoya, Japan seminar. Each technique, energy, movement, step, application and duet practice is clearly explained. Mister Su's tapes are really quite thorough. They give the movements with meaning. For the teacher they are perfect showing not only what to demonstrate but how to get students to understand the meaning of the motions. His applications are clever and relatively straight forward but keep a flavor about them by sticking to the principles shown. Su himself has spent decades learning and practicing the style and has a wide knowledge of it. As he once said in a seminar we attended, "The Mantis is special. When you hit someone they will say, 'Thank you. If you hadn't hit me I could never have seen such interesting moves'." There's some truth in that. /B]

[RAF]

www.wutangcenter.com

Video Gallary

Old Footage of WuTang Martial Arts

Go to the 50 second position and you will see a short demonstration of 6 Harmony Praying Mantis in Taipei TV, Taiwan in the 1970s

[sayloc]

thanks

Ill see you there if possible