USSD Buddha Fist Real Shaolin or Wu Shu?

[ktkungfu]

Is this a real shaolin form or wu shu?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaO9S...eature=related

[bawang]

lollololollololololol

[AdrianK]

Where'd that USSD thread go again?

[Almost A Ghost]

I'm pretty sure I'm incorrect, but I'm pretty sure that the form was around before their shaolin excursion and even before Tak Wah Eng. I remember seeing a form called a Buddha something and thinking it was cool. Now I view it and just slap my forehead in disbelief on how ignorant I use to be about CMA.

[ktkungfu]

Originally Posted by Almost A Ghost

I'm pretty sure I'm incorrect, but I'm pretty sure that the form was around before their shaolin excursion and even before Tak Wah Eng. I remember seeing a form called a Buddha something and thinking it was cool. Now I view it and just slap my forehead in disbelief on how ignorant I use to be about CMA.

Demasco form maybe? I figured they took it from Tak Wah Eng.

[lkfmdc]

part of the form looks like the old FU JOW PAI set, part of it looks like wushu, the rest who knows? Generally speaking, I have little respect to people who have to travel to china to pay off "monks" to claim lineage to shaolin

[AdrianK]

I'm pretty sure I'm incorrect, but I'm pretty sure that

I'm pretty sure that the above statement makes no sense

[Almost A Ghost]

Originally Posted by AdrianK

I'm pretty sure that the above statement makes no sense

Leave me alone! I'm tired!

[Baqualin]

Looks nothing like the Buddha Fist form we teach...ours came from The Buddha Family system, not Shaolin.....I have seen our set performed by the White Lotus Society in Indonesia.
BQ

[David Jamieson]

looks like bits and pieces of this and that strung together in a mish mash of disconcerted motion.

mostly it looks like a mutilated version of bassai dai from shotokan in a lot of places with an overtly chinese looking move thrown in here and there.

[B-Rad]

I think this youtube comment pretty much explains it:

"Yingzhaoquan, Changquan, Nanquan, Huzhaoquan all done extremely poorly mashed in with 8 Buddhist salutes"

I noticed a good chunk of the techniques/poses are in various modern wushu forms too.

The form isn't Shaolin or sport wushu, though a lot of it is found in various sport wushu forms. Maybe put together from various performances they've seen the "monks" do.

[SenseiShellie]

Originally Posted by lkfmdc

part of the form looks like the old FU JOW PAI set, part of it looks like wushu, the rest who knows? Generally speaking, I have little respect to people who have to travel to china to pay off "monks" to claim lineage to shaolin

you're actually right. It's a Fu Jow Pai set called "Law Horn Kuen" and then it's mixed with some random form. Sifu Tak Wah Eng mixed it specially for them at I believe was his only seminar in California.

[SenseiShellie]

Originally Posted by Almost A Ghost

I'm pretty sure I'm incorrect, but I'm pretty sure that the form was around before their shaolin excursion and even before Tak Wah Eng. I remember seeing a form called a Buddha something and thinking it was cool. Now I view it and just slap my forehead in disbelief on how ignorant I use to be about CMA.

The form was taught in 99...before their excursion.

[xcakid]

Originally Posted by SenseiShellie

The form was taught in 99...before their excursion.

Guess that's why that form did not look familiar to me. I left the system in 92.

[Almost A Ghost]

Originally Posted by SenseiShellie

The form was taught in 99...before their excursion.

Wasn't there another form called a "1000 Buddha fists" or something to that extent before Tak Wah Eng?

EDIT: Never mind, answered my own question: "1000 Buddhas" http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/b...000Buddhas.flv