[QUOTE=TenTigers;1135070]we do identical drills in SPM. 
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TenTigers, thankyou for the information! I wonder if you could comment on Bruce’s hand positions, if they look like typical positions from SPM? Also, the bamboo training like what is pictured…does it go by a specific name or just “Bamboo pole training”?
Thanks 
I have heard it called,“Water Dividing Kung,” I believe it is in one of those 72 Shaolin arts books.(but we just call it Bamboo pole training!) We do it with a partner holding rattan or bamboo staves. You can spread them apart, or put your arms on the outside and pull them in. The arms rotate/spiral as you do this.
It looks like Bruce Lee is doing an outside moor sao-grinding arm and strike. This is one of the first techniques you are taught. It is similar in appearance to a fook-sao, but the energy is different, and it can be played many different ways.
[QUOTE=TenTigers;1135078]I have heard it called,“Water Dividing Kung,” I believe it is in one of those 72 Shaolin arts books.(but we just call it Bamboo pole training!) We do it with a partner holding rattan or bamboo staves. You can spread them apart, or put your arms on the outside and pull them in. The arms rotate/spiral as you do this.
It looks like Bruce Lee is doing an outside moor sao-grinding arm and strike. This is one of the first techniques you are taught. It is similar in appearance to a fook-sao, but the energy is different, and it can be played many different ways.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the info!! I looked up the Shaolin 72 arts you are referring to, “water seperation skill” or Fen Shui Gong as its called in one translation. In what I read, the purpose seems to be training your forward energy in crashing through a obstruction while the bamboo provides resistance. So therefore you could train a number of “hands” , training your limbs ability to take oncoming pressure & move forward with it. Sound like what you are trying to accomplish in SPM? Of course the difference here is in the Shaolin art, its a “wall” you add bamboo with. In the picture of Bruce, its just natural bamboo trees.
Thanks
I don’t know how true it is but I heard some where the Bruce Lee’s father had friends who introduced Bruce to several arts before he started Wing Chun. Nothing I read ever said that he did any one style for very long before taking up Wing Chun.
That’s probably true, Bruce’s goal was to find the best art to use when fighting on the streets.
SPM hand posture by the MAN
Hi folks
Seen this clip om utube, look for the spm hand posture by Brucie at 2:57.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=QG2M9yVJ_s8.
[QUOTE=hakka jai;1136320]Hi folks
Seen this clip om utube, look for the spm hand posture by Brucie at 2:57.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=QG2M9yVJ_s8.
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Wow I guess I never really noticed before…it looks like a Crane movement to me, what makes you say its SPM? (not that I dont believe you, just curious lol!)