Seriously. There is traditional duck. Modern duck too. There are even duck razors. CMA is funny that way - very exotic. It’s what makes it so fun. I’ve even heard tell of a flea style. Seriously.
As for the Emu, that was my own spin on Ostrich. I like the word Emu better than Ostrich, and they are the same bird, more or less, at least in martial terms. I like the word Rhea too, but the temptation to call it Dire would be too great. China did have trade with Austrailia for centuries - they’ve had trade with Africa fro centuries - so they might have been exposed to an actual Emu. There’s another theory that postulates that the Tai Xing is entirely mythical. Who knows? In an overview piece of weird animal styles, that bit of trivia didn’t seem worth pursuing.
Originally posted by Xdr4g0nx i don’t know about the style but we do have a Mandarine Duck kick. I was told mandarine ducks always travel in twos so when we do the kick we kick with the back foot then the front in one hop. kinda hard to explain…:rolleyes: but we do have it, i study HK mantis.
There’s a family style of Xingyi (From the Shanxi branch) that has a Mandarin Duck Kicks style
Originally posted by GeneChing
[B]Seriously. There is traditional duck. Modern duck too. There are even duck razors. CMA is funny that way - very exotic. It’s what makes it so fun. I’ve even heard tell of a flea style. Seriously.
As for the Emu, that was my own spin on Ostrich. I like the word Emu better than Ostrich, and they are the same bird, more or less, at least in martial terms. I like the word Rhea too, but the temptation to call it Dire would be too great. China did have trade with Austrailia for centuries - they’ve had trade with Africa fro centuries - so they might have been exposed to an actual Emu. There’s another theory that postulates that the Tai Xing is entirely mythical. Who knows? In an overview piece of weird animal styles, that bit of trivia didn’t seem worth pursuing. [/B]
The emu and the ostrich are actually quite different, but anyway
Originally posted by CaptinPickAxe
[B]imagination…okay
I think Fetus style is lying on the ground in the fetal position with your eyes closed. Feeding off of your opponents digested food and lifeblood. And when the time comes for you to leave you make a dramatic exit with a slap to the butt and a whole lot of crying. [/B]
I was thinking more along the lines of rolling around holding your stomach, crying for mommy 'cause you tried that scorpion style.
That´s patently bizarre IMHO but they ought to come up with cassowary style by now.Not that there´s anything that you can get out of it but hey…
They would have the paleognathae covered up,pretty much. :rolleyes:
Originally posted by GeneChing What about the Rhea?
I don’t know much about them, but they appear to be closer to a cassowary than an emu. Emus are mostly harmless unless you **** them off, then they just peck at you. Now the cassowary is a dangerous bird - claws sharp enough to cut a man open and a huge kick to back it up.
Originally posted by old jong Is there a “duck” style ?..
yes
It’s featured in a video/DVD/VCD called “This is Kung Fu”. It’s a documentary about CMA from Shaolin to Wudan to Emei to etc. It’s got Jet Li on the cover. There’s also some footage of really young Jet Li.
The film also showed a ‘dog style’. The guy looks like he’s break dancing. And it says the ‘dog ****ing’ move is a groin attack.
That’s one of my favorite Kung Fu moves ever. In fact, if you bother to go back to that original article I wrote on exotic animals, you’ll see a pic of Shi Yanming doing that ‘dog makes water’ pose. He’s on all fours, doggy style, with one leg lifted. And you though scorpion was funny. Duck is even funnier. It waddles. Seriously, the focus is all on leg work, this weird Chuck Berry-like strut.
Anyone got a pic of a Cassowary? I’ve never even heard of that one. I figured I was being clever just konwing about Rheas…
Originally posted by GeneChing Anyone got a pic of a Cassowary? I’ve never even heard of that one. I figured I was being clever just konwing about Rheas…
on the “natural boxing” vcd they do a drill where he does the duck steps whilst punching. It’s really hard to do and probably builds up leg strength. My 1 year old niece thinks it looks very funny and she is right.
when a person takes what is symbolic and attempts to manifest it in a literal sense, they fall victim to their own stupidity.
animal styles are “symbolic” not literal transformations of the human form.
Traits that are seen in animals are “borrowed”, IE: fierceness, entraping, circling, lunging, jumping, pounding etc etc etc. as seen in the animal realm, transposed to the human form.
To think one is a tiger will aid in developing only the persons perception of what they think a tiger is. It is not a truth.
So, you see where the problem lies with religious thinking now.
lol, there are no answers that you don’t already have, and you’re not getting anymore until you come up with them yourself!
cheers
p.s SA- the homework story was good. made me larf, smart @ss kid
speaking of Bullshido, apparently they got on some list of martial arts forums in the Feb 2004 issue (the one with Cruise on the cover).
anybody here can tell me which other sites made the list? was it s “top sites” list? kung fu magazine forums should be on (minus the deader than Bruce Lee Jeet Kuen Do forum)?
